Christmas food-what are your must-have items?

[AutisticLegoLover]

The dc love After 8 Mints, Pringles and various sweets but there's nothing in particular apart from the Christmas dinner itself and whatever we bake. I'm wondering what to buy to brighten up our very boring diets (sensory issues) so please tell me what your Christmas favourites are. We are veggie but tell me everything as I'll tweak recipes and ideas.

For me Christmas wouldn't be the same without Quality Street but this year is the last time I'll buy them because they've changed the wrappers and the chocolate gets worse each year. They were our family Christmas tradition from when I was tiny so I'm really disappointed.

We always have baked Camembert on Xmas eve with bread/ salad veg and Yule log to follow. Xmas morning is pastries and fruit. We always have beef wellington on either Boxing Day of NY day depending on what we are doing. This year it’s pork wellington as the beef fillet was £70 😱. The rest of Xmas is mostly cheese and biscuits and salad with some party treats. Snowball and baileys to drink (I hardly drink the rest of the year).

I’ve never gone without clotted cream at Christmas ( apart from 1 in Canada and 1 in Australia) it’s a food item that has been in the table all my life.

a mince pie has the lid lifted when warm and a dollop of clotted cream added and the lid propped back on

Christmas pudding is served with clotted cream

Ah see, I came on to say clotted cream, and ivykaty just pipped me to the post. Would you also be from the West Country, by any chance? 🤔

Lidl stollen and self assembly gingerbread house (the latter goes stale before I let the DC eat it, but they eat it anyway).

As a veggie, I ring the changes for the Christmas dinner main item, but it has to contain chestnuts and Stilton.

We make our own Christmas cake, simply so we can decorate it with our Highly Artistic Rewilded Scene, with plastic beavers and bears etc.

I think the only essentials of Christmas dinner for the DC are that there be crackers and that I torch the pudding with brandy 😆

Fish pie on Christmas Eve. Gammon on Boxing Day.

Port 😁

@VinoDino
As seen in a Facebook group , and tried last night
The expensive thin streaky bacon, half a rasher wrapped round a slice of mini babybel
Hot oven for 8 minutes
Delicious
You can make ahead and freeze as well
Bit more oozy cheese than the m and s ones but the crispy oozed cheese was delicious too

Hot chocolate on Christmas Eve with cinema snacks and a Christmas film.
Christmas day has to have Buck’s Fizz in the morning, salmon & cream cheese on melba toast as an appetiser, the main event (turkey dinner) and homemade trifle - the left over trifle is my graze dish for Boxing Day also! Along with maple glaze gammon joint and buffet food.
Christmas day/Boxing Day also has to include cheese, pate, chutney & silverskin onions, and roasted peanuts at some point.

I think I’m finally getting in the Christmas spirit now I’m thinking of all the lovely food!

Fabulous! I'm going to give this a bash.

Not quite the same, but they don’t take long to make, and they are yummy: Cheese and bacon bites
www.deliciousmagazine.co.uk/recipes/cheese-thyme-bacon-rolls/

Pigs-in-blankets
Stuffing
Any tin of chocs which are opened on Christmas Eve when we decorate the tree
Homemade Lebkuchen
Cured ham from Lidl is a new addition
Speculoos biscuits from Lidl
Charcoal crackers

Stand pie (Pork pie) from local farm shop
Cheese & Biscuits & Chutney
Tub of Choccies (usually Quality Streets / Roses)
Prawn Cocktail with wholemeal bread and lashing of proper butter
Baileys
Sweet treats from Betty's tearooms

Pigs in blankets
Treeselets
Yorkshire Pudding

Cranberry and chestnut stuffing
Turkey
Apple sauce
Brandy snaps
Cheese and pickles

Noooo wrap the streaky bacon round prunes & cook - devils on horseback - so good.