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

I can't imagine only having pickles at Christmas, I'm a total pickle fiend.

Orange and lemon jelly slices nomnom

Lychees

Don’t know why I don’t buy them at other times!

Cheeselets
Christmas pudding
Sprouts
Nuts in shells that aren’t pistachios

Shloer.

But my god we have a lot..

Twiglets
Matchmakers
Christmas pudding
Brandy butter
Pate

As a child - fish paste sandwiches on Boxing Day (don’t feel the need to keep that tradition going!)

I'm hungry now...

Turkey
Stuffing
Brussels sprouts
Quality Street
Ballymaloe Relish
Christmas cake
Plum pudding
Brandy butter
Baileys cream
Mince pies
Florentines
Brandy snaps
Chocolate Kimberly
Silverskin pickled onions

Very few of these would feature in a last meal type situation, they’re just Christmas food.

@Clevs please can I come to your house!!!
All those homemade goodies sound fantastic
We have salmon
Boxes of chocolate

trifle, smoked salmon, homemade sausage rolls and sausagemeat stuffing

@Babyg1995 limoncello in chocolate shot glasses sounds like a fabulous idea! Where could I buy chocolate shot glasses?

All of it apart from carrots and potatoes really!

Homemade chocolate truffles
Mushroom & Stilton Wellington
Hotel chocolat selection
Cranberries
Bread sauce

Mince Pies
Sausage stuffing
Pigs in blankets
Forerro rocher
Terrys chocolate orange
Lindt
Shloer
Christmas pudding

Mince pies
Chocolate (the big boxes of)
Stolen if I buy one
A cheese board
Biscuit selection boxes

Dovedale blue cheese - which I have to order online from a shop in Derbyshire, as I can’t source it up here in Perthshire. Annual treat!
Homemade chestnut chocolate log
Stuffed Medjool dates
Turkey
Plum and ginger stuffing
Apricot and chestnut stuffing
Whisky soaked bacon crisped on the turkey
A homemade veggie Christmas special for DD (this year a parsnip, sage and onion roulade, decorated with crushed hazelnuts)
Seaweed oatcakes
Venison and blackberry pate.

When I was a kid there were loads of things we only had at Christmas - shortbread biscuits, squirty cream, Thornton’s fudge. Now everything seams to be all year round!

Cranberry sauce
Pigs in blankets
Homemade pork sausagemeat, sage and onion stuffing
Twiglets!
Nuts in shells for dh to enjoy cracking
Brandy butter and Chr. Pud, though we're usually still eating those two warmed together in the microwave - yum - past 12th Night.
Buck's Fizz, gallons of it, made with with proper fresh orange juice

Mince pies only ever in December and as long as there any left - will never make or buy any before 1st Dec.

Mincemeat and apple crumble - delish! - sometime between Christmas Day and the end of Jan, assuming I have any mincemeat to use up.

Turkey
Proper cheeseboard with crackers, chutneys etc
Xmas pud, cake & mince pies
Mulled wine
Proper champagne (usually a cheapskate cava/prosecco kinda gal)
Port & sherry
Bubble & squeak (Boxing Day only)
Rose & violet creams

Turkey
Stuffing (never bother if I'm just roasting a chicken)
Stollen
Mince pies
Mulled wine
Snowballs (advocaat and lemonade)
Cheese with stuff in (like wensleydale & cranberry, or cheddar & chutney)
Christmas cake
I usually make soda bread to have with smoked salmon or leftover meat and chutney, I rarely bother any other time

Sprouts are not allowed in the house.

Mulled wine
Mince pies

Don't eat Christmas pudding/cake

Baileys i can't resist all year round (well, Aldi's version)

Oh I also remembered today Buck's Fizz in Christmas morning

Bread sauce , so I bought two packets last week , and we've eaten both ! Was lovely on top of red cabbage .

Panettone
Panforte (hard to find this year for some reason )
Stollen
Frangelico
(Fake) Baileys
Cheeseboard
Ginger wine
Boxes of chocolates
Advocaat

I saw some panforte in Lidl.