What delicious extras do you only buy at Christmas?

[Fairyjuice]

Heading out for the annual Xmas shop later so am open to suggestions 😁

Mine are:

Cheeseboard (I buy cheddar and occasional brie during the year, but only splash out on the selection with blue cheeses at Xmas)

Red onion chutney (to go with above cheese and leftover sandwiches)

Posh cracker selection

Cream

Croissants

Chocolate chip brioche

The usual boxes of Celebrations and Roses and crisps and Xmas cake

Stilton, but it's shot up in price/ been subjected to shrinkflation, so not bothering this year. 500g of Brie at 2.99 from Aldi fits the bill though, already eaten one of my two packs.

This definitely applies to a lot of you 😂

Baileys double cream
Stollen
Mature stilton
Advocat.

Those almond thingies - amaretti?
Pickled walnuts.
Smoked salmon.

too true - the milk tray man wouldn't stand a chance but Wallace with a piece of Wensleydale - different story!

Baileys.
Xmas pudding.
cheeses (generally avoid as fattening!)
Stuffing
liqueurs e.g. this year Benedictine.

Oh and a box of Celebrations.

I think I'm going to get some Amaretto and Advocaat this year.

Things I get in are:

Shed loads of cheese
Crackers
Big box of crisps
Tub roses
Baileys

Baileys
Quality Street

@Passmepie This woman would get horrendous reflux. 🤦‍♀️

Cheese lots of them everyone has a favourite .
Dates yum .
Turkey
Piggies in blankets only for Christmas , wouldn't be a treat if we had them at other times .

@Passmepie Too right! I've ordered cheeses I've never even heard of! :-)

Otter Vale Devon Fire and Onion and Pineapple chutney

Baileys

Cheese - Brie de meaux, Gorgonzola, strong cheddar etc etc

Panettone

Port

Brandy cream

Pickled onions

Pepperdew mini peppers with cream cheese

Aldi Rosemary crackers

cheese
lovely selection of charcuterie
posh sausages
pannetone
nice chocolate
crisps
crackers
brandy

Due to everything being more expensive now I really cut back on the festive treats, but still wanted a few unusual items. One of which was lumpfish roe (cheap 'caviar') and there's bloody none left in my Tesco or my online Tesco stockist, I'm so disappointed! We look forward eating it (a bit on a slice of hard boiled egg on buttered water cracker) but only buy a small jar or two at Christmas/NY.

Our other items are: a bottle of Baileys, cheap Bucks Fizz, and Turkish delight from a local stall. Not too bothered about anything else!

Lots and lots of cheese!

Posh crackers for the cheese

Goose for Christmas dinner

Huge gammon joint - our traditional Boxing Day lunch is gammon, egg and lots of chips

Smoked salmon bites from Tesco

Sherry, baileys, pate, special chutney, lebkuchen biscuits, after eights.

More cheese than at any other time of year

Garners pickled red cabbage (onions too, but I buy those at other times in the year as well)

Lebkuchen and stollen

Port

Pigs in blankets
Posh Cheese
Bucks Fizz
Posh crackers
Nice fresh stuffing - use Paxo otherwise
Fresh gravy
Mince pies
Tubs of chocolate
Sprouts to have with cream and bacon

Wotsits
Mince pies
Wensleydale and cranberry cheese

Ooooh I love threads like this, mine are:

'Baileys' (the M and S equivalent are currently £8 and delicious),
Baileys extra thick cream,
Cheeses and posh crackers,
Xmas Pud,
Costco Mince Pies - another level of deliciousness!
Full fat Jersey milk to make custard,
Sprouts (although they are quite horrible!)
Posh biscuit selection,
Huge pack of Goldstein's Smoked Salmon,
Ikea Swedish biscuits in the Xmas tin,
Beef Wellington Crisps.

Can someone please tell me what the best chutney is to go with Stilton? Thanks!

@AbsoluteYawns in my opinion Devon Fire chutney from otter vale. Or their onion and pineapple. They are a perfect foil for the saltiness!

Thank you!

Fanta and Bendicts Bittermints. Only allowed at Christmas or my her wise I’d be very fat and would have no teeth left.

Medjool dates
lots of chocolate
Madagascan vanilla custard
different cheeses

Pigs in blankets and mulled wine are probably the only things we only buy at Christmas.

I went to get our cheese today though. It's just 2 of us on Christmas Day so we skip the roast and go straight to the cheeseboard, so I went to the posh deli instead of the supermarket and spent an obscene amount on cheese for 2 people 🫢