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Anyone care to post their 'Big Christmas Shop' list?

9 replies

TotorosOcarnina · 20/12/2010 15:17

Am doing mine Thursday and am totally uninspired :(

From what to cook Christmas day to drinks and treats even Xmas Shock

Any help?

OP posts:
TotorosOcarnina · 20/12/2010 15:18

Sorry I mean the big food shop obviously.

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TheGoddessBlossom · 20/12/2010 15:23

I have had to do it in 3 lots as we are entertaining xmas eve, Day and Boxing Day:

Xmas Eve:

white wine
red wine
mulled wine
beer
cider
soft drink
mince pies
crisps/nuts
sausage rolls
tomato sauce

Christmas Day:

more of the above except sausage rolls
apples/satsumas/bananas/grapes
Smoked salmon/eggs
pigs in blankets
turkey
carrots/parsnips/sprouts/potatoes
bread sauce
cranberry sauce
christmas pudding
cream/ice cream
Quality Street
Ferrero Rocher
Chocolate money
MIL making 2 puddings

Boxing Day:

big ham (DH cooking it in ginger beer)
lettuce/tomatoes/cucumber
pickles/gherkins
chicken drumsticks
chees/cheese biscuits
pate
bread
smoked salmon
more booze
more soft drink
more chocolates

whole shebang has cost at least £600 and counting - if we get snowed in we will be eating the above for 2 months... Xmas Shock

soppypreggyloon · 20/12/2010 15:27

this is it so far but i still need to check cupboards etc.

Christmas Shopping List

sprouts
potatoes
parsnips
gravy powder
bread sauce - ready-made microwave?
cranberry sauce
croissants
crisps
humous
mince pies
cream
pudding for xmas day - raspberry cheesecake thingy
margarine
loo roll
wine
soft drinks

crackers to eat
cheese - mini
chutney - onion
bacon
scrubbers
part baked rolls
ice cream
tomatoes
carrots
pork pies
soup
paracetamol
bin bags
frozen cranberries - 150g
clementines - LOTS
eggs
sausagemeat - 500g
thyme
rosemary
celery
garlic
red onion - 2
SR Flour
cornflour
icing sugar
butter
white chocolate - 50g
quiche
mini pizzas

i have 40quid sainsburys vouchers and lots of nectar points to cash in :)

BelligerentYhoULE · 20/12/2010 15:48

I did mine the other day and killed the thread!

dode · 21/12/2010 10:39

I did my shopping for 12th december to 6th Jan inclusive but I've left off our ordinary in-between meals. The total list, not including Crimbo cake and pudding, costing about £220, breaking down to £100 hamper, £60 Ocado special meals, £60 Ocado ordinary meals.

2x sides of gammon given to us obviously reduced this a bit!

Ocado special meals list:

Frozen pastry (1x puff, 1x short)
Mincemeat 1kg jar
2x 1kg granulated sugar
1x bag brown sugar
2x 1.5kg plain flour
a jar of runny honey
a jar of mixed spice
12 eggs
6x milk bags
2x packets president butter
tub of fromage frais
bag of True Foods stock
vacuum bag of chestnuts
soft prunes
half a cucumber
stick of sprouts
bag of pears
bag of plums
bag of oranges
bag of lemons
3kg bag of white potatoes
2 bags of cranberries
bottle of malt vinegar
mulled wine spice in teabags
frozen roast potatoes in beef dripping (for emergency)

Northern Harvest:

3 bird roast
variety of organic squashes
jerusalem artichokes
local apples
gravadlax
cheshire oatcakes
sweet black back bacon
a game pie
chicken liver pate
a box of vanilla fudge
sticky toffee pudding
barbakan mince pies
barbakan campagrain
cheese: wensleydale
cheese: blue monday
quince cheese
christmas tree

Christmas Eve high tea and house decoration to feed 5
Nigel's mincemeat cake, Barbakan mince pies, tea and cucumber sandwiches

Christmas Eve supper with my family to feed 10:
have already made trad bottled pears for ham and Sarah Raven's cranberry compote
meal: roasted squash and apples, mashed potatoes and ham with bottled pears (or cranbo compote) followed by leftover cake, cheese, quince cheese and plum jellies

Christmas Day to feed 2:
-breakfast with DP: gravadlax, oatcakes, sweet black back bacon and maple syrup
-lunch at dad's - I'm taking the big cake made to family recipe but not cooking anything else thank goodness
-tea with DP: essentially extended pudding session and eating of fudge

Boxing Day at home to feed 4:
three bird roast, roast spuds and leftovers from Crimbo Eve

27th - more gingerbread tree decorations to feed 22 at cousins' (you make a giant wodge of dough that keeps for weeks and then just roll out and bake for 10 mins whenever needed)

...long gap for DP to recover - rolling visitors being fed banbury cakes and gingerbread and whatever we are given for Christmas

Twelfth Night (our special Crimbo night for friends) to feed 8+:
another ham, all the veg that is left roasted in a big dish, and
Nigel Slater's mincemeat crumble (which is so popular and simple I take gracious credit for it at every opportunity)
mulled booze for the wassail and ritual drunken taking down of decorations

domesticsluttery · 21/12/2010 11:01

I haven't done one big christmas shop as I make lots of things myself and other things have come from the Farm Shop, Farmers market etc. But this is what we are eating:

CHRISTMAS EVE:
lunch: not sure probably homemade sausage rolls

supper: Nigella's ham cooked in Ginger beer, baked potatoes, spiced red cabbage. Followed by mince pies (homemade including mincemeat) and mulled cider (mulled apple juice for DC).

