Must have foods to eat over Christmas

[Baileysoncereal]

This has probably been asked already, but what are the foods that you make sure to pick up in your shopping, ready for the week or so around Christmas and New Years?

I always need to have m&s sausage rolls, salt and vinegar Pringles (I don’t eat them any other time of the year so I don’t know why!) baileys for a baileys hot chocolate and some whipped cream

Boursin, pate, crusty bread & crackers. I never eat Boursin any other time which DH is very grateful about.

Bread sauce... absolutely vital. I am the only one who eats it, but as I cook lunch, it is non negotiable!

Mustard and dill sauce to go with smoked salmon. Gets harder to find every year

All sorts of fancy cheese straw and savoury cracker type things, Posh chocolate biscuits, Lebkuchen, Mince pies I also like some nice fruit and cheese maybe some nuts.

Normally M&S canapés, but this year I am suppose to restrict my movements to 5 k of my home. I will miss the lobster mac and cheese but not will to take the risk. My store is small and super busy.

I got some Tracklements mustard and dill sauce in my local butcher recently. It is delicious.

For me, fancy cheeses, chutney and crackers, cheese footballs, Lidl mini stollen, Lidl strawberry candy canes (DD and I don't like mint). M&S Belgian Truffles. Cook from frozen croissants for Christmas morning.

Proper full fat Coca-Cola, Wensleydale with cranberries, rosemary crackers with pate and my mam's onion marmalade, macarons, Florentines, posh crisps in weird flavours (this year prawn Marie rose and ham with cola)

Roqueforte

Marzipan in fruit shapes. Reminds me of my grandmother.

Turkish Delight
Smoked salmon
Stollen

Black Bomber cheese
Brandy snaps
Homemade fudge

Brandy snaps filled with cream.
Part baked rolls, buttered when still warm, with gammon and mustard.

Ooo and proper Turkish delight

Stilton and crackers.
Baileys
Wine.
Chocolates
Pringles
Double cream
Nice deserts
Nuts

It’s all about the condiments here - piccalilli, red cabbage, chutney, mustards and cheese. I also love salt and vinegar peanuts and dark chocolate with marzipan.

Salt and black pepper peanuts if I can find them.

Sloe gin
Port
Pate
Cranberry juice
Quality Street
Pandoro
Potted cheddar
Chestnuts

@dementedma

Mustard and dill sauce to go with smoked salmon. Gets harder to find every year

IKEA usually do it in their food part

Coke in glass bottles - seems a real treat

All the cheeses but definitely Mexicana, caramelised onion cheddar and blue Stilton- with crackers

Not traditionally Christmassy but the Cofresh chilli and lime grills crisps.

Cocktail sausage rolls (the mini frozen ones)

Prosciutto, salami, olives, sundried tomatoes and crusty bread

Fresh nuts in their shells.

Cashews with salt and black pepper (from M&S, the Tesco version were a poor substitute)
Fentimans Dandelion & Burdock
Barolo
Sainsbury's Taste The Difference Mince Pie ice cream
Brie
Camembert
Stilton
Wensleydale
Lebkuchen (Waitrose own is wonderful)
Membrillo
Onion marmalade
Chestnuts for roasting
Paprika pringles
Toblerone

Panettone
Cheese cheese cheese and more cheese

Fentimans Curiosity Cola for me, and the ginger beer for DP.
...other than that, nothing special. There’s only 2 of us, so everything else on the shopping list is normal Christmas stuff. It’s a waste getting too much.
Roast chicken, parsnips, carrots, potatoes, gravy, Yorkshire’s, pigs in blankets, peas...crackers and cheese for later in the evening. Nothing interesting.

Baileys, cheese, several Chutneys, camembert.