What Christmas food will you be buying?

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For one reason or another the past few Christmases we haven't really taken part in the all the festivities. The kids are a bit older now so this year I will cooking a full Christmas dinner, buying in special snacks and chocolates. I know the basics requirements of a Christmas dinner but what makes it that little bit more special?
What special snacks do you buy? I have reserved my Christmas slot with £60 worth of bread so need to think of a menu and update my order.

I do a gammon in cherry coke and a turkey crown for the meats with the usual roasties and veg selection.
I get in a selection of puddings usually a pavlova and something chocolate. No one likes Christmas pudding or cake so I just get a nice fruit cake for anyone who doesn’t want the other two. I get cream and custard to go with the.
I get two tins of biscuits. One short beard and one mixed chocolate.
Sweets I always get Turkish delight, york jellies, after eights, lindor assorted, lindor mints, Thornton’s classic mints and a selection of matchmakers.

I don’t really drink so I am not fussed on booze but I do get in a tins of coke, cherry coke, ginger beer, tango or Fanta and a selection of fruit juices.

Snacks I get twiglets, a selection of crisps ( nice ones like sensations or kettle) cashews and peanuts and cheesy bites.

I will also have sausage rolls cooking though out the Christmas period.

I tend to have a lot of nibble things to hand as my boys are adults now but still at home and I will have a revolving door of 6 ft something lads coming and going and they will always be peckish.

We have naice chocolates, champagne, top of the range bacon and always a pineapple :)

We have bowls of candied nuts, crystallised fruits and satsumas throughout the house. We also usually get ferrero rochers, naice chocolates, a cheeseboard with decent biscuits and crackers. Shloer!

Dates and cracking nuts . My mum used to stuff a date with a Brazil nut and its a tradition I have always followed . Smoked salmon to go with scrambled egg for breakfast on Boxing Day . A tin of Quality Street .Half a bottle of pudding wine to serve with Christmas Pud that nobody wants or likes !
All things that I would never buy or eat at any other time .

Red cabbage - but this year I have a slow cooker so I might find a recipe and give it a try .
Chestnuts to go with the sprouts

Some years I make a Christmas Pudding , if we have guests, otherwise I buy two of the tiny ones.

Mince pies - I can make pastry but mince pies never seem to work for me. I've done loads of taste testing over the years and found the Sainsbury Bakery ones are nicest ( before I liked the mini Taste the Difference ones) .

Lindt chocolates ( pick&mix from the Lindt shop)

Stella in the Christmas bottle for DH.

We have a chocolate fondue on Christmas Eve - three types of melted chocolate, plus things to dip: chunks of Stollen, Turkish delight, marzipan, crystallised ginger, glacé cherries, jelly orange slices etc...
If you're doing a cheese board don't forget crackers, pate, chutneys, relishes, pickles, grapes etc... They're also great for accompanying cold left over meats.
Breakfast on Christmas Day varies year on year. Sometimes it's been scrambled eggs and smoked salmon, other years it's been French toast or croissant.

We are having duck and gammon this year. We always get panettone and stollen. Rose and violet creams. Cheeseboard. Lebuken, although DH doesn’t like it. I also always buy marzipan fruits even though none of us really like them and I don’t even make a Christmas cake, but I do it because my Nan always had them and it makes me think of her