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Xmas Food Shop Intentions

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  • Murphybear
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    No other country in the world is like the UK.  Christmas starting in October.  I find it so distasteful I bet the supermarkets gleefully anticipant of billions of £ sales.  Indeed, it seems our economy depends on the Christmas spending.
    I read an article a few years ago about Harrods selling Christmas decorations early.  Harrods gets visitors from all around the world and their Christmas decorations are very popular so they make them available in late summer/autumn.
  • HotDog2020
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    I regularly shop at Sainsburys, and I love the build up to Christmas, also I have a lodger here so they may join in with the celebration, although he likes keeping himself to himself so maybe not! My shop will be done in sainsburys, and I will have sprouts as I like them steamed then fried with onion and chestnuts delicious...if you don't like sprouts it is because you are cooking them wrong!
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  • PLRFD
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    That sounds lovely HotDog for me some crispy bacon in there would be the finishing touch.
  • Sarahspangles
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    No other country in the world is like the UK.  Christmas starting in October.  I find it so distasteful I bet the supermarkets gleefully anticipant of billions of £ sales.  Indeed, it seems our economy depends on the Christmas spending.
    I read an article a few years ago about Harrods selling Christmas decorations early.  Harrods gets visitors from all around the world and their Christmas decorations are very popular so they make them available in late summer/autumn.
    I don’t know if it’s still there but there was a Christmas shop in the Shambles in York that was open year round so that people Americans could buy a bauble as a souvenir.
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    No other country in the world is like the UK.  Christmas starting in October.  I find it so distasteful I bet the supermarkets gleefully anticipant of billions of £ sales.  Indeed, it seems our economy depends on the Christmas spending.
    I read an article a few years ago about Harrods selling Christmas decorations early.  Harrods gets visitors from all around the world and their Christmas decorations are very popular so they make them available in late summer/autumn.
    At the other end of the spectrum, a Christmas toot-shop opened in September locally, taking the place of a cafe / social space in the High Street. Equality exists when it comes to buying junk!
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  • silverwhistle
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    On a lighter note "is this a sprout thing?" is a running joke between us.  We both hate the wretched things, but for our first 7 Christmases together I cooked them because I assumed that he wanted them, and he ate them because I'd cooked them for him.  We now have broccoli instead.

    I hate them too, but even worse I'm growing a couple of stalks on my allotment! As somebody else on the thread pointed out, even if you don't do anything at home you might go to others'. I was going to have a quiet day on my own last Christmas but was invited to a meal at some friends and was able to take some sprouts!

    The other point someone noted: go better quality than normal. I've got some half decent wines in my "cellar" (a cupboard..) although really need company to enjoy them.
  • DigForVictory
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    I play the Asda Christmas Saving game hard, so we get most of the December groceries there, but we pick up the little treats we see once discounted from Tesco Lidl Aldi, Waitrose, Booths, Sainb & even M&S. We were a family of five, now it's me and the student with the engineer coming over for a meal he hasn't cooked once he's done covering for colleagues with families. It's all a bit "figure it out nearer the time" but its using stuff we've loaded the seasonal crate and corner of the freezer with, so we have the bizarre stuff (a duck, last year) without a "How Many Weeks til payday?" hangover. (Not sure we'll make the duck a Tradition, but the lads enjoyed it.)
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    I read an article a few years ago about Harrods selling Christmas decorations early.  Harrods gets visitors from all around the world and their Christmas decorations are very popular so they make them available in late summer/autumn.
    In the USA  and in Prague and probably elsewhere they have Christmas shops all year, I quite like that as I have cut my souvenir shopping to the bone and buy only a Christmas dec or two now to remember holildays.
  • Ocado
    Ocado for me, you can't beat their stuff, majority of it is M&S foods too, so even if a little more expensive, as the saying goes, you only get what you pay for.

    As for Bah Hum Bug, really not looking forward to Christmas this year, as my sister sadly passed away on 2nd January 2024, she had cancer and Christmas day last year was not a good memory with her being so ill.
  • Dizzycap
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    I said Other because I'll split it between several shops, but I don't know which yet!

    I used to get Christmas delivered from Sainsbury's, but they're getting really expensive for what feels like lower quality.  Plus their delivery service has been pants recently...
    I agree, although I've got a bucket load of Nectar points that I'm going to cash in for a totally FREE Christmas on Sainsburys...... :D

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