Favourite Christmas picky bits and nibbles

[Artymummy10]

I love hearing about what people eat at Christmas time and I’m trying to plan some picky bits and nibbles for over Christmas time. What are some of your favourites?

DH is very pleased with himself he went shopping at Lidl and brought back a garlic dough ball Xmas tree. I'm doing a big Xmas buffet on December 6th when all my 3 adult DC and my foster son and DGC will be there. I make mini toad in the hole, chicken dippers, southern fried chicken strips, pigs in blankets, I buy a nice quiche Lorraine, hummus and carrot and cucumber sticks, grapes, satsumas, mini cheddars, treeselets, chocolate fingers, mini hot sausages rolls, cheese straws I make and little ham sandwich with the crust cut off. I'm having some specially made poisentia cakes in a bouquet made. I'm collecting them on Thursday.

@caringcarer Ooh that all sounds lovely!!

Vol au vents. Baked Camembert. Mini puff pastry pies. Tempura prawns.

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/baked-camembert-dough-ball-platter

This is, now traditional, part of Christmas Eve easy evening dinner

Along with pigs in blankets
"homemade" sausage rolls, think sausage meat and ready made puff pastry H and teens make these (I don't eat meat and whilst I will put a piece in the oven I don't like "touching" raw gooey horrid sticky lumps of the stuff)

Boxing Day
Left over roast meats
pickled onions
bowl of hard boiled eggs
crunchy dipping vegetable stick things
houmous
crackers/bread sticks
cheese board
grapes
apples
homemade potato salad, piece of piss, we like it more chive and oniony than bought or homemade coleslaw that works well too
breads

Everyone can help themselves

By the 27th I am craving chilli, garlic, spices so it's then curries, falafel, curry and more curry until I can face making a New Year's Pie of some sort

I like to make a fondue and serve with pickles, roast potatoes, bread, meats and little sausages.

soup in bread bowls with lots of toppings,

jacket potato bar with veggie/meat chilli and toopings

a big cranberry topped pork pie, veggie sausage roll, cheeseboard and crackers and garlic bread

this year I have made lots of picked veg and chutney

its the sweet stuff I struggle with!

I always do a little buffet on Christmas Eve, we have smoked salmon and cream cheese blinis, sausage rolls, baked Camembert with nice bread, duck spring rolls, chicken goujons, pigs in blankets, and a selection of crisps, breadsticks, crudités and dips. I’m looking forward to it already! After the buffet I allow the big tin of celebrations or quality street and the posh chocolate biscuits to finallly be opened, much to my DD’s delight!

BBQ pork belly bites!

I'm not trying to be an arse I promise but what are you defining as a "picky bit" and what is a "nibble" or are they the same thing? I've always wondered but been too scared to ask in case someone thinks I'm being a jerk.

I usually get some pringles in and some strawberries

Cheese footballs, Boursin and crackers, honey roasted peanuts, mini quiches

I think I just mean anything that’s not a main meal really, or little bits that can be put together to be a buffet. If I’m honest I’m not 100% sure what I mean, I just love Christmas food 😁

Snacks I must have at Christmas are:

Posh prawn cocktail crisps

Chicken/Turkey and sage crisps

Those marzipan logs you can buy at Lidl and Aldi.... particularly the praline filled ones.

Sausage and stuffing rolls (I make these)

Crispy chilli coated nuts

Toblerone.

All of the cheese and different crackers.

All the cheese! One year we had 13 types of cheese I think it kept us going until Easter 😂

We love the m and s 4 for 3 party food deal we usually get the prawn selection thing, the mini pies, mini garlic Kiev's, brie and cranberry tartlets, cheese and bacon savoury muffin things, duck spring rolls, probably more I can't remember! Will just have these over the holidays as and when.

Smoked salmon open sandwiches and a glass of fizz for Christmas day lunch (we have our Christmas dinner at around 5 or 6pm)

Always do a gammon in the slow cooker on Christmas eve and have it when we get home from christingle with chips and fried egg.

Always Chinese takeaway on new year's eve.and fire pit smores and toasted pannetonne on new year's day

@Decafflatteplease, I always do a boiled gammon on Christmas Eve too. Along with turkey crown there's lots of cold cuts for Boxing day then.

OK cool

So..more ideas

Tempura prawns
Cheese on crackers (could live off this)
Don't bother with twiglets they've done something horrible to them.
Mince pies! (Obv)
Those cheese and bacon wraps made with puff pastry. I make a load