Which foods do you eat at Christmas which you never have any other time of the year?

[RedPandaWanda]

Even if they are readily available?
Ours are those fluorescent, bright red cocktail cherries. I’ve had them every Christmas since childhood and it never crosses my mind to purchase them any other time of the year even though I am addicted to them.

Walnuts
Bread pudding
Christmas cake

Turkey
Pigs in blankets
Sprouts
Parsnips
Stollen
Chocolate oranges…

Also don’t eat a whole lot of roast potatoes, fruit cake or salted peanuts the rest of the year, although I would like to

Twiglets and cheeselets.

Mince pies
Christmas pudding
Baileys
Barrels of chocolate
Shortbread

@Holothane

Twiglets and cheeselets.

And everytime I eat a Twiglet at xmas I think, I love these I should have them in all the time.

But I don't

Typical Xmas dinner stuff, so:
Turkey. Cranberry sauce
Pigs in blankets
Brussels sprouts
Red cabbage
Mince pies

Otherwise:
Baileys
Sherry
Rum balls
Honey roast peanuts
Nanaimo bars (homemade)
White Christmas squares (like rocky road but white choc, crushed ginger biscuits, coconut, glacé cherries)
Any cheeses other than Brie/cheddar
Dried apricots (with cheese)
Champagne (other than New Years also)

Ecclefechan tarts

Baileys cream
Matchmakers
Shloer
Dates/figs

pigs in blankets
Brussels sprouts
mince pies
Christmas pudding
Quality Street and/or Roses

@ratspeaker

Ecclefechan tarts

I was watching a Tik Tok the other day (I know 😳), it was an American trying British and Scottish food. Someone had sent him Ecclefechan tarts. Can’t believe I’ve reached the ripe old age of 48 and have never even heard of them!

We also have brandy butter and advocaat to make snowballs ( we don’t particularly like either but buy them in memory of my grandparents).

Cheese footballs.
I love them, and no-one else in the house does, so they are all mine!

Walnuts I eat other nuts throughout the year
Stuffing (I love it)
Pate

Mince pies

Turkey
Gammon
Cranberry Sauce
Sprouts
Parsnips
Cheese
Crackers
Pate
Chocolate
Chocolate Cake
Wine

I'm a real calorie counter so most of those are off the cards usually.

Oh and peanuts.

Yule log. Christmas pudding. Turkey. Chocolate coins. Cheese footballs (the real ones if you can find them!). Mince pies (I only like puff pastry ones anyway).

Even though it is Christmas I still don't eat sprouts or fruit cake.

Smoked salmon
Pigs in blankets
Lebkuchen
Stollen
Pringles

Stilton cheese, white Stilton with apricots cheese, Pringles, pork pie, smoked salmon, trifle, mince pies, Christmas cake with marzipan and royal icing.
There have to be a few things that are special to Christmas or they wouldn’t be special anymore or looked forward to!

White bread. We only buy this at Christmas for the turkey sandwiches.

Not anymore, because I can't eat much these days and I prioritise other sweets, but I used to get in a box of orange and lemon jelly slices, just because my grandparents always did, and/or After Eights, because my parents always did.