This giveaway is now closed. The winner was Nickie Chapman, North London.
Today’s Christmas Giveaway is for an amazing Interflora Essential Christmas Hamper RRP £100. Find out what’s inside and how to enter at the bottom of this post.
But first here are some Christmassy photos from a December trip to Belgium.
The great thing about a weekend getaway to Brussels is that the hotels are such good value.
As the centre of the European Parliament, the hotels are expensive during the week when all the bureaucrats are about. Come Saturday night they’ve all gone home and the hotels are selling off their rooms very cheaply.
That’s not to say Brussels isn’t a place for tourists, December especially sees the streets surrounding the Grand Place filled with atmospheric Christmas Markets.
You can get a very good four star hotel room in the centre of Brussels for under £100 per night including breakfast, we booked Hotel Windsor using lastminute.com. We had driven from the UK and parked overnight in an underground car park near the Grand Place for around 12 euros.
This was 4 years ago now but I have been researching trips to Belgium more recently and know this hotel at weekend would be phenomenally good value even now. Bruges on the other hand, is very pricey, very difficult to book at weekends near Christmas since its proximity to Calais makes it very busy for “booze cruisers”.
Brussels is worth the extra hour’s drive. We were able to leave Brussels at around 4pm on Sunday and using Eurotunnel still be home for a reasonable 9pm and not be too tired for work the following day.
In the hotel lobby, we were captivated by this village of gingerbread houses. I vowed to make one myself but to this day have not yet managed to do so.
Aren’t they gorgeous?
The lobby was filled with smell of gingerbread, it was so welcoming. I think these are the best gingerbread houses I have ever seen.
As a food blogger, taking this many pictures would be normal but this was a long time before so that gives you an idea what an impression they made on me!
Time now to enter the Interflora Essential Christmas Hamper giveaway…
Interflora Essential Christmas Hamper RRP £100 Giveaway
Interflora Hampers make ideal last minute gifts for far away relatives and friends. They vary in price from around £25 to £200 for all budgets and all tastes.
We have an Interflora Essential Christmas Hamper to give away to one lucky reader and it contains the following treats for the festive season and beyond:
- Presented in a Wicker Hamper
- Robin Reed Handmade Concerto Musical Crackers x 8
- Pinot Grigio Il Papavero Italy 2008 75cl
- Primitivo Il Papavero Italy 2007 75cl
- Warres Warrior Special Reserve Port 37.5cl
- Waterthins Crunchy Sourdough Poppy & Cracked Pepper Cheese Twists 110g
- Chocca Mocca Real Raspberries Dipped in Fine Dark Chocolate 100g
- Sally Williams Soft Nougat Pieces with Roasted Almonds 150g
- Walkers Luxury Milk Chocolate Orange Royal Shortbread 125g
- Thursday Cottage Handmade Blood Orange Marmalade 340g
- Twinings Coffee Blends Intense & Enlivening Coffee 227g
- The Jolly Good Pickle Company Poachers Chutney 200g
- The Jolly Good Pickle Company Cranberry Sauce 200g
- Thursday Cottage Handmade Raspberry Jam 340g
- Farmhouse Biscuits Assorted Butter Biscuits 400g
- Walkers Luxury Miniature Mincemeat Tarts 225g
- Just Chocolates Fine Chocolate Selection 125g
- Gold Crown Delicious Christmas Pudding 454g
- Olives Et Al Sesame Nuts 200g
There is one mandatory way to enter and several ways to get bonus entries.
This giveaway is only open to readers based in the UK. With other giveaways I’ve said you can still enter if you are overseas provided you have a friend with a UK mailing address and forward the parcel on yourself at your own cost. This prize will weigh A TON. You would be nuts to try and mail this to yourself overseas. Therefore, I suggest you sit this one out! Sorry guys!
The winner will be chosen using an online randomiser and announced in a subsequent post on this blog – the winners of several of the 12 giveaways will be will announced together across 2-3 posts according to their closing dates.
To win:
1. Mandatory. Leave a comment below telling me what your essential foodie Christmas item is.
2. Second chance to win, follow this blog using the Google Friend Connect widget in the right hand side bar and leave a second comment saying you have done so.
3. Third chance to win, tweet a link to this giveaway as follows: “Win @interflorauk Essential Christmas Hamper RRP £100 @maisoncupcake” WITH A LINK TO THIS POST as it may no longer be the home page item if you enter later this week. Then leave another comment saying you’ve done so telling me your Twitter ID.
I’ll also throw in extra entries if you leave comments to say you are following @interflorauk on Twitter.
You must leave a further separate comment for each bonus entry otherwise they cannot be selected in the draw.
Closing date: midnight GMT on Sunday December 19th 2010.
