Day 40: Hello, JELLO!
What: Jello and Puddings
Why: Living less with even JELLO? Yes, even with jello. Jello is one of those things that can end up filling up our kitchen drawers, for no good reason. We buy a specific flavor of jello maybe because it sounds good or because we think we may use it someday, when in fact we don’t. Though jello boxes are easy to store, they end up having a shelf life (or drawer life) far too long. Time to take advantage of the jellos we have, but also rid our drawers of these flavors!
How:
1. Find all of the jello boxes you have – including pudding!
2. Ask yourself WHY you have this particular flavor or kind.
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Did you buy it for a specific recipe? If so, make that recipe and either bring it to a gathering, eat it yourself, or freeze it.
3. If you did not buy it for a specific recipe, make personal-size jello containers (as you would buy them in the store). Find little plastic containers that you have sitting around the house and make the jello OR pudding, dividing it into these individual containers. Now you have an on the go snack for anybody (see picture below).
Confession of the Day: I had a LONG row of jello and pudding mixes. Why, I don’t know. Half of them, I don’t even know why I had them. Not that the jello/pudding was causing a problem in my drawer, but why keep it when I haven’t used it for so long already? That is when I decided to just make up the jello and pudding of the ones I had for way too long, and we enjoyed those individual servings a few times for our lunches and snacks. Jello and pudding are EASY to make and it is also CHEAPER to buy a box and make individual containers yourself instead of buying them premade from the store. Give it a try!
