One thing you just have to have and cant live without at Christmas!

[Babymad4num3]

As I've decided to do Christmas dinner for in-law's, just trying to get into the Christmas mood! ! I would love to know what other's just have to have/eat at Christmas, what makes it Christmas for you?

home made rocky road too

recipes here

oh yes Chocolate gateau

lol at sherlock

BATTERIES!!!!

I love DH home made mince pies! He didn't make them last year

A tin of cadburys roses.

stilton
pate
wine
wine
someone nice to drink wine with

Port

and some cheese to go with it.

Sticky drinks for the evening - cointreau, drambuie etc

A lovely large gammon that I cook on Christmas Eve that we have with cheesy mash and onion and parsley sauce

More alcohol than Threshers

More chairs ( begged and stolen from others) to get everyone round the table

The Big piece of MDF we put over my already large table ( and cover in grans linen tablecloth to hide it's shabbiness !) so we can get everyone round

Lemons

Oh and if I'm being pushed - the family !!

satsumas
nuts
stuffing
cranberry sauce
turkey
sprouts
quality street
dates
port
smoked salmon
champange

indegestion tablets
headache tablets

Christmas cake! Full of booze. yum.

Mince pies and stilton - together
Bread sauce (although I eat it all year round)
Brussel Sprouts
Sausages in Bacon
Big box of quality street/thorntons
Scrambled eggs and smoked salmon for brekkie
Bucks Fizz

Stollen for breakfast! Mince pies heated in microwave eaten with vanilla ice cream in the middle of the night! Leftover turkey & stuffing & gravy sandwiches with lots of pepper!

Guess who gets quite chubby at Xmas?

I'm avoiding all this for that very reason SS.
I hate the self loathing and rounded arse that are inevitable byproduct of such feasting.

This year am going to invite lonely Nigerian students to my home and make it a purely spiritual experience.

we get very parsimonious at xmas

everything is leftovers for days

dh gets wine and smoked salmon from work and we live off that

also I use my nectar points which I have saved since last xmas

it all works out quite cheaply

we don't tend to have massivel boxes of chocs

a satsuma in the toe of your stocking

NO chocs/sweeties allowed in this house at xmas

same at easter

I hate mountains of food etc too

My fave thing is turkey and piccalilli sandwiches actually (if we have turkey)

Also nice wine and cheese

toblerone

and champagne

god yes re turkey and picallili

dhs fave is ham mash and parsley sauce

he looks forward to it all year

I love nigellas bacon and egg pie - i make it with leftoever ham and it is very very good with crunchy cornichon thingies

Veuve Cliquot champagne - for breakfast

Chilled white wine for dinner, and for tea...oh and more for the evening

Chocolate - any and lots of

oh and we always have mulled wine on xmas morning

Brie and cranberry butties made with fresh white bread washed down with cold white wine

ooh mulled wine

think I'll do that instead of champagne which i always think a disappointement on xmas morning

chestnuts to cook with the sprouts