When do you break in to your Christmas food supplies?

[Don Sundancer]

Prompted by Stron's 'healthy eating' tweet

Do you eat from when you have it? Do you only buy it when it's time to be eating Christmassy?
Do you not even buy any special foods?

We don't often have much junk in, or even foody extras. It's basic stuff and have some fruit in between mostly! But at Christmas I like to buy lots of bits - snacks, sweets, all sorts of things. We go to PIL's for dinner Christmas Day, so I don't have to pay for that, so I mostly buy junk!

I buy in advance though and keep adding to it. DH thinks I'm mean because I always aim for Christmas eve to break in to it, as I know it will be gone too fast otherwise!
TBH I've normally broken in to it by now, but no one is asking so far this year

What about you?
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[Bookworm]

Well I have drunk the port and eat the little Christmas cake with the Wensleydale dale I alo have made good roads into the Stilton and apricott. I've got to bake tonight so might have to taste the whisky before I mix it into the mince meat
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[jo&tribe]

Today I have eaten lots of cranberry oatcakes (hm!) with Stilton which is definitely Christmas food! I have work tomorrow otherwise the xmas booze would be out. Chocolate biscuits broken into and cookies/fudge/mince pies which were made earlier in the week have been consumed tonight... so as far as we are concerned IT'S CHRISTMAS!!!!

Tomorrow I have made Delia's veggie 'sausage' rolls for tea and I am making a christmassy salad (think pomegranate, red cabbage etc) and I will be assembling Bailey's trifles for us when I get in from work at 1pm for dessert (using toffee sauce in it's place for the kids!). I am boiing-ing up and down inside.. for me xmas is mostly about food, but I am also impatient to get all the kids to sleep tomorrow night, bring all the presents down, have a champagne cocktail and mince pie with DH and listen to Fairytale of NY.....



Jo

PS - bought Pringles, and they come out tomorrow, must be Christmas....
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[jo&tribe]

[Tat]

We are starting tonight, as we have all broken up from work and we've got friends coming over for "drinks and nibbles"
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[Bookworm]

[Avoiding the Housework]

We started on the mince pies today when my parents arrived. I started on the prosecco earlier in the week when I finished work..... (needed the sustenance to get me through the pre-family visit de-clutter!)

We don't buy that much extra stuff for christmas. Just xmas pudding (home made) for christmas day, mince pies for the run up to christmas day, panettone (instead of xmas cake) for the days after xmas, liqueur chocolates (that's the real xmas treat, lol!), and maybe some posh cheeses. Hmm, sounds like a lot when you write it down. But we don't buy eg loads of crisps and nuts or have boxes of biscuits and tins of quality street lying around the house etc.

[St@n]

We started on Wednesday, the first day of the school holidays. I usually keep it until Christmas Eve but this year the children will be with ex on Boxing Day until Tuesday morning & then with my parents (so that they can see their Spanish cousins who are visiting Bristol) from Wednesday until Friday, then back to ex's from Friday eve to Sunday eve, so by the time they're back here to stay it'll be next year & I'd rather not have too much Christmas food hanging around for that long!

Marie, you've just reminded me that I have a panettone stashed away somewhere...!

I did plan to make a gingerbread house & mince pies (have already made the mincemeat) with the children, but it'll just add to the amount to be eaten in such a short space of time, so I haven't bothered.
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[Squirrel]

We usually start on the last Sunday of advent or when the children break up from school except this year they broke up on 16th which was just too early and I'm still in diet mode so we didn't get any of our chocolate or alcohol out last week although we did open the Pringles at lunchtime for the children. Now we are away at my auntie's and had a huge homemade curry meal with lots of courses and lots of wine last night, there will be nibbles for lunch and we are eating out this evening (my auntie couldn't face catering for 17 people for Christmas eve and Christmas day!
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[minnow]

We had a bbq on Friday night and I brought out my xmas cake - I normally wait until xmas day but it seems to last forever so I thought I would bring it out early this year.

We sort of ended up having an impromptu xmas party on Friday - as two sets of friends with children turned up (we have an "open house on Friday) and then my cousin turned up and stayed the night (he is pretty outrageous and his stories pep up any party - as long as the guests are not easily shocked as at 62 going on 16 he has had a pretty full life!!!) )

... and then my godson, Kerry, and a friend who was from Uruaguy, turned up - because we are close to the airport and my godson was due to pick his girlfriend up from a flight from christchurch and the plane was delayed because there were another couple of big earthquakes there on Friday. So he and his friend also stayed.

So it was good fun.
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[Don Trogette]

depends what we have stashed and how busy/stressed/knackered/can't-be-arsed/f**k-it-it's-Christmas we're feeling
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