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

Some lovely ideas on here thank you

we love making or buying : summer fruits steeped in whisky and sugar to serve with cream or on pancakes /. Mulled wine / tangerines. / snowdonia black bomber cheese / gammon simmered in cola / roasted chestnuts with salt / red cabbage and apple/ Lidl florentines / Lidl Christmas puddings steeped in alcohol. / homemade Sherry trifle topped with syllabub. / M and S Best chocolates / home made sausage plait with a lovely relish.

Researching Fairtrade cashews. Cashews have been off the list for a few years after I read about horrific working conditions. Workers getting burned by the toxic shells.
So…
Cashews
lebkuchen
Cheese straws ( homemade)
Tiny mince pies topped with frangipane.
Cheeses , all of the cheeses!
Broccoli and Stilton soup.
Those disgusting cheese footballs for DH.
Nuts in the shell.
Sprouts on a stick for DGS ( he loves them)
Pigs in blankets
JO’s get ahead gravy ( Do NOT put star anise in)
Homemade raspberry gin, marmalade gin, baileys.
We have given up on Roses and Quality Street.
Bucks Fizz to start the day.
Enormous Bubble and Squeak for Boxing Day.
Loaf tin of Sausage meat stuffing and a veggie version.
Boiled clementine cake.
I might need to get out of bed and get a snack now !

Dry roasted peanuts, mini cheddars and small cubes of cheese - all mixed together in a bowl.

Black bomber cheese
Baked camembert
Lebkuchen
Cadbury snowballs
Christmas cake
Sherry
Port
Baileys
Fancy bucks fizz
Pain au chocolat
Festive pate

Chocolate Brazills
Chocolate orange
Lindt reindeer
Applewood
Carrs cheese melts
Rose lemonade
Aldi cheese and onion bites
Garners sweet pickled onions
St Agur blue creme
Sesame breadsticks
Chestnut stuffing
All the crisps.

Some Spar’s selling choc oranges for £1 right now. That’s what they were last year, so might be worth grabbing them now if you see them.

M & s tins of very merry munch

Glass bottles of coke and j2o
Ferrero rocher
Cheese in a Christmas shape
Baileys in coffee or hot chocolate
M&s light up gin
Malteseer reindeers
Proper vanilla bean custard
Leibniz baileys biscuits
Homemade sausage rolls

Posh breadsticks Tesco deli or Waitrose, they tend to come in cellophane bags rather than boxes.

Sainsbury had Blood Orange Curd as their festive offering (Clementine Curd was last year ) so I bought some and going to do a taste test.

Tesco salted caramel Irish cream (like Bailey's but much sweeter)
Cheeses I don't eat year round like Gouda, jarlsberg, soaked cheese, port salue with a big box of crackers not just jacobs cream crackers
Dip pack of 4
Breadsticks
Proper sausage meat stuffing
Pigs in blankets
Home made Bread sauce
Home made cranberry sauce
Brined turkey
After eights
Yule log
Trifle with homemade custard
Mulled wine
Fruit and nut mixes
Ham cooked in coke

Elizabeth Shaw mints
A chocolate tub - heroes or quality street - can only be opened once everyone has broken up from school/work!
Mulled wine
Pickled onions
Stollen
Homemade mince pies

I bought some small Lemon Panatonne , it's only me that eats it . Either Lemon or Blood Orange curd to spread on it .

Still deciding on biscuits for Christmas , my DC like the Family Circle ones in the red tub, nice variety and stay crisp . But those M&S biscuit curl ones ( rolled in a tube shape) are on the list too

Lobster, champagne, red cabbage, Egg nog, pretty much anything from M&S I can get my chops on!

Snack stuff:
Crackers, nice cheese (a nice extra mature cheddar, Wensleydale and cranberries) & chutney
Apples and oranges
Pringles
Choc fingers
Fruit and nut selection
Fondant Frosty fancies
Toblerone
Toffeefee
After eights
I bake so will be making gingerbread men, choc fudge cake or a yule log, sticky cinnamon/maple rolls for breakfast, h/made sausage rolls etc.
Croissants
Calved Ham
Orange juice
Bucks fizz
Wine
Custard
Double cream for pouring
Costco large spray cream
Asda chocolate spray cream (dcs)
Vanilla icecream (with pods in)
Hot chocolate, marshmallows

Then just all of the usual dinner stuff and Condiments. Parsnips in honey and pork sage&onion stuffing are a must, preferably with apple/cranberry or both even better, always make my own pigs in blankets with high quality chipalatas and lean bacon (hate the streaky fatty stuff).

Black Bomber / Red Storm cheese
Carrs cheese crackers
Nuts - Peanuts / Cashews / Pistachios
Cola Gammon
Marks & Spencer ultimate trifle
Turkey from the local butcher
Home made cranberry sauce and bread sauce ( Cranberry sauce in the instant pot is gorgeous)
Pigs in blankets
Goose fat roasties and parsnips
Orange no bake cheesecake
Home made mince pies
Orange jelly with mandarins

@TeaMistress could I be cheeky and ask for you homemade cranberry sauce recipe? I have a power pot if it would work in there, it has all of the functions.

Marks and Spencer's Cornish cruncher cheese bake. Tons of other cheeses, the more the merrier.

Lidl milk choc, apricot filled heart shaped liebkuchen.

Buck's Fizz.

Sausage meat stuffing and pigs in blankets.

A giant Black Forest ham.

Hot chocolate with whipped cream, mallows and a candy cane to stir it.

Aldi extra special Florentines.

Clementine marmalade on toast.

I am SO excited about Christmas for this year!

Of course my dear.

I use the recipe from The Mama Gourmet on YouTube.

@TeaMistress thank you kindly! love cranberries and looking forward to making this.

Enjoy my dear. Its gorgeous. I dont use the star anise but its a really lovely easy recipe

sprouts, sprouts and more sprouts!

Walnut Whips
Pork pie and piccalilli
Delia Smith's 18th-Century Chestnut Stuffing

M and s Cranberry and clementine bucks fizz
Campari
Bendicks bittermints
After Eights
Oxford ex thick marmalade
Croissants
Apricot jam
Cremant
Pecan and maple roulade
Salmon Caloubiac
M and S stuffed T crown ( chestnut stuffing )

Traditional stuff taking me back to my childhood.
Quality Street
Matchmakers
Chocolate orange
After 8s
Baileys
As much cheese as possible
For some reason I always but only make Delia's parmesan and pistachio sables at Christmas