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.

Not good, but usually the only time I drink Buck's Fizz is Christmas Eve and Christmas Day - a tradition started with my DM when I was about 14 (the percentage of champagne to orange juice increased as I got older!) but this year will be the first year I don't have it as I'm pregnant. So just lovely orange juice for me.

I also only make homemade flavoured chocolate fudge at Christmas because I eat it faster than I can make it so I've banned myself from making it throughout the year!

Other than that, a lot of pigs in blankets, M&S party food and gingerbread biscuits

All the above and a box of Nexium 😆

Baileys, amaretto, after eights, a big box of chocolates from Hotel Chocolat, pistachios, dates, whole nuts with a nut cracker, nutella, smoked salmon and Wensleydale cheese with cranberries!

Baileys, sausage rolls and pate.

Last Christmas I discovered salted caramel Baileys. This will forever be Christmas from now on!!! Amazing

Stollen
Cheese board
Stollen
Cheeseboard
Repeat

Lebkuchen
A single mince pie drowned in custard
Florentines
Washed down with amaretto and coke or Bucks Fizz

Sticky toffee pudding and gingerbread. I hate the texture of cake normally but make an exception for these two!

Ferrero Rocher and Quality Street. Coffee creams if I can get some and most importantly, chocolate oranges.

Also (don't laugh), cream crackers to have with cheese. Gotta be Jacobs. After all you have to push the boat out at Christmas dont you?

Quality Street and Bailey's

Yes to coffee creams but I can never find them anywhere

For me it's all the cheeses especially those little truckles with cranberry 😋

I love coffee creams but they’re non existent now/.

Gingerbread
This year I have already started buying the apple fizz cocktail from M&S (ridiculously yummy)
Tray of biscuits
Breaded camembert with drizzled honey , cranberry sauce and toasted ciabatta to dip

If I was able to provide some kind of visual of treats I love vs treats I only eat at Christmas, the overlap would be huge! So I have it all

Toblerone
Chocolate Orange
Roast beef, stilton, rocket and caramelised red onion chutney sandwhiches
Fudge though I don't quite always manage to save this exclusively for Christmas
Fancy fruit jellies
Lurpak butter
Elderflower cordial
Many cheeses

Nice cheese. Fruit cake. Nice nuts. Really good chocolate. Sherry. Christmas pudding.

@Janedownourlane

Pickled walnuts..all to myself as I'm the only person I've ever met that likes them!

I think you might be DH’s soulmate! He loves them and every Christmas I have to set off in search of them. He reminds me of this important item every time I talk about the Christmas food shop

I like to have some nice nuts in.

M&S stilton with mango and ginger.

Delia Smiths homemade trifle.

M&S chocolate log.

A bottle of Baileys, bucks fizz, a bottle of port and this year some cocktails from Oro Gin distillery for NY eve.

Chestnuts roasted most evenings from November onwards when in season
Lovely pate
More cheese and busicuits than normal
More chocolates than normal
Maybe a nice pork pie

We generally eat what we like all year round so the Christmas treats are the things that you can’t buy the rest of the year like mince pies (although that’s getting to be a long available season now)

We have baked Camembert most weeks throughout the year

We generally stock up on special liquors we only drink in winter - whisky, cherry brandy, ports etc
Otherwise we drink lots of gin and nice wine every week anyway

Babycham and Matchmakers; my traditional Christmas day breakfast

NinaProudman2022

I like to have some nice nuts in.“

Do you make your own caramelised nuts? They’re super easy and far superior to any I’ve ever bought. Lots and lots of recipes on the internet. We like the salty Carmel recipes best.

Mince pies. But they have to be nice homemade ones. I don't like the shop bought ones.

@BellaTheDarkOverlord i always get frosty fancies at Christmas too as love how they're vanilla flavoured. I want to try the irish creme ones this year which are meant to taste of caramel.

Marron Glacé. Only ever at Christmas.

All regular nibbles, pringles, dips, chocolate fingers for dc, posh biscuits/florentines for us, after eights, cheeses like wenesleydale with cranberries, baked camembert etc, crackers, pickle/apples/grapes, luxury fruit and nut mix, Squirty cream and hot choc, salted cashew nuts, fresh orange juice, mice ham, Crispy oven rolls... list goes on!

Nice not mice