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What Christmas food have you already snaffled?

65 replies

NorthernGirlie · 23/12/2023 18:41

I'm hungover, dh has gone out to the pub and I'm snacky

I've already cracked open a block of chive cheese and the Pringles are snuggled on the settee with me. I have my eye on the Christmas Baileys and mine and ds' classy tea of chicken nuggets and pasta was very nearly replaced with pigs in blankets!

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BoobyDazzler · 23/12/2023 19:26

It’s our tradition that we have smoked salmon, spring onion and cream cheese bagels for Christmas Day breakfast and we’ve bought and eaten the ingredients 3x already 🤣

And we’ve run out of baileys

PersephonePomegranate23 · 23/12/2023 19:35

Shortbread, Christmas pudding cookies, M&S truffe crisps and the cheese have all been opened (not just today though). Bailey's and Gordon's plum spice has been open for weeks.

MahShinyShoes · 23/12/2023 19:37

Im confused, surely the opening of the big tin of chocolates & after eights is allowed on 1 Dec?

For seasonal grazing purposes?

Storynanny1 · 23/12/2023 19:44

SnowRoomAtTheInn · 23/12/2023 18:56

DH just opened the port. I’m tee total, so have to console myself with food only <poor me>

Had two mince pies for breakfast and am considering forgoing dinner and starting on the cheese & biscuits instead.

I’m teetotal too and decided I couldn’t be bothered with cooking so I’ve had cracker and cheese for my “ dinner” and quality street and roses for “ pudding” DH has a defrosted chilli from my batch cook last week
Disclaimer - we have no children at home and are OAPs so allowed …

AlltheFs · 23/12/2023 19:49

I haven’t had any yet - I have absolutely no willpower usually but with Xmas food nothing gets touched before Xmas Eve. I seem
to take great pleasure in the self denial. Perverse I know! DH hates it. He’d have eaten it all yesterday given the chance.

MrsDilligaf · 23/12/2023 19:49

DH and I have spent the afternoon working our way through a couple of bottles of mulled wine along with Pate, cheese and bread. Christmas is definitely underway here. Everything (apart from MY Toblerone) is fair game.

Olika · 23/12/2023 20:00

1/3 of our Xmas ham is gone. Was yummy.

ActuallyChristmas · 23/12/2023 20:01

Lebkuchen, stollen bites. I’m not normally into sweet stuff but love these German treats

AllAroundMyCat · 23/12/2023 20:16

Cheese footballs and potato sticks.

Managed to keep my lips away from the Baileys and Amaretto .

AllAroundMyCat · 23/12/2023 20:17

Oh... and no one has cheese footballs left :(

CharmedCult · 23/12/2023 20:19

with Xmas food nothing gets touched before Xmas Eve. I seem
to take great pleasure in the self denial.

I think I’m genuinely affected by my mum being like this during my childhood, lots of lovely food in the house for what felt like ages and woe betide we actually open any of it until she deemed it was officially allowed.

I remember getting a bollocking for opening a box of quality street or roses on what was probably the day before Christmas Eve and it just being thoroughly miserable!

Hence why I’ve gone so far the other way now. None of the food in the house is off limits (apart from the actual turkey).

ohtowinthelottery · 23/12/2023 20:28

We had lunch at the pub today so just had a cheese board this evening. TBH we've got so much food for 3 of us it's probably just as well we've made a start.

AlltheFs · 23/12/2023 20:37

CharmedCult · 23/12/2023 20:19

with Xmas food nothing gets touched before Xmas Eve. I seem
to take great pleasure in the self denial.

I think I’m genuinely affected by my mum being like this during my childhood, lots of lovely food in the house for what felt like ages and woe betide we actually open any of it until she deemed it was officially allowed.

I remember getting a bollocking for opening a box of quality street or roses on what was probably the day before Christmas Eve and it just being thoroughly miserable!

Hence why I’ve gone so far the other way now. None of the food in the house is off limits (apart from the actual turkey).

We don’t have stuff in for ages, we only bought most stuff from Thurs/Fri.