The winner will be notified by email. If the winner does not reply within 48 hours, a new winner will be drawn. Please reply promptly to increase the likelihood of you receiving your prize before Christmas.Good luck everyone!Prize sponsored by Interflora
Also up for grabs during the Maison Cupcake 12 Days of Christmas Giveaways:
Waitrose Christmas goodies RRP £35 Closed
Green & Black’s Ultimate Chocolate Chef gift set Closed
Nigella Living Collection Measuring Cups Closes Jan 16 (bloggers’ competition, international)
Alex Polizzi’s Little Black Book of Hotels Closes Dec 14
Sainsbury’s Different by Design cookware Closes Dec 15
Chai Caramels from Matcha Chocolat INTERNATIONAL Closes Dec 16
Eric Lanlard’s “Home Bake” from Octopus Books
Cookware from Jamie Oliver and Mum et Moi
Looks like I am first… ooeer
My christmas foodie essential is a tricky one. I think it is probably a bottle of spiced rum. I splash it in lots of things – but it gives a particular zing to my rum butter (which I have to have with christmas pud and mince pies – not brandy butter!)
I think my chrissy food essential has to be…bucks fizz. A glass of bucks fizz on christmas morning with a bacon roll before scrummaging under the tree for the presents! I love christmas and although this year employment issues mean we have less to spend this year, it will still be magical as we still have each other and our friends and family. Hope everyone has a great christmas and lets hope 2011 brings us a fresh start and new adventures. x
I’d say I’ve got two essentials, good quality cheese (preferably Stilton) and some nice Scotch. The Scotch has become a standing joke with my family so that I get given 2 bottles every Christmas in lieu of other gifts and to keep me going through the year. My family works on the gift motto of ‘eat it, drink it read it’ and I’m pretty happy with my ‘drink it’.
Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without my home made turkey stuffing. Sausagemeat,stuffing mix, chopped apples and onions and a few bacon lardons – the family would rather eat just the stuffing and not bother with the turkey!!
Following your blog
Tweeted for you – I’m @1dozymoo
Also following @interflorauk on Twitter!
THanks for the fabby giveaway and Merry Xmas!
My Christmas foodie essential is definitely homemade chestnut & cranberry stuffing and also a good bread sauce 🙂
Following your blog using google connect 🙂
Goose Fat for my potatoes is an essential.
Thanks so much, really loving the articles as much as the gorgeeous giveaways. I feel so Christmassy looking at the pictures on here and reading the posts.
been a follower for a while on Google Friends
I also follow @interflorauk
Christmas isn’t Christmas without brussell sprouts! Not a popular choice I’m sure, but they are just so evocative of the festive season. I buy them fresh on the stalk and the children help to prepare them!
Follow you through GFC and love your glorious foodie blog!!
Tweeted @wendymcd83
Following Interflora on Twitter @wendymcd83
Thank you xxx
Ooo, you can’t have Christmas without Cranberry Sauce, surely??
Entry one- comment- check.
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Keep fingers crossed hoping to win- check!
Nothing says Christmas more than chestnuts! 🙂
Competition tweeted (@sharonald)
I need to have a good old Christmas Pudding at this time of year
I also follow @interflora on twitter (@sharonald).
Many thanks for a great giveaway
Following you and retweeted
@steviey
Following @interflorauk
@steviey
My Christmas foodie essential is mince pies. Its about the one food that I eat only in December.
My essential Christmas Food has got to be that big old tin of chocs – whatever your fave is really. Christmas evening wouldn’t be the same without trying to get through the whole tin and being surrounded by wrappers ;o)
I’ve tweeted too @charbarcrazy
Also following @interflorauk on Twitter
@steviey
I’ve followed the blog, tweeted as @motivatingmumuk and followed @maisoncupkake and @interflora
My essential food item is a chocolate log made by my mum! Christmas is not christmas without a chocolate log!
Tweeted @NFZ0809LOVE
Already follow your blog!
xx
My essential is amaretto. I use it in lots of the Christmassy treat – cherry liqueur chocolates, ice cream, liqueur coffees to name but a few.
I already follow in GFC.
got to be christmas pudding and cream mm
Have tweeted
http://twitter.com/justforcomps/status/14644562563702784
@justforcomps
My essential item has to be bread sauce – my Christmas dinner is not complete without it.
I already follow @InterfloraUK on twitter.
@justforcomps
We can’t have Christmas without a nice slab of Stollen! @finleypoppet x
My favourite christmas foodie item is mulled wine! I LOVE it! I’m not a big wine fan generally but mulled wine; home made or M&S’s, I absolutely can’t resist – what’s not to love about hot, spiced wine??
Mine would have to be my own homemade sausage meat! Always goes down a treat and I think many people forget about it over christmas,but I absolutely love!
I follow the blog x
Following your blog 🙂 – vickii
Tweeted @kc_andlollipops
I’m also now following @interflorauk on twitter – I’m @vickii373
I have tweeted a link to this page @finleypoppet
Surely it has to be brandy butter for the Christmas pud!
My essential Christmas foodie item is/are Clementines – with the leaves on. We always put one in the stockings, have a big bowl of them and juice them with Cava for breakfast.
Look at those deer on the big wheel – how pretty. I love those gingerbread houses – I did attempt one last year and it suffered from subsidence. The walls had to be shored up with a lot of icing but it looked pretty.
