What are your must have Christmas food treats?

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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.

Do you have any farm shops nearby ,or could have a little drive out to? I find these have some great cheeses 🧀 amongst other little treats that I end up spending a fortune on!

Just ordered a big chocolate order from Beech's. I have ordered coffee creams, dark chocolate Brazil nuts, rose creams, violet creams and strawberry creams.

I always have brandy snaps with squirty cream.

Nice cheese and crackers and fruit to go with it.

Posh soft drinks.

Lovely mixed nuts in various flavours.

Posh crisps.

A mountain of pigs in blankets.

Pastries for breakfast.

Food I only buy around Christmas is:

Crispy chilli coated peanuts (the Costco ones are insanely good.)

Tubs of Celebrations (it used to be Roses or Quality Street but they both taste awful to me now.)

Baileys

Frangelico (for mixing with Baileys and for drizzling into glasses of fizz)

Cremant (better value than Champagne IMO and an upgrade from prosecco)

All the cheese, crackers and chutney for cheeseboards and general snacking. I don't do a cheeseboard at home at any other time of year because I can't trust myself not to eat it all 🤣

Scallops. Our traditional NYE dinner.

Beef dripping for roast potatoes and roast carrots and parsnips. I use oil the rest of the year.

Cheeses: strong chedder, Brie, Boursin, chilli cheese/cranberry, crackers, proper butter, grapes
M&S Yule log
Shortbread, mince pies
Chocolate orange, toblerone, celebrations, heroes, Ferrero Roche
Pate on fresh white bread
Baileys thick cream, honeycomb ice cream
Panettone
Pigs in blankets
Buck's Fizz
M&S party food over new year
Croissants and orange juice for breakfast

God I love Christmas

Shortbread
Stollen
A selection of cheeses from our local deli

Cumberland sauce.

Traditional Christmas dinner with all the trimmings, including bread sauce and stuffing
Champagne
Florentines
Stollen
Mince pies
Plenty of nice cheese
Homemade glazed ham

Camembert to bake

Panettone, it just wouldn’t be Christmas morning without a big wedge of it!

M&S yule log

@Livinginacatdictatorship I can definitely recommend The Cheese Society if you want to order cheese online. They are a deli in Lincoln but deliver all over (I'm in Berkshire!) It comes very well packaged, I order a selection every year before Christmas as a treat.

@GameOfJones thanks for the suggestion, I will go and peruse their site 😀

Newberry fruit jellies (with the liquid centre)
Box of Quality Street
Stones Green Ginger wine
Bottle of the King's Ginger
Christmas tea from Bettys and decent ground coffee
Nut selection and some whole walnuts
Marshmallows from F&M
Advocaat
Babycham

Roast reindeer.

@Inextremis what's a posh chicken please

Smoked salmon & scrambled eggs for breakfast on Christmas morning with a glass of fizz

This year we are having venison in red wine, with all the veggies on Christmas day.

Ham & pickles,
Homemade foccacia
Cheeses & crackers
Dates
Marzipan fruits
Home made cheese straws
Chocolate Brazils
A bottle of Amaretto
Last year's blackberry & apple gin that's been brewing for 15 months

Homemade Christmas cake and Christmas pudding each year.

Homemade sausage and stuffing rolls. I make double the amount of pork, sage and onion stuffing for Christmas Day and then use half as the filling for sausage rolls.

Always smoked salmon and cream cheese bagels on Christmas morning with a glass of Bucks Fizz.

Always a fry up on Boxing Day morning and again on New Years Day. It's the only two times a year I make a full English breakfast at home.

I can't wait!

Marks and Spencers BBQ Pork Squares. Thank god you can't get them all year round.
M&S Honey Roast Cashews
All the cheese.
Ready mixed Warninks Snowball in a tin. Game changer.

Ferrero Rocher
After Eight Mint sticks
Chocolate orange
Coole Swan
Pigs in blankets
Tyrells crisps
Salted Peanuts

Kitkat Selection Boxes
Chocolate Reindeers
Mince Pies
Chocolate Coins
Lemon Loaf Cake

Baileys

Mini Chicken Kievs

Sprouts
Pork Stuffing wrapped in Bacon
Pigs in Blankets

Ready made Toad in the Hole

Roast Parsnips

Mum used to make pickled onions in a jar and Christmas pudding with a silver sixpence in it! I was always desperate to get the bowl of pudding with the sixpence in! It made me feel so lucky!

Bendicks Bittermints
Vignotte
Really good dessert wine with the Christmas pud
Good pannetonne with good unsalted butter for breakfast
Port
Rib of beef, cooked very pink.
Bubble and squeak with all the leftovers, with pickled cabbage and brown sauce

Lots of cheese and booze.

Really good cheese...my search continues for the strongest Cheddar I can find
Nice decaf coffee ( I switched to decaf this year for health reasons )
Homemade cheesecake and mince pies ( I always make my own and mix in mandarins and apples in to the mincemeat )
Gammon in cola or apple juice then glazed and cooked in the oven / air fryer
Elizabeth Shaw chocolate mints / after eights or Bendicks
M&S best ever trifle.

Homemade bread sauce and gravy

Oddly this year I am looking at making an alternative Christmas Cake...its on the Cupcake Jemma youtube channel...with alternating malt and chocolate sponge with fruit goo.