What food do you always like to have in the run up to Christmas?

[AwaitingSnow]

I always seem to have mince pies, sausage rolls and Lidl stollen .. Yum!

What about you?

Almost forgot the mulled wine!

[kiwigirl42]

Pannettone. Already eaten one. By myself! Need to replace it.

[kdiddy]

I always make a lovely, creamy, brandy-soaked chicken liver pate and scoff lots of it on toast. Missed out due to being pg last year so looking forward to that.

[cornycarrotshack]

Mince pies
Brandy
Nice cheese
Turkish delight
Mulled wine
Satsumas
Eating lots of stollen this year(already!)

[ThisIsMummyPig]

I always do a ham in raisin sauce on Christmas Eve, so it's ready for the leftovers.

DD2 and I eat panettone after panettone
Cinnamon biscuits

[SantaWearsGreen]

Panettone, stollen, mince pies.. Mmm.

[gemdrop84]

nice cheese, nice ham, chocolate log and turkish delight!

[gregssausageroll]

Satsumas, Lindor chocs, pâté

[BiddyPop]

Amaretti biscuits (my treat to me).
Mince pies
A stollen or 2
Mulled wine
Lovely fresh clementines
Hot lemon juice with honey and brandy (as I always come down with a chest infection)

[Taffeta]

Christmas cake. We always start ours before Christmas as it doesn't all get eaten otherwise

My delicious home made mince pies ( first batch being made this weekend! )

Cocktail sausages hot from the oven

Mulled wine

Homemade smoked mackerel pate

and for the first time this year homemade gravdlax

[littlemissnormal]

Those little gingerbread biscuits covered in icing sugar from Lidl are a Christmas must have in our house.

[drmummmsy]

pringles and schloer!

[common emoticon]

[Anja1LikesChristmas]

Mmmmh another food thread :-)

Top of my list:

Lebkuchen
Glühwein
Stollen
Spekulatius
Mince pies

[AwaitingSnow]

Loving all these replies.

Think I'm going to stock up on some of these tomorrow

[AwaitingSnow]

How long does homemade pate last? I love smoked mackeral pate but am never sure how long I should it in the fridge for?

[Kelly281]

Clementines
Nice cheese
Spekulatius

[QueefLatina]

Satsumas
White hot chocolate
Turkish delight
Stilton and pickle
Red Lindor

Might have to get some Panettone after all the posts about it!

[BluelightsAndSirens]

Hot chocolate with whipped cream and marshmallows.
Smoked salmon
Pringles and twiglets
Camembert and crusty bread

[twolittlemonkeys]

Nice cheese & pate to have with fresh crusty bread
Homemade mince pies/ Lebkuchen/ biscotti
Posh hot chocolate (eg the Charbonnel & Walker stuff)
Non-alcoholic Gluhwein (sorry can't do umlauts!)
'Fancy' pork pies

[Greensleeves]

what's spekuliatius?

[Meglet]

Organic butter. Although it's so nice it doesn't last long.

[Chandon]

Dutch gingerbread

[PixieHot]

I was going to ask that Greensleeves! I want some . Probably .

[Taffeta]

Awaiting - not sure, ours is never around long enough! Prob the max its lasted in the fridge with cover on is about 4-5 days. But I suspect it would last longer, if you think about the main ingreds, smoked fish and creme fraiche both last ages.

[infin]

Speculaas are a brittle spiced biscuit. They're a bit lie those little wrapped biscuits you sometimes get with branded coffees.

[EnjoyResponsibly]

After Eights which is why I have a girth similar to Santa