Must have Christmas Food Shopping List
Christmas is just around the corner; the sky will light up with breathtaking lights, children overjoyed with happiness and excitement would wait for Santa to bring them presents and the adults would kick back and relax with creamy delicious eggnog… ah, beautiful Christmas time.
Christmas is the time to rejoice with your loved ones, have feasts and get together with your family. Mums and wives cook for their loved ones as they rekindle their Christmas spirits.
Christmas dinners are very important as the whole family gathers for a fine evening. From starters to desserts, you would want everything to be perfect for good memories that are looked upon from the future.
Many countries have different types of Christmas dinners. In China and Japan, every 25th December means KFC. They all sit down with a heavy and hearty meal of KFC fried chicken and enjoy their Christmases; orders are placed in advance months before. For dessert they have strawberry shortcake. Where in two major countries people order their Christmas dinners, in UK and USA people prepare roast turkeys and beef with sautéed vegetables, mashed/roasted potatoes, pigs in a blanket, Brussel sprouts, cranberry sauce and gravy. For dessert, they have trifle, apple, pecan, pumpkin or mincemeat pie.
In Australia, popular Christmas foods include: prawns, oysters, BBQ, cold ham and turkey, potato bake, fruits, trifle, Christmas pudding, pavlova and alcohol. Now let’s make a Christmas food shopping list for your special Christmas dinner today.
Shopping List
Prawns
The most popular Christmas food in Australia and the first item in our Christmas food shopping list are prawns, and the market has ensured you get a variety of them, you can choose from; Pink prawns, White prawns, Brown prawns, Tiger prawns, Rock prawns, Spot prawns. Grill them, bake them, fry them or put them in your cocktails, they’re all yours to innovate and create your own dish.
Oysters
The second item in our list is another member of the sea. Oysters, are used as popular starters as they are easy to eat and make no mess. They’re cool and crisp, perfect for a hot summer’s day. Just sprinkle some finger lime on top and enjoy the scrumptious tangy bite.
Meat: Turkey, Ham, Hamburgers, Hotdogs
The third item in our list is meat. We will venture in all the different kinds of meats we can use to create the perfect dinner. We need cold cuts as well as BBQ meat. Some hotdogs and hamburgers with cold ham and turkey would go beautifully with the sides we would prepare further on.
Potatoes
The fourth item on our list is definitely potatoes, what’s Christmas day without a potato bake or scalloped potatoes or whatever you want to call that creamy carby goodness! You can use cream, milk, cheese, thyme leaves, salt, pepper and garlic… never forget the garlic. Want to blow everyone’s mind, throw in 6 cloves of garlic in there, trust us, it’s going to be amazing!
Desserts: Trifle, Christmas Pudding, Pavlova
Let’s move onto desserts now, seasonal fruits are very popular on tables in Christmas dinners, be it cherries or tangerines. Trifle, although is a British dish but is also popular in Australia, it is made with cream, jelly, shortbread biscuits, fruit and for a twist… booze! Next comes the Christmas pudding, yet a borrowed tradition but impeccable taste and the wow factor being booze, who wouldn’t love it?
Lastly, we have our own delicious, fluffy and light dessert, pavlova. It’s a fluffier version of cake, topped with fresh cream and fresh fruit. It’s a refreshing and light delicacy which will be present on every Christmas dinner you go to.
Alcohol
After dessert, you might be thinking our Christmas food shopping list is over. Well, not really, we’re missing the one ingredient and beverage every aussie loves on Christmas, yes! Alcohol! for the trifle, you can soak your shortbread or any form of cake in liquor, freeze it and combine it with you trifle and remember, buy alcohol online!
The Christmas pudding originally has rum in it but feel free to be a bit liberal with the bottle of rum, our treat! and of course, you need wine for the dinner, who doesn’t love a good glass of wine. It goes well with dinner and is a little gift for the adults, who says kids have all the fun?
Bottomline
No needn’t worry about specially going to a liquor store to get all the booze, like we said before, buy your alcohol online. And what better place than ‘Drinks network’. You can order a few hours before your party or pre-order all your alcohol. they will deliver it promptly to your front door without any hassle. From liquors to spirits to wine, they have everything.
They offer a spread of different alcohols. Their wine collection is exquisite, be it English or French, they have it. Don’t have time to make your own cocktails? No worries, they have bottled cocktails as well. Whatever you need or want, they’ve got it.
So relax and prep for your beautiful evening, your booze will come to you on your door step to make your evening a bit better. Like drinks network says “Good times, swipe, buy, delivered”
