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.

4 tins of Heros
Toblerone
4 big smarties tubes
Nuts in shells

I’ve tried this but when I feel snacky I end up helping myself out of the box!

@Schlaar it can require an iron will. I ran out of wine over the weekend, but despite being encouraged to do so, didn’t break into the Christmas wine even though it was tempting. The rule here is not to touch anything until December, but once things are gone, they are gone and will not be replaced.

Where did you get cheese footballs? Used to love them but so hard to get

I don’t buy food but do start amassing stocking fillers and get the baking done.

I do it to spread the cost. I imagine most people do too.

Also, don’t want things to go out of stock.

But I don’t eat it - keep it in the garage so it’s out of sight.

I haven’t really started yet. I’ve only got a mix of small chocs for DD’s advent calendar and a big tin of Heroes.

I always get Florentines and Lebkuchen from Aldi though. Usually a mix of nuts, some nice crisps and Tesco finest Stollen for DH. MIL sends a parcel from Berlin too.

Yule log, mince pies and Christmas cake plus M&S Belgian chic biscuits.

We live rurally and make it an aim to not visit any shops between Christmas Eve and New Year. We usually cave in to get some fruit and bread but part of the fun is a huge stash of favourites.

It’s not something DH & I would do but we don’t buy many extras for Christmas and if they were bought for a specific day then we wouldn’t eat them until then. But our DD’s are adults and have their own homes.

It’s probably a practice more useful for big families especially if there are several children. Keeping the stuff out of sight of them would stop them pestering for it.

My heaven food! They're my all time favourite and it's a travesty that they're only sold at Christmas imo!

@TabbyBeast please tell me more about this tiramisu panettone. Where did you get it and how does it taste?

There are only two of us here. We also don’t buy that much in the way of extras, but I hate the madness of supermarkets in the run up to Christmas and I have no intention of going to one due to need between Christmas and New Year. So I buy the non perishables well in advance. My box is probably not as delightful as some as it contains such thing as tin foil, baking parchment, nuts for cooking, pickles, additional herbs, baked beans and cooking oil along with other household items including loo roll, cleaning materials etc which saves me having to do battle next month. Yes there are also some treats but modest in number such as biscuits for cheese, alcohol and some chocolates.

As soon as dates are long enough any fridge things will be bought. Come the days before Christmas all I will require is a basket shop.

Well... if you go to France on holiday, Carrefour sell them all year round.

Baileys
Beer
Mulled wine
Celebrations
Cheesy footballs
A few savoury snacks

Oh and turkey gravy

Ihavedogs no I still don’t get it. I have never had to “do battle” in a supermarket for foil or washing up liquid any time of the year.

I can’t imagine DH being daft enough to go on Christmas Eve. I certainly wouldn’t as I have arthritis and wouldn’t want anyone banging into me.

But when we shop we don’t browse. We write a list, buy our stuff and get out and avoid the busiest times. If your local Supermarkets are like the 7th dimension of hell 24/7 I can see why the want to buy a few things earlier but why would you need to keep one roll of foil in one place and one in another? 😳🤷🏻‍♀️ Just make sure you always have an unused one. Same with flour, loo roll, washing up liquid. Just always keep a spare.

Ihavedogs but it makes sense to you to do it so that’s fine. Horses for courses. 🐴

It’s about what is practical.

The supermarkets and roads around them here are jam packed in the week before Christmas and I prefer to avoid them.

The foil has been bought as the spare and it will be opened in December.

Sadly we all don’t have large kitchens, so yes, at times spares have to be stored in a cupboard elsewhere. Not everyone can buy everything they need in one go for financial, health or time reasons.

So yes, it works for me.

We do this too, for exactly the same reason!

So far we have a tin each of quality street, roses, heroes and celebrations. Oh, and four bottles of Baileys. We only drink it at Christmas but boy do we get a taste for it!!!

@JingsMahBucket I saw a tiramisu panettone in Waitrose

I've resisted eating it so far so can't tell you how it tastes! it was from Tesco £7. Coffee cream and chocolate chips so figured I couldn't go wrong!

A Christmas pudding and some glittery chrismas cider
I did have 6 bottles of wine put out of sight in the garage but they seam to have evaporated

I've got:

After Eights
Lindt Balls
Cadbury's Heroes
Crackers for cheese
Crackers that go bang
Mini marshmallows
Chutney
Nuts

I remember my grandmother used to pay the milkman weekly through the year and then receive a huge cardboard box full of tins, sweets and things in December. I always remember the selection box and the teardrop shaped tin of ham! 😂

Christmas pretzels
Cheese straws etc type boxes
Fake Baileys espresso martini

I really need to sample the fake Bailey's but worry I'll drink it all prior to December

A Christmas pudding
Some J2O that I bought on offer a while ago
Some wine I won't in a raffle
Gammon in the freezer