Christmas food essentials?

[nasssg]

What's items you can't live without at Christmas?
Mine are ..
Nice cheeses/crackers
Tin of roses
Pigs in blankets

Mince pies

Parsnips 😄
A good selection of cheese and pate
Twiglets

Sprouts
Homemade stuffing

Pickled walnuts
Bread sauce
Vol au vents

Same as you and also a ham and lots of nice drinks...because we never buy much to drink usually so that feels a bit special.

Also trifles! We have a Christmas Eve buffet...we've moved to Oz and used to have a very English buffet but this year I'm ordering a sushi platter...it's so hot here that sausage rolls and all that don't seem so nice.

I will always have a lovely cheese board though...and pickles and chocolate!

Mince Pies,

Don't like much of the rest of the traditional Christmas Fayre.

Creamy pale Stilton with Carrs water biscuits
walnuts in shells
crates of tangerines and clementines
pigs in blankets
roast potatoes
mince pies

Mince pies
Nice fudge
Baileys (giving the salted caramel one a go this year)
Fancy cheese
Chutney
Crusty bread.

Champagne !

Duck spring rolls and filo prawn party food

Cheese and chutneys, I've made all the the chutneys from scratch this year so I'm super excited to try them!
A big ring of prawns with a sweet chilli dip.
Famous names chocolates.

Leftover sandwich ingredients- not having Christmas dinner as working but have to have leftover sandwiches
Cheese - a lot
Fizz - in the fridge
Smoked salmon / cream cheese sandwich ingredients, always a favourite!
Mince pies

Twiglets
Seasonal crisps
Bread sauce
Bombay mix
Until a few years ago lots of cheese,I'm now reduced to tiny bits of goats cheese
Fudge

Pastries for breakfast with champagne,
Spiced ham and roast turkey,
Pigs in blankets and stuffing,
Mince pies and Yule tide log.

Forgot cheese and crackers

Cheese
Bake at home rolls because I like to put turkey in it after Xmas day with stuffing
Posh crisps see above
Champagne
Nice chocolates
Sweet tubs
Those funny little packs of nibbles that have pretzels, cheese savouries etc in

Pringles

Cheese.
Crackers.
Pickled onions.
Mini sausage rolls.
Salted peanuts.
Mini cheddars.

Cornish wafers.
Brandy butter.
Bread sauce.
Emmental & Gruyere for a Christmas Eve fondue.
Chestnuts for the sprouts
Sausage meat & plenty of real butter injected into the turkey.
Prawns
Vol au vent cases
Orange & lemon jelly slices (if they haven’t gone extinct)
And, the holy grail (if I can find one) a Tunis cake.

Lovely strong cheddar cheese and lovely crackers
Tins of Quality Street / Roses
Goose fat roast potatoes and parsnips
Honey and rosemary pigs in blankets
Homemade gorgeous chocolate mousse

Lindt reindeer
Elizabeth Shaw mints
Turkey and stuffing
Chilli peanuts, salted cashews, KP peanuts

@Centrifugal you can get in Tesco

The cake i mean

Pickled walnuts
Paxo Sage & Onion stuffing mix (yeah, I'm a heathen)
Cheese footballs
Cocktail sausages
Bread sauce
Rose & Violet Cremes
Stilton
Port

Cheese and lots of it
Really strong pickled onions ( can never find the holy grail though)
Cheeslets or should I say treelets
Baileys

DH would be mince pies but I can't stand them.

Homemade bread sauce and nice stuffing from scratch
Lovely turkey crown properly prepared with butter and pancetta or streaky bacon over the breast and basted regularly. Amazing.