What food are you buying now to put away?

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With the food prices shooting up I'm thinking to start putting the occasional treat on my weekly shop now and hide

What's everyone started buying with good dates on?

Jars of goose fat
vac packed chestnuts (for my turkey leftover pie!)
Some frozen sausage rolls and pigs in blankets
Foil
Baking paper
Crackers for cheese
Chutneys (DH likes a variety)
Copycat After Eights
I had a Hotel Chocolat birthday voucher for buy one get one free on boxes of chocolate so I’ve put those away and am trying to forget they’re in the cupboard!

Some chocolate boxes, especially for gifts. Alcohol and naice soft drinks, where available things like lebkuchen and other shelf stable treats. Everything else will be done nearer to the time

Actually, I might have said nothing but I realised I have a pack of amaretti biscuits safely stashed (I do need a new bottle of amaretto to drink with them - I like the almond overload!!

Might do a sainsbo's run next month and get a few goodies while I am there. Maybe even go as far as Lakeland if I get a good weather day. (Sainsbo could be as little as 90 minutes away in Newry, but Lisburn is a lot bigger, and Belfast is not so much further for another big one but also good craft shop, Lakeland, and a few others).

Same - they'd be eaten by the time the week is out 😆

Bought 12 cans of club orange a tin of celebrations and heroes and a box of biscuits.

@mac1974 must admit I was lucky to get them, there were only 3 left on the shelf. Had to store them at my mums to stop me eating them before Christmas

Please return to this thread and let us know when it appears. I don't tend to shop at sainsburys as the other supermarkets are all closer but sounds worth a detour!

Lidl lebkuchen hearts in today- my absolute favourite! No way I'm saving them for Christmas I imagine I will get through many bags before Christmas!

What date they have?
I couldn't get them last year and really want to get my hands on one this one (maybe 2)

@Lalanbaba date is 07 03 23.....we will have totally finished them by then....but depends when you want them for. Bought at chorley, lancs

2 tins of very merry much secured. Christmas has started.

Thanks to this thread I've been picking up more snacks this weekend. I've got cheese footballs (not even sure we like them), after eights, mini cheddars but a limited edition flavour with paprika (fancy) regretting not getting the twiglets I saw

We have a box for Christmas food bits in the pantry so it's all together so I can see what we have. Also a present box in the loft I add to through the year as I see bits and bobs.

Food wise I've bought some peanuts we really like, and the m.and s merry munch or whatever it's called. And a packet of stuffing mix and a jar of gravy granuals. Christmas coffee on order in next.shop. already bought quality street for teaching assistants as they were on offer.

Present wise have bought some bits for one DC, got my neice sorted and got my parents sorted

Oooh paprika cheddar....need to buy those !!!!!

@Decafflatteplease .....thankyou....totally forgot about teachers.....Will be buying quality street and putting away on Tuesday!!!

@Wicca123 I found them in Iceland

Went to M&S food hall today and couldn’t find any merry munch, hoping I see some as it sounds lovely

Don’t get to tesco very often, so went the other day and purchased my pistachios I buy every year because Tescos ones are elite 😂

I went today and forgot to look! 🙈

I bought a fake ‘merry munch’ from home bargains. Will have to taste test before the big day for research purposes as if not much cop will have to get the real thing! (It is also a small pouch not a tin).

I've bought beef gravy and chicken gravy from Waitrose and they are in the freezer. Really nice Yorkshire puddings too. Turkey crown in the freezer too. Already have 4 bottles of champagne but will buy some more.

I slowly buy over time so my food bill just before Christmas is not eye watering.

This all sounds yummy.

Last weekend, I bought little triangle crackers, dried orange slices dipped in dark choc, and mini vol au vent cases in Lidl. I already had 2 stollen (but the mini panettone is eaten 😳).

I've also, over the course of a few weeks of specials, put away 3 bottles of a nice wine for Christmas (normally €18 but down to €11 a bottle).

I need to bottle the blackberry gin that's been infusing (and get some vanilla ice cream so I don't waste the fruit ...nom nom).

But that's about it so far.

Biscuits
Ingredients for Xmas cake
Cinnamon
Cloves
Mixed spice
Brandy

Nothing as yet, I'm newly single and all the nice treat stuff is in too big packs. What I want is a pack with one or two each of a variety of different savoury fresh treats. Anyone seen anything like this?