| In preparing to bake cake recipes, you need a good | | | | Now use the marked photocopy, printout or |
| recipe and all of the necessary ingredients to get | | | | handwritten ingredients list as a grocery list. Carry it |
| started. Planning ahead and following a few simple | | | | with you while you shop and as you put the needed |
| steps in advance will make the process easier, and | | | | items in your grocery cart -- check mark or cross |
| alleviate having to make an emergency trip to the | | | | out the items from your recipe inventory list. |
| grocery store. | | | | Check the list twice to make sure you have all the |
| Here's how to get started: | | | | needed ingredients in your grocery cart before |
| 1. Make A List, Check It Twice | | | | checking out at the cash register. If you are shopping |
| First, select a cake recipe from a cookbook or an | | | | for other grocery items, keep them separate from |
| online recipe website. Then photocopy or printout the | | | | the recipe ingredients in your shopping cart. I find it |
| recipe to use as an inventory checklist. Or, if | | | | easier to place all of the recipe ingredients I'm |
| necessary, write down the recipe's list of ingredients | | | | shopping for in the little compartment adjacent to |
| on a piece of paper. | | | | the shopping cart's handle bar otherwise known as |
| 2. Inventory Ingredients On Hand | | | | the "kiddy" seat. This way the ingredients are handy |
| Use the photocopy, printout or handwritten | | | | for checking twice. |
| ingredient list to take inventory of what you have on | | | | These few simple steps will guarantee that you have |
| hand in your kitchen. Put a check mark next to or | | | | everything at hand to make your desired cake with |
| cross out the items you already have. | | | | only one trip to the grocery store. |
| 3. Shop For What You Need | | | | |