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Have you finally eaten all of your Christmas food?

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7Worfs · 02/01/2023 11:10

This year I’m patting myself on the back - almost all Christmas food has been eaten and it’s the last day of the holidays.

Leftovers as of today:
A sliver of Red Leicester
A big chunk of Gouda
An unopened Brie
A box of crackers
A few Bendicks bitter mints

It will all be eaten in the next 1-2 days, except the Gouda no one wants - I’ll chop it and put it out for the blackbirds.

I’m counting this as zero waste 😊

What helped massively was hosting a little neighbours’ get together on the 28th (hot drinks and all uneaten sweet stuff laid out) - worked like a charm.

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Cruiseyoulose · 02/01/2023 14:51

Oh forgot the candy canes that never get eaten , And the freezer party food that I completely forgot about. Back on slimming world so want everything gone!

ChocBanana · 02/01/2023 14:52

We bought minimal Christmas food for us because we were going to various relatives for most of it, so we took what we did buy with us to share - then husband has been taking their leftovers to work for a week.
Three of them made us up hampers of various Christmas treats. So we kind of ended up breaking even.…

Heartstopper · 02/01/2023 14:55

If my Christmas cake doesn't see me at least halfway through January, I feel haven't made a big enough one. There is currently about half of my 9 inch cake left. Also, some chocs, twiglets and I've just remembered a bag of caramelised nuts I had forgotten about.

TheChosenTwo · 02/01/2023 14:56

Quite a bit still left over but it will get eaten, lots of cheese, crackers, chocolates (given as gifts, not things I’ve bought), crisps, pastry which I’ve put in the freezer now, some beef which was frozen to make a curry with… but we went on holiday just after Boxing Day until today, we took a load of stuff with us too to share with everyone else and we do the same every year, our Christmas food isn’t just for Christmas Day really.
Can’t think of anything that has been thrown out.

Hobbesmanc · 02/01/2023 14:58

We always launch a miserable joyous January diet. We both need to as feeling sluggish and grumpy today.

We seem to have a lot of snacky stuff left. Peanuts, crisps etc although I didn't think I'd over shopped. Maybe we just ate less. And lots of crackers. The cheese will keep for soups etc.

I'll be binning surplus cream, stale mince pies etc. But I've already made and frozen batch soups. Parsnip and roast carrot tasted lush. Less keen on the sprout one lol.

There's lots of booze which we need to resist for the month. Especially flavoured gins which we really struggle to use

TheChosenTwo · 02/01/2023 14:59

Oh, and loads of booze and soft drinks but again, those things don’t expire and will be used up at some point. We do host quite a bit, the 23rd for about 25 and then Christmas Day for 15-20, always better to stock up and have plenty than to run out of things.

NeedWineNow · 02/01/2023 15:23

Not a huge amount - mostly crisps and some chocolates left. We finished the yule log on NYE but I've said I'm not buying one next Christmas as it was quite sickly. DH has a couple of boxes of marzipan fruits and some Turkish Delight which he loves but thankfully I don't. We've got an unopened box of biscuits which goes through until June and we've got some cheese and crackers but they'll get eaten up eventually. I'll use the two unopened pots of Elmleigh cream for sauces but as they go through until April there's no rush.

Leftover turkey has been chopped up and is in freezer ready for a pie or curry. I've got a gammon that I didn't cook, but that goes through until mid-Jan.

I actually had to go to Aldi this morning as we were out of fresh veg, milk etc but am glad I hadn't gone overboard with the Christmas food as usual.

Horizons83 · 02/01/2023 15:34

Haven't started on the pot of Stilton yet.

And after spending all of December talking about it I finally got around to making egg nog yesterday... husband tried it this morning and declared it 'not to his taste' (not my cooking, just the general idea of it!) so I now have 1.5 litres of egg nog to get through on my own...

Greensleevevssnotnose · 02/01/2023 15:39

7Worfs · 02/01/2023 11:10

This year I’m patting myself on the back - almost all Christmas food has been eaten and it’s the last day of the holidays.

Leftovers as of today:
A sliver of Red Leicester
A big chunk of Gouda
An unopened Brie
A box of crackers
A few Bendicks bitter mints

It will all be eaten in the next 1-2 days, except the Gouda no one wants - I’ll chop it and put it out for the blackbirds.

I’m counting this as zero waste 😊

What helped massively was hosting a little neighbours’ get together on the 28th (hot drinks and all uneaten sweet stuff laid out) - worked like a charm.

