THE MASTER (food/wine) shopping list for Xmas!

[OhCobblers]

so i started a thread sometime ago asking what one normally forgets but i think its easier to do THE list (well try anyway) and add to it as i have definitely forgotten something. Am hoping this is the year that i don't! so, mine is something like this :-

Turkey (ordered from butchers) (got turkey foil)
b/sprouts
potatoes
parsnips
red cabbage
ingredients for gravy and bread sauce
condiments / pickles
ingredients for Xmas breakfast (here thats smoked salmon/cream cheese bagels)
ingredients for Xmas Eve dinner (JO's fish pie)
nibbles / dips
decided on no canapes as lunch is always huge
nice bread for sarnies for the evening
xmas pudding / mince pies
custard / cream / brandy sauce
xmas crackers
much wine and champers
extra butter, loo roll, mayo

OK, what have i forgotten??

Smoked salmon
Pigs in blankets
Cheese and crackers

But you have reminded me that I've forgotten the crackers!

Just out of interest, does anyone eat the red cabbage? MIL insists on it every year but no one (including her) eats it. If she comes to us she brings it with her

oh saltire i can't make it but i do love it!
(my one concession to getting something readymade from supermarket!)

ladybiscuit : well done - pigs in blankets are a must and how could i forget the cheese - a must for DH !!

Port

Stilton

(I love red cabbage!)

i've just remembered i've forgotten the nuts.
you know the usual selection in the net that you only ever have at christmas for no real reason ?!

After eights!
I could always find room for them! :) mmmmm

Xmas cake, choc log, trifle ingredients?

Baileys!

Mulling stuff if you like mulled wine?

We always have leftover turkey & a ham with salad xmas day evening. Prefer that to xmas lunch tbh!

soppy : have just bought a tin of quality st from sainsburys for £4 - am hoping that will do

Love the red cabbage! I do a Delia recipe, spiced, with apple, make industrial quantities and freeze it.

Tin of Quality Street?
Satsumas?

glitter : absolutely adores anything remotely xmassy but don't know why i HATE mulled wine ?!!!
DH quite happy to have it but doesn't miss it if its not on offer.
Baileys good choice but am hoping whiskey, amaretto, gin, vodka and port already in the house will keep everyone happy

yes, now glitter about that xmas cake - can't be fagged to make one, quite like the Delia kit from Waitrose but have i left it too late so maybe just buy it?

Great minds think alike, OP!

as in just buy a cake from supermarket?

Its not too late but it is a traumatic experience. Maybe best to buy unless you are a delia-like goddess who cooks in zen like calm.

oooh satsumas - YES !!! thank you!!!

Box of dates. with long plastic forky thing!

Pineapple that dosent get eaten.

stuffing/bacon for vile turkey?

glitter one can only aspire to "zen like calm". my idea of a calm kitchen is to tell everyone to "sod off out of it and leave me alone", use every bowl we have (leaving DH to wash them all up ) and swear like a trooper every 2 mins .............

so, off to Sainsburys ............

so i see

not a mad turkey fan myself - much prefer beef ............ fortunately butcher's turkey are giving me the stuffing too.

another one .......... GOOSE FAT !

cobblers I'd have after eights for after meal but quality streets or my preferred Roses for grazing! Mmmmmm

Chestnuts

Suffing for the turkey or ingredients to make it?