Tell me your Christmas FOOD list! :D

themull1

Turkey
Beef
Gammon
Bacon
Sausages
stuffing
cranberry sauce
apple sauce
salmon
salmon mousse
christmas pudding
rum sauce
trifle
gateau
roses or celebrations
stollen
mince pies
flavoured cream
party food
shloer
beer
wine
sweets for the christmas table
fresh coffee
gingerbread house

fawny

I'd love to get a whole salmon & one of those big fancy beef weelington you see in the likes of M & S.

CupOfChai

I'm pleased someone eventually mentioned salmon! I don't really do the Christmas food shopping, but I go along to help (read: haul the enormous !!!!!!! trolley about) and shall be making sure that smoked salmon treats for me and plenty of pigs in blankets are purchased.

I am going to be getting some things for OH and I to have for our "pretend Christmas" as we are spending the real days apart, but don't want the proper meal as feel it would spoil us for the real one. So I plan to get lovely Waitrose curries for our evening meal, and buffet things to have during the day. I'm thinking tempura prawns, mini pies, garlic mushrooms... Some fizz too, if money was no object as you say then I might get real champagne but instead it's going to be the fake stuff, or prosecco if I can get it at the price I want to pay.

ladymarmalade

Well, we are not spending much of Christmas at home this year, so we won't be buying what we would if we were at home. It's our turn to do the rounds and visit everyone else so we at MIL on christmas day and my mums on boxing day and SIL the following couple of days. However, if it were like last year when we hosted Christmas day and Boxing day and we were in most days, this is what I would be purchasing.

For Christmas Day:
Turkey crown
fillt beef joint
chipolata sausages
streaky bacon
ingredients for stuffing (sausagemeat and varrious herbs)
ingredients for yorkshire puds
carrots
swede
brussels
potatoes
ingredients for breadsauce
cranberry sauce
mustard
gravy ingredients
a christmas pudding...small one for me
ingredients for brownies for OH
cream

Boxing Day
a ham
beef joint
lots and lots of cheeses/crackers/grapes/chutnies etc
cobs
pork pie
crisps
salmon
pates
hm sausage rolls
ingredients for hm prawn vol au vents and creamy bacon vol au vents
dips
christmas cake
stollen cake

Drinks
various wines
baileys
gin
malibu
peroni
real ales
mulled wine

other bits and bobs too that me and OH love to eat such as smoked salmn, pates etc!

Hungry now and wish I was making dinner!

wendall

This year will be different lost my mil and for the last 22 years have had her for Christmas day and then all family round for boxing day but as there was 3 of them it got a bit much (the fact that we all had to do a buffet and spend a lot of money for a lot of food to be wasted), so this year it is Christmas and boxing day by ourselves and a meal out for all of us in between Christmas and new year but food wise it will be

Turkey
veg
Strawberry gateux (don't like christmas pudding)
cream
prawns salad
teacakes
party food (as we have a buffet christmas eve)
bacon, eggs, sausage, mushrooms etc
usual shopping for inbetween
Nuts
pringles
doritos
crisp
dips
celebrations
heroes
tin of biscuits
lager
tia maria
baileys
wine
champagne
cider
j2o
shloer
christmas cake
mince pies

quoia

CupOfChai wrote: »

I'm pleased someone eventually mentioned salmon! I don't really do the Christmas food shopping, but I go along to help (read: haul the enormous !!!!!!! trolley about) and shall be making sure that smoked salmon treats for me and plenty of pigs in blankets are purchased.

I am going to be getting some things for OH and I to have for our "pretend Christmas" as we are spending the real days apart, but don't want the proper meal as feel it would spoil us for the real one. So I plan to get lovely Waitrose curries for our evening meal, and buffet things to have during the day. I'm thinking tempura prawns, mini pies, garlic mushrooms... Some fizz too, if money was no object as you say then I might get real champagne but instead it's going to be the fake stuff, or prosecco if I can get it at the price I want to pay.

Should have got it from ASDA over the weekend

just £6 a bottle - down from £24.21

even better with a few of the £5 OFF £40 spend coupons that were valid until Sunday

18 bottles for me and a dozen for a couple of relatives

Only 17 left now - just finished off the one we opened on Sunday to try it :beer:

Lilyplonk

I've got a huge plastic crate full of 'bits and bobs' towards Christmas - it's known as 'Mum's Christmas Stash' - that's full of all kinds of items that I've often found on whoopsie during the year. I don't mean perishable kinds - these are the ones from the 'damaged box shelves' where packaging has been slightly damaged or multi-pack crisps opened.

