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

We are cooking for 13 people this year in our new house, im so so excited 😍
alright my list...

Got to have a dip selection... one of those with the 4 different dips (and a few spare sour cream and chive)
Hot chocolate and mini mallows
Bread sticks and loads of crisps for pre Christmas snacking
Home made veg and lentil soup and part baked baguettes
Ferrero rocher
Usually bucks fizz and baileys but this year I'm pregnant so I'll need to find an alternative for myself!
Lots of antipasti, German biscuits, the list goes on🥰

Absolute essentials:
Ecclefechans
Silverskin pickled onions
More cheese than we know what to do with
Aldi lebkuchan dark chocolate biscuits
Prosecco
Various chutneys
Local brewery Christmas pudding - tastes unreal

I do home made sausage rolls, flavoured with cranberry and Clementine or chopped Chestnuts and I LOVE them in the run up to christmas.

Some of my other faves are Lidl milk chocolate Liebkuchen hearts. Rum balls. Turkish delight Ice cream. Hot chocolate with whipped cream and mallows. A really good selection of cheese and cured meats with a big variety of crackers and fruit, made even better with my home made chipotle honey. An extra thick cut marmalade for glazing my gammon.

Good I love christmas!!

Thank you. Would you just eat them roasted on their own? Maybe a bit of honey and cheese?
Also, how would you roast them in a fire out of interest, foil and tongs?

Oh yes, sloe gin!
I found the most delicious sloe gin liquer last year.

All the cheese I can muster (Snowdonia cheese is good)
M&S Swiss chocolate
M&S salted caramel truffles
M&S Christmas pudding (one year they did a chocolate orange pudding and it was to die for)
Gateaux (we love a throw back to the 80s)
Stuffed Medjool dates
Good crackers
All the chutney
Jalapeño peanuts
Waitrose duck liver pâté
Charlie Bigham meals for the days we cba to cook in that in-between Christmas stage

Oh yes, gherkins and red onion marmalade.

God I'm excited.

Chocolate orange, orange and mint matchmakers, lindor selection box, chocolate biscuits selection box, treeslets, ikea gingerbread

Advocaat
Port to have with cheese
Bacon and Philly bagels
Mint Matchmakers
White grape Shloer
Pigs in blankets
Yorkshire puddings

Lebkuchen
Lots of Cheese and choice of biscuits
Cornish wafers
Pate
All the Crisps
Dip
Prawns
Marie Rose sauce
Shortbread
Celebrations
After eights
Baileys
Champagne
Puff pastry and sausage meat to make homemade sausage rolls

The judgey deer! Yes! You're bang on

As a family
Christmas beers
Bloody Marys
Chocolate oranges
Home made stollen, I don't think DH has got over having a store one last year
Mince pies
Cheeses, every year DH buys far too many
Special crisps
Mint chocolate vodka, home made
Crisps
Posh breadsticks
A variety of savoury snacks

I am getting a roasting pan for the fire, but you can roast them in the oven.
I eat them on their own myself

Carbon Steel Chestnut Roasting Pan, 27 cm (10.5") amzn.eu/d/73Fz52h Roasting pan

I haven’t seen popping candy choc oranges for a couple of years.

this year I’ll be lucky to have pâté few chocs nice bit of cheese, pork joint must have crackling. Fruit cake tiny.

next year sky’s the limit
pate smoked salmon prawns loads off
forton mason marzipan coffee chocolate beans.
party nibbles

Where are we sourcing our posh breadsticks please

Thanks for the chestnut intel.

Yes to the judgey deer!!

I'm very interested in the idea of F&M marzipan I must say.

Homemade cinnamon rolls
Homemade gingerbread
Lebkuchen
Speculoos biscuits
Florentines
Cheese
Pigs in blankets
Hot chocolate & all the extras!

We ditched choc orange last year, none of us like the texture since it went plasticky. Swapped for a different orange-flavoured chocolate to keep it similar & enjoyed it much more.

Pistachios (used to be hazelnuts aswell but I’ve since become allergic to them 😩)
peanuts
tin of roses
quality street
shloer
vol au vents
Coca cola
jacobs crackers
cheese savouries
j20 glitter berry for DS - he’s obsessed with it.
appletizer
doritos

these are things we have very Christmas with out fail.

Also the frosty fondant fancies....which are absolutely delicious

I brought it a couple of years ago and loved it fruits they looked lovely and loads of them in-laws had chocolates as well,. No more for them they’re of the list now. But yes next year F and M stuff. I’ll save all year for next Christmas.

@70isaLimitNotaTarget aldi has some clementine curd this week.

mine are

M&S shortbread tin ( the judgy deer 😂)
cheeses (lots)
red wine ( black reds especially)
Morecambe bay potted shrimps
cheese straws
crisps / crudités and dips

Clementine curd 😲 wowser, that sounds perfect

Twiglets
Turkish Delight
Bitter lemon
Mince pies
Home-made brandy butter
Speculoos biscuits
Christmas cake
Marshmallows for hot chocolate
Shortbread
Gingerbread
Chestnuts for roasting
Mulling spices
Mountains of roasties
Roast parsnips
3 fruit marmalade
Cherry liqueur chocolates

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Baileys
Brandy snaps
Aldi sloe gin mince pies
Tin of quality street if they aren’t like last year
Little appetiser cheeses
Fruit preserved in alcohol from Waitrose

Mine are:

Homemade apple crumble
Homemade chocolate concrete
Elizabeth Shaw mints
Mint matchmakers
After Eights
Lindt reindeer
Heroes
M&S milk chocolate biscuit box
The Ned Sauvignon blanc
Coca Cola
Small tins of Schweppes tonic water
Schloer
Sweet pickled onions
Vienetta
Sausage rolls/cocktail sausages/mini pork pies/scotch eggs
Chocolate log
Cheese biscuits selection box
Boursin
Nuts-salted cashew/chilli peanuts and salt&vinegar nuts
Mixed nuts bag
Doritos and sour cream& chive dips
I think that's it!