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?

Cheese, booze, naice bread, real butter, lots of cream....so hungry

Oh i had another thought - a tin of Danish cookies.

I'm going to Copenhagen in October, hoping they will have some Christmas food/markets - may be a bit early.

Advocot
Cheese footballs
Tins and tins of chocolates
Cheese
Nuts to crack
Sherry for the boxing day trifle, have to remember this year, last year we forgot and had minging alcohol free trifle, which is wronger than a wrong thing.

Right, what the flipping heck is lebchicken or whatever it's called?!
I don't think I really buy anything special unless we know we have visitors on particular days.
We always have people round for Christmas Day (usually about 18 of us) and eat like kings all day, but we go out for Boxing Day and then always straight off on holidays the day after so don't want loads of food hanging around.
Saying that, we do have things like mince pies, fancy crisps and crackers, homemade sausage rolls, Tins of chocolates decanted into a really tacky glass jar thing, for during the festive period.

Oh and squirty cream...slightly embarrassed. Foxes / cadburys christmas biscuits.

Boak at lebkuchen!
We must always have cheese from Neals yard and Matusalem sherry.
I don't like dried fruit but do buy Xmas pud, mince pies and panettone for DH and DD

Nuts. Plenty of cranberry sauce and mayo for all the delicious turkey sandwiches along with salad style trimmings. A decent bottle of sherry and a good bottle of port, plus usually some dessert wine. Assorted cheeses, plus home made chutney and various biscuits/crackers to serve. Plenty of Fever Tree tonic to enjoy with our gin. Shortbread. A few boxes of those frozen Marks nibbles/canapes to have before or with meals.

Some nice hot chocolate to make a home made mocha. Mmmmm.

No mince pies or Christmas cake as DH isn't particularly keen.

There's usually some home made chocolate bark or fudge.

One year I did buy a bottle of Advocaat to recreate the snowballs of my teen years
I was VERY disappointed.

Lebkuchen are little sweet, lightly spiced baked mouthfuls - a cross between biscuits and cake, I'd say, not unlike Jaffa cakes with a spicy flavour. Wikipedia says they're not unlike gingerbread, and I suppose that's right. They come in a variety of shapes and are either coated in chocolate or glazed with sugar. I love them and we always have them now.

Advocaat looks rank as a snowball. Like bits of food floating in your drink

Ahh thanks for clearing that up about lebkuchen, it doesn't look like the kind of thing I would like after all!

I love cheese and biscuits at Christmas. I always vow to choose some really delicious and unusual cheeses. However as I'm terrible for leaving my Christmas food shopping too far too late I always end up with the boring generic pre packaged cheese board. Why would I want cheddar, I have a kg of the stuff in the fridge as it is!!!!

Last year we looked in the aldi Xmas catalogue and circled all the delicious looking stuff we planned to buy. By the time we got there it had all mostly sold out. Ditto Tesco.

I'm shopping early this year.

We always have cheese anyway, but I make sure to have at least 3 nice cheeses (a soft, a strong hard one and a nice bit of stilton) - as well as whatever bits of cheddar and other stuff we already have.

M&S crisps - there's a particular type that are different shapes, and come in a salt and pepper flavor, that I LOVE.

Amaretti biscuits - special treat for me.

Naice Hot choc - the lumps of chocolate on a wooden spoon to melt into hot milk. And marshmallows to go with it.

HM cookies - usually at least 1 but possibly 2-3 types.

Stollen - I blame the German au pairs we had!!

Bottle of port and bottle of dessert wine.

Cheese, cheese, cheese, cheese, cheese, cheese, cheese, cheese, cheese, cheese, cheese, cheese, oh yeah and did I mention cheese apart from that got to be chutney to go with all that cheese, crackers, stollen, pate, and a nice bottle of champers, got given quite a few bottles as presents when we had Dd3 earlier in the year and we're saving them for christmas

Twiglets
Carrot cake (I make)
Chutney but I don't like posh chutney so Small Chunk Branston in a nice jar
Cheese (of course)

Though not for me World's Tiniest Violin.
Can't have wheat,onion,garlic or cheese (except sheep)

So my list will be : rice crackers,feta
Not so good

Homemade christmas cake seriously over iced with thick royal icing. Best eaten with extra mature hard cheese and a large glass of wine.

I don't really do Christmas food. Who eats a full wheel of Brie just become it has Christmas written on the box!?

I always have cheese crackers chutney etc...but I gotta have Baileys (well Aldi version) and Snowballs in.

Ooh last year tesco brought out bottles of salted caramel liqueur (sort of a baileys type drink but nice) that was so addictive. I went through about 3 bottles. In 2 weeks
Iny defence it was never for the alcoholic side effects, it was just so bloody delicious! Kept finding myself pouring a little tipple at 4pm when we were home from the school run and could lock the doors and get comfortable for the evening.

Can't wait for those dark days again! I love the short days and long nights.

Gin, enough to,blot the whole bloody thing out

Gosh, that was heartfelt, Grandshiredoubles!