Stocking Up On Christmas Foods & Goodies Weekly?

Susie_Richards

Do you start buying an odd extra item for the Christmas cupboard as soon as the shops start selling them?

Or does temptation get in the way and defeat the object of buying treats each week?

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chella

I always start buying fererro rochers and other treats about now.............and always have to replace them!!!!


I start about September time buying Prosecco, stuffing, sauces, chocs.


I love Christmas!!

Lola23

I am just going to start doing this next weekend.


Last year I left it a bit late, so going to start getting little extras away for the grandchildren.


I like to get nice biscuits and chocs to put away too (remembering to check the dates on them).


It's getting nearer now lol and looking forward to it.


Lola x

WantToBeSE

No way, I'd eat it all before Christmas!

System

I don't stock up on food but I do stock up on toiletries to see us over the winter.

There's only 3 of us at Christmas and its never a full dinner I think this year its a curry in the slow cooker, I buy a few sweets but I have stopped buying over priced things like biscuits.

chanie

I'll start stocking up from September. I hide things away to avoid the temptation. The only problem is that I sometimes forget I've put things away and then only remember after Christmas.

We go to family for Xmas dinner, so we don't really need to buy much.

mollymunchkin

I've started to buy spare tins/dry stuff/toiletries/cleaning stuff/etc for use in Dec/Jan when I'm usually skint! Buying a few each week to put away so towards the end of January when I'm really broke I'll only have to buy fresh stuff. I'll buy some treats too but they are a bit risky of me eating them way before Christmas!

p-pincher

Like the posters above I have a kind of 'skint January box'. I'll start filling it from September onwards. Things like tea, coffee, toiletries, cleaning stuff, tins etc. This means I only need to buy fresh stuff in Jan.

I do also start buying bits for christmas as well but I try not to over buy to much as we also get bought nice goodies. I tend to buy pickles and sauces. Crisps biscuits and sweets get bought but only if there on a really good offer. Even though there now tiny I do buy the tins of roses and quality street when the go on a good offer normally quite early on. I have to hide these in the loft.

PasturesNew

My friend used to do that - buy 1-2 items/week for Xmas. She stacked them up alongside the telly .... so she could see what she'd got. I remember this as I was there once and she had a tin of pineapple as her starting point.

The reality is that Xmas doesn't really cost that much extra.... it's the extras that you buy (and don't really need) that pile on the cost. So, for many, it's better to buy in one hit at the last minute.... that way you only buy what you dream of in a short space of time and not spend 2-3 months dreaming of xmas, buying stuff for it and overspending.

For me, one last minute shop would yield about one box of chocolates, some chocolate coins, a couple of satsumas, bag of peanuts, maybe some chestnuts/walnuts and a 6-pack of crisps. Job done! Anything beyond that is piggery really.

liney

I always buy a Christmas pudding in the sales after Christmas to put away for the next year, and have just put up some of the end of term chocolate I was given at school. We don't buy masses of Christmas food as I like to make my own cake, mince pies etc. I will 'invest' in some spirits when they are on offer.

C_J

I don't tend to stock up with food and drink too far in advance (although I do shop for Christmas presents and stocking fillers all year round, as-and-when I think of good gift ideas and/or when I spot a really good offer). Mainly I don't buy food/drink too early because I don't have that much spare cupboard space in the kitchen (and also the temptation to eat Quality Street/drink prosecco etc etc in November is too great).

I save money every month into a separate acount for Christmas, and actually quite enjoy the thrill of doing the big festive food shops in December - it's part of the whole Christmas ritual for me. I start planning the Christmas menus in about September, then put all the recipes onto a multi-page spreadsheet. From there I populate a shopping list, broken down into three weekly shops to be done during December. I also create a military-style timetable of all the cooking which needs to be done on any particular day and stick this up on the fridge - it's especially helpful for the main Christmas Lunch (because I often have a glass of two of champagne during the morning and become incapable of thinking clearly without a list of instructions to refer back to!)