How do you not eat all the Christmas stuff 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Was planning to do the Christmas shop on Thursday but now thinking it will be packed, wondering whether to get it all tomorrow and be done with it…but, how do you stop yourself tucking into it?
I know that if I know that boxes or Heroes, crisps, crackers, cheese etc is there…I’ll probably start eating a bit each night 😬
Or is that just me?
Should I do it on Thursday to avoid this?
Also, not just me…Dd, 4, will go to the fridge and eat bits and Dh def will too!

I’d rather start on the goodies this week than have stuff left over into New Year. The odd bit of cake and chocolate here and there is nice and we cracked open the pickled onions at the weekend !

The family know better than to touch anything in bags on the top shelf of the fridge as it is for XMAS no one dares the wrath of she who organises XMAS 🧑🏻‍🎄

I've had the Xmas cupboard full for 6 weeks. Nothing has been touched.
However we start eating it from Wednesday

For me personally I like to have a couple of nicer bits in the run up to Christmas. The reason being over the last few years I’d been fairly strict on things being kept “for Christmas”, and then Christmas came and went and everyone pigged out on chocolate and the Christmas dinner. Meaning everything else that was “nice” was just left untouched.

I’d rather have some chocolate this week, nice bits on Christmas Eve, and then still have a decent choice for Christmas Day and Boxing Day.

I can absolutely save things for Christmas, but if I’m in the mood for something and my partner is as well, why not have it? Christmas is once a year but it doesn’t mean the rest of the year you can’t have anything “nice”.

That sounds exactly how we do it @BirdyWoof.

We don't buy tubs of chocolates because we don't like them and don't generally pig out on chocolate anyway, but eating mince pies (I have just eaten another one) and starting the cake before Christmas makes sense to me.

Part baked rolls - must put them on my delivery list - thanks for the idea!!

No crackers? Ok, now I'm panicking!!

My DP ate the whole tub of these last night 🙄

We have a regular sized fridge-freezer, about 50cm wide and could fit a box or bag of food. We have the shelves up high to fit a kilner jar of sauerkraut, which I've just finished, so could put Christmas food there now if I wanted.

I have a cupboard in the playroom that's high up just below the ceiling (which is weird, its built into the wall, not something I would think of putting in but it is useful) that becomes the Christmas cupboard this time of the year. I put all the booze, chocolates, nice snacks etc. up there and it gets left alone because its such a hassle to get into (have to move a chair over there to stand on) and its out of sight out of mind as can only see it if you're in the playroom looking up.

The fridge stuff was bought on Saturday and I've told OH he's not to touch any of the Christmas food, and the children don't help themselves to food so that's not an issue.

Had to try it. Normal shelf arrangement for us.

Aw thank you! The cheese and wine is just sat staring me demanding to be opened 😂

Sorry 😬But I swear to God, the only ones were Jacob's selection, which won't be enough and they're quite pricey. I wanted some plain crackers, possibly supermarket brand and there are none. Jacob's ones aren't there too. I love Jacob's wholegrain and haven't seen them in past 2 or 3 weeks. Maybe it's just where I live? I will check in Sainsbury's and Morrison tonight.

Only have Christmas Day and stephen’s day off so yesterday had a mini Christmas and today I feel so sick I think I’ll never eat Christmas food again!!! I wouldn’t recommend it!!!

There is a strike at the Jacob's factory in Liverpool .

Which is why I'm not digging in. Too much to do still

You can't eat it all in 1 day so eat it over the Christmas period and then Boxing Day to new year is leftovers of delight!

This week is the week of gluttony 😀😀😀😀

Well bugger me. Well done.

Bought some nexium yesterday 😂😂

I've got the Christmas food in a Tesco bag in the fridge. The bag protects it from invasion

What? They're much more delicious icy cold (and the apples are crispier)!