Christimas Food

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Tell me what food or drink you have to buy every year and it wouldn’t be Christmas without?

TIA

Matchmakers
Chocolate orange
Turkish delight
Marzipan fruits
Bath Oliver biscuits

Mince pies
Tin of Quality Street or Roses
Cranberry sauce

Sugared almonds

Stuffing balls
Cranberry sauce
Mince pies

Boxes of chocolates
Cranberries for sauce
Ladyfingers for tiramisu
Chocolate oranges
Turkish delight (snap, Ricekrispie)
Brie to bake, plus chutney
Cream for whipping
Elderflower lemonade

Chocolate orange
Mince pies
Homemade peppermint creams
Nuts
Brie
Pate
Cranberry wendslydale

Carrs cheese crackers
Match makers/after eights
Bailey's/Tia Maria

German gingerbread and stollen.

I saw the first box in Waitrose this weekend and have put it in the 'stashed away for Christmas' drawer and an trying to forget that it is there,

Matchmakers - mint flavour
Brie
Wensleydale/Lancashire cheese
Caramelised onion chutney
gammon joint to make ham
Pringles - but Aldi version as much cheaper
Fresh apple juice -warm in pan with cinnamon
Satsumas

Stollen
Mulled wine
Those soft German spiced biscuits from Aldi
Mince pies
Wensleydale with cranberries

A giant gammon joint on the bone
Hotel chocolat Christmas chocolates
Christmas tree shaped vol au vents from Waitrose
M&S mince pies

Quality Street / Celebrations / Heroes
Matchmakers
Chocolate orange
Brandy snaps
Loads of different types of cheese & crackers
Pate
Party food (eg. M&S)
Pickled onions

Blue Stilton
Squidgy Brie

Goldfish crackers
At least 10 types of cheese
Every crap beige buffet food in existence
A bottle of tequila

Paxo stuffing with a few additions like cranberry and walnut or whatever.

Brussel sprouts are also welcomed and mushy peas (the soaking ones you add sugar to)

Satsumas

Everything actually! I love Christmas food and cooking for other people is one of my favourite things to do.

But we're having a family Halloween lunch so my heads full of witches fingers and homemade Jaffa cake roulette atm

Turkey
Sprouts
Ham Joint
Asti Martini
Quality Streets
Mince Pies
Thick alcoholic cream!
Party foods (Indian snack selection mostly)

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Oh, and sausage meat and pigs in blankets. Can't believe I missed these!

Chocolate oranges, only for the kids though currently 75p in Tesco
Smoked salmon and scrambled eggs for breakfast
Mince pies
pigs in blankets
Brandy butter
Stollen, home made giant one
After rights

Amaretto (for with hot fresh orange (no bits))
Advocaat
Prosecco and cranberry juice for while we open presents

Quality street in a tin NOT plastic tub. Not for any environmental reasons. No no no. Tins are bigger and tradition🤣
Amaretto brownie bites from booths
Mince pies

A ham to roast

Christmas chutney from the chutney man at the Christmas markets in Manchester. If there's ever a year he's not there Christmas is well and truly cancelled