Time Tidbits: Stress-Free Holiday Preparation Tips

 Many find the holidays the most stressful time of year and if you aren’t well prepared, you can find yourself overwhelmed before the festivities have even begun. But believe it or not, with a few simple tips the holidays can be stress-free! Whether you are traveling to visit family or preparing your home for holiday festivities, our lifestyle and entertaining expert can share ways to help relieve some of the heavy lifting.

In this interview, lifestyle and entertaining expert (and mom!) Brooke Parkhurst will be available with her expert tips on how to take the stress out of holiday preparations.

 

Some of Brooke’s tips will include:

• STRESS-FREE TRAVEL:  There are many options available for families that are hitting the road this holiday season. Check out all-in-one websites that can offer great deals on car rentals, cozy local accommodations and keep you up-to-date on local COVID-19 restrictions.

• GET A HEAD START ON HOLIDAY DECOR: Now is a great time to get a head start on your holiday décor.  Take a Saturday afternoon to dig out those holiday decorations and look into shopping for a few new items to spruce up the house!  Make sure you have all the tools you may need such as nails, a proper ladder and even scotch tape for decorations.
• MAKE SURE YOUR PANTRY HAS RIGHT TOOLS FOR THE JOB:  Double checking your pantry for all your meal prep items in advance will take the stress out of making those traditional holiday meals.  Locating some cooking tools you may not use regularly like your roasting pan, meat thermometer or gravy boat.
• SHOP TILL YOU DROP WITHOUT BREAKING THE BANK: Review your spending habits, look for sales and choose credit cards wisely. Look for those where you can earn reward points and get cash back with a low APR.

 

 

For more information, visit: betterstuffforlife.com

 

MORE ABOUT BROOKE PARKHURST:

Brooke is a writer, cook, culinary instructor and mother. She is the author of, Belle in the Big Apple (Scribner 08’), a novel about a small a small-town Southern girl who moves to New York City in search of a career— and a good meal. It was this love for (or obsession with?!) great food and beautiful cookbooks that led Brooke to co-author, with James, Just Married & Cooking (Scribner 11’) and the forthcoming, The Flavor Matrix (HMH 18’). Through her series of Couples Cooking classes at the Institute of Culinary Education, Brooke developed into a culinary and entertaining expert with appearances on and writing gigs for: NBC Today Show; The Dr Oz Show, CBS New York, Fox & Friends, People.com, Redbook.com and WomensDay.com. Brooke also penned the online food column, Full Plate (think Carrie Bradshaw-cum-June Cleaver), for the New York Daily News and hosted the ABC digital food series, Eat & Greet. She also served as the lifestyle/cooking correspondent for Conde Nast’s debut web network. When Brooke is not instructing adults on how to slice and sear, she’s teaching her 8-year-old daughter, Parker, proper table manners and her 2 year-old son, August, how to use chopsticks. James and Brooke are the owners of Angelena’s Ristorante Italiano in Pensacola, FL.