Do you buy chocolates, sweets and nuts etc at Christmas time?

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Friend has a large family, not stuck for money and never buys any of the above and never has. Their children are between 26 and 17. Got me wondering if it's quite the norm?

Get a banana, put a Barbie ballgown on it

@Grepes have you never been in a supermarket at this time of year and seen all the chocolates and goodies on display for, you know, Christmas feasting

Oh yeah - cheese. Christmas is the time it's worthwhile buying all the nice cheese that would otherwise get forgotten about. "In case so-and-so pops in".

Mmmm I'm anticipating it already!

Yes, I buy fuck loads of all nuts and chocolate. Sweets less so but compensate with festive cake of several varieties.

We have them all year round, fat bastards that we are.

Okay, the DC aren't fat, and they eat most of it.

that is another thing my stepmum would buy
crystalised fruits

Salted nuts eg pistachio nuts and cashew nuts, whole nuts to crack, twiglets, home made cheese straws, luxury box of chocolates, luxury chocolate biscuits. It's a time to have treats we otherwise wouldn't have.

We get one of those biscuit selections for DH (DS and I don't like them), also some chocolate brazils, dry roasted peanuts, whole nuts for cracking, some dates, lots of cheese and posh crackers/chutney, and nice bread.

I'm not a huge fan of Quality Street or Roses, but I do really enjoy Milk Tray.

Most definitely! It wouldn’t be much of a Christmas without treats.

We don’t like chocolate so we don’t buy it. We buy nuts for cracking and candied fruits as well as loads of cheese.

I love medjoul dates so will definitely buy those. I usually buy pistachios too. I wouldn’t usually have these so they are a Christmas treat.

My favourite chocolates are peppermint creams and I always get some as gifts at Christmas.

We eat nuts always and I buy chocolates and fancy biscuits but not really sweets now that DDs are grown up.

Erm, not wankery just always available at Christmas from high end chocolate shops. Depends where you shop I suppose.

I’d only buy nuts for nibbles if I’m hosting, my sister likes the ones in shells. But chocolate yes, including Celebrations or Quality Street which I’d class as sweets. Also mince pies, mini Christmas cakes and other festive treats

Do you never go to the supermarket?

Yes, chocolates, nice biscuits, dates, nuts. Buttered Brazils if I could find any, and sugared almonds.

Grandads crack nuts for little waiting people. That's one of the things that grandads are for.

I didn't grow up in th UK so for me Christmas means Christmas chocolates like the tree chocolate, santas, reindeers, all the things you can buy at Lidl but defintiely not Quality Street or Selection boxes.

For us it was a Bunter Teller:
https://germangirlinamerica.com/what-is-a-bunter-teller/

Even after 25 years here I don't buy them. The only things for DD's stocking is a Terry's Chocolate Orange and a Toblarone.

We buy nuts, DD and DH love them, DH grew up with bowls of nuts all through December. He will also buy dates.

Tbh I don’t buy them - we host a lot at Christmas - we have a succession of drinks parties for the neighbours / class parents at school / family / uni friends etc - plus usual festive family hosting for Xmas / Boxing Day - and we are usually still working our way through the chocs + nuts that people bring at Easter..!

Christmas wouldn't be Christmas in this house without the endlessly-refilled chocolate tin.

Don't bother with sweets, and nuts tend not to get eaten.

Not chocs or sweets. We buy nuts, both salted to have with drinks and the ones covered in chocolate that share a platter with mini mince pies.

No. I buy very little. I work for a GP surgery and surprisingly (as we are apparantley hated so much) we get loads of biscuits, chocolates, etc,

I have bought cheese biscuits, etc to go in the xmas cupboard but working at a very small surgery I already know I will l take what I want from what I am gifted and we will give the rest away to our local OAP homel

Expensive hand-made chocolates, mixed salted nuts, luxury chocolate biscuits, glace fruits and almond petits fours. I love all the traditional Christmas treats that you don't get at other times of the year. No sweets, I can buy those any time.

Mountains of them, I love having little bowls of sweets/nuts/fruits dotted around. Our neighbour always used to put out Rum Balls which I naver see anymore.

We didn't really 'do' Christmas as a child, normally went for a Chinese, but my parents not being from the UK would typically have these sort of goodies out year round. They would amp it up on special occasions so maybe a bit of a cultural thing for me.

That or I'm just bloody greedy, which is more likely.

Your friend sounds a bit joyless but each to their own.

M&S Belgian Chocolate Biscuit Tin - always - it spells Christmas for me. It comes from when I was younger and people would always buy them for my parents as Christmas gifts (one was a teacher and one did a lot of volunteering in the community with elderly people)

We don’t tend to buy the tubs of chocolates because none of us are that into them and undoubtedly some will appear as gifts at some point anyway.

Nuts always make an appearance in vast quantities however - I make caramelised spiced nuts every year as gifts and then we have a large quantity kept back for ourselves. (Which we then have to ration so they aren’t all done by Christmas Eve) And pistachios in shells appear with the advent calendars in this house. My DC all love them but I am sick of finding the shells all over the house so they only come out in December! The teens now associate them with advent!

Other than that it tends to be home made treats - some of which I only make at Christmas (like snickerdoodles and peppermint bark)

Some chocolate not much and some sharing crisps for us as we like that don't bother spending hundreds of pounds on food tho