What Christmas food are we buying/preparing in advance and stashing away?

[schoolgaterebel]

I am making the following to freeze:
Red cabbage
Cauliflower cheese
Pigs in blankets
Stuffing balls

And have bought some:
Crackers
Festive serviettes
Nuts
Turkey gravy

I plan to pick up some more bits on my next shopping trip: Pringles, crackers (for cheese), fancy chocolates, a bottle of baileys, nice wine.

Trying to spread the cost over a few months, but need to remember where I've stashed all the treats otherwise I forget what I've bought.

Any tips and ideas?

I can't think about food without thinking about what it gets served on!

Jamie's make ahead gravy in the freezer (3 litres of it) along with par-boiled roasties (king Edwards pots are half price at Tesco so I prepped the spuds for Xmas day-only have to heat the fat and tip them in)

Naive wine

So far I’ve bought:
Christmas pudding
Small Christmas cake
Tubs of Pringles (50p each at Tesco)
Celebrations
Lebkuchen

And in my freezer:
English cheesecake company cheesecake
6 different buffet food things
4 trays pigs in blankets

Sibling can you tell me more about frozen par boiled potatoes? Can you cook them straight from frozen?

Made the Christmas cake and puddings in October half-term as usual. I’ve made the mincemeat and some mince pies and some sausage rolls and chutney so far. My DGC (3) likes to help which makes it take much longer!

I'm not good at stashing as we always end up eating everything. :) Maybe a few days before Christmas. It's been that way ever since.

Ok, DD has now banned me from buying g the Florentines and the bargain selection boxes are now in my neighbours boot!! I am a disgrace!! The only Christmas food I now have in my house are poo emoji shaped cola lollies and liquorice allsorts, both of which are perfectly safe!!!

I got 2 big sharing bags of M&S crisps that we like last week - I put them in the study so they'll be safe.

And DM gave me a pudding when I visited at the weekend.

I don't have a lot more that I want to get that I could get at this stage - the rest is the veg and meat for dinner and other perishables. Or regular foodshopping type things.

2 cases of prosecco, 2 bottles champagne,
case each of Soave and Shiraz, (have had to replace these once already!
bottle of Pear brandy, bottle of Baileys, bottle vodka

2 christmas puddings

big box of 'good' chocolates, two boxes of m&s truffles (bought at half price- but cost 100% more than intended lol) caramel balls, gift box of chocolates,

3 jars of spicy tomato pickle (bought 4 from a good deli we visited, and one gone already - will probably have to restock when we visit again mid December !)

daren't buy nuts, crisps, crackers or anything for the freezer , cos i have zero will power!

rest of planned shopping is on order to be collected/delivered 23rd

I have a stash of mini stollen bites hidden away. Normal and chocolate covered. 😁

So far I've got

• napkins
• crackers
• a turkey parcel
• stuffing

I did have Yorkshire puddings, pigs in blankets, gravy, cauli cheese and red cabbage but we ended up eating it all as a roast dinner a couple of weeks ago. We also drank a bottle of sloe gin that I' d bought.

just got dijon and english mustard, horseradish sauce, and some mayonnaise, for the emergency supply cupboard

surely only at Christmas can we have an 'emergency' requiring condiments/sauces

and more shiraz

I've got

Pringles
Schloer
J2O
Appletiser
4 bottles of prosecco
All stored in the garage.

A box of table crackers
A packet of napkins
A bag of chocolate chunks
A bag of mini milk toblerones
Lebkuchen
A bottle of Bacardi
A bag of cheese savouries
2 homemade Christmas puddings
A Christmas cake
Chocolate coins
Candy canes
Chocolate Santas
All hidden in my Christmas cupboard - the last three are to fill the advent
calendar.

Stuffing
Blanched sprouts
Blanched parsnips
Blanched carrots
2 fairly substantial packets of fillet steak that were in the reduced section of the supermarket
All in the freezer.

Goose fat in the fridge

I'm also waiting for a case of red wine to be delivered.

This weekend Im making the pudding and the cake, the fruit has been soaking for two weeks now.
I made mince oies, but they have all been eaten already!
I will make cranberry chutney and brandy butter and they will sit in the back of the fridge.
Stuffing balls, bread sauce and bacon roll ups will get cooked and frozen in disposable foil containers.
Have bought crackers (the bang variety) paper napkins
Still need to get the rest, some will be teo weeks before, the turkey will be ordered and I will pick it up and buy the fresh veg on the 23 rd as soon as the ahops open.

Now I just need to get the presents bought and wrapped and the Xmas cards sent. (Just!)

Pies not oies. Fat fingers!

We have got - they are on a shelf in the kitchen that I can't quite reach (even with a chair it's hard):

Florentines
Lebkuchen
Toffiffee
Lindt balls
Ferrero Rocher

I have also ordered our Christmas food delivery to arrive 23 December, it's a working-list, I add and remove things when I think of them. This year it's from Waitrose, who we rarely use for home delivery, and until it's in the house, and they haven't substituted brussels sprouts for beansprouts, I will feel a bit nervous.

This weekend I plan to make and freeze the red cabbage with cooking apples (inspired by this thread). I also love the idea of making the mince pies, and getting them in the freezer on trays so we can just bosh them into the oven on an as-needed basis.

Oh and we've ordered the Christmas table flowers (we used to collect holly and ivy and make it on Christmas Morning, but DD is 13 months so slightly too young to enjoy that, but slightly too old to play it cool while we do it).

We have also bought a few more Christmas napkins, we get them from Sibona: www.sibona.com/christmas/c32 so far we've got: pheasant, pheasant feather, wreath, stag, robin, Christmas tree ones.