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?

I'd just like to speak for all the horrified lurkers on this thread by saying "yes, of course I fucking do. It's Christmas."

I buy fancy biscuits and crackers too.

Chocolates and nuts in shells, have to dust off the nutcrackers

I buy chocolate all year though and have a ginger jar of Lindt balls.

this all points to a character in very good order.

I buy loads of the things that I like, savoury snacks, good chocolate, cheese and crackers wine. I don't like cheap chocolate so I don't buy those tubs. So I guess it's all about what you like personally and consider a treat?

No, we’ve never bought confectionary at Christmas. We’re not into sweets or chocolate so it’s never been a thing. My husband used to buy loads of nuts in shells that would sit somewhere with the nutcracker optimistically placed on top. No one ever touched them. By mid Jan, I’d lob them outside for the squirrels. He’s given up now.

Yes, all the special Christmas treats. It’s why dh’s family likes to come for the full AI resort experience and eat through a ridiculous amount of food and drink for a week every year. I have cancer so we aren’t hosting anyone this year, and I can’t wait to actually get to enjoy all my treats myself in peace.

Nuts, chocolate and Turkish Delight (which prob counts as sweets). Also cheese and crisps.

We don't buy the big boxes of chocolates, though we get one or two as gifts usually. We like the Aldi Christmas range likke biscuits and stollen, and I buy some sweets and chocs for stockings, which are for each individual and not shared. And sometimes chocolate decorations for the tree. Last year I got nuts in shells but nobody wanted the faff of cracking them open so I won't bother again. We usually get the Tesco novelty flavoured mixed nuts, they only sell them at Christmas.

As a kid we always had lots of Quality St and Roses etc, given to the family by relatives and family friend. I have to admit I've grown too posh and don't like them at all, I'd rather have a small bar of good chocolate.

Nuts and dates, yes. I buy chocolates for people’s stockings but not just for general munching (although we always end up with lots of chocolates around anyway).

Of course I do, it’s how I grew up, lots of chocolates including Quality Street and Celebrations. Cheese, wine, nuts and posh crackers

‘high end chocolate shops‘, ‘enrobed fruits’ and not knowing buying chocolates and nuts ‘was a thing’ at Christmas - gotta love MN 😆

Back in the real world, yes chocolates, sweets, nuts also biscuits, cheese, puddings, chutney, crackers, panettone, mince pies, crisps…

It used to be so exciting opening the tins of Roses and Quality Street when I was a kid, I can still smell them now. It’s such a shame they don’t taste the same anymore. Just as well they are a quarter of the size they used to be as they now taste like shite.

Quality street in the squeaky cellophane wrappers used to have a particular smell that I really feel nostalgic for.

Hurrah! It felt a bit like stepping through a wormhole. Although the Brazil nuts are purely for show.

I’m also pleased to say that ‘enrobed fruits’ (orange slices in chocolate) are available in Aldi, so we plebs can enjoy them too.

Always!! It’s Christmas!!

I buy nuts, like bag you use nutcrackers on. Maybe a couple of tubs of snacks bits like twiglets and mini cheddars. Don’t buy chocolate but normally get gifted some. Don’t buy sweets but might put some in stockings.

Nuts, crisps, celebrations, M&S coffee wafers & toblerome. No sweets for me though.

I don't buy tubs of chocolate but I tend to buy a selection of nice expensive chocolate from our local chocolate shop- including a yule log (a tempered chocolate log filled with sweets and chocolates), and some nuts and pretzels for snacking.... hubby's favourite teas over Christmas are filled with party food followed by some sweet treats and nibbles...

Yes - every year. I love walnuts in shells. DH buys a small box of very expensive hand made chocolates and I buy some Lindor balls to put out in bowls for people to snack on and we all have a favourite sweet or two in our stockings - Turkish Delight or nougat or chocolate marzipan - the kind of thing you'd never indulge in at other times of the year.

Crisps, crackers and cheese. I really don't have a sweet tooth.

The chocolate tubs of roses etc don't taste the same anymore, but I do buy them and nuts and satsumas. It's more tradition than anything else really along with Turkey and a Christmas pudding.

Well yes, but there are aisles of sweets/chocolates etc all year! There are aisles of booze all year, but they promote that too more at Christmas (champagne, offers in bulk). I thought those who regularly buy them all year round do the same at Christmas. I just assumed they did them in bulk due to guests. I don’t really like sweets or chocolate, so don’t tend to buy them. I like booze though! I wouldn’t buy a massive tin of sweets just because it’s Christmas.

We never buy tubs of chocolate or nuts. Although I do remember Elizabeth Shaw mints and walnuts in a bowl as a child.

DC, now teens still get a Lindt reindeer in their stockings, DH gets a box of marzipan fruits and I love a box of panforte or Florentines, but that's about it.

We do buy Stilton in a jar and have a big old Christmas cake (MIL makes it) which both take dedication to finish before twelfth night.

But it’s been something people do all my life. And by people I mean pretty much everyone I know and have ever known. This single thread contains pretty much everyone I’ve ever come across who DOESN’T buy this stuff at Christmas. It’s a cultural reference point! People talk about it.