What things do you only ever have at Christmas?

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What food/drink do you never eat before Christmas Eve/Christmas day?

For us:
Tin of chocolates
Stollen
Brussel sprouts!
Mint sauce/cranberry sauce
J2Os (for children)
Baileys/Disarrano/Bucks Fizz
Cheeseboard (Stilton, Brie, Wensleydale)
Big box of mixed crackers
Christmas pudding and brandy butter

Baileys
Mince pies
Lindt balls
Big tubs of chocolate in the house
Sausagemeat stuffing

Big tubs of chocolates, baileys type drink.

Those raisins, peanuts and chocolate chip mixes
Stollen
Smoked Salmon
Root veg mash, although i don’t know why as it’s amazing!
Baileys
Bombay mix
Red cabbage even though I have white cabbage all the time

Turkey (very rarely have it at any other time)
Cranberry sauce
Bread sauce
Mince pies
Christmas pudding
Caribbean rum cake (our Christmas/New Year cake)
Stollen and panettone if I remember to get any
Bendicks Bittermints
Shortbread assortment
Lebkuchen
Some lovely thin crisp Swedish ginger and clove biscuits I sometimes buy, can't remember the Swedish name

A whole turkey
Naice Christmas chocolates in the shape of Christmas trees, holly leafs etc.
Christmas bread like panettone, stollen etc

Turkey
Sprouts
Champagne
Lindt chocolates
Lurpack butter

My mum's homemade Scotch eggs.
Mum's pickled eggs.
Dad's pickled onions.
Mum's homemade chocolate log with a fight with my brothers over who gets the end piece.
Baileys cream.
Matchmakers.
Mulled wine.

Brandy snaps
Toblerone

Pack of Kellogg's Variety cereals.
I was brought up, if not outright poor, then hard up and we got these at Christmas and it seemed like a huge treat.
My kids politely indulge me by being mildly grateful.

Diet coke in glass bottles!

Pickled walnuts and all the kinds of cheese (I basically ration myself to cheddar year round!)
Mince pies

Turkey
Red Cabbage
Danish biscuits
Box of mixed crackers
Sherry trifle
Homecooked Ham
Bucks fizz
Vodka

Stollen
Lebkuchen
Spekilatius
Port - we both love it but DH gets bad heartburn from it, so we buy a bottle and Rennies at the same time.

Sex, indigestion..

M&S Top Iced Madeira Cake - they only sell it at Christmas and it's not freezeable, but it's lovely!
Chocolate biscuits
Cocktail party bits - most of which get thrown away after languishing in the freezer until June next year!

Chestnuts (pre-prepared)
Christmas pudding
Smoked salmon

Baileys
Turkey
Stollen

Cranberries
Turkey
Sprouts
Fruit Jellies
Port n Lemon
Marzipan
Twiglets

Advoka is about the only thing we only ever buy and drink at Christmas. Everything else we will have at other times of the year but more predominantly at Christmas of course.

Panettone

Snowballs / Advocaat (although my gran used to call it egg flip)
Iceland prawn ring
Cheesy footballs
Chocolate and gin for breakfast. 😉

Also, flavoured cream!
Peaches in brandy
Appletiser

Sugared almonds

Mince pies, Ferrero, bread sauce, matchmakers,

Depression, no savings and chronic indigestion.