I got a couple of packs of 'good coffee' for way less than half price because 'something' had spilled on them and made the packs sticky! Similar with a couple of jars of pickles/sauces/chutneys and packs of 'fancy stuffings'. I'll need to go through all this stuff BEFORE coming up with my final Christmas Shopping List - no point in duplicating what's already in there.

At the moment, I don't know where I'll be living - here or will I have moved to a flat. I've no idea how much space I'll have for entertaining, but I normally feed around 6-8 adults/4 children on Christmas Day, 8 adults/6 children another day and then 4 adults/2 children on yet another occasion. That doesn't include a visit from my mum, sister, her husband, their daughter, her fella and their toddler on Boxing Day. They don't stay for a full feed, but you just have to have 'something special to offer around' don't you :undecided!

My OH calls Christmas 'The feeding of the 5,000' :rotfl:.

Thinking of booking a holiday on a dessert island next year

Chris25

hope ladymarmalade doesn't mind as her list & mine are so similar, I've copied hers

For Christmas Day:
Turkey crown - this year we're not having goose
[STRIKE]fillt beef joint[/STRIKE]
chipolata sausages
streaky bacon
ingredients for stuffing (sausagemeat, bread & various herbs)
[STRIKE]ingredients for yorkshire puds[/STRIKE]
carrots
swede
parsnips for roasting
brussels & chestnuts to mix in
potatoes
ingredients for breadsauce
cranberry sauce
[STRIKE]mustard[/STRIKE]
gravy ingredients
a christmas pudding...small one for me
[STRIKE]ingredients for brownies for OH[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]cream[/STRIKE]
ice cream, pistachio & a nice vanilla
white bread, sliced as thin as I can get, for the sandwiches in the evening & they have to be made with butter
kettle chips
cheese - double gloucester with chives for son


Boxing Day
a ham
potatoes for mash
garlic
leeks
ingredients to make white sauce
[STRIKE]beef joint[/STRIKE]
lots [STRIKE]and lots of [/STRIKE] cheeses/crackers/grapes/chutnies etc
[STRIKE]cobs[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]pork pie[/STRIKE]
crisps
smoked salmon
pates
hm sausage rolls
[STRIKE]ingredients for hm prawn vol au vents and creamy bacon vol [/STRIKE][STRIKE]
au vents[/STRIKE]
dips
breadsticks,peppers, celery, cucumber & carrots for crudites
[STRIKE]christmas cake[/STRIKE]
panettone
stollen cake
jelly or gelatine to make alcoholic jellies

Drinks
various wines
baileys
[STRIKE]gin[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]malibu[/STRIKE]
peroni
real ales
mulled wine

*smacks head* almost forgot my brandy & babycham which is what I use to keep me going whilst I'm in the kitchen, cooking the feast

lushlifesaver

the usual list, when at my parents, is:
Big pork pie
pickled onions
chocolate oranges
celebrations (I like these more compared to heros/roses/etc)
3 bird roast
stuffing
yorkshires (homemade if we can be bothered)
veg : brocolli, cauliflower, carrots, peas, sprouts, roast potatoes, mashed potatoes
gravy (made from scratch when possible)
Christmas pudding ( I LOVE it)
brandy butter
double cream
prawn cocktail
HM soup (leek and potato)
pate
crackers
cheeses - usually a blue one for dad and some other flavoured ones for the rest of us

then just whatever drinks we fancy that aren't already in - usually we don't need anything extra!
This year I won't be cooking a Christmas dinner but I'll still find excuses to have a few treats in over the season

hellokittygal

We'll have:
Turkey
Veg
Stuffing
Sausages in bacon
Roast and mash potatoes
Bread sauce
Gravy
Cranberry sauce

Homemade christmas pud
Mince pies
The tins of chocs and biscuits that usually get given
Some crisps e.g Pringles, Doritos etc for nibbling

Drinks are normally some wine, maybe some beer and soft drinks like coke, sprite etc

We don't go silly over christmas food!