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.

Oh yes- those dark chocolate gingers on my list too!!!

A Bonci Panbriacone. Basically a panettone soaked in dessert wine.
Its the one christmas treat I buy that I don't share with anyone.

dates
baileys
stollen
mince pies
christmas pudding

local cheeses
baked camembert
pate
chutney
bath Oliver biscuits
local wine
dates
home baked glazed ham

So much...

Christmas cake (love fruit cake ordinarily but the addition of marzipan and icing is sublime)
Mince pies (DH makes lovely ones)
Stollen
The M&S Big Mix chocolates box
Trifle
Panettone
Christmas cake muffins (DSis makes them, they're divine)
Lindt chocolate figures, the little ones. They get hung in the tree and DS finds one each day (we have a picture advent calendar which is lovely, far nicer to have that and the Lindt chocs than a crap-chocolate advent)

I LOVE all these things but I'm on a diet (have high cholesterol) so will have to be very careful about what and how much I can have 😩
(I also notice all my treat stuff is largely puddings rather than savoury. Oh well)

Baileys in strong black coffee

I said to OH the other day, when we were kids, we had nets of whole nuts which mum or dad tried to crack. often bits went everywhere, and there was not a lot to eat from it! Last few years I have bought ready shelled nuts as you have to have nuts at Christmas, but this year we have decided to renew the tradition and on Christmas day have a go at cracking nuts!
When I was a kid, mum also used to buy one of those round orange and lemon slices with a mock cherry in the middle. it was not Christmas without them, but the problem was no one liked them, not even the dog would eat them! For some daft reason, I also buy them!
other than that, it was, Eat Me Dates sticky but I loved the plastic fork inside and the box was decorative

Home made Dundee cake. Not a fan of dark fruit cake but I do like Dundee cake. My mum used to make one every year so I try to match hers (she's a great cook)
Lebkuchen shapes covered in dark chocolate (from Lidl)
Marzipan chocolate (probably also from Lidl!)
Pretzel shapes
Dry roasted peanuts for DH
Mince pies. I read all the reviews/taste tests every year and buy a few boxes to compare. By the end of Christmas we're fed up of them!
Chocolate Yule log
Mulled wine from Morrisons

Savoury: a big bowl of whole nuts (with nutcracker to hand), selection of olives & dates, cheesestraws, crackers, pickles,
various cheeses, Port, Sloe gin etc.
Sweet: homemade royal iced Christmas cake, a box of good dark filled chocolates, nets of milk chocolate coins, Bendicks bittermints.
Leibkuchen, stollen bites & mince pies.

And the little cheesy cracker Xmas tree shapes. I love to snack on those. They used to be cheese let's but I think they might have rebranded as Treeselets.

For DS, a Lindt chocolate Santa and a constant supply of chocolate raisins.

For me,
home made mince pies with home made mincemeat.

home made blackberry & apple gin.

chocolate Brazil nuts
smoked salmon & scrambled eggs on Christmas morning.

Christmas lunch has to include sprouts & bacon,
Home cooked Wiltshire-cured ham

smoked salmon (rest of the family don't like it so i treat myself at christmas)
Pate
Good quality chocolate

Sainsbury’s do a gorgeous chocolate orange panettone. I always get patè, a decent cheese selection, lebekuchen, chocolate marzipan and the Sainsbury’s fig melted camembert for Christmas week and always make homemade sausage rolls.

Shortbread from a local farmshop. The usual tubs of chocolates. Jelly sweets because the kids (and me) get a bit fed up of chocolate but want something sweet. Baking camembert.