Ultimate Christmas Food/Drink List

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What are your must have for December and Christmas time?

For us:
Festive Bakewells
Cadbury Snowballs
Popping Candy Chocolate Orange
Cadbury Selection Box
Tunnocks Wafer biscuits
Bacon Sandwiches
Baileys
Red Leg Rum
Christmas Cake
Applewood Cheese
Peanuts

Mint choc Matchsticks
Biscuit selection box
Cheeses and pickles
Panettone

Can't wait! 😋

'baby cheeses'
Bucks fizz made with Innocents OJ.
Roasted cashew nuts.
Chocolate fudge cake with haagen dazs vanilla ice cream (we don't like Xmas pud)

Alas my list comes to significantly more ... good smoked salmon, capers (the giant ones), duck pate, champagne/cremant, good cheeses - smellier the better, olives

Pigs in blankets
Voleuvonts
Glazed ham
After eights
Trifle
Wendsley cheese
Prawns

Yummy

Here for ideas. It’s my first Christmas since separation with stbxh and for the first time I can choose!

Smoked salmon
After eights not gin ones
Cheese
Crackers
Cake
Twiglets
Cheeselets
Choc log if I can get one,

Smoked salmon
Philadelphia cream cheese
Chicken liver pâté
Cheese- vacherin ,Brie,comte,smoked cheddar
Bread sauce
Real butter
Soft white bread for turkey sandwiches
Mayonnaise
Asparagus and hollandaise sauce
Parma ham and melon

Forgot Champagne and amaretto

Terry’s chocolate orange
Black Forest gateau
Mince pies
Stollen
Marzipan fruits
Honey roast gammon
Brie
Vienetta

Resurrecting this thread as I plan to start tentatively considering Christmas food this evening in a bid to beat the Sunday (Monday) blues....

Mine are:
Amaretto
Champagne
Port
Chocolate orange
Lovely cheeses and Salami from Borough Market
Posh marmalade
Sourdough bread
Sausage roll wreath (my absolute favourite)

Yummy...

As many cheeses as possible, including Brie, Boursin, Stilton with cranberry, Tintern cheddar
Rosemary crackers from Aldi
A frozen turkey joint and cranberry sauce to make Christmas sandwiches or baguettes on the run up to Christmas
Home made and bought pigs in blankets
Chocolate oranges
Trifle
Home made mince pies

Mince pies, amaretto, blackberry whisky, Baileys, homemade biscuits in metal tins, pringles (for DP), trays with dry fruit and nuts, hot chestnuts, more than 2 types of cheese in the fridge, turrón, Spanish cold cuts

I don't think I've ever eaten an actual chestnut.

Terrys chocolate orange
cheese (lots of it)
shortbread
Santa cookies (I bake cranberry & white chocolate cookies every Xmas Eve)

Chestnuts
Cheese: Camembert, Epoisses, Old Amsterdam, Stilton….I could (and will) go on
Celebrations and Heroes. Gave up on Roses a while back.
Champagne, Sancerre and some nice big reds
Pickles
Gammon
Smoked salmon
Nuts
Pate
Pigs in blankets
Stollen

Crumble topped mince pies from Tesco and mini stollen from Lidl.

And shortbread from anywhere.

Oh yes homemade sugar biscuits for Santa!

And Miniature Heroes - already started on those

So chestnuts. You just buy them and then crack them with a nutcracker and eat them? Are they nice?

Mince pies
stollen
pigs in blankets
devils on horseback
Roasted gammon
Stones Ginger wine
Pork pie and pickle

Collectively:

chicken breast with skin on to roast for DS and the cats (DH, DD and I are vegetarian)
a red plastic tub of Family Circle biscuits
a metal tin of shortbread (not flavoured ) from M&S or Sainsbury with a judgey looking deer on the lid
Neidregger plain chocolate covered marzipan
J2O orange&passionfruit
Fentimans ginger beer and Roses cordial
Sainsbury bakery shortcrust mince pies
Tivalli sweetcorn schnitzel for Christmas Eve
After Eights , regular ones , no fancy flavours
Panatonne and lemon curd or clementine curd if I can find it
Terrys Chocolate Orange
Chestnuts with the sprouts
Roast potatoes made with Maris Pipers
Yorkshire Puddings , I make two trays in the flat YP tins and will them to rise !
One trip to Costa/Starbuck to see what festive drinks are on offer
Festive Beer for DH and Smirnoff Ice for DD

Takeaway on the 23rd from a brilliant local Chinese resturant , DH has the leftovers for breakfast

I have a list in my Christmas Notebook to add to as I think of things

You are thinking of walnuts/hazelnuts
Fresh chestnuts, slash the skin and roast them.
We have a fire for first time and I will be roasting some this year in there.
It reminds me of Christmas because in Spain is really common to find people roasting them in the streets in Christmas/cold season

Chocolate salami is my fave just cos it’s so random and we used to make it at work (and it’s delicious).

Epic cheese and charcuterie platter for me and DH as Xmas eve dinner!

Baileys
champagne
scotch
glazed ham
smoked salmon
terrys chocolate orange
bendicks mint selection
all the stinky cheese
whisky marmalade
nut selection
toblerone
spiced biscuits
amaretti
christmas cake

Oooh yum.

Sloe gin
Chablis
Amaretto

Castello creamy and pears
Walnuts
Cinnamon raisin shortbread
Proper cranberry sauce
Apple pork stuffing balls
Choc orange
All the stollen
All the florentines