Love that ice rink. What a great trip to go on. I always say I’ll go to one of the Christmas markets.
Following Interflora.
I follow @interflorauk on twitter (@finleypoppet)
Also tweeted http://twitter.com/#!/Jo_Bryan/status/14646319033352192
My product would be the gingerbread house we make every year technically its not a foodie item but i love the fact that the kids and me all make it together and get to have fun in the kitchen without any squabbles and eating the finished product after christmas is always good!
I have completed all the steps above tweeting as @zoenmya
And thankyou for such generous giveaways
Also tweeted your message as @dawny_cupcake
Following via google friend connect too xx
Cheese! It has to be cheese! Imagine Christmas without the port, grapes, chutney, cured meats and cheese! Not worth thinking about.
Not sure if this would be classed as a foodie item, but fresh cinnamon bark as well. Can’t have Christmas without cinnamon!
Hamper sounds lovely by the way!
Plus following @interflorauk as @dawny_cupcake
Thanks for the great giveaways!!
Ummmmm I guess the most essential to me would be some really good dark chocolate to make hot drinks with! Topped with cream or marshmallows, there’s nothing nicer to wind down with at the end of the day and over christmas who cares about all those extra calories 😉
Am also following @interflorauk
My fav food has got to be my uncles home made banoffee cheesecake that he makes for us every Xmas without fail. My mouths watering thinking about it lol. Following your blog, and posted on twitter too. Fingers crossed I win as this would make my Xmas. Thanks @misssarahjay
And have tweeted here http://twitter.com/zoenmya/status/14647016583864320
I’ve used the google friend connect, I know it’s a different email but it’s the only way i know how to do it, you can tell it’s me by the pic though 😀
I’ve tweeted about this as well now http://twitter.com/MunchKim/status/14648001213505536
I’m @MunchKim
And I’m following @interflorauk on twitter as well, I have been for a while does that matter? 🙂
My christmas foodie essential is sausages and bacon from my local farm shop to make the pigs in blankets as for me they are the best thing on a christmas dinner! Have retweeted, followed 🙂
Those gingerbread houses are very cute.
The thing I love that I only ever have at Christmas is bread sauce – yum!
Rich fruit cake and Wensleydale cheese
Already follow @interflorauk
http://twitter.com/luvhandyls/status/14649380875272192
My important foodie essential used to be Mum’s Christms Cake, very lovely, very secret recipe and very boozy. She is no longer with us and nobody can do it quite as well.
I love chocolate logs – just something very magical about them for some reason, easy enough to make and look lucsious.
I am following you
I have tweeted as @netcurtains
My essential foodie item is my Norfolk Bronze Turkey not only for christmas day but to make a scrummy family recipe Turkey & Ham pie on boxing day and a turkey curry for all that drop by.
Already follow on Google Friend Connect x
Retweeted @daisybeebee x
It has to be loads of nuts and chocolates
Im following @Ineterflora
I think its got to be pigs in blankets. For me it epitomizes Christmas dinner. The hamper looks amazing. I’ve tweeted the comp too, thanks x
Sarah following yr blog 😉
Essential Christmas foodie item would probably be some decent cava for making Christmas morning Buck’s Fizz. It’s just not Christmas if you’re not very slightly merry by lunchtime (oh that sounds terrible, but true).
I already follow on Google Friend Connect so I don’t know if that counts?
And I’ve just tweeted with a link to this post.
And I’m now following @interflorauk on Twitter
I can’t live without some good christmas M&M’s cookies!
also on Google FC
My fave foodie thing about Christmas is munching on the bacon that’s been protecting the turkey breast while it’s been slowly roasting overnight. Yummy!!
tweet done… @josordoni
Am follwing on Google Blog Connect too 🙂
I also follow you on Google..
and last but not least I am following @interflorauk..!!
Have RT’ed too.
I’m @beffff
ANd I am already following @interflorauk 🙂
Thanks for running the comp
xx
@BlueTacuma Brandy is an Xmas essential
Sausages wrapped in bacon, cook them up for brekkie with a glass of bucks fizz – wouldn’t be Xmas without them
My Christmas essential is definitely cheese. Lots of it and the stinkier the better! YUM!
I tweeted the link (@MissBaileyMSE)
Chocolate log made by yours truely! Thats the essential! 😉
I’m also following @interflorauk
Many thanks for running this fab comp! I’ve got my fingers crossed! x
@MissBaileyMSE
My essential foodie item for chrimbo has to be our gingerbread house – I make one every year and then stock up on sweeties galore so me and my boys can decorate to their hearts content!
I’ve also followed your blog on Google Connect!
My essential food item at Xmas is a tin of Celebrations. Usually they don’t last till Xmas day though lol
Our Austrian Cookies without a doubt… hence have been baking for weeks now..
Thanks for another GREAT competition!
Maggy
My mum always makes a dumpling at christmas time and everyone loves it.
My must have Christmas food is mince pies – love em! 🙂
Gorgeous piccies by the way, x
I already follow you, x
I also follow you on Google friend connect
Have tweeted (@amylane) and I follow Interflora too.
Now I will stop being stalkerish! 😉 x
I’ve now tweeted
@jazza1
Follwing @InterfloraUK now
jazza1
Essential foodie food would have to be all sorts of different Cheese’s and crackers with Cranberry jelly or my mates home made Marrow & Garlic Chutney, and just pig out on that,mmmm
my essential christmas food would have to be my mum’s bake wells she bakes every year and her chocolate buns mmmm they taste like heaven 🙂
tweeted @rainiexiexie
following this blog 🙂
Not sure if it counts as an item, but Christmas isn’t Christmas without bread sauce.
Chocolate truffles. Mmmmm!
@sandycalico
Following the blog
Also following your blog on GFC
And following @interflorauk on Twitter
And have tweeted as @abritontheside
Lost my first comment I think. My xmas foodie essential is chocolate truffles.
Brussel sprouts, even though only I eat them, still put them on everbody elses plates
turkey roast…yum
My Christmas foodie essential is a lovely slice of Christmas cake – well soaked in brandy, with a good layer of marzipan – yum
The back up bird(usually chicken)in case anything goes wrong with the star of the show
my yule essential is home-made white bread to make those days of turkey and redcurrant sarnies more than a practical using up of left-overs.
Pigs in blankets ……. mmmmmmmmmmm.
christmas crackers you cant have a christmas table without cracker
brandy snaps stuffed with clotted cream
mums homemade stuffing.
Drum Roll – Wait for it whilst he adjusts his crown and sorts out his stuffing. Have you guessed it – TURKEY!
Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without Brussels Sprouts. Not just because they are one of my favourite vegetables, but as families grow up and food fashions change, the other elements of the Christmas feast vary and grow more sophisticated. The one element of thre meal that has been constsnt all my life is a lovely great pile of sprouts.
I’ve tweeted, am follwing your blog, and amfollowing both you and Interflora on Twitter. My Twitter name is @compergrapevine
mines got to be the Christmas pud it’s only me that eats it in our house but i have to buy one every year 🙂
Christmas is not christmas without a scrummy chocolate log
Slices of locally sourced pork pie and mustard for breakfast, washed down with champagne bucks fizz 🙂
I’m follower 301 I think 🙂 Just followed with Google Connect, lovely photos in this blog
Forgot to say im a follower as well 🙂
Retweeted via @2011smiley 😉
Stollen, while everyone else is tucking into christmas cake I eat stollen
My essential foodie Christmas item is peppermint bark. So yummy and incredibly easy to make 🙂
I am following via Google Friend connect.
Turkey, of course! Roast on Christmas Day itself, cold with pickles on Boxing Day, then in sandwiches for the rest of the week! There’s only the two of us, so it takes days to eat it all!
I have tweeted (@milkpetal) http://twitter.com/milkpetal/status/14710521659916289
I am following @interflorauk also 🙂
Think this year it will be marinated feta – not the obvious choice but a Greek twist on christmas!
My essential is lovely roast potatoes. Homemade in goose fat with some garlic, salt and pepper! Delish with roast beef and yorkshire puds!
I follow you in GFC
I’ve posted on twitter @lauracymft
I follow @interflorauk on twitter too @lauracymft
Following blog 🙂
My essential xmas food would have to be mini sausage rolls which we always have on boxing day 🙂
Tweeting too @lisanorfolk and already follow interflora 🙂
I’ve now tweeted
Essential item – streaky bacon wrapped round smoked cheese, to go with the turkey – could not imagine Xmas without them now!
Sprouts. I know they are contraversial but I love them at Christmas cooked with shredded savoy cabbage, pancettaand roasted chestnuts. Yum
For me it has to be Stilton (and of course a good bottle of port to go with it). Christmas wouldn’t be the same without it.
my essential item is christmas pudding , its yummy and i hate having to wait a wholoe year to eat it lol
FOLLOWING VIA GOOGLE FRIEND
HAVE TWEETED THE GIVEAWAY @twinklenicci on twitter x
i am following @interflorauk already xx @twinklenicci x
has to be the old prawn cocktail starter! also selection of cheese’s washed down with a glass or 2 of port yum
Thanks for the chance to win Xx @relisys222
My Christmas foodie essential is brandy sauce xx
Mince pies for Father Christmas, in case he doesn’t leave me any presents
home made mince pies heaven
chocolate any chocolate
tweeted @Jaz246t
Follwing @InterfloraUK
christmas pudding
Pickled onions
Yule Log
Chilli powder!!
Because I’m not a fan of christmas food, I find it so bland! I’m much happier with a chilli or curry on christmas day rather than a christmas dinner!
(washed down with lots of wine, followed by too much chocolate)
I’ve tweeted about the competition. I’m @Cocktail_Koala 🙂
My essential item is the nutcracker!
Following on google.
Have re-tweeted @Isis1981uk
Following @Interflora on Twitter @Isis1981uk
my favourite is christmas pudding. Delicious!
i am following on google
i have tweeted too @ashlallan
i am following @Interflora too (@ashlallan)
bacon to go on the top of the turkey !
I’m following you with GFC
I’ve tweeted too @cherylp59
I’m also following interflorauk now on twitter
Lovely prize, thanks for hosting the giveaways 🙂
Always have to have mince pies.
Has to be smoked salmon… nom nom nom…
Amfollowing too =)
Tweeted @pipersky1
Following @Interflora too =)
Essential item is a bit obscure – a heat diffuser! Essential for making the most ethereal delicious bread sauce 🙂
I love sitting down in the afternoon with a bowl of chestnuts!!
Christmas pudding with lashings of brandy sauce is my idea of a little bit of heaven!
Sprouts, sprouts and more sprouts! See, I could do with a hamper full of treats 🙂
Chocolate of course. Another fab prize, hats off to you for keeping up the momentum.
I am following your blog
It’s got to be skirlie for me. It’s Scottish oatmeal stuffing and it just wouldn’t be Christmas without it!
Have tweeted – @Choclette8
Am following InterfloraUK on Twitter – @Choclette8
Essential Foodie Christmas Item, well that would have to be Sainsburys Cointreau cream, really essential for the mince pies and the organic christmas pud! So Moreish!
Christmas pudding and cream!!!
and i’m following your blog xx
Have tweeted … @ SarahSparkles31
And i follow Interflora on Twitter xx
Ultimate foodie thing for christmas for me is Christmas pud & brandy butter – yum!
Am already following blog!
Have tweeted! xx
And have been following interflora on twitter for yonks! xx
My essential xmas item is mince pies…of course with some brandy cream – yummy. Following you on twitter @avoidorange
My Christmas essential has got to be my Dad’s Christmas Cake recipe, which since he’s now gone I have taken over the traditional of making. It’s rich, fruity & full of brandy, it tastes of Christmas!
I love the pictures of the gingerbread village, I’ve just made one for the first time this year! x
I love christmas pudding with brandy cream
have tweeted message @sidshane
already a follower of both
Sauerkraut for me..x
Have retweeted as @StomaFreeBuddie
My essential Christmas food is chocolate truffles! I usually make my own but I also buy some in shops too 🙂 My special treat once a year 🙂
I’m following the blog with Google Friends 🙂
Roast potatoes cooked in goose fat
I have tweeted the comp link @CoxeeFoxy
And finally I am following Interflora UK on Twitter 🙂
TURKEY!
There are many smells and tastes that are “Christmas”, but the one thing I can’t think of doing without is several glasses of Harveys Bristol Cream whilst cooking the festive feast. Following you on Twitter and have retweeted. @compnut
A slice of Christmas Cake.
Mince Pie with cream
Traditional Roast Turkey Dinner
Smoked salmon and scrambled eggs
Christmas ain’t Christmas without cranberry sauce!
following with googleH7
following you and tweeted a linky – bev_metallica
and finally – (I feel like an evil spammer!) I am following Interflora!
Merry Christmas!
Table Water Crackers and cheese
Following with Google Connect
Tweeted as @spagetti8
Pigs in blankets
Has to be brussels sprouts, only time of year they get eaten but wouldn’t be Christmas dinner without them
following your blog
have tweeted your message
tweeted your message with a link but forgot to leave my twitter name @juliedee4663
and I follow interflora
Christmas cake with thick marzipan.
Smoked Salmon in the morning :-)oh and sausages wrapped in bacon definately with xmas dinner
am following @interflorauk on twitter
Have tweeted @WendyCollard
Has to be Stollen. I’m going to make one this weekend, first time.
http://catchingupwiththeclarkes.blogspot.com/
Cinnamon and Orange Brady. I soak it into the christmas cake, and the Christmas pudding,
Because It makes a fab gift, & I make brandy butter with it. It is the base of a fab christmas cocktail mixed with ginger beer and I use the brandy butter mixed with currents to make my Christmas Eccles cakes. and Cinnamon
wards off colds and flu and viruses .. so it’s medicinal too.
Although Christmas dinner wouldn’t be Christmas dinner without the turkey the thing I’d miss most of all was Christmas pudding…..that is Christmas to me. Although I usually keep a stash and have it a couple of times during the year too. 🙂
My essential food would have to be marzipan omnomnom!
Christmas pudding, so rich but oh so yummy 🙂
Merry Christmas 🙂 x
My essential Christmas foodie item is my mother in-law’s ham hock … she does it every year and I only have it once a year!
Am also following @interflorauk on Twitter
(@kazautomatic)
Am following you via Google Connect 🙂
And I have retweeted about your giveaway 🙂
(@kazautomatic)
Roast Potatoes and Delias cook book, she can cook xxx @phyllgerry
Also following your brilliant blog now xx @phyllgerry
RT’d to @phyllgerry
Also have been following @interflorauk for a while. love @phyllgerry
Bacon-wrapped chipolatas!
roast turkey dinner
Those gingerbread houses are gorgeous! Anyway foodie item is Christmas cake, love it
Tweeted @ali991
Just the Ticket
my two christmas essentials are brussel sprouts with my christmas dinner and a nice bit of stilton and crackers for pud :o) yum
My fave is Christmas Yule Log-an essential tradition for Christmas eve that always makes me feel like Christmas is finally here and the celebrations are about to start!
It’s got to Blue cheese. It tastes so wrong and yet so right. It wouldn’t be crimbo without it
the Roast Potatoes for me
Brussels Sprouts, can’t have christmas dinner without them… even if nobody eats them!
Stuffing,christmas is not the same without it!
Apple sauce i love it
Everything you need for Christmas!
Has to be pigs in blankets… yum yum x
Smoked salmon for me, it is not Xmas without it, sorry must just be me 🙂
It’s Christmas, it must be turkey!
My favourite is Christmas cake. I make it myself and it’s always a Christmassy pleasure to tuck into it on Christmas Day.
My essential foodie Christmas item is a single, red & white striped, peppermint candy cane. I absolutely NEED to have one for it to be Christmas, but more than one is just too sickly sweet. Unfortunately it’s difficult as they come in boxes of 12-18!
Smoked salmon with lemon juice, yum!
Smoked salmon, cream cheese and dill sauce nibbles 🙂
Duck Fat for roasting up the best tatties!!!! oh and lashings of Bread Sauce on that Turkey!!!!!
following you on Twitter- @balletgal84 xxx
Liebkuchen – the house smells like Christmas when I make them.
I am following the blog already.
Have tweeted as @beachrambler.
Was already following InterfloraUK (as @beachrambler)
turkey sandwiches with homemade sage and onion stuffing
i love all christmas food, but if i have to pick a favourite then its got to be the christmas pudding with lashes of cream
Christmas fruit cake. That is my one absolutely indispensable essential. We have tried all sorts alternatives for the meal, but the Christmas cake gets baked every year – preferable in June/July!
OK so now I am following you! 🙂
Third Time Lucky? I Tweeted this as @RenateKriegler. Fingers crossed! 🙂
Aw Guess who really really really wants the hamper… I am now following @InterfloraUK as @RenateKriegler xxx
Mince pies
Cranberry sauce is my must on Christmas day
cream, for all the yummy desserts
Roast goose cooked to a turn is an absolute must at Christmas!
turkey, hot and cold
It is Gingerbread houses for us from the German Xmas market in Manchester every year. Its now a household tradition…
My boyfriend is Brazilian, so we enjoy traditional Brazilian sweets called ‘Brigadeiro’, made from chocolate and condensed milk. They are delicious, and they really make him feel at home at Christmas !
mince pies warm with cream
Simply a box of Newberry Fruits.
Port and Stilton – what a luxury
My must have food for Christmas is sprouts, love them or hate them they are a must for Christmas day.
I am following @interflorauk on twitter as @alison_1966
Devils and Angels on Horseback of course!
Chocolate coins for me
Christmas essential: custard – it always gets forgotten and we all prefer it on our Christmas pud
tweeted @sarokaal
following @interflorauk
The turkey!
My essental Christmas Foodie is homemade cranberry sauce. My hand always seems to shake when I pour in the port so it is always nice and boozy.
My essential christmas foodie item is Christmas cake, served with strong cheddar cheese and an apple, all washed down with mulled wine. You just can’t imagine them together, but they really work.
have tweeted @Jeanieallergy
am also following interflora on twitter
Freshly cooked gammon , with cranberries yummmmm!!!!
Christmas Crackers are for me,
and a glass of Champagne under the tree 😉
turkey and ham and a lovely bit of suffing
Stuffing, cooked in the turkey with minced smoked oysters. Yummy.
Brandy Cream-yum!
Pickle onions
Turkey
Panatone with fresh coffee.Sets you up for the day.
My essential christmas foodie item is corned beef and potato pie.
I follow with GFC
Homemade stuffing to accompany our turkey
Hi my Christmas favorite food has to be mince pies i love um i could almost be a mince pie addict all you mince pie makers please make more more more MERRY PIEMASS ALL
My essential christmas foodie item has to be Christmas Pudding with custard!
Mine would have to be a rich, moist Christmas cake, bursting with fruit and served with a wedge of Colston Bassett Stilton. Christmas on a plate.
the turkey!
Please enter me in the competition. My favourite foodie Christmas item has to be the brandy butter to go with the Christmas pudding
Thank you very much for your post and reviving those lovely memories. I grew up on the Continent. As Hansel & Gretel was one of my favourite stories, my Grandmother use.d to make me a big gingerbread house every Christmas, which I would take to school and share with my classmates.
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Competition tweeted @erinyslondon
Christmas pud x
stilton and digestive biscuits!
Goose fat to make beautiful roast potatoes – crispy on the outside, fluffy in the middle
No one else seems to like it, but Kidney Soup!
Onion gravy yummee
Homemade chocolates – still got to make mine.
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Can’t live without Stollen at Christmas!
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Tweeted @missielizzieb
I LOVE mince pies!
I’m also following the Maison Cupcake blog!
My essential Christmas foodie item has to be Christmas pud!
Following with Google Blog 🙂
Tweeted with a link username @en1gmaz
http://twitter.com/#!/en1gmaz/status/15854476325822464
following @interflorauk and @maisoncupcake 🙂
myv family and belgian chocolate shells
Brussel Sprouts!
BREAD SAUCE…that is all! I adore bread sauce and Christmas would just NOT be Christmas without it, for me anyway 🙂
I follow and I will also tweet from @mummysshoes x
Stollen – even though I don’t like marzipan!
Honey glazed ham and ginger bread – not together of course!
Essential Christmas foodie has to be Tunis cake – with HARD chocolate covering, none of the fondant chocolate nonsense that’s on the Mark & Spencer variety. Tesco do a nice one but they fly off the shelves as soon as the stock goes out. Every year it’s the same. The whole family, up and down the country is on high alert from the beginning of December. The first person to spot them buys as many as they can carry home. My sister drew the short straw this year and had to carry four home on the bus!
Turkey, wish we could have it all year around.
Lovely homemade mince pies with lashings of thick cream.
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Pigs in blankets, made at home with our local butchers prize winning sausages ( not the mass produced shop ones)
Following on twitter @daisyduck123
It would have to be the old christmas pudding – it covers everything for me, its sweet, fruity, lots of alchol and top it off with extra thick fresh cream – roll on Christmas Day
wow, yet more fab stuff!
jacket spuds cold meat and pickles on boxing day yum yum
Sage and Onion Stuffing!!!
I can manage without the turkey or the pudding but I’ve got to have mince pies
pickled walnuts- but the young delicate variety- really hard to find the right one.
I am a google friend @kohsamui14
It has to be chestnut stuffing – homemade of course!
The essential food at Christmas dinner is the gravy, for sure! I can’t imagine turkey, roast potatoes… without.
Following your blog as M. x
Have tweeted. @maisietoo
Am following @interflorauk on twitter. @maisietoo
It’s got to be mince pies, so simple but so very Christmassy – especially hot from the oven covered in cream
I’m following the blog too
and i follow Interflora on Twitter – thanks!
there’s nothing to beat a trip to Belgium
Christmas pudding flamed in brandy of course
Chocolate orange and chocolate coins!
My foodie must have is ALWAYS christmas pudding i cant get enough!
Tweeted with link.
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COmmented.
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Done done done 😀
Good luck FANTASTIC prize xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Mmmm turkey with all the trimmings! I’m following Interflora on twitter too xx
Oops…forgot my twitter tag @thunderbirdsGO I blame the mulled wine ;o)xx
my essential Christmas item would have to be a King Prawn Ring – already purchased and sitting in the freezer waiting
Following the blog on Google Friend Connect xxx
Am a follower of @interflorauk on twitter too xx
Have tweeted the link about the comp on twitter too. twitter id @dmbaxt xx
My essential foodie item would be loads of different cheeses. mmmmmmmmmm
My essential Christmas food item is pigs in blankets, delicious but we never seem to have it any other time of year, don’t know why! ~x~
Have also tweeted @WendyCollard Merry Christmas xxxx
Crackers
Turkey… Wouldn’t be Christmas without it!!!!
Got to have turkey and sprouts at Christmas – don’t like them just got to have them!
Have tweeted @ dragonfly6363
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clotted cream, for christmas pud, mince pies and anything else you feel like eating it with
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Tweeted with link about competition @Silkey1
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Roast parsnips
Sprouts, chestnuts and pigs in blankets. I don’t need anything else on my plate really!
for me,the essential food at Christmas dinner is ravioli with mushrooms
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Has to be Christmas cake, i just adore it (especially with cheese)
Im following on Google friend (blackpoolgirl)
The essential christmas food has to be turkey! Its just a plate of vegetables if not 😛
It’s got to be hot mince pies
essential has to be pigs in blankets. No christmas dinner complete without them
My essential food item at Christmas has to the turkey. It always takes pride of place on the table surrounded by all the trimmings. Mmmmmmmm.
Wensleydale cheese with Cranberries. I can eat it by the pound, and have to be very disciplined and only buy it around Christmas time.
Stilton cheese !!
Cranberry Sauce Christmas wouldn’t be christmas without it
tweeted @barbmerv
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Bread sauce, its the only time that I have bread sauce with my turkey dinner and I love it.
chocolates, chocolates, chocolates!!!!
sprout bubble and squeak on boxing day.
has to be the turkey,what is xmas without that
Smoked Salmon I could live on it
I can never resist mince pies
Cranberry sauce. A must.
Essential Christmas food obviously has to be turkey.
Essential christmas item-goose fat. You can’t make perfect potatos without it
Pigs in blankets, definitely…
Eggnog. I love it and while it’s not easy to find in the UK, when I do find it, I’m so very pleased!
Am following on Google Connect too 🙂
Essential Christmas dish is potatoes salad.
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Following @interflorauk
gotta be mince pies
my essential Christmas Item has to be mulled wine – just the thing after a long winter walk!
I’m following using the Google Widget! x
A lovely well-brandied home-made Christmas cake is essential!
has to be Christmas pudding with lots of cream – when else could you down so many calories at once and not feel guilty about it?
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Sorry to be an old fossil, but got to be Turkey for me.
Have retweeted..as @StomaFreeBuddie
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Have tweeted @drecklyish
Christmas pudding
Bucks Fizz for breakfast! lol
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Tweeted link @gouldie7
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I can’t imagine Christmas without port.
Would be smoked salmon mousse, love it 🙂 x
Am following blog 🙂 x
Have tweeted too @ellielucky 🙂 x
And already following @interfloraUK @ellielucky x
Sat round the fire with Glugwein and friends.
Already following you on Twitter and RT comp @WISHGIRL123 🙂
Sage and onion stuffing. It’s essential for the christmas roast and is absolutely essential for the turkey and stuffing sandwiches the next day!
Chistmas Pudding with whipped cream, in fact I could happily eat it all year round.
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I have tweeted your message as johnscomp.
I am following @interflorauk on Twitter.
I love the sausages that i cook inside the turkey overnight on Xmas eve, and eating them for breakfast on Xmas day is lovely
Lemon curd!
I always treat myself to a bar of Cadburys Dairy Milk Chocolate. It is the only time I eat chocolate now but we had a sweetie shop when I was small and it bring back such good memories of my lovely parents.
Am following you on google connect
I’m following @interfloraUK on twitter (I’m @sl107)
And have tweeted the promo for this! (I’m @sl107)
I’m following @interfloraUK on twitter
Christmas food essentials…….roasted chestnuts!
FOR ME ITS MARMITE GRAVY,LOVELY
My essential Christmas foodie item
Is a homemade Christmas Pud
All the kids muck in as we bake together
And it usually tastes rather good
You see Christmas isn’t Christmas
Without one
Made with lots of love and fun
And that to a Mum is essential
so it’s my Christmas Foodie No. 1
sprinkles of nutmeg all round
My dad’s homemade brandy butter lush
Anything that keeps the kids quite for longer than two minutes.
panettone
Anything that keeps the kids quiet for longer than two minutes.
Roast turkey
It has to be the gorgeous selection of cheeses and biscuits for sitting on the floor at midnight having a munch
a corkscrew
My essential Christmas food is cheese – lots and lots of cheese!
I follow your blog 🙂
I have tweeted as @compingclaire
I already follow @interflorauk 🙂
I would love to win this hamper it looks gorgeous! My essential christmas food item would be the Christmas Pudding..yum yum!
My essential Christmas food is cheese crackers. They always taste better at Christmas
CHEEEEESE and more cheese
I just love Turkey it would never be christmas without it
MINCE PIES
SWEETS
christmas pudding
roast potatoes
turkey
Cappuchino and after eight mints.
tweeted @karmaperle
also follow @interflorauk
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a turkey (avec crispy skin) and stuffing granary loaf sarnie and a good slab of belgian chocolate; failing that, gimme a bottle of blind monkey whiskey and some jamaican ginger beer!
Terry’s Chocolate Orange
Already Following @interflorauk. & RT this competition @cathaylass.
Following blog & shared on FB
Brussel Sprouts – I love them!!
Mine has to be boxing day lunch, cold meats, bubble and squeak and pickles. Christmas would not be christmas without it.
Turkey of course
Turkey
Mince Pies warmed with brandy butter on top- always feels like christmas has arrived with the first mince pie!
a really yummy rich gravy!
sprout infused mashed potatoes
It has to be a lovely honey roasted 454gammon joint – lovely with christmas dinner and can be used cold for Boxing day sandwiches :o)
I would say Little sausages wrapped in bacon 🙂
Tweeted the link too and also following interflora, for two more chances 🙂 xx
its got to be pigs in blankets! chipolatas wrapped in bacon, yum!
Has to be Christmas pudding with brandy sauce, mmm!
I’m Scottish & so it’s smoked salmon.
My essential food item would be the chocolate selection boxes we all recieve in our stockings, christmas is the one day you can eat chocolate for breakfast
Lots of weird and wonderful flavoured cheeses, for a family cheese night. One year I found a chocolate cheese, but there doesnt seem to be as many strange flavours around any more, shame.
am following on twitter id miss_lilac62
am following interflora on twitter id miss_lilac62
am following on google friend
Turkey and Christmas cake, for that really bloated feeling!
I’m following your blog using the Google Connect Friend widget
I’ve retweeted your link to this giveaway. My Twitter name is @Ianthesunlover
My essential item is cheesy biscuits, they’re my treat.
Mince pies and brandy butter :):):)
I’m following @interflorauk on Twitter
Cranberry sauce by the bucket load!