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

Chocolate ginger
Orange and lemon jelly slices
Clairette de Die

J2O
full sugar Coca Cola
Tins of chocolates
Baileys
Brussels
Lurpak
Schloer
Doritos

Cornish wafer crackers. I absolutely love them but if I had them all the time I'd be the size of a house so I tell myself they're just a Christmas treat and let myself eat them then.

Pork pie.

I love the stuff but it’s so ridiculously unhealthy that I only allow myself to eat it at Christmas. Because it’s only once a year I can justify treating myself to the very best, Dickinson & Morris from their own shop in Melton Mowbray.

Mint jelly 🤤

Love handles

Goldfish crackers
A homemade stuffing that we call, "murderer's stuffing"
Stollen/mince pies but that's because they are only available then.

@jenthelibrarian - I've put those cereals in the kids stockings before!

I've remembered another one - twiglets!

I used to buy twiglets, but have discovered the Marmite flatbread which are even better.

Wensleydale cheese with cranberries
Box of mini cheeses
Squirty cream
Pringles
Home made sausage rolls
Box of Jacobs crackers

Panettone
Brussel sprouts
Cranberry and cheese parcels

Noooo, we have twiglets all year. Love those little bad boys!

Have sex. Once a year ... appointment is on the calendar and we both look forward to it. My mother always lived by being regular and I agree.

Silverskin pickled onions!

Mince pies
Christmas pudding
Cheese board
Tins of chocolates
Lemon chello with chocolate shot glasses
Bailys
Glass bottles of coke
Tubs of twiglets \ cheeselets
After eights

Cranberry sauce
Mince pies
Christmas cake
Christmas pudding
Brandy butter
Lebkuchen
Stollen
Panettone
Sugared almonds (not buying any this year as I cracked a tooth eating one last year and no one else likes them)
Chocolate ginger
Lots of boxes of chocolates (Bendicks and Elizabeth Shaw mints, and Lindor)
Snow bites

Trifle
Brandy butter/ cream
Turkey

Bread sauce
Bucks Fizz
Sprouts
Things cooked with maple syrup
Gingerbread
Brandy custard
Christmas pudding

Gherkins
Slilverskin onions
Chocolates in a tin
Selection of cheese!

Guylian chocolates (the ones where you get the fancier ones that aren’t just the horses and there’s a little phantom of the opera one in there!)
Port salut cheese (not sure why I don’t eat that at other other times like other cheeses, but I love it!)
Home made sausage rolls
Champagne and orange juice
A whole cake from our favourite bakery as we don’t like Christmas pudding or Christmas cake
Panettone (sliced and made into sweet french toast with fruit and cream for Boxing Day breakfast)
Ferrero rochers
Mulled cider
Expensive gin
A huge takeaway where I don’t consider the costs but just order whatever the hell we like. (Christmas Eve evening tradition with a Christmas film to save cooking and cleaning).

I’m so excited! It’s been a few years since we’ve had a Christmas the way we wanted it and used to do it!

Oh and of course the J2O’s!

Stunt pineapple anyone?

Boozy cream
Christmas pudding
Pate
Pickles
Christmas cake

Eggnog 😋 DH makes it every year. Those Lidl chocolate gingerbread things... think that’s it!