Your favourite seasonal thing to buy

[TheOstrich]

I quite like to buy fireworks for bonfire night - they're seasonal.

Tell me you're joking - round here it's a constant evening cacophony from the start of Diwali (Hindu Festival of Lights, mid-October) to New Year's Day.

Ah, see our farm shop sells its own sausagemeat all year

Same here, we buy and freeze, and we use it for cabbage leaves stuffed with sausagemeat and tomato ...

I think my favourite seasonal treat is a Terry's chocolate orange.

And the one "seasonal" item that I've noticed Asda have faithfully stocked all year ...... is Hot Cross Buns!

[Ally]

BTW you mentioning Babycham reminded me that I meant to get some Cherry B last Christmas - I used to love that when I was 15 - but Tom got flu and I forgot all about it!

I did too at 15 but with a brandy in it.

[Cal]

I don't think there is anything that I would specifically buy at Christmas. Years ago it was the obvious dates, mince pies, chocolates, sugared almonds, those orange and lemon slices in a box, chocolate brazils. Nowadays if we want it we can buy it all year long - and sadly we usually have chocolate in the cupboard! The really sad thing is - most Christmas food is far too rich for me to be able to eat it anyway nowadays!

[Kaz]

I agree Cal. I think when I was a child everyday food was quite boring, in a way. Meat and two veg - good plain cooking. That made the Christmas food really exciting - a real treat

Now we can have anything we want, at any time......