What food items do you buy for Christmas?

Lynsey

Tigsteroonie wrote: »

Biscuits for cheese (and then we throw away half the box uneaten)

I know what you mean. I normally give the "unwanted" ones to the birds!!

Lynsey

buck7862

christmas eve tea is honey mustard roast gammon home made chips salad home made billbery pie if i can find the billberys in the chest freezer that is
we buy lots of differnt cheeses pate mixed nuts chestnuts for stuffing and roasting cranberry sauce mince pies fizzy pop bread sticks and dips and large chunk of fillet steak to make beef wellington (main course for christmas dinner) and pack of 4 snowballs for my elderly aunt who visits. reading this back to myself we do sound very greedy but i wouldnt change it i money save and budget all the rest of the year and i do shop around for the best deals on my christmas stuff the fillet steak will be covered by the £25 morrisons voucher have wombled 3 weeks so far so its looking good.

MRSTITTLEMOUSE

I can honestly say we never buy anything special at Christmas.
We pretty much eat whatever we fancy throughout the year and since most stuff is available all the time we don't get too excited about food at Christmas.

phoebe03cat

We always have a home made curry selection with indian finger food and veggies to make a contrast with traditional Christmas Day dinner. Any over goes with the cold cuts on Boxing day and on...and on...and on.................

kitschkitty

Ooh I was waiting for this thread, these days we tend not too buy much just for Christmas time, as like Mrs Tittlemouse said we tend to eat what we fancy all through the year though I do try to limit buying and Cashew nuts and pistachios to christmas as otherwise I would happily spend a fotune on them during the year! We also tend to go to our parents for all the major meals, so only buy ourselves a few extra seasonal treats.

They tend to be store specific things that are only available for Christmas, so... Lebkuchen gingerbread's from Lidl. Boxes of nice chocolate covered biscuits from M&S (normally get given these as a Christmas pressie). Gingerbread or Eggnog lattes from Starbucks. Profiteroles from the Co-op - they are the best I've ever had but they only sell them at Christmas time.

Lynsey

I think we also need a "What is a waste of money at Xmas" thread. lol

Hampers would be my pick, overpriced and not possible to get a hamper with everything you want...............unless you make your own up with nice goodies. That's what we do for son and MIL.

Lynsey

Sunnyday

Smoked salmon - although i do buy occasionally when its on offer, i have this years already in the freezer.

A selection of nuts and kettle chips
Various cheeses
Fancy cold meats
A nice brandy for after dinner

Instead of buying boxes of cheese biscuits i`ve just been buying a couple of packs of our favourites the last couple of years and we now do this all the time.

Anything else i usually make and freeze so that i don`t have to spend most of the day in the kitchen, planning ahead means that we all get to enjoy the day together :beer:

SD

sb44

I could eat these out of the jar never mind putting them in the drinks.

raphanius

jacobs crackers and fancy cheeses
baileys and quality street
m&s nibbles - nuts, pretzels, cheesy bits etc.
pringles and sausage rolls
clementines/satsumas/grapes
pickles/chutney
SPROUTS!!!
ham hock
M&S cava
iceland indian platter...although this lasts us way into the new year

tracey12_2

My list would have to be

Schloer
Dry roasted peanuts
Chutneys
Gammon
Pringles, kettle chips etc
Cadbury roses
Chocolate orange
Cheese footballs
Turkey (never buy it any other time of the year)

Tracey