DD is only 4 but gets her own hamper of goodies from a relative overseas so eats from
that as soon as it arrives and it lasts her until at least Feb. She also has an elaborate refillable advent calendar with huge chocolates in so isn’t deprived.

DH can be a nightmare though and would literally eat an entire brie and all the crackers and drink all the wine - he can’t just have a bit of anything, he has to binge it. And we don’t have the budget to endlessly replace.

We do have special seasonal food from Christmas Eve until 12th night though as a rule- so it’s quite a long time. If we started any earlier we’d need more money. We’ve spent £800 so far and I think that’s quite substantial given we are only hosting 1 day and we will need to add to that before New Year.

We decorate the house mid Dec onwards but Christmas doesn’t start for us until tomorrow. We aren’t the sort that put the decorations away on Boxing Day and get back to “normal”

gano · 23/12/2023 20:38

I've been very good. Just half a chocolate orange. Will finish other half tonight.

Blueberrycreampie · 23/12/2023 20:39

Half a bottle of good wine I was saving for Christmas Day and some Roquefort- not sorry!

bevelino · 23/12/2023 20:43

DahliaMacNamara · 23/12/2023 18:47

Not food, but I've had wee slugs of Glayva and Bailey's. Purely for quality control purposes.

😂😂

Storynanny1 · 23/12/2023 20:46

CharmedCult · 23/12/2023 20:19

with Xmas food nothing gets touched before Xmas Eve. I seem
to take great pleasure in the self denial.

I think I’m genuinely affected by my mum being like this during my childhood, lots of lovely food in the house for what felt like ages and woe betide we actually open any of it until she deemed it was officially allowed.

I remember getting a bollocking for opening a box of quality street or roses on what was probably the day before Christmas Eve and it just being thoroughly miserable!

Hence why I’ve gone so far the other way now. None of the food in the house is off limits (apart from the actual turkey).

Same here - nothing was allowed to be opened until mum said so , which was Christmas Day

Whatdidicomeupfor · 23/12/2023 20:49

I'm like that kid that's told you can't touch the sweets then the adult leaves the room and you're straight into the sweets. I have zero self restraint. So I've sample everything and probably gone up a dress size.

Woofygoldberg · 23/12/2023 20:54

We have cracked both the Port and the Baileys, DP has started on the cheese today (he would have gone sooner but hadn't realised it was in our outhouse fridge)

Dad and I caused a row with my Mum as we cracked the Christmas cake yesterday! Apparently she was saving it.

Dad wasn't brave enough on his own & needed a cake wingman!

SocksAndTheCity · 23/12/2023 20:56

I've since opened the Pringles plus some parmesan shortbread and the dates.

I've been up since 4.30 and need to get to bed before the mulled wine is invoked, but I'm now considering putting it in a mug and taking it with me while I watch Die Hard 🤔

DahliaMacNamara · 23/12/2023 22:37

Storynanny1 · 23/12/2023 20:46

Same here - nothing was allowed to be opened until mum said so , which was Christmas Day

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Yup. When I was a kid, even the dog knew you didn't touch Christmas food until you got the official nod from Mum.

Spacie · 23/12/2023 22:39

Well the profiteroles did have a use by date of 24th December so....

Sgtmajormummy · 23/12/2023 22:58

A six pack of mince pies, warmed in the air fryer for a few minutes with ice cream, for dessert over the last week.
Now school is out it’s fair game to eat any of the nuts and snacks.
We opened a pandoro-style Yule log this afternoon and are expecting to finish it at breakfast tomorrow.

Greenshake · 23/12/2023 23:03

Autumn1990 · 23/12/2023 18:46

I opened the quality street yesterday but I’m trying to resist the chocolate log

We have already ploughed through a Sainsbury’s Yule Log and an M&S one too! Sainsbury’s won, it was much nicer and the sponge was perfect 🙂

TotesABoats · 23/12/2023 23:03

I bought the chocolate coins for the DC's stockings early this year, as I had a bit of a panic last year when I couldn't find any in the shops close to Christmas. Congratulated myself for my forward thinking as I put them away in the cupboard three weeks ago.

I think the ones in the cupboard currently are maybe the...5th versions? 6th? It's been a real win for Big Coin.