If one has old flour or old mead at home, is it permitted to grind or make new flour/mead, claiming the new batch is for holiday use?

HolidaysChol HaMoedPermitted Labors

Synopsis

If one has old provisions already available, making new ones is forbidden as circumvention (haarama), unless the new product is objectively superior and will actually be consumed.

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