What is in your Christmas box?

[Justcallmechristmas]

I've just started my Christmas box for this year. I buy a few bits each week with the food shopping from now up until Christmas and save them up for the two weeks around Christmas/New Year. The fresh things will be delivered on Christmas Eve.

The reason they are not put in the cupboards and kept in a box instead (usually in the garage), is so they will not get eaten beforehand!

Does anyone else do this? What is in your box so far?

So far I have four large sharing bags of different flavoured Christmas crisps, a selection tin on biscuits and some dairy milk miniatures to fill my jars up with.

I have never heard of a christmas box- can you explain?

What a fab idea I might start one! Not sure what else previous poster wants you to explain it sounds really good

I have:

Drinks: fiery ginger beer; J2O; elderflower cordial; Seedlip; Schloer.

Nibbles: pretzel selection; lebkuchen; shortbread; chocolate biscuits; Twiglets; Pringles; nuts; marzipan fruit.

Chocolate: Quality St; Roses; Heroes; Lindt; Celebrations; Toblerone.

Plus crackers and some chutneys and pickles.

My turn to host so I've been buying something every time I go in a shop for weeks.

Meat is all paid for and ordered with the butcher (they do a club and I pay over the year) and have enough for the 12 days.

Hamper ordered from the bakery too.

It's not a literal box for most people.

Food for Christmas 🙂

Yes we tend to start buying now and then hiding it or else we eat it all!

Yes my mum always did a box of the Christmas food
So far I have sweets/chocs for bowls, fancy cranberry sauce, fancy jam for Christmas Day croissants, crackers for cheese, crisps, Prosecco, champagne, pickled onions, cherries for drinks
I just buy bits each week and drop in the box.
Fresh stuff is bought a few days before, turkey on order

I’ve bought some M&S chocolates, florentines, nuts, popcorn, match makers, after eights, stuffing, cranberry sauce and pickled red cabbage.

Two panettone, two bottles of good Port and ...ahem......half a Christmas cake......

What a good idea! I've been buying Christmas things for weeks but unfortunately keep eating them because I'm greedy.

I don't because shops don't shut, we don't eat much more than normal over christmas- christmas day meal- and that is bought a few days before.
It isn't a fortnight of feasting with no shops open.

Mum always did this growing up. I think people do it less nowadays although I don't really know why. Same as paying into a Christmas club in a shop or saving stamps. I don't think they are as common these days either.

I have two big tubs of chocolate, 2 tins of freddo and friends and an m&s shortbread so far. Put in the garage so none of us open them 🤣

You lot are very organised and way ahead of me! Given me some good ideas for my list too! 😉

We have a few bottles of Lidls version of Shloer, Lebkuchen, mint matchmakers, crackers for cheese. I also have a bag of chocolate for the stockings.

Speak for yourself re it not being a fortnight of feasting!

And I plan to spend precisely zero time in a shop over Christmas and New Year.

Some yummy looking stuffed dates and Xmas cake. Both from M&S. This week I'm going to start bulking up with the weekly food shops.

2 bottles of baileys

Just cheese footballs so far. Yes I know most people think they are disgusting, and no, I don't care

Oh and there were treeselets but they've already been eaten.

We've got a hard-to-access Christmas drawer that currently contains:

A couple of bottles of nice red wine
A couple of bottles on fizz
Tub of Roses
Star-shaped pretzels
Matchmakers and various other mints
Bottle of port

You can see where my priorities lie fairly clearly I think!

decent chocolates
marks and Spencer’s pretzel and chocolate type mix in a tin
. Christmas tree tortilla shapes various truffles white and milk
sticky toffee granola
various boxes of biscuits
various sauces
kinder bueno type spread
lebuchken or however you spell it
cinnamon biscuits that begin with S
lots of other things too I have been buying since September

I 'shopped' my cupboards and found
Baileys
Chambord
Brandy
Ginger wine
Vacuum packed chestnuts

Have bought
Sponge fingers and jelly for the trifle
Chocs to refill the Quality Street tin
Chocs for the advent calendar
Sweets for the stockings
royal icing sugar and marzipan

Have made
Xmas cake
Mincemeat
Chutney

I think everything else we need will be fresh and bought close to Xmas.

Why don't people just buy it later, if they're tempted to eat it? Just curious!

tin Of freddo and friends
we’ve eaten the box of jacobs crackers so need to replace those
various polish pickles
stuffing
Christmas marshmallows
we did try the caramelised biscuit cereal from sainsburys as a trial was tasteless had the Black Forest porridge which was good so will add more of that to the box

Idk. It's not like the shop will run out of quality street or mince pies.