#onlyatchristmas

I was thinking the other day about starting my Christmas stash of food. It got me thinking about all the stuff I only ever buy at Christmas.

The big boxes of chocolates, Roses or Celebrations, matchmakers, Terry’s chocolate orange. Then things such as pâté. Why I don’t buy pâté throughout the year I have no idea, I love it though! Stuffing, never have stuffing with any other dinner apart from Christmas dinner!

So many things I buy for the period between Christmas Eve and Boxing Day, and then throw away because they go out of date before getting eaten and i have realised that having huge amounts of food makes no difference to the Christmas we have. I have decided that I’m not stocking up like I have before I am cutting back on the food big time this year. I’ve recently stopped eating as much sugar, so the chocolates can come in much smaller quantities and I definitely don’t need the huge supplies of sweets. I have definitely been one of those people that panic buys food because the shops are closed for one day! We are definitely not going to starve!!

I normally do a buffet lunch for my parents on Christmas Day but I am scaling this back this year as well. We had cold cuts of meat, cheeses, sausage rolls, salad, coleslaw, potatoes, crisps, bread etc last year. It was far too much. Most of it went in the bin. This year I will simply have cold meats, salad and some potatoes. I’m not going mad I might as well put my money in the bin.