Christmas menus and trying to buy it all reduced

valk_scot

Soworried wrote: »

Here it is, my christmas menu.

Thankyou for worrying me Lynsey.

I am hoping to shop almost daily with my list of the items, to get this for as little as possible.
It will be frozen until the day before.

Anyone else want to try the challenge? Christmas as you want it for the smallest cost. :j

Christmas eve night.
Home made chunky vegetable soup served with homemade garlic bread and chilli croutons.
Followed by a mixed sliced meat and cheese board. Home made cheese straws, homemade cheese biscuits and shop bought mixed bread sticks and crackers.
Christmas morning
Home made cheese and onion muffins, filled with either smoked salmon and scrambled eggs or bacon, sausage and egg.
Christmas main lunch
Starters,
Smoked trout with watercress puree and sliced egg salad. Alternative is chicken liver and brandy pate on buttered toasts.
Main,
Beef joint cooked in an all grain mustard and honey dressing. Goose wrapped in bacon and stuffed with a home made sausagemeat and mushroom stuffing.
Cocktail sausages wrapped in streaky bacon. Yorkshire puddings made with added dried sage, Gravy, made from the meat juices, bread sauce, mint sauce, apple sauce, brussel sprouts cooked in cream, bacon and almonds. Green beans with caramilised shallots. Mashed potato with cream and black pepper, Roast potatoes in goose fat, garlic and rosemary. Boiled potatoes in saffron butter.
Balsamic roasted root vegetables.

Desserts.
Champagne and raspberry jelly, Christmas pudding with either rum or brandy sauce, lemon meringue or fruit platter.

Evening nibbles.
Dates with bacon, frosted ginger cookies, bacon and sweet potato nibbles, brie and cranberry croque monsieur, chicken satay bites, smoked salmon and cream cheese rolls, and chilli and lime sausage bites.

I still need to work on boxing day and new year as they depend on left overs and shortages really.

I would love to pinch other ideas, I mean read other peoples menus.

I have to ask...how many are you feeding? Twenty? And how many ovens and freezers have you got and how many extra kitchen staff?

We have fancy prawn cocktails, turkey and all the trimmings, Christmas pud with the usual bits and trifle for the kids. Couple of bottles of nice wine.

I usually make a big ham to start eating on Christmas Eve and that and the turkey form the basis of most meals between Christmas and New Year tbh. I pick up veg and such as I go, the shops are only shut on Christmas Day after all and there's some great bargains to be had in the reduced section just after Christmas. I don't see the point in buying it all in too far ahead tbh. I wouldn't have the freezer space anyway.

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Just got back from T's and they had a whole duck on the reduced section, was £8.25 and bought it for £6.95. Not a massive bargain but theres only 2 of us for Xmas this year and this thing looks like it could feed 6!

TravellingAbuela

At Northallerton market last week they were selling M & S (un-iced) Christmas cakes, various sizes. They were supposed to be mis-shapes but looked fine to me. I normally make my own but there's no way I could make a large one for £3 so there is now one languishing in a tin in the top cupboard in my kitchen! A job and money saved in one go! (If I can keep my hands off it before Xmas, because it did smell tempting!!)

Lynsey

I can't wait to get my "iced" M&S Xmas cake, think I'll get 2 this year as soon as they go on offer. Think they are about £6 on offer last year, but can't remember the full price.

Lynsey

Chris25

not reduced but cheap & yummy...............ASDA Cinnamon & Oaty Stars - 12 lovely flavoured, thick, star shaped, shortbread biscuits for a £1. They were in the cake aisle with the mince pies.

The BB date on the ones I bought last night is 2nd Jan - going to have them with a lemon syllabub.

Lynsey

Morries have their "Large Gammon Joints" at supposedly half-price - £3.49 per kilo until 7th October (includes smoked).

Lynsey

fashionlover10

I would love to join in with you guys as I hate paying full price for things but I have no idea yet whether we'll be going to family for Christmas or hosting our own. If we're hosting our own there'll be anything between 2 and 9 of us. And I just about have the freezer space for me and OH on a normal week!

I'm going to keep an eye out for store cupboard foods as we've just moved to a house with a floor to ceiling larder and I plan on making the most of it!

Edwardia

Got a couple of Hampshire Game wild venison shanks @ 3.99 and a couple of Hampshire Game whole wild partridges @ 3.69 each from Abel & Cole for the freezer, might have partridge Christmas Eve or venison stew.

Edwardia

Ordered a baked chocolate cheesecake from Abel & Cole which is organic, vegetarian and freezable. Considering how much organic ingredients cost I thought 530g of cheesecake for 5.79 wasn't bad for Christmas Day tea 'pudding' with ice cream.

OH keeps eating the Green & Black organic chocolate ice cream :mad: I bought it on offer at Budgens and now I've had to order it again on offer from Ocado. Have ordered some Mackie organic vanilla ice cream as well.

I'm ordering some Kraft Stove Top Turkey Stuffing from Ocado which is American and expensive so not very MSE or even organic but I'm sure OH will love it. Also ordered some Jello sugar free fat free instant chocolate pudding, also American. I lurve this and I'll have that as my treat instead of organic Christmas pudding which I gave my mother the ingredients for.

Other than cream and custard I've got Christmas Day pudding at lunch and tea sorted.

Liz3yy

The only food we buy in special for Xmas is a box of Quality Street and a crate of beer as we always eat Xmas day dinner at the in-laws!