It’s the end of September and that can only mean one thing: it’s Christmastime at supermarkets. While Christmas isn’t something you want to think about until December, sometimes the high price of the festive season forces you to plan ahead. Budget spreading has a lot to answer for.
In this article, we’re going to run through some of the more exciting products in Asda’s Christmas food range. The whole range contains over 500 products and gingerbread does a lot of the heavy lifting.
We know that at Christmas you want your usual yuletide favourites: pigs in blankets, normal and ‘interesting’ things containing cranberry sauce, cheese and crackers, turkey, yorkies, puddings with “Yule” in their name, and spiced versions of things you eat year-round, so we’ve included some in this roundup.
You can find the full range in Asda’s Christmas section, but we’ll run you through some of the things that have piqued our interest. The range includes things for the whole season, not just the big day.
The build up to Christmas
My fancy has been taken and these are the suspects:
- Ginger and chocolate panettone tin
- Florentine topped with caramel mince pies
- Gingerbread baubles
The main event
As well as all of the usual things, Asda has got some slightly different things stocked for Christmas 2025.
Christmas brunch
If you’re not already hot-honeyed out, Asda has put hot honey with a few pork party food nibbles. As Mud’s famed song goes, “It’ll be trendy this Christmas!”
- Hot honey streaky bacon rashers
- Hot maple pigs in blankets
- Hot honey
Starters
If you’re confident that you won’t overstuff yourself with Christmas dinner, you can serve these as starters. These would also be great served up at a Christmas party:
- Maple and black pepper smoked salmon
- Langoustine & prawn tarts
- Duck liver pate with blackberry
Mains
Here, we’ve tried to include some alternatives from the usual gammon and plainly roasted turkey. If you haven’t got the capability or the time to season, flavour, and cook a whole bird, Asda makes the task slightly easier:
- Heritage slate turkey crown with apple & cranberry stuffing topped maple & honey glaze
- Slow cured rack of pork with truffle butter and parmesan crumb
- Christmas box slow cooked turkey with all the trimmings
- Roast butternut, cranberry and chestnut roast
- Christmas tree shaped yorkshire puddings
- Pigs in blankets
Afters
Afters, dessert, pudding, sweet – whatever you call it. At Christmas, dessert is nearly always packed full of sugar and 50% of the time has “Yule” in the name. I spent a fair bit of time browsing Asda’s dessert range, and these are the ones which caught my eye.
- Melt & reveal dessert (a dome filled with profiteroles)
- Black forest yule log
- Pistachio profiteroles (more profiteroles)
- Wreath cake
- Candy cane yule log
Cheese
We’re going to go digging for some shop bought sugar-free Christmas desserts from other shops, but if Asda is your shop of choice, diabetics will be limited to the large cheese range. (Sydney says: “I could think of worse problems to have.” Safe to say, she’ll be 40% cheese by the end of the day. She’s also got her eyes on Asda’s Festive Fondue kit)
And even if your body allows you to eat the sugary desserts, there’s nothing stopping you loading your crackers high with cheese. God forbid you overindulge at Christmas!
Happy browsing!
Asda not the supermarket for you? Have a look through the Christmas ranges at another supermarket instead:
