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A Christmas Food Shopping List
Meat, Fruit and veg for the Christmas break
It seems as though everyone buys too much food over Christmas for fear of forgetting something or running out, we get to the supermarket cashier and the reality of how much we have spent kicks in. Do you really need a bottle of advocaat or that box of luxury nuts?
To put things into perspective I thought I would give you a taste of my shopping list, this is just a sample of what I have ordered, to list the lot would bore you to death:
30 pheasant supremes, 45 lamb racks, 50 fillet steaks, 8 turkey saddles, 5 legs of lamb, 2 whole pork loins, 1 venison haunch, 5 rabbits, 2 cooked hams, 2 cooked turkeys, 1 salami, 50 oxtails, 20 chickens, 2 whole striploins of beef, 6lb minced pork, 2lb minced pigs liver, 1lb pork back fat, 350 lincolnshire sausages, 70lb bacon, 80 chipolatas wrapped in bacon, 10lb sausage meat.
40 lemons, 20 assorted lettuces, 5 cases tomatoes, 70lb mushrooms, 60 onions, 40 carrots, 15lb leeks, 18 bunches celery, 12 red cabbages, 30lb parsnips, 100lb small potatoes, 80lb baking potatoes, 40lb sprouts, 60lb peeled potatoes, 30 figs, 6 charantaise melon, 20 papaya, 20 red onions, 12 oranges, 6pkts basil, 5lb parsley, 2lb each of thyme, tarragon, chervil, rosemary, rocket, coriander, oregano,
12 sides salmon, 7 sides smoked salmon, 60lb peeled prawns, six lobsters, 10lb squid, 200 tiger prawns, 20 kippers, 30 smoked haddock fillets, 12lb crayfish tails
170 pints milk, 70 litres cream, 360 eggs, 12lb caster sugar, 20lb granulated sugar, 120 packs of butter, 80 litres orange juice, 24 litres grapefruit juice, 800 assorted jams, 2,000 tea bags, 230 packs bulk brew coffee, 180 mince pies, 60 individual yoghurts, 15 litres olive oil, 100 litres vegetable oil……….and on it goes.
Good luck with your Christmas dinner, the blog will return in a couple of days. The above list should give you an idea of what I will be doing instead of writing blog posts!
Merry Christmas.
I wouldn’t like to be behind you at the tills in Tesco
You’ll not get that lot in a hand basket - bet you needed a trolley
December 24, 2007 @ 10:27 am
Miles,
Far be it for me to be picky but is 40 carrots really enough?
Ordering on that scale would frighten anyone. Do you remember the first time you were in charge of a list like that and how you felt? This year I was conscious of not over doing the domestic shopping and was beginning to feel almost saintly… when I suddening discovered there was no toilet paper in the house
Relax and enjoy.
Cid
December 24, 2007 @ 10:51 am
Cid,
I do remember the first year of Christmas ordering and it was awful, trying to think of everything we might need for a week was a nightmare-I barely slept!
Have a great Christmas
Miles
December 24, 2007 @ 8:23 pm
Miles,
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Just a little order then. Hope you don’t run out of pepper and salt
Like Cid, the Nean household tried to be sensible this year and not overdo the shopping whilst still having a well stocked larder. After the “last” shopping excursion I discovered that I had forgotten the milk
Merry Christmas and some well deserved restful hours.
Elsie
December 25, 2007 @ 3:37 pm