What are your must favourite Christmas food treats?

[pinkksugarmouse]

I'm not talking about Christmas dinner. We don't buy much more than our usual shop but we do have;

A sleekster box of hotel chocolat to open on boxing day. I will still have some left in February
DD and I share some special vegan cheeses
Bizarrely I always get a fancy granola

I honestly can't think of anything else. Perhaps we are a bit unimaginative but if we fancied anything we would get it.
Curious about others treats and favourites.

I like the marks and Spencer very merry munch but beyond that we are savory so crisps and dips, cheese board and party food. Quite like homemade soup, party food, biscuits and cheese and a bottle of Prosecco on the days we are home.

I try not to go overboard and keep it to a minimum so we don’t have loads left running into January.

I love the tins of Belgian biscuits from M and S. Tunnocks snowballs and tea cakes. Chocolate orange. Also, M and S have lovely honey glazed nuts as well.

A bottle of port. Bendicks Bittermints. A good all-butter panettone, Gorgeous cheeses including Vignotte, Lindt choc reindeer, those spicy soft cakey cookies with thin icing on, and the heart shaped ones covered in dark choc with apricot jam in the middle.

Trifle. (raspberries, thickened juice - no jelly or sherry)

Crackers for cheese, cheese (vegan for me) and some chocolates. I have also bought a mini panettone for myself. We may have a stollen or some Lebchuchen, but that is about it.

Paté to have on toast between Christmas and new year

A big box of M&S chocolate biscuit selection

Baileys, although usually have it once and forget about it

Florentines, shortbread and lebkuchen with our coffees. Butlers chocolates (far superior to Hotel Chocolat, imo) cheese straws and good cheese and fancy crackers.
Not fussed about mince pies, cake or pudding, although stollen is nice.

A big tub of Cadbury roses and celebrations !

Pate, cheese and crackers.

I also get a selection of the frozen party food stuff, a prawn ring and a side of salmon. We eat some of those for a dinner in that strange grazing at food time between Boxing Day and New Year.

I love shortbread but it is so calorific I only have it at Xmas. Good quality cheeses which I do have all the year around because DH is vegetarian but I do try to only eat small portions.

A few years ago Waitrose did a pannetone with Heston Blumenthal, dark chocolate and cherry. It felt obscenely expensive (to me) but it was a real treat. I've no idea if they still do them, no waitrose near me nowadays :(
Otherwise, there will no doubt be stollen, marmite cashes and sensations chilli peanuts, maybe a nice block of cheese and some good ham. It's just me so I try not to go overboard!

Pate
Fortnum & Mason truffles

ALL the cheese, crackers and red onion chutney
Baileys and Sherry
Pork pie, no idea why we only have this at Christmas!
M&S party food
Roses and Celebrations on the coffee table

Chocolate covered Brazil nuts
Nice cheeses
Black forest gateau
Mince pies
Christmas cake

After eights, oranges, m&s shortbread biscuits and baileys. I could of course buy these at any time of year, but they remind me of Christmas so that’s why I buy them 😂

Gala pie!

Only ever buy it at Christmas.

Smoked salmon
crackers
m and s shortbread
panettone
stollen

Twiglets
Dates

The fine cheese company does a good range of delicious cheese, I get a delivery for us and send one to my mum, along with all the jams and chutneys we like.

Iain Burnett chocolates.

A local bakery does the most decedant chocolate log.

I like the nuts on offer at M&S each year, especially the candied pecans, really moreish.
Hoping they will also still have the prepared fruit platters this year, the orange ans grapefruit/clementines are my favourite.

A sleekster box of hotel chocolat to open on boxing day. I will still have some left in February

Do you not like them? I feel like a different species...

Florentines
Nice savoury biscuits for cheese
Thorntons chocolates
Chocolate Orange

My DH has to have Cadbury chocolate fingers both in chocolate and white chocolate.

pinkksugarmouse
I have 3 vegans visiting over Christmas, and would absolutely love to find a good vegan cheese or two to offer them. Please could you recommend?

Panettone proper Italian normal one no fancy bits . Red cabbage. Meringues. Stollen bites. Mulled wine I make not the fake stuff.

Pannetone or pandoro (traditional ones for me; none of the odd flavours!); one or two nice mince pies; a few Lebkuchen (the apricot jam ones and star biscuits); nice cheeses, and a good quality cooked ham for Boxing Day. Plus something like a good Armagnac or cognac, just a couple of snifters. Those are my favourite Christmas foods!

—Oh, and I almost forgot! Pigs in blankets. Pigs in blankets with a roast potato and a bit of nice chicken are the best thing about Christmas dinner!

We always get a panettone from our local deli. Often end up going back for a second as it disappears so quickly.

I like a nice sleekster box too, also some nice dates and nuts.

We Always get loads of nice treaty things for lunches like pate, prawns, cheeses. Stollen and mince pies of course and a Christmas cake. I cook a big ham and that’s always picked at between meals as well.

A good sloe gin, a port and probably a chocolate baileys. The teens like to make elaborate hot chocolate concoctions and a Yule log.

oh I am excited now!

Do you mean Liebkuchen (they're German)? They are nice, I agree.