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

Everything Baileys
Bendicks Bittermints
Cheese footballs
M&S combo crisps
All the cheeses
For DH chocolate orange and walnut whips
For DC Frosty fancies, mince pies, shortbread, Pringles and Lindors

Brie
Baileys
Advocatt
Jordan's Big nut cereal
Buck's Fizz

Pork pie ( M&S usually make them with cranberries on top , 😍)
Guylian chocolate praline seashells

Brandy cream and mince pies
cockerel
blinis
pate and lots of different cheeses

I'm so happy I've bought too much food so we are duty bound to get cracking to save waste.

Coke in glass bottles! Always feels a bit more special.

Marzipan fruits
Lebkuchen - where are people getting theirs? Not keen on Tescos chocolate ones
camembert for baking
Shloer

A whole side of smoked salmon
Cheeseboard
Duck pate
Mini steak and ale pies
Arancini bites
Strawberry Trifle
Sticky toffee pudding
A mix of M&S snacks: crisps, pretzels, etc..

Every year I buy the cream cheese with pineapple that is rolled in almonds, because we used to have it as a child. Every year it is left uneaten because nobody seems to like it, but I still feel the need to get it just in case. Ditto the smoked cheese in a sausage shape.

The only things unique to Christmas for us are a large steak pie from the local independent butcher, tins of all butter shortbread (I think my homemade shortbread is better, but DH is partial to the M&S version), and I usually get a couple of bottles of interesting-sounding liqueurs. I don't like lebkuchen, stollen, pannetone and all that sort of stuff. We have interesting cheeses and as much chocolate as we want all year round. And Christmas pudding, because I buy a selection when it's reduced in price after Christmas.

Oh I must get some of these for DS

I have loads of this - how do you eat it?

Brandy snaps
Pigs in blankets
Box of biscuits
Tub of chocolates