Christmas Cupboard MUST haves!!

Hay_2

Peanuts,sausage rolls,pringles,mince pies,chocolates,christmas cake,chocolate fingers,satsumas,part baked baguettes for morning sandwiches,snowballs/advocat,crumpets....looooots more:rolleyes:

Not forgetting copious amounts of alcohol to survive the whole experience including a bottle of champers for me and DH once everyone has left :beer:

Rachie_B

beachbeth wrote:

I have to have asti spumanti chilled and ready to drink at lunchtime, cheese herb roule and port salut cheese and pickled onions for a supper snack and some lovely crusty bread to make sandwiches with the leftover turkey.

awww can i come to your for xmas ?!

my xmas essentials are :

loads of differerent cheeses
clementines / satsumas
after 8s
celery for turkey celery & mayo sarnies !
cranberry sauce for turkey ,stuffing and cranberry sarnies !
nuts
hot buffet food eg filo prawns etc for xmas eve buffet

:beer: :beer:

Norma_Desmond

Definately smoked salmon.......I've always bought nuts in the past but I'm going to give them a miss this year. They're great to eat, but my bare foot always manages to find a rogue shell sometime around March

Mummy2Emily

We normally have all the usual crisps,nuts etc but the things i buy and store ESPECIALLY for the Christmas cupboard is...Asprin & Alka Seltzer!! i have ALWAYS put them with the christmas food because then i know where they are for the guarenteed hangovers!:rolleyes:

BTW Christmas is the only time we drink so hangovers happen BIG time here!:rotfl:

nearlyrich

Cheese, crackers and pate for when I get sick of turkey.

Most of our Christmas food is already in the fridge, freezer or cupboards.

ebaybaby

Have to have:

Ploughmans choice cheese (crumbly cheese with pickle onions in!)
Caramelised red onion chutney
Special crisps (like adult ones! handcooked type!)
Crusty bread
Small xmas cake (only me who likes it)
Breadsticks and dips!!:drool:

sophiesmum_2

lots of cheeses/crackers
pate
choc brazils
bendicks mints
thorntons continental chocs
shortbread
good wine
illy filter coffee
cream
home made mince pies


sophiesmum

Raspberry_Swirl

cheese, mayo, cheese, pate, cheese, crackers, cheese, crisps, cheese, pickled onions, cheese, booze, cheese....

PaleScene

Christmas shopping tends to be more of all the things we like than I'd normally allow

These days I include a bit of overspill in the Christmas Club budget to allow for indulgence in the supermarket.

Our essentials are probably the opposite stuff, things like a packet of bacon, couple of onions, normal cheddar, bread - so that we've always got the means of a snack meal when we don't know when we'll be in and out of our house.

OH thinks Christmas is a time that cashews come in larger bags or even huge tubs... :rotfl: He gets fed up of chocolate very very quickly over the festive period - usually by about two hours into Christmas morning - and then moans about chocolate 'lying around' the house for the next month or however long it takes to eat it. Last Christmas I sort of saw his point because we had so much - and ended up putting a tin of Quality St on top of the kitchen cupboards, virtually out of sight, and mostly out of mind till we got round to it in August!

It's the only time of year I buy premade tubs of custard (some weirdness about thinking it's easier than dry packet mix!) and vol-au-vents.

Kzlnd

Raspberry_Swirl wrote:

cheese, mayo, cheese, pate, cheese, crackers, cheese, crisps, cheese, pickled onions, cheese, booze, cheese....

Just a little cheese then :rotfl:

Looks like my shopping list too! mmm I'm getting hungry and craving all these nibbles after reading this section