Christmas Necessities

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Hi,

Sorry if there is another thread already on this subject (and an extra sorry for posting when there's still 3 months to go but I'm trying to be prepared this year )..

What are your necessities for Christmas? I'm talking mainly about food and drink but happy to hear about any other necessities such as board games, Christmas CD's etc!

Thanks!

a turkey with cranberry sauce
gravy
veggies (Brussels sprouts, etc)
trifle
xmas cookies
a veggie option

We do a buffet at Christmas, no one particularly enjoys a roast and there are only 3 of us.

So breakfast must have delicious pastries.
Lunch is a good cut of beef, nice bread, good cheeses, nice picky bits which we just pick at all day.

Christmas cake and Wensleydale

Good red wine

Lots of gin and tonic.

Marzipan chocolates (from Lakeland )
Lemon Pannetonne )I think Lidl , could be Aldi)
Sainsbury bakery shortcrust mince pies

Oh and the TVTimes and 4 different coloured pens (to mark what we want to see)

Radio Times and highighters!
Cheese footballs/twiglets/treelets
Trays of salty nibbles like pretzels and similar
Chocolate Orange
After Eights
Mixed nuts and raisins
York fruits
Tins of chocolate

That's my childhood right there.

at picky bits. Did you know that's always voted as one of the most loathed phrases on MN?

Quality street (in a tin not the tiny plastic tubs)

Christmas Chutney from the chutney man at Manchester Xmas markets. The year he's not there it will be a very sad christmas!

Hot fresh orange juice (no bits) with a shot of amaretto stirred in

DH has to make Nigellas gingerbread stuffing which we now call 'cake-on'

I have to make Mary berries fruit cake as an Xmas cake. And my grandma's local authority school dinners Xmas pudding recipe

Pigs in blankets. They are the law!

Husband insists on stollen but I don't like it

Mint sauce
Yule log

Mint sauce 73kittycat73 ?!

Pickled 'things' (onions, walnuts, chutneys), cheese and crackers, a glazed baked ham, Christmas cake (made a couple of months ahead), some sort of fruity liqueur for me, whisky for DH, chocolate coins for breakfast (for DS!)

Oh, or fresh orange juice with Tia Maria

Mince pies
Salted peanuts
Crumbly white cheese (only seem to buy it at Xmas)
Smoked Salmon
Bailey's
Chocolate coins

Gotta be Quality Street/Roses

A stockpile of Christmas tree scented candles... I'm talking candletastic for ten days!

Fresh Christmas wreath on the front door.

Clean house and fresh bedding all done the day I finish work.

Vintage port, cheese and fruit cake.

A ham, braised red cabbage, pigs in blankets
Cheese board
Yule Log
Mince pies
Quality Street
Pate and a Stand pie
Home Alone and The Royal Famiky

Dont forget the stuffing!! Or your own ingredients if making
it yourself.

Desserts - not everyone likes christmas pudding. I normally
put ice creams or lollies in freezer for children

At least 2 Tins of Quality Street (cos they are only half the size
they used to be!!)

Might sound silly, but some of these are things that i have
run out of leading up to xmas, and overlooked them because I was concentrating on all the main food and drink
items.

Tin foil and cling film.
Table napkins
Salt
Apple sauce/mint sauce (depending on meat you buy)
Duck fat (if you use it)
Cooking oil
Soft drinks for children
Christmas crackers

Pork pie and pickle.
A board game
A bottle of Drambuie
Radio Times
A roasted gammon
Lots of nuts

Pom Bear Snowmen (pigs in blankets flavour)
Jacob's cheese footballs
Asda Turkish Delight chocolate thins
Chocolate covered Brazil nuts
Reliable and uncapped access to Wifi to maintain sanity
Sleeping in a different house to PIL to maintain sanity
Knowledge that we drive home first thing on Boxing Day to preserve sanity

For us, necessities include:
Lots of candles
Logs, coal and kindling
Copius tubs of chocolates (celebrations etc)
The M&S and Sainsbury's food order catalogue

Bucks Fizz
Chocolate orange
'Posh' cranberry sauce
Sausage meat stuffing
Turkey
Pigs in blankets
DHs excellent turkey gravy
Trifle
Lots of cheese
Chutney
Pickled onions (FIL makes them)
Pistachio nuts
Spiced rum (Red Leg is a current favourite).

Also necessary are crackers, festive smelling candles, multicoloured fairy lights and the baubles DM gave me which are as old as me

Pigs in blankets
Real Xmas tree that's slightly too big for the room
Crispy asthmatic duck
Maybe a Xmas cake (but this year I'll do a couple of baked beans can sized one so that it's finished before March.

Champagne
Smoked salmon
Dates to be stuffed with marzipan
Gentleman's Relish
Gold chocolate coins
Stollen or mince pies

I'm worried about your asthmatic duck didireallysaythat!

DidIReally what is this baked bean sized cake you speak of? You mean you can make them in different sizes? I have been pondering poncing in this regard but had it in my head that you could only use a giant square tin like the one that Shortbread comes in - the big size. How does this work?

@didireallysaythat that poor duck!!

For dinner:
Turkey
Stuffing
Pigs in blankets
Yorkshire puddings
Swede
Roast potatoes
Gravy

Nibbles:
Cheeselets
Twiglets
Tortilla chips
Weird cheese

Drinks:
Orange juice
Apple juice
Pineapple juice
Cider