Christmas food must haves

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I'm hopefully booking my tesco delivery slot on Friday! I've never hosted Christmas before so I'm abit scared that I'm going to forget something vital and ruin Christmas. What are your Christmas food must haves? I've ordered a turkey and ham from Mns and also some oysters for something different. Thanks!

My must have is flavoured creams to serve with dessert.
Brandy cream with warmed mince pies and Christmas pudding.
Vanilla cream with Yule tide choc log.
My DC don’t like cream so I get ice cream in for them.

Pigs in blankets of course!

And croissants for breakfast - not sure if it's just us that do that?!

Smoked salmon in some form.

Really good chocolates and overpriced salted nuts. I have a weakness for those tins of macadamia nuts you get at M&S. Also the extra-large cashews.

Beautiful soft French dried prunes, because everyone will be constipated.

Good full english breakfast followed by baked pastries
Prawn Cocktail
Pate
Coronation chicken and mini poppadums
Cooked Ham and pasta salads
Pringles and dips
Nut tray
After eights and mint matchmakers
Stollen and mince pies
Pork pie
All the cheese and crackers and port
Disaronno and biscotti biscuits
Ferrero rocher
Finest roulade
Bruschetta and mini toasts
Salt and pepper cashew nuts
More pork pie
Pannetonne
Baileys

Oh and indigestion tablets......

Pigs in blankets, stuffing, spouts, roast, mash and boiled potatoes, apple sauce, cranberry sauce, gravy, Yorkshire puddings.

I want to eat all of that right now.

Crackers, tablecloth and napkins. Not food but remember to order them if we're still locked down.

Naice wine
Party food - I keep it in the freezer and it's lunch for days

Sauces for whatever meat you have

Cheese and pork pie for the evening

Devils on horseback
Gaviscon

At least 6 types of cheese!

@PerditaNitt

At least 6 types of cheese!

And then some...I have loads of cheese on order! 🧀🐷😂

Cheese and crackers
Chutney and pickle
Croissants
Lots of mince pies
After dinner mints (after eights preferably)
Box of special chocolates (I get M&S Swiss)
Ingredients for a sherry trifle.
Ready made pastry (you might make a pie with leftovers).

I always forget:

• disposable large baking tray to cook the turkey in (unless you have a huge one)
• tin foil (ideally wide one, to cover the huge turkey)
• Matches if you plan to light the Xmas pudding
• Christmas crackers (get these in plenty of time, since the shops run out close to the day)

-grapes and cheese crackers to go with the Stilton (I don't think Stilton needs either, but others prefer it...)

• big box of chocolates
• drinks to suit whoever you are hosting for

All the rest tends to fall into place

Cheese
Crisps
Cold drinks (diet coke, tonic, soda water)
All the dinner ingredients
Mince pies
Ice cream
Dessert
Chocolates
Sausage rolls
Lots of fruit
Bread
Milk!
Tea, coffee
Bucks fizz
Prosecco
Wine
Lager
Nuts
Smoked salmon
Cream cheese
Pastries

Nice meats, pigs in blankets, cheeselets buffet nibbles, cheeses this year I’m having luxury Christmas cake in a tin, nougat

Bread sauce, cranberry sauce and sausage meat stuffing. It's not Christmas for me without those things.

@VictoriaClaire28

Pigs in blankets of course!

And croissants for breakfast - not sure if it's just us that do that?!

Of course croissants for breakfast.. washed down with Buck's Fizz!

Only the 3 of us this year so this is my “if there were more of us” list 🤣

Pate
Cheese (lots of)
Biscuits for cheese
Chutney/pickles
After eights
Turkey
Beef
At least 4 vegetables (no sprouts)
Potatoes
Goose fat
Prawns
Cranberry sauce
Stuffing
Buffet food
Twiglets
Nuts
Par baked bread
Florentines
Buck’s Fizz
Baileys
Hot chocolate

Christmas pudding - I started making my own a few years ago and I am amazed at how easy it is and how much better it tastes

Mince pies - I make the mincemeat but buy the pastry

Brandy snaps - m and s do chocolate covered ones and they’re amazing

Matchmakers

Bendicks mints

Red cabbage

Baklava

Marzipan fruits

Fat medjool dates

Fudge

Citrus flavoured sorbets from Waitrose

Pannacotta

White Stilton with apricots

Quince jam to go with all the cheese

I could go on ...

Champagne
Croissants and Pan Au Chocolat. Frozen from the farm shop.
Pate
Onion marmalade
Cheese
Pigs in blankets
Goose fat
Chocolates. Not many but a few really good ones.
Crisps
Bailleys.

Our Christmas normally starts with a weekend visit to see the Mancs and go to the Christmas market .DH always over estimates what we'll eat and gets dozens of cheeses, cured meats etc but I can't eat them as I have a poorly digestive system.😥. For the actual days we'll need smoked salmon, prawns, chipolatas, bacon, stuffing, cranberries, ingredients for pudding, butter ,marzipan for the stollen. Apart from those we need twiglets, crisps and other snacky things like cheesy footballs We don't eat much sweet stuff but we already bought some posh chocolates and mint ones, there's also a tub of celebrations for DGS if he comes to see us before or after.

Chutney and pickled onions for with the cheese.

The things I always forget and have to rush out at the last minute:
Cranberries for cranberry sauce
Double cream
One of those turkey bags that I think work well to cook it in.

Pickled onions for the cheese
I actually like gherkins to go in a sandwich with cold roast turkey
Sausage rolls, or the ingredients to make them
Chutneys
Fresh salad stuff, fruit etc - you'll probably want it to offset all the rich food
Nice things to drink, not just alcoholic. Fruit juice, good fizzy drinks & mixers etc

Dark Chocolate Griottes from Fortnum and Mason

Sausage meat and ALL the cheese