What's on your Christmas food shopping list?

[FelicityGraceSpoon]

I don't think we go too bonkers really .. but here's what I buy to cover Christmas Day and Boxing Day with snacks! There's 4 of us.

Beef
Chicken
Vegetarian main
Lobster tails/ prawns
Cornish cruncher bakes
Tin of crackers
Packets of Cornish cruncher crackers
Tubs of nuts
Beef, chicken and vegetarian gravys
Tin of Chocolate biscuits
Large Box of chocolates
Mint Lindt balls
Tin of shortbread
Desserts
Brie, cheddar and Wensleydale
Pigs in blankets
Veg
Bags of crisps
Fizzy drinks
Bottle of baileys
Danish pastries
Baileys
Mini tins of cocktails

Tin of quality street
Clementines
Redcurrant jelly

How about you?

Mmm, it varies slightly every year, but there's only me to buy for this year so here's what I'm thinking:

Advocaat
Cava
Red wine (for homemade mulled wine)
Fancy chocolates (charbonnel & walker)
Pigs in blankets
Ham in cola
Mash
Brussel sprouts (might try a Nigel Slater chestnut recipe or similar)
Trifle (homemade)
Got the apricot brandy liqueurs maturing in a dark cupboard
Smoked salmon
Wensleydale and cranberry

Hmmm, am such a glutton now I've listed all this 😂

@FelicityGraceSpoon If you have a nectar card, Sainsbury’s are currently selling 1l bottles of Baileys for £10. I’ve cracked mine open early!

7 of us for 4 days

Turkey, potatoes, parsnips, sprouts, carrots, pigs, bread sauce
Sausages and puff pastry to make sausage rolls
Seafood platter
Beef in red wine ingredients, beans, broccoli, potatoes
Ham, cauli cheese, mash
Focaccia and ready to bake bread
Crackers and selection of cheeses, grapes
Pastry, cream, eggs to make leftovers quiche
Salad, coleslaw, pineapple, melon
Quality Street tin
Crisps and crudités plus dips eg hummus etc
Smoked salmon, blinis, crab
Puff pastry to make leftover coronation turkey pie, more salad
Panettone, Yule log, stollen, mince pies (will make mince pies)

Smoked salmon, scrambled eggs, chocolate croissants
Roast duck, roast potatoes, sprouts, red cabbage, parsnips, pigs in blankets, Redcurrent jelly
Mince pies and ginger ice cream

Home cooked ham, pickles, salad, bread,
Assorted cheeses & crackers
Homemade chocolate log
Thornton's Continentals
Home made marzipan fruits
Big box of assorted veg & salad
Big box of assorted fruit
Blanc de Limoux
Amaretto
Hot chocolate, marshmallows (for ds), single cream

Already got.
Christmas cake ingredients
Mince pies ingredients
Chocolate advent calendars and Selection boxes
Tub of Heroes and Celebrations
Posh jam
Croissants (in freezer)
Pain au Chocolate (in freezer)
Champagne
Baileys (Two bottles reduced at Sainsbury’s with Nectar)
Beers
Cranberry sauce
Cinnamon sticks (to go in apple juice when I cook the ham)
Woodland strudel and custard

On order.
Turkey and Ham

Still to get.
Apple juice (to cook Ham in)
Lots of bread rolls
Sausage rolls, quiche, pizza and dough balls
Salad and coleslaw
Cream and ice cream (vanilla)
Wine - red and white
Orange juice
Fruit (especially clementines or satsumas)
Pigs in blankets and stuffing
Goose fat
Veg - potatoes, parsnips, carrots, broccoli, cauliflower cheese, herbs, gravy
Yule log ingredients (although might buy one)
Cheeses (probably Sainsbury’s Camembert with caramelised onion, applewood cheese, and Wensleydale with cranberry)
French bread and crackers
Ingredients for a cooked breakfast (mainly eggs and bacon)
Steak pie, chips and peas

And I think that is it!

Already got
Party food in freezer for Christmas Day. We have an open house at night.

On order
Beef Wellington
Christmas Colin
Lobster starter
Steak pie for NYD

Still to get
Veg
Drinks, soft and alcohol
Fruit, particularly Marks and Spencer easy peelers in a box
Fry up stuff
Pigs n blankets
Tea, coffee, hot chocolate
Ice cream and Cream
Cheese and biscuits and chutney
The usual of bread, milk etc
Some ready meals for the freezer as I try not cook in the days in between.
Crisps and dips
There will be more but I need to make a list.

Christmas Eve necessities here include:
Garners red cabbage and pickled onions
Veggie sausage rolls
All the cheese
mince pies
meringues or brandy snaps with cream

We're having Christmas lunch with my parents this year. From 23rd through to new year we're having:

Lobster tails with salad and French fries
Jerk ham with pineapple, egg and chips
Chateaubriand with roast pots and green beans
Chicken fajitas
Sausage roll wreath
Loads of cheese, chutneys, grapes, crackers
Cured meat platter with olives and crisp breads
Stuffing balls
Pigs in blankets
Lots of buffets including leftovers of all of the above, Boxing Day sandwich
Peanuts, chocolates, biscuits inc gingerbread and Waitrose cookies, popcorn

Breakfasts - fry up, sourdough with marmalade, French toast with blueberries and yoghurt, pastries, fruit salad

Booze - champagne, mulled wine, red and white wine, Baileys (already open), port, gin, sloe gin (already open) nice selection of tonics.

Fizzy drinks like Coke Zero and 7up.

We cheat and do an M&S Christmas dinner which is already ordered and we go out for tea on Christmas Eve. But I want a really nice Panetone this year, maybe with chocolate chips if anyone can recommend one?
I like to do dessert on Christmas day and everyone likes something slightly different so I'm going to do a Fererro Rocher cheesecake and Panecotta with raspberry coulis 😋
I want a side of salmon for boxing day, a lighter meal after all the heavy food on Christmas day.

Baileys
Lebkuchen
Gammon
Special box of chocs
Some salmon
Asparagus
Make sausage rolls

6 of us (but 2 are very little!), and this is for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day - we have our ham on Christmas Eve with baked potatoes and coleslaw, then pastries for breakfast and then Christmas dinner:

Turkey crown
Gammon joint
Stuffing
Cauliflower
Red cabbage
Brussels
Carrots
Parsnips
Potatoes
Sausages
Bacon
Milk
Bread
Eggs
Orange juice
Champagne
Red and white wine
Beers
Fruit shoots
Lemonade
Chocolate dessert
Cheesecake
Coleslaw
Pastries

Then off to family for a couple of days on Boxing Day. We come back and the following is on the menu for the remainder (CBA to list out the ingredients):

Normal breakfasts or bacon/sausage sarnies at a push
Butter chicken, dal, naan, rice and broccoli
Part baked rolls and homemade soup (we have this nearly every day over Christmas, with leftover ham/cheese etc, it's a great way to get veg in)
Lasagne and salad
Cheeseboard and crackers (in place of dinner one night)
Party food buffet for NYE
Roast dinner for NYD

Forgot turkey and ham pie.