Food/treats

[Gingerninja01]

What Christmas food/ treats has everyone got in?

Main meal - Turkey, gammon, roast potatoes, broccoli, carrots, peas, parsnips, pigs in blankets, stuffing balls
Pudding - chocolate and fresh cream Yule log, mince pies with brandy cream

Treats - tub of Roses, box of Ferrero Rocher, Pringles, Sensations, big box of Victoria biscuits

We have couple of boxes of Victoria and foxes biscuits.
2 tins of chocolates (quality street and celebrations)
Enough crisps and nuts to feed 500.
Box of after eights.
Plus the Christmas dinner.

We're not having Christmas dinner at home. Going to MIL's. I've got two tubs of Roses, big thing of chocolate covered peanuts, load of festive biscuits...posh crisps, trifles for tea tomorrow...fizzy drinks (none of us drink alcohol) and the usual nice cheeses, pickles and ham.

Boxing day will be roast dinner with leg of lamb. At MIL"s we;ll have seafood because we're in Oz, so we like a roast dinner the next day!

Usually I'd have got some frozen yorkshires as making them is a bother but I forgot! Now I will have to make them!

Right;

we have;

Main meal: Turkey and gammon, roasted potatoes, Brussels, carrots and sweet corn, Pigs in blankets, stuffing balls, filled yorkies (stuffing and a mini sausage in each one).

Dessert; Cheesecake Factory cheesecake (got this from Costco)

Evening buffet when the visitors come over; jumbo king prawns with Marie Rose sauce, different types of cheese with crackers, tostadas, cold meats, chicken satays, Christmas pates, bread sticks. Some more desserts, crisps.

And a 1kg tin of quality street.

Treats wise we have:

Matchmakers
Celebrations
Bombay mix
Gimmicky christmas tree tortilla things
Pretzels
Posh chocs we won in a raffle

Buffet food for xmas day:

cheese
crackers
continental meat platter
olives
sausage rolls
many many pigs in blankets
salads
tempura prawns
mini spanakopitta
mini scotch eggs

I'm making a berry cheesecake later with DD1 so we'll be having that as well. Can't wait.

Alcohol wise we have

beer
wine
toffee apple cider
sherry
aperol
gin
baileys
orange and apple juice

Absolutely nothing. I went shopping as normal on Saturday, and bought fruit, veg and milk.

We're out most with friends and family and our first day at home is the 29th.

I never buy anything and end up with loads of stuff. Already got 2 bottles of prosecco, gin, rum, quality street and biscuits from work.

:O I'm embarrassed but I'm not hosting anyone and I still get absolutely LOADS.

I just like to get everyone's favourite things and I like to eat them over the days before and after Christmas as well when doing all the festive things like decorating, putting the tree up, crafts etc.

So for sweet treats I have bought:

Big tub of Heros, Quality Street and Celebrations
After Eights
Giant Toblerone
A tonne of Maltesers
Mince pies
Festive and cherry bakewells
Festive mini roll/reindeer cake things
Fudge
Turkish delight
Jelly babies
Chocolate Orange segments
Variety of ice cream
Plenty of fresh fruit
For actual Christmas dessert - 2 different fancy cheese cakes to choose from, christmas pudding or hot chocolate pudding with whipped vanilla cream

Savoury Stuff:
Lots of Tyrells crisps
A big Christmas jewelled pork and Turkey pie
A tonne of cheese and a couple of different boxes of cracker selections for variety
Cheese twists
Twiglets
Cheeselets
Mini sausages
A good few party food selection packs
Mixed nuts
Meat joints for slicing for festive sandwiches/plates of cold cuts and chutney
Olives
Loads of different chutneys and festive sauces

Oh and I am pregnant and we late visiting family christmas eve so we won't be drinking much so no alcohol really, I will be getting in Belvoir Lemonade and Rose and Elderflower and Coca cola, plus nice cordial for the kids, fruit juice and a few different flavour hot chocolates.

Fizzy grape and apple juice. Marks and Spencer’s vinegar chip sticks. Our body weight in biscuits and chocolates. Satsumas. And I have a packet of cooked chicken from Marks and Spencer’s for the cat.

Lindt balls
Orange mini dime bars
Twiglets
Stolen
Satsumas

Lots of different cheeses
Turkey
Pate

I didn’t buy loads as we get gifted loads of chocolate and I don’t want to be eating it for the next month 😂