No alcohol, no chocolate - and I don't like mince pies much

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My daughter, who's hosting Christmas for the family this year, has just asked me what I'd like to have as treats and snacks whilst over at hers for a few days over Christmas.

Menopause has made me intolerant to alcohol and chocolate, and I'm not a huge fan of pastry, so the mince pie variations aren't goers either. What alternatives, that aren't plain fruit, can I suggest she has in for me?

I suppose there's cheese, but I want to have some sweet stuff!

Stollen
Panettone
Ecclefechan tarts (sainsburys do them, a bit like mince pies but more buttery)

No mince pies.

Smoked almonds
Cheese sables
Florentines
Seedlip non alcoholic spirit with a range of fever tree tonics

Panettone
Stollen
Shortbread
Cheese Straws
Cheese Footballs
Pringles

Dates? Fresh medjool?

It says in the thread title she doesn't like mince pies.

It says in the OP she doesn't like mince pies.

First response - mince pies?

Classic.

Trifle
sugared almonds
posh houmous
turkish delight
Brie
little pies with apple

Ginger cake, gingerbread

Florentines
Shortbread
Stollen
Panettone/panforte
Cranberry & orange cookies
Biscotti
Mixed nuts

Crystallised ginger - the taste of Christmas!

Newbury Fruits, marzipan anything, stollen (see marzipan anything).

Nuts in their shells and Good tangerines for munching whilst watching Dr Zhivago on a wet afternoon.

Fancy cordial? Maybe green bottle? Or branded fuzzy pop?
salty nuts or crisps
real butter
crusty bread

you can get frozen danish pastries and Portuguese custard tarts at Tesco serve with fresh fruit like persimmons, grapes and strawberries dipped in a little chocolate Fresh coffee or elderflower syrup with sparking water with a sprig of fresh mint

Mmmmmmm

https://www.lakeland.co.uk/42678/pruneaux-dagen-fourres-prunes-with-cream-450g

Macarons. Yum.

Panettone - or you can get the lebkuchen without chocolate. You can get mini Christmas cake slices or some nice plain biscuits?

Baklava
Florentines
Fudge

Christmas cake and cheese 😋

Spiced mini lebkuchen
Mini stollen
Turkish delight
a wedge of soft nutty nougat
Panettone
amaretti biscuits - soft or crunchy
cantucci biscuits for dipping in fresh coffee
walnuts in shells
clementines (I always ask DH to buy a box for the family and a box for me I eat my body weight in clementines at Christmas.)

Cheese board!

Could you make some mulled apple juice instead of cider? The little sachets you can buy are fab

All the biscuits!
Clotted cream fudge
Pandoro
Panettone
Turron
Medjol dates
Marron glaces

Shortbread
Nuts
Twiglets
Cheddars

nuts are a christmas classic... maybe yogurt coated or honey roasted if you dont like chocolate. Yogurt coated fruit is also a similar option.

Pringles? my kids love pringles at xmas

Biscuits... whatever your favorite is... Gingerbread, Shortbread, Jammy Dodger, Custard Cream etc...

Some fabulous ideas here, thank you everyone. I'm not huge on jelly-type stuff, but the German aisle in Lidl for biscuits and cakes from overseas is an excellent call. I live in the middle of nowhere, so browsing supermarkets isn't really a thing for me, so just being reminded of stuff that exists out there is terrific!