Eat, drink and be merry

From Brussels sprout ketchup to super-size pigs in blankets – festive food has gone crackers

DRINKS

Nelson’s Brussels Sprout Vodka (50cl), £20, nelsonsdistillery.co.uk

It’s a love it or loathe it tipple. Nelson’s Christmas Dinner Gin (50cl), £20, nelsonsdistillery.co.uk

The sweetness of cranberry fused with the complexity of sage and hints of turkey...

SNACKS

Irresistible Ultimate Roast Potato Hand Cooked crisps (150g), £1.70, Co-op

Yes, potato flavour crisps. Honey Glazed Ham Tortilla Rolls (150g), £1, Co-op Porky posh nibbles. McVitie’s Digestives Christmas Pudding Milk Chocolate Biscuits (250g), £1, Asda

A Christmas pud you can dunk.

SAUCES

Below: Sauce Shop Brussels Sprout Ketchup, (255g), £3, amazon.co.uk

Saucy and sproutrageous. Pigs in Blankets Mayo (280ml), 95p, Sainsbury’s, £3, amazon.co.uk

You’ll go mad for this mayo. Taste the Difference Bloody Mary Ketchup (250ml), £1.50, Sainsbury’s

What’s not to like?

SAVOURY

Top: Pulled pork and pancetta cracker (400g), £3.99, Aldi This cracker has real pulling power. Above: Chicken doughnut dippers (330g), £5, M&S

A surprise meat treat.

Right: Two-metre long pig in blanket (850g), £4.99, Aldi This sausage rolls and rolls. SWEET

Heston Chocolate Buck’s Fizz candles, (150g), £9, Waitrose Chocolate candles with Buck’s Fizz ganache Collection beef and bone marrow pie, (1.2kg), £20, M&S Desperate Dan would love this

Above: L-R: Four Percy Pig Percymas pies, £2, M&S Perfect pink pies to pig out on. Four Heston Night Before Christmas Mince Pies, £3 Waitrose A carrot and caraway pastry, filled with carrot and mincemeat and laced with sherry.

Light-up Snow Globe Gin (70cl), £18, M&S In clementine or rhubarb flavours, it has edible gold leaf that looks like glittering snow.

Yule Dog (631g), £8, Sainsbury’s Add some bow-wow to the Christmas table