What are your must have Christmas food snacks/treats? Which ones are just not your thing?

[pinkksugarmouse]

Just nosey. Lol

It's just me and DH mostly. DD (nearly 18) spends Christmas Day/Boxing day with her Dad because that's the home she spends the most time at & her Dad doesn't get a lot of time off over Christmas but when she is here she can eat us out of house and home. She can clear a loaf of bread in three days alone.

DD and I are Vegan. DH isn't. He likes to have a Thornton's chocolate box and their range is much better for Vegans so I will have a small box this year. He gets some cheese and I get some specialist seasonal vegan ones. We don't do mince pies, Christmas Cake, Yule Log, Pringles, Selection boxes (but I will get a selection of sweets for DD). I also get a monthly vegankind subscription box and the snacks in there last me over a month. None of us drink but I like a posh cola occasionally, wouldn't bother with coca cola.

What are your must haves? What do you avoid. Do you do any of the traditional snacks? How many of you are there? Is anyone vegan/have allergies? Again I am just plain nosey.

Must have:
Twiglets
gherkins
silverskin onions
After Eights

Can happily do without:
Stollen
port
anything that has been anywhere remotely near cinnamon

Things I only eat at Christmas:
Twiglets
Cheese straws
Nice crackers/oatcakes
Brie with cranberry sauce
Stilton with apple chutney
Mince pies
Christmas cake
Christmas pudding
Stollen
Lebkuchen
Baklava
Pannetone
After eights
Baileys or Disarrano
Bucks Fizz
Pretty much everything!

The kids like a selection box, Pringles and J2Os.

No to:

Christmas cake
Christmas pudding
Mince pies
Brandy butter
Stollen
Mulled wine
Hot chocolate
Yule log
Traditional Christmas dinner
Egg nog / snowballs
Pigs in blankets

Must haves:
Twiglets
After eights
Quality street
Mince pies
Hot chocolate
Schloer
Sausage rolls
Sugared almonds M
Pigs in blankets

Can do without

Brazil nuts
Chestnuts
Eggnog
Turkey!

Chocolate orange
Toblerone
Matchmakers

Can do without:
Turkish delight

I’m a vegan OP. I don’t have any must haves but I am going to treat myself to the Hotel Chocolate Mylk new collection this year. I’ve also seen some chilli cheese bites at Morrison’s I fancy trying. I’ve been vegan for 15 years and the choice is huge compared to then and much more exciting!

I don't really have any "must haves" but will definitely have a selection of cheese and biscuits, Pringles, and a box each of Roses, Quality Street and Celebrations.
I don't like stollen, or cheese straws.

Must have -
Mince pies
Aldi salted caramel fudge
Twiglets
Iced mince pies

Terry's Chocolate Orange
Turkish Delight
Stollen
Mince pies
Smoked salmon
Anti-pasti
Pickles
Nuts
Champagne

UPDATE My post should have said hotel chocolat not Thorntons. I wish there was an Edit button. 😟

Must have...xmas pudding, cheese and crakcers, sprouts, Amaretto.
Not baileys.. .love it but trying to keep weight off.

We love anything cheese related and we have cheese, crackers and chutney often over the Christmas holiday. I like to get up early (before anyone else) and cook a bread and butter pudding on Christmas Eve so when everyone gets up, they can smell it. DH always makes a trifle for over christmas as well.

We don’t tend to bother with alcohol or turkey. Neither of us drink really And that doesn’t change at Christmas. We don’t bother with Christmas pudding or Christmas cake either, although I fancy having a go at making a Christmas cake this year.

We like croissants and pannetone (although we didn't have one last year). I personally like Bucks Fizz but nobody else in my house likes it and I rarely drink anyway so we never buy it. I'm allergic to nuts so lots of "typical" Christmas food is out, but I do like a bit of brandy butter with whatever nut-free dessert we find (even if it doesn't go together!).

Oh and smoked salmon and scrambled eggs. Smoked salmon is so expensive usually but I buy it once or twice over the Xmas period. Making me hungry now!

Love
Stollen
Stilton
Smoked salmon

Hate
Mince pies
Anything else full of dried fruit

Must have:
Xmas pudding (Nigella)
Xmas cake (Nigel Slater)
Rocky road (Nigella)
Stollen (shop bought - one day I might bake my own)
Ham
Chococo advent chocs for adults
Mince pies (mix of home made & bought)
Tree chocolates

Never have:
Turkey

I've realised there is a lot of sweet stuff!

Must have CHEESE - we love cheese! How did I forget cheese? At Christmas we go all out and spend a small fortune on stuff from a posh cheese shop

Must have:

Quality street
Mince pies
Lebkuchen
Chocolate coins
Chocolate orange
Black bomber cheese
Amaretto cake (Nigella)
Blackberry jelly
Bucks fizz
Pain au chocolat & croissants
Bacon butties
Shloer
'Posh' crisps

As long as I have a big pot of Stilton and crackers I’m happy and don’t mind what else we have in sorry I know that doesn’t help as your a vegan!

Must haves:

Brussels
Pigs in blankets
Biscuits for cheese selection
Cheeses, different types but must have Stilton!
After eights
Tubs of chocolates usually celebrations & quality street. Got heroes instead this year.
Buck's Fizz
Champagne
A ham
Christmas tree crumpets
Good coffee
Proper butter!
Glitter berry J2O
Mince pies
Danish butter cookies also decent biscuit selection.

Not so fussed/don't bother with:
Turkey
Christmas cake/pudding
Panettone
Yule log (just because we have other bits in)
Baileys, although might treat DH to Hotel Chocolat liquor this year.

@OHappyDay

As long as I have a big pot of Stilton and crackers I’m happy and don’t mind what else we have in sorry I know that doesn’t help as your a vegan!

😁 You would be surprised but you can get Vegan anything even Stilton. When. I first became Vegan at the turn of the century there were choices but nowhere near what there is now.

Must haves:
Cheese
Chutneys
Posh crackers
Chocolate liqueurs
Nice crisps
Pate

Not bothered about:
Sweets
Mince pies
Christmas Pudding/cake

Must have:
All of it

Never have:
Alcohol
Trifle

Must have: Yule log. My favourite, wish you could buy it all year.
Dark chocolate mints. After eights i love. Also love twilights but can't seem to get them anymore.
Standard snacks like KP salted peanuts and crisps which are nice to have in the cupboard anyway.
And it's not Christmas dinner without pigs in blankets. Of course Christmas dinner goes without saying.
And can I say alcoholic drinks (lighthearted)?

No: mince pies. Christmas cake. Christmas pudding. Hate them all. Any baileys, tastes like
cold coffee (I hate all coffee as well so I can't stand it). And no to any other traditional Christmas drinks, like mulled wine, hate it. Or sherry, not for me.

We don’t buy much because we get gifted a lot and we end up getting sick of chocolate. The ones I like to buy are....

Toblerone
After eights
Turkish delight
Twiglets
Mixed nuts

We buy a few extra cheeses to what we normally have and maybe some pate.

Must have
Stollen(home made)
Mince pies ditto
Crisps
Twiglets
Pringles for DD
Anything savoury

Can do without
Roses
Quality Street