What extra food do you buy for Christmas?

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My DH are having an argument, he says we don’t have much christmas food in. He was recalling memories of childhood going to the cupboard and having chocolates and nibbles.

Other than the Christmas dinner what ‘extras’ do people buy?

We bake cookies, usually about 6 different kinds. I buy extra did too take to my brother and sister-in-law's house on Christmas. This year I got a cheese board, pickles, a veggie tray, four kinds of olives, crackers, wine, and two kinds of cake.

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the supermarkets will be closed for more than 24 hours, so 20 loaves of bread and 10 gallons of milk.

Very little in our house. No one eats "traditional" things like cake or mince pies...we eat out Xmas eve and boxing day..so just some chocolates and crisps.
Always plenty of alcohol

We seem to have a lot of sweets at the moment! We usually eat well, so there is nearly always something nice lurking in the fridge or cupboard.
But we have been given sweets and chocolates as gifts too which we wouldn't normally have this many of.
My Dad used to reminisce about Christmas, his mum was very frugal but would get in sweets and fizzy drinks which they didn't have at any other time.

Mince pies, Xmas pud, chocolate, Pringles.

Extra chocolate & sweets

Always extra wine & spirts

We bake a lot of biscuits, cakes etc

Fizzy drinks

Crisps/nuts

Cheese

We tend to buy chocolates came and crisps as extra we buy very little of these though out the year tend to buy a few for Christmas though otherwise we don't buy anything else as extra.

And bacon, sausages because everyone always wants it for breakfast

Pringles, chocolate fingers, home made mince pies, cheese and crackers, little snack dishes of Bombay mix, peanut crackers, jelly beans and dolly mixtures. Gingerbread house we assemble before Christmas and from boxing day onwards it's fair game to break bits off.
This is all stuff we don't have in usually (I try and diacourage snacking as a rule) so my kids are in heaven.

Orange and lemon slices, and Turkish delight. Don't think anyone else in the household is fussed, but they've always been a part of Christmas for me.

christmas cake, stollen, turkish delight,apart from starters and pudding stuff for christmas day and baileys and a couple of bottles of wine and some beers for the men nothing over the top this year, went mad last year and we were still eating christmas goodies all the way through january

We've got mince pies, panettone, stollen, homemade fudge, lots of cheese and crackers, lots of bags of kettle chips, loads of satsumas (I mean literally a small mountain of them as the 1yo is obsessed), Christmas gingerbread, chocolates, breadsticks, funny cheese cracker things, chocolate reindeer.... and probably more stuff but we've a house full of relatives so it'll all get picked over.

Nice chocs, mince pies, Florentines, lots of nice crisps & nuts. Salamis, cheeses, pate, chilled nibbly bits etc.

Pot of mini cheddars, salted peanuts, tins of chocolate, different cheeses/ meats, crackers, crisps and dips, chocolate fingers, slab of flap jack, three cheese loaf

I've just been looking at another thread about Yule logs. I don't think I've ever had one!

My mother used to make her own mince pies, a fantastically iced fruit cake, Christmas pudding etc. None of my family like these thing except for me. So mince pies are from local WI market, bought tiny Christmas pud for the day as me and my brother will eat. DD wants to make some Xmas cookies and I'm contemplating making a choc or coffee & walnut cake today.

I've got the usual crisps and "normal" biscuits. Cheese, again no one in our house really likes cheese very much (I used to) so I don't bother. Does feel slightly in-Christmassy but since my mum and aunt died and the kids are young adults now, it has a different feel and I can ignore the hype much more easily.

Why can’t he get it?

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We go all out, we get things for mixed platters, (cured meats, mixed olives, sundries tomatoes, stuffed bell peppers, cheese selections) nut selections, fancy crisps, dips, pate with chutney, Camembert fresh breads, chocolates, stollen, and then you have the Christmas selections foods in Asda/Sainsbury’s which we buy also

Loads of extra food!

Lots of different chocolates (we have celebrations, heroes, chocolate oranges, truffles plus are expecting more from visitors), Christmas cake & mince pies, home made cheese straws, homemade sausage rolls, nuts plus lots of leftovers including extra nice ham, smoked salmon etc.

(+ extra drinks too -snowballs, limonata, bitter lemon & more)

Oh yes, & extra nice cheeses and pickles, chutneys too

Lots of cheeses & pickles
Pate
Crisps
Chocolates
Wine
Beer

Very little extra.
We've got a big meal which will generate plenty of yummy leftovers.
I'm likely to eat twice my usual calories.
The last thing I need is a house full of extra chocolates, biscuits, crisps, cake etc.

Why should I want to spend January and February on a diet?

Mince pies, chocolates, but it's only the 4 of us.