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Original poster

to start eating some of the Christmas food? And if I'm not allowed when do you all start?

34 replies

Lauriefairycake · 08/12/2008 17:10

There is a stollen staring at me

I wouldn't dream of starting the cake, the mince pies, the christmas chocs but I want a bit of stollen

Does everyone else hold back til Christmas Eve then ?

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dizzyjingles · 08/12/2008 17:11

itd december therefore its all fair game imo

carry on!

PingpingsatonSantasface · 08/12/2008 17:12

Whats stollen?

Yeah why not there is on two weeks till Christmas.

WorzselMincepieYummage · 08/12/2008 17:12

I've been eating Mincepies since October

mrsmaidamess · 08/12/2008 17:13

I've just had a really boozy mince pie from Aldi! (Pushing the boat out this year)

hippipotami · 08/12/2008 17:14

I am desperate to open the bottle of baileys sitting in the cupboard. But dh tells me I am not allowed yet [pout]

But my best friend has already started on the Christmas chocs and her Baileys!!

Actually, tell a lie, we bought a big tub of celebrations in order to fill up our wooden advent calender. The dc get a choc each every evening, and dh and I scoffed the rest of the tub

PuppyMonkeyNuts · 08/12/2008 17:14

Stollen isn't Christmas food, it's sort of festive period food. And therefore perfectly acceptable to eat in the run up to Christmas Day.

compo · 08/12/2008 17:14

that's why you shouldn't buy it yet!

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Lauriefairycake · 08/12/2008 17:19

Good God! I thought I'd post this and get told to have more self control

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PingpingsatonSantasface · 08/12/2008 17:23

Please what is stollen?

LFC we have already gone through a tub of roses and various Christmas sweets at mine

nooka · 08/12/2008 17:23

Get some more self control! We only have nice stuff before Christmas on advent Sundays, or if we are pre-Christmas entertaining. Otherwise it reduces the feasting during the twelve days. But then I come from a family that decorate on Christmas Eve, and finish everything with a party on Twelfth Night. I do love Stollen though!

Aniyan · 08/12/2008 17:26

Stollen is a long loaf of delicious fruity bready cake stuff with marzipan in the middle. I love it and I don't even like marzipan

dittany · 08/12/2008 17:26

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MerryFlippinChristmas · 08/12/2008 17:27

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JiminyCricket · 08/12/2008 17:28

well, dh's chocolate orange for his stocking didn't last, but I did share it with him, and I was ill..

PingpingsatonSantasface · 08/12/2008 17:30

Thanks Aniyan.

MotherChristmas2OliverJames · 08/12/2008 17:32

i got some mr kipling christmas pudding cakes, they had brandy stuff in the middle and i just couldnt eat it, made me boak.

Anyone who has chocolate advent calenders are already eating christmas food!!!

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Lauriefairycake · 08/12/2008 17:39

Well, dd has the advent calender (paper, noc choc)and I do agree with you nooka about the twelve days of feasting (no decorations up here til the schools finish).

I'm distracting myself from the stollen by cooking leeks.

I have to get dh to hide the goodies in the outhouse where the loofahs are so no one will go there but I bought the stollen today and he's not here to hide it yet.

Mr Kipling - yeurgghh.....

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cheshirekitty · 08/12/2008 19:50

Diabetic rant alert here. Fed up, fed up, fed up, fed up with you lot stuffing your faces with goodies, nice sugary, choccie goodies.

Yum yum, will just peel my delicious banana.

bollockbrainASSofBETHLEHEM · 08/12/2008 19:55

go for it

We buy, eat and replace our christmas goodies from as soon as they hit the shops.

I have to admit lst year we had done 5 tins chocs before christmas eve.

nice though

lovecat · 08/12/2008 19:57

MIL gave us a tin of Roses for Christmas on Saturday. DH has broken into them already. I try to buy something for Christmas every week to spread the cost, and he's already found & eaten the shortbread, the choc biscuits and a tub of mini-cheddars.

Gaaaah!

Lizzylou · 08/12/2008 20:00

This is why I don't buy our goodies until closer to Christmas, it just wouldn't last!

Last year Mom got me a case of wine from Sunday Wine Club for Christmas Eve/Day/Boxing Day, ity she gave it to me in early december,it didn't last very long
In my defence it was all so much nicer than the wine I usually buy (anything that's been reduced to £3.99 in Tesco [blush) and I don't get out much!

OrmIrian · 08/12/2008 20:01

Now this is the reason we have a house full of lovely food all the time. So I don't have to fight off temptation at Christmas.

Cies · 08/12/2008 20:03

We've already started! I think I was offered my first bit of turrón (am in Spain, this is typical here) about a week ago, and then HAD to go and buy some for home.

Haven't made my mincepies yet, though... That's on the list for this week

OhYouMerryMerryKitten · 08/12/2008 20:08

I would say I don't start til Christmas eve after Mass. But that would be a lie as we've just eaten the Brandy butter we had ready for Christmas day on top of our rhubarb and blackberry crumble

mashedbanana · 08/12/2008 20:56

we've ate the pringels and the box of chocs that were supposed to be a gift for someone