What are your must-eats meal and snack wise over the Christmas period?

[Howaboutthisone]

Looking for inspiration! Just settling down to work out what food we need to order in advance so coming up with a loose menu plan.

Ham with honey glaze and mustard
Baileys
extra wine

Just catching up with these and they're making my mouth water-thank you!
We have the turkey curry every year. DH does a lovely honey and mustard ham which we serve with nigella's glazed peaches. And I do love Jamie's turkey and leek pie.
Will have to pop to marks for a look at the Brie and cranberry tartlets- lived the tesco parcel but they don't seem to be doing them in the mini version this year.

Pate pate pâté

Cheese board & port with pork pie

Sausage meat onions mushrooms & garlic mix mm mm

Christmas isn't christmas without:

Those sour cream & onion crisps that are all different shapes
Toblerone
Pickled red cabbage
Baileys
Baileys latte on Christmas morning, about 10am
Amaretto coffee on Christmas day, about 10pm
Ferrero Rocher
Cheese & crackers on Boxing day
All the satsumas

We live in the ME so when we come home for Christmas we have pork x1000 ways (ok, maybe not quite that much!)
So:

*Bacon rolls on Xmas morning
*Pigs in blankets
*Sausage stuffing
*Nigella's ham in coke (though DH has experimented with Dr Pepper and we use that instead now)
*Pate
*Those pre-packaged part baked rolls, we buy loads of those. So handy.
*Cheese, lots of cheese.
*Side of smoked salmon
*I'm on my own with this one in my family, but I love Jaffa cakes and my mum, without fail, will buy me a yard of those to be getting on with. I'm 37 but she thinks I'm 12 I don't care!
*American MIL brings Sees candies nuts and chews. I don't eat any other chocolatey things (aside from aforementioned Jaffa cakes)
*Nigella's poinsettia cocktail as we open presents. Have got SIL and her family into this one. Essentially, Prosecco, cointreau and cranberry juice. Lush.

"Nigella's poinsettia cocktail as we open presents. Have got SIL and her family into this one. Essentially, Prosecco, cointreau and cranberry juice."

Have you forgot the Ruby Port on the list? If not put it in. Its a favourite of mine and my DD.

The Manchester Christmas Markets always has at least one stall doing it.

My 5 year old til me today he's looking forward to the prawn thing (cocktail)

Part cooked roll in the oven served with Brie, cranberry and turkey

Left overs are almost better than the main meal itself

Baileys

Chocolate of some sort in stockings to be eaten Christmas morning

Boxing day bubble and squeak. Oh yes.
Pigs in blankets and stuffing in blankets too.
Green veg in a gratin. Sprouts, broccoli and cauliflower drenched in cream, smothered in cheese and then a breadcrumb topping, ahhhhh.......
We usually have Christmas pudding on boxing Day as we're too gluttonous to have it on the big day. Eton mess goes down quite well though.
I've just had my dinner and now I'm hungry again!

Not sure but I'm drooling over the thought of a huge slab of game pie

Ohhh these threads make me miss my late mother SO much! She was a never ending supply of M&S frozen > oven nibbles at Xmas.

Personal favourites were:
Prawn won tons
Little smoked salmon cream cheese pinwheel things
Endless M&S ready salted crisps
Leftover sammiches (preferably some disgusting concoction involving turkey, dripping, cranberry, pate and, for some reason, lime pickle
AND my Dad's home made turkey broth

Christmas pudding,

Camembert baked in a crusty loaf with chorizo in.

Endless amounts of crackers, Brie & cranberry

As well as the usual Christmas dinner, ours are:
freshly squeezed OJ for bucks fizz on Christmas Day
smoked salmon and eggs for scrambled eggs on Christmas Morning

Boxing Day:
glazed ham
Trifle

General snacking:
Carr's water biscuits, Stilton and Boursin
crateloads of clementines
Walnuts in shells
Good chocolates. (Lindor, Green & Black, champagne truffles etc) This year we've been given boxes of them already. NOT a good sign. They'll be gone before Christmas Eve.

Asda Christmas tree crumpets ( nice for breakfast).

Pigs in blankets.
Baked Camembert and crusty bread.
Cheese board and crackers.
We aren’t buying any tins of sweets but may get some nice chocolates.

Turkish Delight which i decant into a turkish type tin
Pate,,cornichons olives and a good variety of cheeses
A big box of Jacobs crackers,
Quality St,,love the colours in a glass bowl.We always used to have After Eights but the chocolate seems different now and not so nice.
I always make a triifle with proper custard made with eggs and cream and a christmas cake

All the cheese! Nuts and prawns

Cheese and more cheese with crackers and chutneys

Tangerines with leaves on

Crusty bread with pate and chutneys

Twiglets

York fruits

Bucks fizz and champagne cocktails

Plenty of bubbly
Cheese board
Chocolate panettone
Ingredients for sherry trifle
Homemade mince pies
Puff pastry for pie on Boxing Day

Usual turkey & trimmings for us. M&S nut roast for vegetarian DD.(Need to learn to make my own!) Wish I had my Dad’s recipe for chestnut stuffing.
Naice ham, cheeses, grapes, cracker selection. Satsumas/clementines.
Bendicks mint choc selection- something for everyone in that & very refreshing. Last time I was in Tesco they were 1/2 price.

Tend to live off salads & sandwiches on Boxing day & the day after. A curry will appear too. I find mine tastes better if I do it in the slow cooker.Need to find a recipe for frittata too.

Never too sure what dessert to do. We are normally too full for Xmas pud on Christmas day. Mum used to do a lovely Charlotte Rousse which was light but no recipe for that sadly. Occasionally make a trifle.

Going to have to dry Nigella’s tipple so thanks for the recipe! 🍾

Turkey and ham pie using up the left overs, it has to have cranberry sauce and stuffing in it. I love it more than Christmas dinner.

Even though I hate eating it, a big pork pie from the butchers in the next village along. My fondest memory of my grandfather is sitting on his knee aged around 4 on Christmas Day evening with him telling me how much he loved those pork pies and me telling him I don’t like the jelly around the meat. I get one for my dad now.

try not dry! hic!

Danish butter cookies
After eights
Christmas chutney

Roast parsnips.

Thanks for reminding me choco -need to get pork pie for DH.