Fortnum and Mason indulgent treats and gifts

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If you shop there, what do you buy?

Just realised that might sound like a journalist type post.
I've had my eye on something for my mum. It's inexpensive at £21 so I'm not pushing the boat out but looking at their website it's full of beautiful and wondrous things. I live up north and have visited the store two or three times in total and wish I lived nearer as I'd love to see it decked out in all the Christmas finery. I love things in tins and they have such lovely things in tins. The hampers don't appeal but the food hall in general does.

I buy Smoky Grey Earl Grey Tea Bags. They're amazing and worth every penny. I only have one cup a day but I bloody love them and hell would have to freeze over before I stopped this middle aged indulgence.

I like their mince pies (possibly not helpful if you’re looking for a gift).

The marmalade is also 👌

This is my Christmas wish

www.fortnumandmason.com/champagne-chocolate-gift-box

I saw an advert for pickled Brussel Sprouts! Might make a gift for the person who has everything?

Any of their -lossus biscuits - the Christmas Merrilossus, the Cherrylossus, to Toffolossus - all really lovely. Their florentines are delicious too.

Their biscuit selections - the Explorer’s selection or the Christmas selection - are nice biscuits and come in pretty tins.

Their Welsh Rarebit pots are rather nice too.

I tend to buy a number of presents from F&M - I think that people don’t necessarily want more stuff, so an edible gift, something they mightn’t buy for themselves, is a good idea.

I used to buy my dad the selection of jams - tiny tiny pots (6-8 in the pack). It was a great christmas tree pressie. He really liked the jams and then used the jars for screws!

More recently I bought their decaff tea bags for my mum who can now only drink decaff - she told me they taste like any others (ie awful!). So that's fine Mum - shan't bother again!! I had also ordered for her for Christmas some other bits including their cucumber dill pickles. They were fermented. The seal must have broken. F&M customer service were lovely - immediately sent a replacement and insisted on adding her a little pressie to say sorry. That is how to do customer service.

I really don't rate their hampers and would much prefer a M&S one!

Fortnums tea bags are made by Twinings.

I really like their biscuits, marzipan fruits and cheesy nibbles. The food hall really is absolute heaven. I used to work nearby and would often see wealthy older people doing their weekly shop in there which was always a bit mind blowing!

Lemon Curd
Chocolate mints
Christmas Pudding
Chocolate biscuits in a tin - can’t remember the name of them.

Oh and their brandy butter!

I get the children a bag of ‘coal’ every year in their stockings. It’s like black honeycomb. I get my mum their Rose Jam or the Strawberry and Champagne one. DH loves the violet and rose creams and I love the dark chocolate dipped orange peel.

I love F&M marzipan fruits. I have given them as presents (to people that like marzipan obvs) and it’s always a winner.

So much of it is mad-expensive compared to other brands but as presents I think delicious food is always welcomed by people at every age and stage. And the tins are pretty.

My mum loves their teas.

The bag of coal really tickled me this morning when I saw it and has made me smile all day. I've added a bag to my basket. It's a 250g bag so that's quite a good size.

Champagne strawberry jam
Mulled wine spices
Choc covered orangettes
Musical biscuit tin
Bone China mugs with initial

I usually buy myself the Christmas pudding in the lovely ceramic bowl.

I bought a tin of the hot chocolate for Christmas, mostly for the pretty tin tbh to store the cheap hot chocolate we usually have in it 😂

DH loves their Boxing Day pickle and I love their Piccadilly lemon curd biscuits - we get them every December.
I also used to get MIL a fancy jam each December - I think it was rose and rhubarb.

I could spend hours wandering their food hall!

Toffolossus biscuits. £20 for a tube of them so definitely a Christmas treat, but my god they are good.

Love Fortnum and Mason. Particularly their Florentines, champagne and strawberry jam, overpriced Rooibos teabags in the tall tin and more than anything their coffee cremes from the chocolate counter (although I now buy these direct from Audreys chocolates who supply F&M with their chocolates). Love everything I've had from there

Wine.

Peppermint creams! Their icy mints in the blue shiny box are a must have

I just got my F and M Christmas catalogue in the post and have put it aside for a special treat at the weekend. I like to dream about being able to order the whole lot

Their Florentines are delicious.

Marmalade. Best ever.

The florentines are delicious