Do you go overboard with the grub shopping at Christmas ?

Emp_Fab

Just reading a few threads and Chilli mentioned sausage rolls and I realised I haven't got any.  Then I felt bad - but - I've got enough for a turkey dinner tomorrow etc.  I just haven't spent half my month's salary on everything I can find in the supermarket.  However, the advertisers make you feel mean if you haven't got goose-fat roasties, honey and thingy parsnips, cranberry, bread sauce, crackers, hats, hams, cheeses, puddings, chocolates, mulled wine, non-mulled wine, spirits, eggnog, bucks fizz, melon and parma ham, cuddly toy, teasmade, pigs in blankets, sausage rolls etc etc.

It's fucking mental !

Have you filled up your larder and fridge with enough food to keep Mozambique going for a month, or are you more restrained ?

Christmas has turned from this...

Into this !

Lixarto

It's the same as usual here, but with more booze.

Flink_Poyd

No, the supermarkets are open again on boxing day

VimFuego

about the only thing we've got extra would be the joint (rolled sirloin), I made a stollen (which will probably serve as pudding, with cream) and I made several litres of sloe gin. Everything else is just what we have the rest of the year. The advertisers and marketing men can go fuck themselves.

chillidoggy

/\ I long for such austerity. 

Every year I try to cut back, but every year I am overruled. There did appear to be a lot less sweets and chocolate things a few days ago, however some have appeared as if from nowhere. That said, with my son here, I am actually looking forward to Christmas Day for the first time in a while. And with any luck I can rope him in to help me get the engine and gearbox out of the Lotus.

littlegreenman

chillidoggy said:

/\ I long for such austerity. 

Every year I try to cut back, but every year I am overruled. There did appear to be a lot less sweets and chocolate things a few days ago, however some have appeared as if from nowhere. That said, with my son here, I am actually looking forward to Christmas Day for the first time in a while. And with any luck I can rope him in to help me get the engine and gearbox out of the Lotus.

Going for better reliability then?

lloyd

We're away from ours from tomorrow so the fridge is empty-bought a load of nice stuff (pate, cheeses, pretzels, a ham et etc) to take to my parents to save them a few quid.

I treat myself over Xmas and although the shops are open-I don't want to go to them!

underdog

I spent a fortune, it's the only week myself and the wife have off all year, its the only week my kids are off school that we get to spend with them, so the longer I can make it without needing to go to the shops the better.

Got 2 freezers full, fridge is bursting, 2 bottles of whiskey, lots of juice and pop. I really think we can make it until Jan 2nd.

Hootsmon

Lixarto said:

It's the same as usual here, but with more booze.

hi Lix

I noticed yer GOD IS POWER sig.......does he do a deal on combined gas an' electricity?

Lixarto

I wouldn't presume to know the mind of God ...

(It is a quote from "1984")

Hootsmon

^ I thought he was dead then

chillidoggy

littlegreenman said:

chillidoggy said:

/\ I long for such austerity. 

Every year I try to cut back, but every year I am overruled. There did appear to be a lot less sweets and chocolate things a few days ago, however some have appeared as if from nowhere. That said, with my son here, I am actually looking forward to Christmas Day for the first time in a while. And with any luck I can rope him in to help me get the engine and gearbox out of the Lotus.

Going for better reliability then?

Clutch, fuel tank change and exhaust manifold. Plus anything else I can find at the time, so yes.

littlegreenman

Then you just need a hill to coast down and it'll run perfectly, all the time!

d8m

Given enough Ferrero Rocher to make this!

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