Christmas Chocolates, Sweets and Food

Loughc · 20-12-2021 10:51am

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I can second this recommendation haha

Aisling(",) · 20-12-2021 5:18pm

I'm having my boyfriends parents and siblings over on Christmas eve for finger food and drinks. Was doing the rounds of the shops earlier and I got a bit flustered and ordered a kilo of cocktail sausages instead of a pound. There'll only be 6 of us! Better split some out for freezing or else I'll be eating sausages till new years.

I picked up the goats cheese tarts on the recommendations from here so I hope they're nice now!

tscul32 · 20-12-2021 5:25pm

In my experience you can never have too many cocktail sausages. I'd probably have got 2lbs for 6 people.

SarahLil · 20-12-2021 8:48pm

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Cocktail sausages are gorgeous, there’s a Neven Maguire Dunnes recipe if you want to do some sausages with a twist, here it is https://www.google.ie/amp/s/amp.rte.ie/amp/1097525/

The tarts are fab and 6 minutes in the oven even better!

Sheep Shagger · 20-12-2021 9:15pm

SarahLil · 20-12-2021 9:46pm

I would love a Galaxy selection box I say it most years but never pick one up for myself il drop a hint to the OH :)

Loughc · 20-12-2021 10:55pm

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Just give your OH a LIDL hint ;)

Patsy167 · 01-01-2022 4:08pm

What chocolates or sweets made the highlights reel for you this Christmas?

The Jacobs Elite tins (Kimberley, Mallows, Chocolate Mikados) were well worth it.

Can't believe how far Cadbury have fallen. Plenty Roses, Heroes, and Milk Tray left untouched.

Loughc · 01-01-2022 4:24pm

This was a surprise find this year. Demolished two of them over the last two weeks.

DvB · 01-01-2022 4:29pm

I'm more of a cake fan than sweets, enjoyed the dunnes stores franzipan mince pies, the lidl favorina stollen (have had 4 already and still have 1 left) and their mince pies ( 2 boxes of 12 going into the freezer)

I always enjoy quality street sweets but only had a couple of the tubs over the season, celebrations becoming more popular than any of the Cadbury tubs in our house, the Cadbury chocolate is just too sweet for our tastes nowadays.

DvB · 01-01-2022 4:31pm

On that note, anyone else at the stage of being sick of eating crap? I'm pretty much done with it now and am craving fresh fruit and veg now.

Loughc · 01-01-2022 4:48pm

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Yep. Happens to me every Christmas season. I’m still going to end the season off with a takeaway on Monday haha.

DvB · 01-01-2022 5:08pm

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Thinking of one tonight ourselves 🤣

New Home · 01-01-2022 8:19pm

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I was in Lidl on Tuesday and there were no mince pies to be had at all. 🥺

SarahLil · 01-01-2022 8:30pm

The Dunnes ice cream cake went down a treat today similar to Romantica

SarahLil · 01-01-2022 8:32pm

I actually haven’t had a take away yet for the festivities

I am liking chocolate in the mornings anyone else?

DvB · 01-01-2022 8:32pm

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Same happened last year, all were gone before Christmas eve, that's why I made sure to pick up a couple of boxes about a week before Christmas. Same with the stollen.

New Home · 01-01-2022 8:34pm

That was my plan, too, but with Covid being everywhere I've been doing a monthly shop only, and the last time I was in they hadn't come in, yet.

Loughc · 01-01-2022 9:20pm

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Sarah I’ll be lying if i said every morning didn’t start with either a tea cake or a snowball.

ive been surviving off chocolate until lunch time every day.

tscul32 · 01-01-2022 11:15pm

Biscuits, Pringles, mince pies, Christmas cake...... mmm breakfast....

Autosport · 02-01-2022 7:42am

Tried to keep the chocolate/sweet buying to a minimum and did to some extent but still have lots left over and will munch my way through January with it 😂

Loughc · 02-01-2022 12:31pm

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We bought loads in the run up to Christmas and still have loads left. On a positive note I didn’t need to buy any in the weekly shop last week.

sporina · 02-01-2022 12:57pm

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yeah not been liking sweets at all this xmas - roses or heroes.. lots left here... is it cos the choc just isn't nice anymore?

been loving mince pies (Dunnes Stores) and bickies (Jacob's Afternoon Tea and USA)

SarahLil · 02-01-2022 4:57pm

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Glad to hear it the first few days of Christmas I didn’t tuck into anything earlish but the last few days when I think of my first coffee or tea I think I need something sweet

A cup of te · 02-01-2022 5:27pm

It breaks my heart to say it because they're a tradition but I think I need to let the Roses and Quality Street go in future. They are not the sweets of old anymore and all that attracts me now is the packaging. I think Celebrations are the only tub of sweets I like. Other than that I think just the homemade Mince pies, pudding, cake etc is the way to go with a special nod to one or two boxes of good quality handmade chocolate, tunnocks teacakes, tin of biccies, walnut whip. Oh and I suppose a box of Black Magic too :-)

DvB · 02-01-2022 5:36pm

Amazing so many people have said that the Cadbury (moreso than QS) sweets are so poor nowadays yet still appear to be so much more popular than QS and celebrations. I still like the QS tubs but can recognise they are far from what they used to be. Think the celebrations are the stand out option now for us.

Loughc · 02-01-2022 7:12pm

Got this twice over the Christmas season to spruce up desserts. It was amazing and if you tilt your head sideways it says a taste of Christmas and I’ll have to agree.

Autosport · 02-01-2022 11:27pm

I type this has I tuck into some quality streets but like a few others have said chocolate just isn’t the same anymore, Galaxy is still divine though 😂🙏 I’m not a fan of jellies at all.

Princess Calla · 03-01-2022 2:22am

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Aldi had their galaxy selection boxes reduced to 1.49 on Friday, you might get lucky, stock didn't seem to be shifting.

SarahLil · 03-01-2022 11:52am

I love Jellies OH did good filling my stocking with them and some Christmas decorations 😀

@Loughc thinking of a king sambo since you mentioned it

bought a box of hunky dory’s in November we used them for lunches didn’t manage to pick up another box they didn’t see to be in stock always get King regardless

Christmas Chocolates, Sweets and Food

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"I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens

"I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens

"I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens

"I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens

"I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens