What are your must have Christmas food treats?

[Pinkkisugarmouse]

For DH it’s a really strong cheddar. Far stronger than supermarkets seem to sell.
We each get a box of Hotel Chocolat which we start on Christmas Eve and mine last a few weeks. I will get an alcohol free Rum. Used to have real rum at Christmas but developed a sudden allergy. I may think of others but those are the ones that immediately come to mind.

@Pinkkisugarmouse

im sorry? That's awful. It's a scary reaction to whatever you're allergic to!

Being allergic to alcohol is crap!

Toffifee
Bendinck’s after dinner mints
Turkish delight
Shortbread
Orange mint stix
Liqueur chocolates
Ferrero Rocher

@RabbitsRock what are woodland choclate

Lebkuchen
After 8 mints
Apricot cheese
Loads chutneys
Matchmakers orange and mint

A box of special choclate, forever aiming for palm oil free never quite getting there or getting that Olde proper chocolate vibe.

A large pie ham and chicken cold with pickle.

Smoked salmon

Cheese, chutney and crumpets 👌

A big tub of Twiglets (largely for a visiting dd)
Mulled wine, preferably home made, but I don’t turn my nose up at M&S’s.
Loads of mince pies, which I start making on 1st December. Followed by several more batches, since dh inhales them..
Brandy butter for the pud.
Plenty of chocolates, not fussed about brands, for after 🎄dinner and into the New Year.

Lots of proper fresh orange juice for Buck’s Fizz on 🎄Day, plus plenty of fizz, of course.
Smoked salmon, cream cheese and bagels for 🎄Day breakfast.

I usually have one mince pie a year early December to start off Christmas festivities. I love the days out like pantomime, school carol concerts etc and just seeing everyone's lights up more than Christmas itself. Love a cold frosty evening walk around.

We quite often also have a baked camembert some evening near Christmas and I only ever eat turkish delight or maltesers from a box at Christmas too even though you can get those things all year.

Fortnum & Mason Merrilossus biscuits - absolutely amazing and very £££ but I am addicted since getting them in a small thank you hamper from a client one year. I buy enough so I can have one a day from when I clock off from work in December to when I re-start in January - and I make sure I eat each one quietly before the teens get up.

Delia Smith Christmas chutney made in August and matured to December 😋

Pigs in blankets
Stuffing balls
Smoked back bacon in morning rolls.

That’s it really. We live in France so have excellent cheese, chocolate and wine throughout the year anyway. But the above are only available at my mums in Scotland, so they are the big treat. We’re going back this year and I can’t wait!

Lübecker chocolate-coated marzipan from Lidl
Stollen from Lidl
Home made Dundee cake
Yule log
White chocolate lindor
A big bag of dry roasted peanuts
Mince pies, I usually look at the taste tests each year and buy one of the better supermarket ones

Same.
Especially the Florentines 😋

Chocolate covered biscuits (M & S) and also shortbread.
Packs of sugared orange and lemon slices.
After eight mints.
Cashew nuts, dry roasted nuts, salted peanuts, pistachios.
A block of mature cheddar cheese.
Iced Christmas cake
Mince pies
Cream crackers
Mini stollen bites.
Satsumas
Trifle
Baked cheese bites (to cook in the oven) and also mini pizza slices.
Veggie sausage rolls and Quorn cocktail sausages.
Cheese savouries.
Quality Street
Celebrations.
Breadsticks
Cadburys Chocolate Log.

Homemade tiffin with cherries & glaze ginger
homemade gingerbread
homemade cream horns
homemade chocolate truffles
m&s 'party food' for Christmas Eve
Veggie full-English for Boxing Day lunch
Fortnum'a chocolossus biscuits

My Mum always made the cream horns for Christmas Day 'tea' and it's a tradition I've continued. My husband and I made truffles our first Christmas together, and we now make them as a family on Christmas Eve. The tiffin is something I've made with my kids as a 'gifts for DH since they were tiny (and he generously shares).

Cheese
Stollen
Cheese
Panettone
Cheese
Cheese
Cheese

ALL the cheese. It’s an annual Christmas outing for us to go to the cheese pantry 😂. We don’t like sweet things so splash out on a massive cheeseboard.

Big tub (or 2) of Quality St.
The quality or Roses and After8s isn't the same anymore.
Lots of different cheeses ordered from The Cheese Shop.
Walnuts and Hazelnuts in their shells
Salted peanuts
Salted mixed nuts.
Pate
Pickled onions
Turkish delight which I decant into a 'turkish' style tin
M&S shortbread
M&S chocolate biscuits
Biscuits for cheese
Brandy cream
Large dipped flakes for the stockings from the chocolate shop in Ambleside
DH thinks I should get a box of Ferrero Roches he says he's not keen on them but it wouldn't be Christmas without them.

Is that the one with chocolate in ?

Opie's Pickled Walnuts (in port if I can find them this year, otherwise the standard ones)
Cocktail gherkins
Cocktail onions
Jalapeno stuffed olives
Smoked salmon
Advocaat for snowballs
Limes for snowballs
Mini sausage rolls
Cocktail sausages
Cheese footballs
Salted cashews
Epoisses
Stilton
Wensleydale (for DH)
Stinking Bishop (for me)
Home-made gingerbread men
Dry sherry
The ingredients for Bloody Marys
Rose and violet cremes
Christmas Eve - kedgeree with really good smoked haddock
The Christmas Dinner - this year it's a posh chicken 'cos there's only two of us, but must have stuffing, roast potatoes, sprouts, carrots, broccoli, pigs in blankets, and a slice of ham, with bread sauce and cranberry sauce, and - of course - gravy.
St Stephen's/Boxing Day - green salad, cold turkey, stuffing, cold ham, hot mashed potato, pickled walnuts (see above!), Branston

Cheese
Chutneys
Trifle
Baileys
Smoke salmon Blini (Xmas day breakfast)
Mince pies with brandy butter
Prawn cocktail
Quality streets
Turkey
Bread sauce
Goose fat roast potatoes

Strong cheddar cheese - Looking for your recommendations for the strongest cheddar cheese you can buy. I like Black Bomber or Rockstar but would be intrigued if anyone has any recommendations for the really strong stuff you can't buy on the high street.

Lots of cheese, especially Brie to go in Christmas sandwiches
Homemade sweet chilli and cheese sausage rolls
Prawn cocktail
Ferrero Rocher
Rafello
Homemade Christmas dinner pizzas
Cheese and chive dip
M&S florentines
M&S shortbread
Mince pies
Baileys hot chocolate
Stuffing

I've already tarted in my Xmas cupboard.

I love cinnamon biscuits
Spiced shortbread
Lots of cheese and the cheese bakes from Aldi with crackers and chutney/chilli jam
Smoked salmon
Lots of pate
Parma ham
Caramel baileys

Any suggestions for buying cheese online? Love some good cheese at Christmas but where we are there isn't really many places that have a good variety beyond what you would usually find in the supermarket.

Bread sauce and stuffing! Also Xmas themed alcohol like mulled wine or Bailey’s. I’ve never been very into Xmas snacks as I don’t like aniseed or ginger and I’m generally not a dessert person. Wow, what fun I am!