CHRISTMAS DAY:
breakfast: toast with nice jams and marmalades, some homemade and some from the farmers market, bucks fizz/OJ.

lunch: turkey or nut roast, roast potatoes, mashed potatoes, sprouts, carrots, roast parsnips, chestnut stuffing, pigs in blankets, gravy, cranberry sauce, bread sauce etc etc. Followed by Christmas pud with brandy cream, ice cream for DC. Wine/Schloer to drink.

tea: christmas cake, mince pies, sponge cake etc with a pot of tea.

BOXING DAY:
lunch: turkey sandwiches

supper: cold ham, cold turkey, pork pie, cheese board (mainly local cheeses), pickles (including my own chutney, pickled shallots and pickled beetroot made with veg from teh garden) etc with trifle for pudding.

27th:
supper: turkey and ham pie followed by Christmas pudding ice cream

gillybean2 · 21/12/2010 11:13

Got most of my store cupboard items in already so don't need too much.
List (veggie xmas no alcohol) for tomorrow/final shop is:

  1. Pick up nut roast/m&s order
  2. yule log
  3. Profeterols
  4. veg - sprouts, carrots, pasnips, pots etc
  5. fruit - pineapple, satsumas, melon etc
  6. drinks - juice, pop as running low after having visitors over (don't drink so no need for alcohol)
  7. fridge items - cheese, milk, yoghurt, custard, cream etc
  8. xmas breafast - croissants and whatever cereal ds decides (let him have box of whatever - yes even sugar coated and/or chocolate stuff!)
  9. eggs (don't often have these in house) as we are making sweet waffles on thursday at ds's request
  10. more snacks as running low - twiglets, nuts and that sort of thing.

That's about it I think...

neverenoughMEtime · 21/12/2010 20:16

I did mine last night :)

Christmas eve: party food from asda for tea and a strawberry trifle and apple pie with custard for pudding

Christmas day: lovely soft white barms, eggs and bacon for breakfast, turkey, potatoes, carrots, sprouts etc for dinner and a black forrest gateux and toffee pavlova for pudding

We are at relatives for boxing day so no need to buy for then. I also got:

Cream
custard
apple sauce
mr kipling apple pies
mr kipling apple and blackcurrant pies
choc chip cake bars
choc fingers
loads of lightly salted tortilla chips and different dips
pringles
crackers and cheese
couple of boxes of nice biscuits
roses
icecream
nuts
pizzas
cocktail sausages
sausage rolls/cheese rolls
mini cheddars
bananas/grapes/satsumas/pears
ham
cheese
pineapple
choc coins
big tubes of smarties/M+M's/sweets
strawberry cheesecake
jelly
birthday cake (DD2 is 1 on NYE)
multipack wotsits
2 packs of mini rolls, normal choc and the cranberry ones
cadbury marshmallow thingys not sure what they are called!
yummy cheese-topped barms
yogurt
blackcurrant/apple/cranberry juices
cans of coke
christmas tree shaped biscuits to decorate with DD1 on christmas eve
bread
milk

I think thats it...seems quite a lot but im doing a buffet tea on christmas eve AND for DD2's birthday on NYE so it will all get gobbled up!

jenk1 · 24/12/2010 10:01

Did mine yesterday

Christmas Eve : Homemade sausage rolls and cheese and crackers,Coconut Prawns with Sweet Chilli dip, Mini cheeseburgers for the DC

Christmas Day morning Smoked Salmon and Cream Cheese bagels and at a friends for Xmas dinner

Boxing Day: Roast Gammon and all the trimming
as Ds is with his Dad on Xmas Day so we will have our "Xmas Day" Dinner then

Diet Coke 8 Cans
Coke Zero 8 Cans
Battery AA x2
Organic Milk 4 pints
Champagne Glasses
Orange Juice x2
V8 Juice
Bag of Clementines
Mars Mini Rolls
Socks
Jaffa Cake Bars
Wine Glasses
Baking Potatoes
Rum Truffles
French Fries
Hash Browns
Hot Dog
Bananas
Biscuits For Cheese
Carrots
Houmous
Grapes
Philly Mini Tubs
Doritos
Pastry Block
Pigs in Blankets
Chicken
Ham
Corned Beef
Iams Cat Food
Tissues
Uncle Bens Rice
Sausage Meat
Anchor Butter
Caerphilly
Muffins
Bagels
Fusilli Pasta
Gammon Joint
Cabbage
Frozen Mixed Veg
Sprouts
Cauliflower cheese
Mince Pies
Parsnips
Stuffing
Apples
Raspberries
Cathedral City Cheese
Options Hot Chocolate
Pork Sausage
Smoked Salmon
Resolve
Bacon
Shloer Rose
Dinner Service (Reduced to £7.50 beautiful white with gold trim)

That came to £140 i had £100 savers stamps saved throughout the year and a free £25 voucher from morrisons so i had to put £15 to it am well impressed and am going to do the saver stamps every year Xmas Grin

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