Treat bits - when do you put yours ‘out’?

[BarnabyJude]

My late teen kids joke that the Christmas stash (as they refer to it) is out of bounds til a certain date (usually 23rd ish Dec). I’m just curious as to when you have your treaty bits out for general consumption?

We have something every weekend of December - mince pies, lebkuchen, stollen, nuts, weird 'festive' flavoured crisps I've randomly picked up, mini ginergerbread men with coffee/hot chocolate (not all in one go or one weekend 😂) other things are kept until the week of Christmas.

Bought loads of chocolate and quality streets during a recent European trip, goodies that we cannot get here where I live. so, have been putting out a bit and the remainder is firmly stashed away for the Christmas period, so starting around 16th here due to end of school.

Christmas Eve!

Ours are usually gone by Christmas day, there's so much other food I don't think it matters and people get chocolate etc in stockings, I start getting the odd thing with the shopping in December and it's available from when it's bought. I don't buy masses though

We don’t really have a Xmas stash. We would but mince pies throughout December. I don’t buy biscuits or chocolates but we are sometimes gifted them so they would be available then. I do buy a cheese selection and cheese biscuits which we would eat from about Xmas Eve onwards. I buy party food for Xmas Eve - like bhajis, samosas, spring rolls etc which we eat in the evening. But that’s our “meal”.

When the Christmas tree goes up in November, Just top up when needed. I see It more as a Christmas season, then a few days .

Christmas begins at 3pm on Christmas Eve with Carols from King's. For teenagers, a day earlier is fine.

I dont have things like this in the house. A big xmas lunch is quite enough.
Its taken me a year to go from obese to normal after a lifetime of being fat so I just dont think weeks of eating is very healthy.
Killjoy? Maybe.

I like to have a mincepie on 1st December as a nod to the season. Sweets aren't out till we have visitors (MIL had lovely little lidded ceramic containers dotted about the house that had sweets in them, a very civilised habit I think). And TBH I'm eating all the nice treat foods well into January.

The elves will bring ours on the 1st December along with all the decorations! They will then top them up throughout December and also bring different things. Chief elf (me) imhas already done through a bottle of baileys and port lol

I don't really buy anything in particular, other than some After Eights. I used to always get the tubs of twiglets, but they've changed the recipe and they are all wrong now. The after eights get opened on Christmas Day.

We have two pre teen DC who would demolish most things in seconds so things don't get put "out" at all.
We would usually get a box of Clementines a few days before Christmas and leave that out.
Crisps if we got them, would get out a sharing packet if we're watching a film with the DCs.
Their selection boxes they can have as pudding.
Fancy chocs not till they have gone to bed!
Some things are DC proof but stay in fridge or cupboard - blue cheese, dates, twiglets.

We have a pretty glass jar which gets filled with Lindor on the first, and everyone's allowed one a day. Though we start on the other stuff around then too. DH is a massively over-enthusiastic treat buyer and it's hard to keep up with him. I'm going to introduce him to the Shrine of Gluttony idea, he'd love it. He has a Curd Cupboard at the moment
We might have to have a Shrine to Gluttony photo thread as companion to the ever-controversial Christmas Fridge thread.

There's always loads of other choc and desserts around on Christmas eve/day so ours will go out well before then. They'll probably be finished well before then as well!

I can get on board with this.

We have a bowl of chocolates always out, all year round. Just add a couple of extra bowls with nuts and extra special treats around the 1 December.

We have had Mince pies at weekends for a cpl of weeks. I'll buy some stollen once in December and probably some cake. The chocolates come out about the 23rd.

We don't go mad on the festive days as there's only so mu h you can fit in.

1 December and it is regularly replenished from that point onwards. Growing up we were not even allowed to touch the chocolates on the Xmas tree till 23rd and even then we would get told no we couldn’t have them and I’d get in loads of trouble sneaking down in the night to eat them . I don’t want my dc to feel like that

Christmas Eve after lunch as DP finishes work at 12.00 noon on Christmas Eve and then it's officially the holidays when everyone is off - any earlier and DP would eat it all!

Biscuits, Lebkuchen, stollen and mince pies come out first Advent (unless I am in the need of cheering up, then they may come out earlier).

Chocolates - we don't buy the Quality Street or Celebration/Heros tins, so it's more the tree chocolate, Lindt santa or teddies and they come on the 6th December when it's St. Nikolaus and he fills DD's boot and leaves some things for the parents. No restocking until Christmas Eve though.

Nuts - depends on DH, but normally around the 20th when he stops working.

Savoury food is bought just before Christmas and then eaten from Christmas Eve onwards. I don't have a fridge big enough to keep tons of cheese and cured meats for weeks.

"He has a curd cupboard at the moment."

He has a what now?

I make up a hamper with chocolate, sweets, nuts, olives, lebkuchen, stollen etc. When I finish work for Christmas I clear my desk in the living room, decorate it and put the hamper out at some point thereafter. This year I finish on the 13th and I'm going to try and keep the food under wraps until the 20th when DH and DS finish work and school, but I'm usually persuaded to get it out earlier...

It's a shrine to gluttony for sure, but how joyless would someone have to be to judge people for having a few treats at Christmas!

Chocs and sweets out - Christmas day
Stollen, mince pies - already started on them

Sorry, that was meant for @UtterlyUnimaginativeUsername ... unless anyone else's DH has a curd cupboard...

Mince pies from now (because they're just 'cakes' really 🤷‍♀️).

Anything else is fair game from around 20th this year, when we've all finished work/school (family of teachers 😫) Thjs is also when the tree will go up 🤦‍♀️