What is on your Christmas food shop list?

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Just trying to sort my shopping list out for Christmas and wondering if ive forgotten anything. Its only me, dp, ds(3) and potentially db. Also pregnant so booze and camembert is out :)

Big box of Jacobs/ Carr's crackers
Various cheeses
Chutneys
Nuts
Coated dried fruit
Trifle ingredients
Loads of cream
Cloves for bread sauce
Stuffing
Parma ham or similar
Lots of chocolates
Candy canes
Chocolate coins
Chocolates to hang from the tree
Selection boxes
Specialist crisps
Champagne
Bailey's
Mixers for spirits
Soft drinks for DCs

DesperateHousewife21 Spotted sugared almonds in Waitrose .About £6 per box or so x

Thank you dottiedoodah that’s very helpful seems I might get my sugared almonds after all this year!

When is everyone actually doing this shop?

I'll shop next Sunday as I do every week, but that will only really see me through until Christmas Eve.

So, when is the Christmas shop being done, 22nd? 23rd?

@tistheseeson

I'm picking up a few non perishables/freezable bits each week.

Having a Sainsburys delivery on 23rd and Mum has a Morrisons one booked for the same day so between us we should be sorted.

@ClubTropicanaVIP

Chocolate dipped brandy snaps (M&S) with a can of squirty cream to fill them with!

Part Baked baguettes (always a life saver!)

Good luck finding said brandy snaps,as i have not seen at all this yr!

All usual stuff plus:
Centrepiece of Christmas Dinner (not Turkey for us but a Vegan Wellington)
Potatoes
Parsnips
Carrots
Sweet potato
Gravy granules
Dessert or ingredients for it (I am baking a Vegan lemon cheesecake)
Whatever you are having for Breakfast
Any snacks or sweets you want (we don’t buy much of this)
Drink alcohol and non alcohol depending on your preferences.
Check your essentials teabags, coffee, sugar etc.
Don’t forget your medicine stocks: painkillers, heartburn and indigestion relief, plasters and I always have a box of cystitis treatment.
Check your toiletries and cleaning products.
If baking check your baking powder, bicarbonate of soda etc
Batteries

@desperatehousewife21

Brussel sprouts for the kids cos they weirdly love them even thought DH and I do not! Got our first mince pies of the year today so they’ll prob keep being bought. Gotta have a constant stream of twiglets

Do love cheese so Stilton/ camembert but tbh I eat them all year round so not all that special for Xmas, just there’s a lot more of it in the shops atm. Actually bought both today!

I also LOVE sugared almonds, they’re my Xmas fav and they’re SO hard to find these days, so if anyone sees any please let me know!

Of all places, Hobbycraft do sugared almonds, and there are a number of retailers on Amazon who sell them!

@Rememberallball damn I was in hobby craft a few weeks ago but wouldn’t even think to look for them there thank you though!

@desperatehousewife21
also LOVE sugared almonds, they’re my Xmas fav and they’re SO hard to find these days, so if anyone sees any please let me know!
Definitely hard to find - Aldi is the place to go!

[quote desperatehousewife21]@Rememberallball damn I was in hobby craft a few weeks ago but wouldn’t even think to look for them there thank you though![/quote]
Oh no!! Amazon have them too so maybe a Prime delivery order?

You can get sugared almonds from etsy and 'a quarter of' website too!

Yes online might be the way to go I think!