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.

M&S miniature chicken/steak pies from their party food range. So good!! I bought a pack and had them for dinner as soon as they came out back in October🤣

Also love stuffing - DM makes a gorgeous homemade one every year

Shortbread, Boursin, appeteasers, Lindt chocolate, stollen.

Marzipan Chocolate , Niederegger but only the plain chocolate /plain marzipan

https://amzn.eu/d/hqng9Bl I have this book so lots of homemade cake, biscuits, breads and treats. We always get some pretzels, just the little hard ones (no idea why). Satsumas, especially in the period between Christmas and new year.

I like Tyne Chease and Kinda Co. I’m Nut OK and Nush for a cream cheese (available in Waitrose). Philadelphia do a nice cream cheese as well but I prefer Nush as it contains less saturated fat.

Some other brands are Honestly Tasty, Mouses Favourite, La Fauxmagerie (available in Waitrose).

Cathedral City is a fairly decent cheddar and the one from Lidl is not too bad either. Personally I don’t care for other supermarket branded cheeses.

With the independent makers it can work out quite expensive as there is generally a minimum order and you are obviously stuck with their brand.

Turkish Delight.
I have Turkish Delight with a dusting of icing sugar piled high in tiny glass dishes.
And M&S's brie and cranberry tartlets without fail.

Cheese footballs
Pringles
M & S chocolates. Big tin this year
Quality Street
Chocolate Oranges
Trifle
Yule log
Cheese and pickles

Greggs mince pies I’ve already polished off 1 box so I’m trying to not go anywhere near until December

Advocaat all the way!

Pretzels, bowl of mixed nuts with a nutcracker, and a good cheese board selection.

Very Merry Munch
Loads of cheese and charcuterie with chutney
Baileys (starts 1 Dec)
oven baked brie with cranberry
My mum's homemade sausage rolls which are insanely good.

I look forward to m&s prawn toast every year. Sad I know 🤣

Roses, bittermints and matchmakers.

assorted spicy crunchy cracker things, black pepper kettle chips and Pringles for the kids.

lots of lovely cheese.

champagne!

I love them. I'm just really self-controlled with them. So I might only have 1 every other day or even less. We only have them twice a year. For Christmas and Easter so I like to make them last.

My husband's family had pork pie for breakfast on Christmas Day. He has no idea why either? Do you have it for breakfast?

Aldi nougat.
Chocolate covered marzipan.
Caramelised nuts and chocolate covered nuts.
Christmas cake.

Ive only just seen this munch stuff from m and s so will definatly try that this year.

Usually a chicken and ham pie Waitrose or fortums. @Unpaidviewer that book looks amazing !
I may buy it.

One year someone brought us some of the most delicious fine biscuits I've ever had
Cant remember the brand it was a selection box.

Rose and violet creams
Lebkuchen

Yule log from Paul, they make it only around Christmas.

M&S shortbread
M&S Yule log

florentines
cheese (local cheeses from the farm shop)
gregs mince pies
Ham

I’m still mourning the loss of Terry’s Twilight, which was my Christmas essential!

Otherwise, the ham the local pub make for us, iced top mince pies and a Camembert (and other lovely cheeses)

Festive bakewells by mr Kipling…
also love a good vol au vent on Boxing Day.
and most of the m&s Christmas party food.

really wish they’d bring back Worcestershire twiglets… they were elite them 😂

Mum makes me a Christmas cake I am the only one who eats it so delightfully it lasts until the end of January ( I have a small slice each day) This year I am making mince pies and freezing them before cooking so I can get a few out at a time to cook fresh. (ooh my mouth is watering just thinking about it)

Aside from that, pate, cheeses, crackers, smoked salmon. Sharing bags of crisps in cupboard. We also will have double cream in the fridge which we don't have at other times of the year.

I have a Christmas fruit bowl with easy peelers, although it also contains Ferrero Roche and Lindt balls :-)

In previous years we have had party food type things for Christmas Eve, but child a is now a trained chef and has decided he would like to provide us with Christmas Eve dinner which is a treat.

Cheese board and crackers with some nice chilli jam etc
Baked camembert
Tub of twiglets
We always have a tin of chocs - like many on here my kids have asked for m&s merry jelly munch this year

DH always makes a ham which is delicious but we only have at Christmas

My homemade Christmas cake.

Brandy butter - Dh loves the stuff with mince pies

Kids have also asked for a chocolate log so might look.at getting one as a treat for them..

Might have been a Borders selection box.Theyre lovely.