STARTERS, SIDES & PARTY FOOD
Extra Special Wild Game Pâté With Rhubarb & Gin, £2.50, Asda. With sweet rhubarb flavours and a kick of gin, this flavoursome pâté is a great way to start your meal.
Extra Special Smoked Salmon Mac & Cheese Bites, £3, Asda. Smoked Norwegian farmed salmon and delicious mac ’n’ Yorkshire cheese encased in a black pepper crumb.
Irresistible Cranberry & Port Flooded Pork Pie, £4, Co-op. Hand finished pork pie containing select cuts of British pork with herbs and spices, topped with a sweet cranberry and port jelly.
Roasting Roots Rainbow Carrots & Parsnips with Thyme, £2, Tesco. Prepared red, orange, yellow and purple carrots with parsnip wedges and a sprig of thyme.
20 Deluxe Stonebaked Pizza Twists, £2.49, Lidl. Choose from Camembert & Red Onion with Cranberry Sauce or Turkey & Brie with Cranberry Sauce. Fun and full of festive flavour. 8 Chicken Doughnut Dippers, £5, Marks & Spencer. Jumbo battered British chicken breast rings with BBQ sauce and waffle crumbs for dipping. What a brilliant idea!
Luxury Smoked Salmon, £5, Iceland. The flavour and freshness of this gently smoked salmon are locked in, all ready for you to defrost on Christmas morning.
Finest 10 Fisherman’s Pies, £4, Tesco. Bite-sized golden fried potato nests, filled with succulent white fish, prawns and fluffy mash, topped with a juicy king prawn.
Iceland Aberdeen Angus Mini Sliders, £3, Iceland. A dinky bite-sized tasty burger – made from prime tender Aberdeen Angus beef – in a tiny square bun.
Specially Selected Thai Roses, £2.99, Aldi. The yellow rose has a vegetable filling, yellow curry paste and chilli, all wrapped up in filo pastry. The red rose is filled with a fiery chilli and paprika filling.
Taste The Difference Mushroom, Brie & Truffle Tear ’N’ Share, £6.50, Sainsbury’s. A velvety filling of mellow French brie and mushrooms with black truffle sauce, all in buttery puff pastry.
Iceland Luxury 10 Jumbo Red & Gold Wild Shrimp, £3. Succulent, tail-on wild red shrimp, each coated in crispy golden and red velvet breadcrumbs.
Christmas Vegetable Medley with Pigs in Blankets, £2.50, Co-op. Potato, carrot, parsnip, Brussels sprouts and spring greens in a parsley and black pepper dressing, topped with pigs in blankets.
Cheese Nougat, £3, Waitrose & Partners. Another trompe l’oeil savoury treat – creamy Wensleydale cheese dotted with Madeira-soaked raisins and berries.
Pork & ’Nduja Croquettes, £6 for 10, Waitrose & Partners. Enticingly spicy pork and ’nduja sausage with red pepper flakes in a crispy golden breadcrumb coating.
Finest 12 BBQ Beef Mac & Cheese Cups, £5, Tesco. Little bites of mac and cheese with a kick of mustard, topped with pulled Applewood-smoked beef in a sweet barbecue sauce.
Merry Sherry Stuffing, £4.99, Aldi. 100% British sausage meat is generously topped with smoked pancetta, chestnuts and a good helping of sherry.
The Best Mini Dressed Crabs, £8, Morrisons. Cromer crab pâté topped with crab meat, served in small crab shells. A refreshingly different treat for your buffet table.