Foods you have in at christmas

[Crazypetlady]

Hello,
I'm just wondering what foods you have in over the festive period. Every year we have cranberry juice , celebrations chocolate orange, crackers and cocktail sausages. We have a few other bits but I can't think of them now. I am doing my christmas shopping list soon so just wondering what does everyone else buy?

We always seem to have WAY to much cheese in and relishes and pickles to go with leftover cold meats.

We buy and freeze lots of naice bread for making extra special sandwiches with aforementioned food meats.

Then treats like Pringles and dry roasted peanuts. Oh and we always have Ben and Jerrys ice cream and Haagen Daz....yum!

Lots of cheese and chutney, pringles, warm cider, mint matchmakers....mmmmmm!

Smoked salmon (although I often have that in the fridge anyway)
More cheeses than we'd normally have
Mulled wine
Pigs in blankets
Stuffing
Different flavoured sausages

Cheese. Love cheese.
Paté
Mulled wine
Satsumas never get through all of them!
Quality Street (about 6 tins)
Brandy cream
Baileys

Lebkuchen. Bloody love them. Posh biscuits and crackers. Giant amounts of cheese and pate. Frozen party food like sausage rolls.

Can't wait for Christmas!

I had a very sparse Christmas last year due to dieting and I bitterly regretted it, sat on Boxing Day with a satsuma, so I'm going all out this year.

Lebkuchen
Brandy snaps
YYY to cheese and chutney
Pate and crackers (never dream of eating pate outside of Christmas)
Amaretto
Amaretti biscuits
Sausage rolls - love the gourmet-style ones M&S do with chutney, chorizo etc.
Not actually a big fan of Celebrations etc., I always get annoyed with the leftover ones. I'll be getting a really good box of chocolates instead from William Curley.
Cream added to anything that can take it.

You can never have enough cheese.
We stock up on twiglets, cheeselets, posh crisps, pickles and chutneys.
I also have after eights and Celebrations. I have a special bowl for the Celebrations to go in and they sit on my sideboard surrounded by tacky decorations.

Pate and lots of it.
Cheese but really cutting back this year as we threw so much out last year.
Lindor chocs
Onion relish to go with the cheese.
Satsumas - the more the merrier!

Cheese
Pate
Chutney
Posh Crisps
nuts
hotel chocolat chocs
Decent red wine and gin
home made mince pies
Christmas cake (with extra cheese just for the cake)

• Lebkuchen
• Chocolate with cherry and cherry liquor inside
• Advocaat
• Roast chestnuts

Lebkuchen
Christmas cake (we make a caribbean-style one and don't bother with icing - it doesn't usually get eaten till New Year but it comes into its own then!)
Mince pies (home-made, both mincemeat and shortcrust pastry, Christmas Eve ritual for my daughter and me as we always get started during the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols from King's)
Christmas pudding - home-made - there's usually enough to have it again on Boxing Day - we love it
Bendick's Bittermints
Choco Leibniz biscuits (dark)
Lots and lots of nice fruit - satsumas/clementines, big oranges, grapes, bananas, Cox's orange pippins, Granny Smith apples, conference pears, probably some dates
Probably a chocolate orange (dark)
Plenty of Hellmann's mayonnaise (full-fat!) to have with the leftover turkey and ham and all the salad stuff I also like to have in

I can hardly wait. 3.5 months to go and counting!

Cheeses & the most expensive crackers/biscuits I can find
Pate
Christmas cake
Quality street
Nuts in the shell
Amaretto
Baileys
Home made gingerbread
Mince pies
Panetonne (yummy toasted)
Cocktail sausages which I cook in whole grain mustard, soy & honey
Lots of different chutneys and pickles for boxing day
A massive ham

Port, beer, posh juice (the DC don't like fizzy drinks), crisps, chocolates.

These are my DM's staples. She's 82 and lives for Christmas. They guarantee sugar overdose but they might be coming back into style:

Buttercream covered chocolate log
Orange and lemon jelly segments
After Eights
Shortcake petticoat tails
Cadbury's chocolate biscuits.
Bailey's (her only concession to alcohol, replaces brandy butter)
Mixed nuts to crack.
... And a 5 kilo tin of Roses.

Gotta love old ladies and Christmas.

Shortbread! Oh yes. Another New Year favourite.

Oh, something else to make myself this year: salted caramel and spiced nuts, the ones I bought last year were rubbish and expensive.

Sorry for the multi post , but can anyone recommend an alternative to Buck's Fizz and Bellinis, both a bit sweet for me.

I like the sweet/bitter taste of Aperol spritzes, is there a Christmassy version of those?

Ref lebkuchen, I've remembered that I missed out on the Aldi offerings last year.

And I've also remembered Aldi's salted caramel fudge... there will definitely be fudge.

Sparkling elderflower and gin?

Pringles
Mince pies
Stollen
Christmas cake

Nothing all that exciting, really!

I made this Aperol cocktail last year, was nice.

www.sainsburysmagazine.co.uk/recipes/drinks/alcoholic/item/clementine-prosecco-cocktail

I'm guilty of 'over buying' at Christmas, bear in mind there's only 2 of us every year on the day....,

Quality Street
Roses
Heroes
Turkish Delight
Ferraro Rocher
Matchmakers
Elizabeth Shaw mints
Honey roast nuts
Smoky bacon coated nuts
Pringles
Yule log
Christmas cake
Vol au vent cases for leftover turkey/prawns
Selection of mini frozen cakes

Every year I say I'll cut back as we still have things left in February but I never do. I love Christmas & get very carried away with the excitement of it all!

Wait....I forgot the After Eights, shortbread and advocaat for snowballs

Twiglets! Only have them over Christmas for some reason.
Princes
Cheese cheese and more cheese
Pickles and chutneys that sit in the fridge for a year after
Dips,

Nothing really. I'm not very keen on "Christmas" food

Lebkuchen
Twig lets
Cheeselets
Ssssssh cream (squirty cream to normal people)
Cocktail sausages
And am always finds Bol au vents