Christmas Make-Ahead & Freezer Planner
Work back from the big day, fit cooking into your real evenings, and see the freezer peak.
Add your dishes, your event date and the cooking sessions you really have. It fits dishes into sessions, tallies freezer space with the peak day, lists move-to-fridge reminders, warns when a dish is made too early or late for the times you enter, and prints a plan and freezer labels. Works offline.
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One-time purchase, no subscription. Download link by email. Refund within 14 days if it doesn't help.
Storage and thaw times are the ones you enter. This planner doesn't know how long food keeps. Check your recipe and official guidance, such as the cold food storage chart on FoodSafety.gov in the US, or your national food safety agency. When in doubt, throw it out.
Christmas Make-Ahead & Freezer Planner
Sample plan: example dishes and sizes
6 dishes in 4 sessions
freezer peak 11 of 12 quarts
Storage and thaw times are the ones you enter. This planner doesn't know how long food keeps. Check your recipe and official guidance, such as the cold food storage chart on FoodSafety.gov in the US, or your national food safety agency. When in doubt, throw it out.
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What you get
- Fits each dish into your real cooking sessions, working back from the event date, and tells you why any dish doesn't fit
- Freezer tally in quarts or liters with the peak day: "Freezer peak 11 of 12 quarts on Sat Dec 12"
- Move-to-fridge reminders on the days you set, and a combined calendar of make days, fridge days and the event, for one event or several
- Red warnings in words when a dish is made too late, or too early for the keeps-for time you entered
- Prints the plan and freezer labels with made date, the use-by from your own keeps-for time, and a line for your reheat note; works offline on your phone
Who it's for
Working parents and holiday hosts who batch-cook ahead for Christmas, Thanksgiving or a big party and want one plan for what to make when, and how much freezer room it takes, before December gets busy.
Questions
Does it tell me how long food keeps in the freezer or fridge?
No. It has no storage times, thaw times or temperatures built in. Storage and thaw times are the ones you enter. This planner doesn't know how long food keeps. Check your recipe and official guidance, such as the cold food storage chart on FoodSafety.gov in the US, or your national food safety agency. When in doubt, throw it out.
How does it decide which session each dish goes in?
It goes through your sessions in date order. In each one it considers dishes whose make window includes that day, takes the one that must be made soonest first, and adds each dish that still fits the minutes you have. A fridge or pantry dish is placed only once you enter how long it keeps. You can move any dish to another session yourself, and it warns you in words if that is too late, or too early for the keeps-for time you entered.
Can I plan for more than one event?
Yes. Add Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, the day after or a New Year's Eve party, each with its own date. Every dish is made for one event, and all of them share the same freezer tally. The date can be any year; the sample starts at the next Dec 25.
Does it work on my phone and offline?
Yes. It is one HTML file designed for a phone screen first. Save it to your device, open it in your browser, and everything works offline. Your plan saves on your device, and Export keeps a backup file you can import on another device.
Does it include recipes or a shopping list?
No. It plans the dates, minutes and freezer space. Recipes, ingredient shopping and the cook-day oven timing are not part of it. It prints a cooking list by session and freezer labels.
Does it work on my phone?
Yes. Each tool is a single file that opens in the browser on any iPhone, Android phone, tablet or computer. There's no app to install.
Where do my numbers go?
Nowhere. Everything you type stays on your own device. The tools work offline and never send your data anywhere.
Is there a subscription?
No. You pay once and keep the file. Fixes to the version you bought are free.
Pay once,
$9
You get the file, free fixes to version 1.0.0, and your money back within 14 days if it doesn't help.
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