What food do you always like to have in the run up to Christmas?

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I always seem to have mince pies, sausage rolls and Lidl stollen .. Yum!

What about you?

Almost forgot the mulled wine!

Pannettone. Already eaten one. By myself! Need to replace it.

I always make a lovely, creamy, brandy-soaked chicken liver pate and scoff lots of it on toast. Missed out due to being pg last year so looking forward to that.

Mince pies
Brandy
Nice cheese
Turkish delight
Mulled wine
Satsumas
Eating lots of stollen this year(already!)

I always do a ham in raisin sauce on Christmas Eve, so it's ready for the leftovers.

DD2 and I eat panettone after panettone
Cinnamon biscuits

Panettone, stollen, mince pies.. Mmm.

nice cheese, nice ham, chocolate log and turkish delight!

Satsumas, Lindor chocs, pâté

Amaretti biscuits (my treat to me).
Mince pies
A stollen or 2
Mulled wine
Lovely fresh clementines
Hot lemon juice with honey and brandy (as I always come down with a chest infection)

Christmas cake. We always start ours before Christmas as it doesn't all get eaten otherwise

My delicious home made mince pies ( first batch being made this weekend! )

Cocktail sausages hot from the oven

Mulled wine

Homemade smoked mackerel pate

and for the first time this year homemade gravdlax

Those little gingerbread biscuits covered in icing sugar from Lidl are a Christmas must have in our house.

pringles and schloer!

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Mmmmh another food thread :-)

Top of my list:

Lebkuchen
Glühwein
Stollen
Spekulatius
Mince pies

Loving all these replies.

Think I'm going to stock up on some of these tomorrow

How long does homemade pate last? I love smoked mackeral pate but am never sure how long I should it in the fridge for?

Clementines
Nice cheese
Spekulatius

Satsumas
White hot chocolate
Turkish delight
Stilton and pickle
Red Lindor

Might have to get some Panettone after all the posts about it!

Hot chocolate with whipped cream and marshmallows.
Smoked salmon
Pringles and twiglets
Camembert and crusty bread

Nice cheese & pate to have with fresh crusty bread
Homemade mince pies/ Lebkuchen/ biscotti
Posh hot chocolate (eg the Charbonnel & Walker stuff)
Non-alcoholic Gluhwein (sorry can't do umlauts!)
'Fancy' pork pies

what's spekuliatius?

Organic butter. Although it's so nice it doesn't last long.

Dutch gingerbread

I was going to ask that Greensleeves! I want some . Probably .

Awaiting - not sure, ours is never around long enough! Prob the max its lasted in the fridge with cover on is about 4-5 days. But I suspect it would last longer, if you think about the main ingreds, smoked fish and creme fraiche both last ages.

Speculaas are a brittle spiced biscuit. They're a bit lie those little wrapped biscuits you sometimes get with branded coffees.

After Eights which is why I have a girth similar to Santa