To have ring fenced the Christmas food?!

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Got all the Christmas food yesterday. DH wants to dive straight in and start eating the pate, cheeses, crackers etc. Kids want to open the box of chocolates.

AIBU to want to save the food for Christmas Day onwards?

What's the general view here?!
It just doesn't seem an occasion if by the time 25th rolls around you've eaten all the best stuff to me.

Triskai, fraid not, I dont actually share the cheese.
I allow Dd to look at it, I might give her a small piece but she is not to touch the cheese unsupervised.
She's 16 and quite used to my weird cheeseness.

We are hosting Christmas Eve and keeping Christmas Day food/Boxing Day food all separate in the fridge...bloody nightmare! We have different family coming each day so need to make sure we actually have enough food! Otherwise I would be tucking in now... I did open a liqueur earlier though. I think as we are hosting I can start drinking the indulgent things early!

I started Friday but try every year to wait until Christmas Eve.

These threads never fail to amuse, food police! Love it. Have everyone home now so we are tucking into foie gras and smoked salmon nibbles right now, freshly made mince pies have already been partly scoffed. Surely it's better to start now whilst it feels more Christmassy because once you get to Boxing Day the mood has passed, movie and quality street later, yum!

Oh no Molly, we keep the mood going for the whole two weeks of the school holidays.
I've a big shop due on the 27th to stock up on more festive goodies.
I'm a bit rubbish in many ways but I do food well.

I would say it is more enjoyable if you spread it out. In any case most people consume enough calories just during the main meal on Christmas Day to sustain them for several days!

I'm thinking about cracking the cake open tonight actually 🤔🤔🤔

Amazing how many cheese fiends are on here

Cake and mince pies have been started already. Nice cheese, meats, crackers etc out of bounds until after church tomorrow evening. Am trying to resist opening the tin of Quality Street. Gin is open though.

I own several cheese boards, and knives, it's my absolute favourite food ever.

IHaveBrilloHair dammit! I will just have to get my own 15 cheeses

I have some brie and crackers I was planning to have this afternoon but I licked out the yule log icing bowls and then felt sick! Perhaps after dinner...

I'm going to make cheese next week. I'm nervous.

We tend to start with mince pies for a week or so before Xmas (DH loves a mince pie or three after our tea each night), added in some chocolates yesterday, upped the game with pork pies and matchmakers tonight and tomorrow will probably feature a nice breakfast and later some Baileys, and possibly pate and crackers. Not mega feasting but something nice and “extra” each day.

I have my cheese feast on Hogmanay - DH and DS aren’t bothered about new year at all and are often off to bed before the bells, but I’m a true Scot and have to ring in the new, so I often sit up on my own with my cheese and red wine and watch the telly, it’s complete bliss to be honest!

I had good intentions but the pate just screamed at me at lunchtime today, so I gave in and opened it. I’ve not told ds though; he still thinks it’s all for tomorrow onwards!

I won a selection box in a raffle. I may have opened it and stolen a bar, that doesn't count because raffle prize=bonus food.

It's half two in Australia and we're well into cheese and mince pies and chocs.

Meal stuff no , snacky stuff go go go

Quality Street were opened tonight. I don't usually buy them but DH was given them.

Have two small Xmas cakes so will start on one tomorrow. Have been eating mince pies for the last week. Didn't want to go too mad buying loads but DH stocked up so we have far too many mince pies. Meant to have warmed with cream tonight but forgot. Mainly as I had too much of the Christmas wine!

Once the shopping is done. I have a few bits but am doing the rest today. So once we get back after visiting it's all fair game. Having said that the cupboard is currently gaffa taped

I think it's okay to start it early, Christmas is only two days long as it is and if you are not careful you end up eating it halfway through January just to avoid chucking it away, long after you've ceased to care about nuts and pate and cheese boards.

Just make sure you don't let them gobble the lot so there's nothing left for Christmas Day and Boxing Day.

Once everyone is home for the holiday, from work/school then its fair game unless its specifically for Christmas Dinner.

We're really lucky that dh gets roughly 7-10 days off each year, and we like to be as indulgent as possible the whole time.

Three kids home who are half starved all year due to having tio cook for themselves. So its all systems go since they arrived. They are not keen on sweet stuff so its all pate cheese crackers etc. We usually hit a wall on the 27th so l want it gone by then. They associate coming home for Christmas with food.

We will start on ours today. Nothing more annoying than going to get something out on Christmas Day to find that some greedy bugger has eaten the entire contents the week before and put the empty box back in the cupboard!!! My kids would so do this. All Christmas food in our house is strictly 'off limits' until Christmas Eve, otherwise all the fizzy pop and chocolate biscuits would be gone to the plague of locusts that is my two teenagers.

From Christmas Eve onwards is ok.

I've just had a mulled wine