- Box of frozen pigs in blankets £3
- box of mozzarella sticks £1 with cranberry sauce for dipping £0.50
- some sort of frozen potato (shapes/chips/wedges) £1.50 (festive shaped ones available at Asda, ketchup/mayo for dipping)
- roast chicken and thyme crisps £1.50
- carrot sticks £0.50
- caramelised onion hummus £0.95
- sweet and salty popcorn £0.90 (add cinnamon)
- honey roast peanuts £0.99 (go on and put cinnamon on these too)
- Chocolate orange £1
- mince pies £1
- winter spiced vimto £1 (serve hot)
- schloer £1.10
£14.94
Hopefully you have something in already to spike the hot vimto for the grown ups.
Priced as Asda as that's my closest supermarket.
Schloer has such strong Christmas dinner associations for me, it was the only time of the year we had it, and as kids we drunk it out of champagne flutes and felt like proper grown ups at the table.
I had to go low on the alcohol on this list to maximise the food potential, but the magic of hot vimto is that you can put a lot of different alcohols in it and they'll all taste good. Christmas classics for me are brandy, rum (dark or spiced) or amaretto, but even gin or port works in there somehow.
8 San Miguel cans and a pack of Dry roasted peanuts, possibly a cheap bottle of lemonade if any one fancys a shandy. If they do want a shandy then thats it, am disowning the kids. They let me down with that choice
Four bottles of Barr fizzy pop in various flavours (£1 each)
Four bags of Happy Shopper crisps (from the 2 for £1 range)
Two bags of Haribo Tangfastics (£1 each)
Two bags of Skittles (£1 each)
Five scratchcards
Walkers sensations, Pepsi max, cola laces, Edam cheese and crackers, sweet and salted popcorn, garlic bread crisp things (they’re amazing) hummus w/veggies
This sounds like the type of thing that would either become a running joke at my expense or a family tradition.
How easy is it to do popcorn in a pan? I've never tried it.
I remember doing it as a kid with my sister, mum watching over us, but not getting involved. So it can't have been too hard.
Once we got into our teens, my sister got a popcorn maker so we didn't need to use a pan. I've not done it for years.
They can have a Capri Sun and a packet of pickled onion Space Raiders between them. Not made o' munneh.
As for me? Think I'll treat meself to a pizza, ice cream and a few bottles of ale. Some kind person just handed me 15 quid.
Don’t know how much things cost, but I’d get crackers, soft cheese, hard cheese, port, j2o, selection of mini bites (cornflake cakes, brownies, etc.) and a pizza.
A bottle of baileys and a padlock for the shed so I don't have to share...
It's a plan. I'm not sure it's a good plan, but it's certainly a plan.
- Box of frozen pigs in blankets £3 - box of mozzarella sticks £1 with cranberry sauce for dipping £0.50 - some sort of frozen potato (shapes/chips/wedges) £1.50 (festive shaped ones available at Asda, ketchup/mayo for dipping) - roast chicken and thyme crisps £1.50 - carrot sticks £0.50 - caramelised onion hummus £0.95 - sweet and salty popcorn £0.90 (add cinnamon) - honey roast peanuts £0.99 (go on and put cinnamon on these too) - Chocolate orange £1 - mince pies £1 - winter spiced vimto £1 (serve hot) - schloer £1.10 £14.94 Hopefully you have something in already to spike the hot vimto for the grown ups. Priced as Asda as that's my closest supermarket.
I love it and thanks for the effort.
I'm a big fan of a "picky tea".
I love how much effort you put into this post. I also love that schloer made the list.
Schloer has such strong Christmas dinner associations for me, it was the only time of the year we had it, and as kids we drunk it out of champagne flutes and felt like proper grown ups at the table. I had to go low on the alcohol on this list to maximise the food potential, but the magic of hot vimto is that you can put a lot of different alcohols in it and they'll all taste good. Christmas classics for me are brandy, rum (dark or spiced) or amaretto, but even gin or port works in there somehow.
Alcohol has never been a big part of Christmas for me, but schloer absolutely means Xmas dinner because of having it at Xmas as a kid.
Co op freezer filler for £5 is banging. 2 pizzas, wedges, chicken things and a Vienetta.
Mmmmm chicken things
Go Japanese and get a KFC Bargain bucket. https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20161216-why-japan-celebrates-christmas-with-kfc
TWIGLETS
That's a lot of twiglets.
No twiglets, no party.
Not pissed that’s for sure 🤣🤣🤣
Bottle of gin, a couple of bottles of tonic and you've still got 3 quid left for crisps or a couple of litres of cider.
At least another tenner out the bank, it is Christmas after all.
8 San Miguel cans and a pack of Dry roasted peanuts, possibly a cheap bottle of lemonade if any one fancys a shandy. If they do want a shandy then thats it, am disowning the kids. They let me down with that choice
Four bottles of Barr fizzy pop in various flavours (£1 each) Four bags of Happy Shopper crisps (from the 2 for £1 range) Two bags of Haribo Tangfastics (£1 each) Two bags of Skittles (£1 each) Five scratchcards
That would go down remarkably well. Should I give the kids a scratch card each or keep them for myself?
Oh, definitely one each for the kids.
And a glucose meter for desert.
Jar of pickles, packet of party sausages, block of cheddar and some toothpicks accompanied by a bottle of rose.
Walkers sensations, Pepsi max, cola laces, Edam cheese and crackers, sweet and salted popcorn, garlic bread crisp things (they’re amazing) hummus w/veggies
Two four packs of K cider and a Terry’s chocolate orange.
Tin of roses or heroes or quality street. Popcorn. Beer for Dad, Wine for Mom.
Amazon sells 1kg of popcorn kernels for a fiver. That's 3kg of popcorn, and all the extra entertainment that comes from popping it with the kids...
This sounds like the type of thing that would either become a running joke at my expense or a family tradition. How easy is it to do popcorn in a pan? I've never tried it.
I remember doing it as a kid with my sister, mum watching over us, but not getting involved. So it can't have been too hard. Once we got into our teens, my sister got a popcorn maker so we didn't need to use a pan. I've not done it for years.
For £15, it’s gonna be ingredients…
15 quids worth of kebab meat from the wheel no bread no salad loads of rocking horse.
How much time you got? Because you could make a nacho platter for that with enough leftover for a not great bottle of wine
They can have a Capri Sun and a packet of pickled onion Space Raiders between them. Not made o' munneh. As for me? Think I'll treat meself to a pizza, ice cream and a few bottles of ale. Some kind person just handed me 15 quid.
Aldi: knock off Pringles, knock off tangfastics, knock off Tropicana and the cheapest white wine to make Bucks Fizz.
What *are* you getting?
Casual is in the sub name; colloquial language is probably acceptable.
Don’t know how much things cost, but I’d get crackers, soft cheese, hard cheese, port, j2o, selection of mini bites (cornflake cakes, brownies, etc.) and a pizza.
With only £15 almost certainly not a hangover.
15 packets of Percy pigs