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How to prepare for the holiday

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Agree, after the sincere preparation of dishes for a festive feast, there is only time left for cleaning, but often there is no strength even for her. In this article, we reveal a few secrets of how to combine pleasant preparation for a feast with such a rewarding activity as moral rest before it. It is especially important to save strength for the meeting of 2020, because the symbol of the year - the white metal Rat - is a creature with a thirst for profit, full of hopes about offspring and achieving its goals with metal pressure.

Daily preparation plan

Day 1. Wet Cleaning and Washing - The floor and all holiday cutlery and dishes are best rubbed to a shine a week before the meal.
Day 2. Make a list of dishes and products, buying vegetables and marinades, + a choice of self-cooked twists.
Day 3. Prepare the refrigerator - arrange everything neatly; prepare a tablecloth, napkins, etc.
Day 4. Decorate the dining area as needed, choose a couple of table games or entertainment, and buy basic groceries.
Day 5. Purchase / defrosting of meat, marinating.
Day 6. Boil vegetables and, if necessary, meat, + cleaning - and put them in containers / bags, before going to bed, be sure to ventilate.
Day 7. Cutting salads and snacks, roasting / frying meat, light wet cleaning.

This plan, of course, is very approximate and depends on the degree of your employment - but in general it displays a standard list of actions in preparation for the holiday. If you wish, you can prepare for the holiday in a few hours: order takeaway food in the nearest cafe, and while it is being prepared, drive it for drinks. Or in general, order everything (including holiday decorations) with delivery, and have time to prepare the apartment (and yourself) for receiving guests.