No. I wanted to donate it to the food bank but it's virtually impossible round here. No fresh food so that rules out cheese and cream vegetables etc. Nothing with a short use by date so that's chocolates and mincepies desserts etc. I thought you could leave it at the supermarket but that's only for stuff you buy on the day and the food bank is open for 2 hours on a Wednesday afternoon. There is also a huge list of things they have enough of tea, coffee. Pasta rice etc. I had people before Christmas telling me to donate the excess to a food bank, I tried but they didn't want it.

PrincessOfWaiIs · 02/01/2023 15:41

Nope! It's Christmas here until Sunday, when the decorations come down. So there's still plenty of cheese, a whole Christmas cake (our second), a few vegan roasts in the freezer, pigs in blankets, desserts... That said today is what we think of as New Year Boxing Day when (like actual boxing day) I don't cook a thing (we had a big Christmas dinner type meal yesterday). We're having a takeaway later, curry, and I can't wait.

We'll have festive meals every evening until Saturday when we have our Twelfth Party to see the season off - it's not as grand as it sounds but we do have a final roast dinner with champagne and crackers. All the Christmas food will be gone by Sunday, ready for DH and DD to go back to work and everything to go back to normal. Sadly :(

PrincessOfWaiIs · 02/01/2023 15:43

That said we usually have a few unopened, longer dated bits and bobs left over after Christmas - chutneys, chocolates, biscuits etc - and they go on what was the Christmas shelf from September to now, and becomes the Easter shelf.

Candymay · 02/01/2023 15:45

I’m just about to put the second turkey in the oven

Mouldyfoodhelp · 02/01/2023 15:46

We still have some, nowhere near as much as normal though could get it gone in a few days where as before we've had frap food going into February

Fladdermus · 02/01/2023 15:50

I reckon we'll still be eating this year's Christmas food next Christmas. I blame lack of planned for visitors due to illness and nothing to do with me going completely OTT.

downnew · 02/01/2023 15:51

Nope. I've been trying my best to get rid of it all!

Aside from things we will use anyway like part bakes bread rolls or crackers.... there's also a few chocolate biscuits, an almost full tub of sweets, half a tin of quality street, some nets of chocolate coins and chocolate balls, two packs of matchmakers....

ImBlueDab · 02/01/2023 15:51

Mountains of cheese is left over

boatyardblues · 02/01/2023 15:54

We’ve eaten all of our Christmas food except for 2 packs of Lidl stollen bites, open brandy butter, open brandy cream and savoury crackers. The stollen bites have late Feb eat by dates, so will get eaten. The crackers are long dated so will get eaten up over the next couple of months. I will be making a bread and butter pudding this evening to use up the brandy butter and cream, which will also include the last cm of mincemeat from the bottom of an open jar. I judged quantities much better this year.

MummyInTheNecropolis · 02/01/2023 15:55

I ate the last of the cheese and crackers last night so nothing at all left now, except the crunchies from the selection boxes which nobody likes. I didn’t buy a huge amount to start with as it’s just me and DD at home and we spent Christmas Day elsewhere.

WinterFoxes · 02/01/2023 16:04

No! Though I have tried and tried 😊

We still have Stilton, Brie, crackers, loads of mince pies, a Christmas cake, half a box of chocolates, Turkish delight, nuts, olives.

jackstini · 02/01/2023 16:08

Willmafrockfit · 02/01/2023 12:22

i threw away the cooked pigs in blankets and half the vegetarian wreath, left over potatoes and parsnips, a couple of days ago

That would have made lovely soup!

BellePeppa · 02/01/2023 16:09

Still got mince pies and an unopened box of crackers for cheese. There’s a couple of ‘party’ food boxes still in the freezer but no one really wants them. I may have them as snacks over the next few weeks rather than waste them. Food wastage has been very low this year and I want it even lower next Christmas.

ZooMount · 02/01/2023 16:19

I don't understand the concept of having chocolate left. Doesn't last 5 mins in this house.

Willmafrockfit · 02/01/2023 16:21

jackstini · 02/01/2023 16:08

That would have made lovely soup!

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AuntieMarys · 02/01/2023 16:24

Only thing left is chocolate and biscuits. Dh is taking a box each day to work...should be gone by Friday.
We ate all the cheese (16 pieces of it) by 28th.

Mogloveseggs · 02/01/2023 16:29

Lots of cheese left which I will take for dinners with the crackers.
lots of chocolate mostly dh's so that will get eaten at some point. There's another gammon which I'll cook tomorrow and the new years steak pie which we dumped in favour of a takeaway.
Only thrown a bit of gammon, some roasties and some mash. Oh and some mini brownie things which were not nice at all.