‘It wouldn’t be Christmas without …..’ (food/drink related)

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Putting my shopping list together. I love Christmas, and we have lots of favourite festive foods/ drinks, but we do tend to have tbe same things each year. What is the one thing ‘it wouldn’t be Christmas without’ in your house?

For me, it’s Baileys, the only time I ever buy it and Stollen.
My adult DC expect Nutella on the breakfast table, a throw back to refusing to buy it when they were kids but Santa always left a jar.
DH is quite happy as long as I’ve made a fruit cake.

What means Christmas to your family food and drink wise?

Snowball

Bread sauce, cranberry sauce.

It was worth starting this thread just for that. My Mum didn’t really drink but always had a snowball or a babycham at Christmas/New Year. I’ll give babycham a miss but am now craving a snowball!

Sprouts.

It’s the only time those little green balls of bitter nastiness are allowed in the house. DH is the only person that likes them.

Chocolate Orange
Pigs in Blankets

And agree fully on the Baileys.

We have cranberry sauce all year round with roast chicken, but bread sauce only at Christmas, not sure why

Mince pies. Don’t even like them that much, but it’s not Christmas without.

Only time of year we have Toblerone and chocolate orange!

Quality Street
After Eights
Matchmakers
Roast parsnips
Sprouts

The family recipe stuffing, only have it at Christmas (sometimes Easter if my dads feeling festive) and you just can’t beat a turkey and stuffing sandwich 😋

Yule log, mince pies ,
M&S cheese tasters,
Cheese footballs.
Tunis cake
Shortbread
Turkey

Cashew nuts and bucks fizz made with innocents orange juice whilst turkey cooking and presents opened. (that'sactually my breakfast)🤭

M&S cranberry and orange bucksfizz… except this year they’ve not done it so we will have to be without it!

We have it with breakfast and then as arrival drinks (we host) every year, it’s delicious and this year they’ve not done it! They’ve done a crappy festive fizz thing that looks like alcoholic ribeana. Gutted.

Oh yes, there’s a family recipe stuffing that my MIL passed to me and now it’s not Christmas without! This year we escalated it to some pre Christmas sausage rolls too.

Pandoro, my absolute favourite

I recommend Sainsbury's Clementine fizz. This year it is again a winner for me.

thanks for the recommendation, I will get some tomorrow ☺️

Homemade Cranberry sauce
terrys chocolate orange
apricot stuffing
tubes of jelly tots

Bendicks Bittermmints.

Camembert

Quality street and roses chocolates. ❤️ Wouldn't be Christmas without them according to my 20 year old!!

Picky bits! Sausage rolls, pringles, scotch eggs, cocktail sausages, cashew nuts, crackers, cheese, etc. Love eating things like that on Christmas Eve and boxing day! Also add the leftover turkey and stuffing sandwiches after christmas day.

Chestnuts
Baked camembert
Endless clementines
Chocolate coins
After eights
Panettone
Lebkuchen hearts from Aldi (lol), they are so moreish
Mulled wine
Baileys in coffee, desserts, hot chocolate or by itself.

Baileys, sprouts, pigs in blankets (hate the name though), Lindt balls

Homemade stuffing
Nigella's Christmas rocky road