What foods do you treat yourself to at Christmas?

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What do you treat yourself to at Christmas that you don’t have any other time of the year?

Mine is my mums rocky road. She makes me a tray every year and it’s delicious I also like a jar of cherries in kirsch for Christmas week - I have them on ice cream or chocolate cake.

@nettytree

Florentines. Its the only thing I go to aldi for.

Me too!!! Best ones out there!

Zotter chocolate, panettone, stollen, chestnuts and lebkuchen 🙂

Toffifee,chocolate orange,mini sausage rolls,salted peanuts

Egg nog. Got some American stuff off Amazon.

Halloumi wrapped in bacon from Aldi. Although to be fair I only treat myself to these at Christmas as they aren’t available year round! If only they were…….

Probably because my grandma always had them for Christmas, but to me marzipans fruits, fruit jellies and chocolate coins will always be the most iconic festive treats!

Cheese, all the cheese, cheese × 1000.

Stollen. Mince pies.

There's nothing I eat at Christmas that I wouldn't allow myself the rest of the year tbh - but some things just feel a bit incongruous at other times. Whereas cheese is just a (delicious) normal everyday thing in my house!

Boursin, I have no idea why only at Christmas because I love it!

Baileys.

Full sugar coke, I love it and drink it with my Christmas dinner (very classy )

Lots of boxes of panettone! I only ever buy Pringles at Christmas I’m not overly keen but the children and DH like them. It wouldn’t be Christmas without Twiglets.

Torrone from tkmaxx...yum!

Macaron - and I hide them
From prying eyes and grubby mitts x

ALL the cheese and crackers 👌
Also those cheap frozen cocktail sausage rolls (I know they’re absolute crap but I absolutely adore them once they’ve gone cold)

Booze soaked panettone
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Choc covered candied clementines
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Stollen, Stollen & more Stollen
Booze pickled fruits

@orchardgirl4

Roast goose, snowballs, quality street, mince pies, a special home-made cheese pate (sooo tasty on toast, melted under the grill).

Please could we have your cheese pate recipe? Sounds lovely.

Marzipan fruits - makes me sound so old but I love them!

Does anyone know of any champagne deals or when they typically come up?

Sorry wrong thread 😃 but champagne will be on our list!

Lebkuchen, panettone, pate...pigs in blankets, erm...

Lidl's marzipan logs and their florentines.

Expensive all butter shortbread. Apart from that, Christmas food is a bit rubbish for me because it's either full of nuts and dried fruit, which play havoc with my innards, or cinnamon and nutmeg, which I hate. Cheese, roast beast and trimmings and nice chocolate are for life, not just for Christmas.

Cheese.
I have no off switch for cheese so I just don't buy it as my willpower is 0 around it. I let myself have a few nice cheeses over Christmas and then back to abstinence for the rest of the year!

@troppibambini6, please may I have your Christmas granola recipe?

All the food Especially florentines & lebkuchen. I'm also easily swayed by festive packaging on stuff we'd normally buy anyway but might not need, like extra crisps/nuts. This year, rather than sticking all the treats in the cupboard & replacing the florentines several times, I've made us a family advent with mostly food treats, to make sure we spread them out.

@Newdad19 I read somewhere that sainsburys has an offer starting this week on 6 bottles. Might be worth a look.