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

@TeaMistress thank you, have saved the page!

Campari S’bury’s Demi sec champagne 🍾 Rabitos Royale ( Spanish chocolate stuffed figs) smoked cheddar Barton’s pickled onions ☘️👍🏿

My dream list would be:-
Bendicks mint selection
Lindt chocolates
M&S marmalade
Brioche whirls with custard filling
Crackers for cheese
Selection of cheeses
Lebkuchen
White fondant fancies
White-chocolate covered oreos
A tin of Belgian biscuits from M&S
Schloer
Panettone - hopefully Waitrose will do their peach one again this year
Any item which has cinnamon in it
Ready-to-bake baguettes
Lady Grey teabags
Cheese straws
Shortbread
Yule log
The ingredients to make a large chocolate orange trifle

Other than the traditional Christmas dinner stuff the foods we love and signify Christmas for us are:

Baileys

Manzanilla sherry

Red wine

All the cheese! But has to be brie, goats cheese, gorgonzola, stilton, boursin, sage derby and stuffing flavoured cheese from the cheese wedge company. Posh crackers and chilli jam, truffle honey, quince paste and red onion marmalade

Turkey and stuffing crisps

Gammon with a marmalade glaze

Aldi lobster and crayfish macaroni cheese

Aldi scallops in champagne sauce

Terry's chocolate orange

Toasted bagels with smoked salmon and cream cheese

Twiglets

Salted pistachios

Mince pie and a latte at Costa

I found some fair trade cashews so bought a few packets.
On the minus side my adult DD found the hidden lebkuchen and laughingly ate the in-front of me….She is on my naughty list!

How do people eat chestnuts? I want to try them. Do they go with cheese and chutney?

Cornish cruncher cheese
pickled onions
chutney
crackers
sourdough
Black Forest gateau
pipers crisps
glazed ham joint
branston pickle
traditional home made trifle
sausage rolls

I buy the pre-cooked ones (Merchant something) in pouches . Stirred into the sprouts , they have a gorgeous smooth velvety texture .

Alll the food!!!

Each year I ask my family what treats they really fancy.

We do all the usuals cheese, wines, crackers, chocs but it’s nice to get some real specific faves too. Mine are the M&S salt and black pepper crisps (the ones that are all different shapes) and Sainsburys chocolate covered shortbread wreaths. My husbands are Celebrations. chocolate oranges and pig in blanket crisps. The kids like mini cheeses, chocolate mousses and lots of toppings for hot chocolates.

Pret Christmas sandwich!

Cheese and crackers - but any tips on how to keep them fresh? There is only two of us here and they usually end up going stale!

Party food but for tea with champagne.

Ohhh I used to LOVE a Pret Christmas sandwich, can't bloody eat them anymore 😭

'Cheese and crackers - but any tips on how to keep them fresh? There is only two of us here and they usually end up going stale!'

@Myleakycauldron

Crackers stay fresh and crunchy if they're placed in the fridge in an open container. Cheese lasts alot longer than advertised, I wrap it and keep in the back of the fridge. You could just buy small amounts.

@Caughtupinsomething I have never heard of that with crackers and I'm definitely going to give it a go!

We always go overboard with cheese which I agree lasts for ages but definitely doesn't go well with soft stale crackers :(

@Myleakycauldron I hadn't either but a friend suggested it, and it works amazingly! The packet has to be left open when in the fridge. I wonder if it has something to do with more moisture when they've covered/in airtight container.
If you buy a cheap small pack of crackers and try it out before Christmas you won't be disappointed!

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Christmas Regulars...

Dark chocolate orange
Kin Toffee Vodka
Aspall or Thatchers Cider for mulling
Carlos Rodriguez Morum Rioja
Homemade or Betty's Christmas cake
Tesco Finest Crumble Topped mince pies
Mini chocolate coated speculous biscuits
Ready to bake pastries & Bucks Fizz for Christmas morning
Lidl Gluhwein
Bendicks Bittermints
Lots of fancy crisps and nuts
All the cheese...usually from Wensleydale Creamery, also looking at The Drunk Cheese company this year...must include baking cheese, truffled cheese and smoked cheese!

The Trifle flavoured Irish Cream that M&S sold a few years ago. I think it’s been discontinued 😞

Mince Pies
Baileys
Quality Streets
Cadbury's Selection boxes
Cranberry Sauce
Stilton Cheese
Crackers and Chutneys
Mulled Wine
Yule Log
Prawn Cocktail

Champagne
Red wine
Baileys
Charcuterie board items
Camembert
Quality street
Glass Bottles Diet Coke
Crisps and dips
Olive sourdough
Cheeses
Shit tonnes of markies party food

Oh and twiglets lol