Food Ideas For December

Scroll down for ideas for growing, cooking and exploring seasonal foods in December.

First, enjoy this video of the December Book "Apple And The Copycat"

December Eating

Seasonal foods in December

Grow your own, or buy local this month:

Apples (stored - both eating and cooking)

Beetroot (stored)

Brussels Sprouts

Cabbage

Carrots (stored)

Celery (stored)

Celeriac (stored)

Chard

Chestnuts

Chicory

Garlic (stored)

Jerusalem artichokes

Kale

Grow your own, or buy local (continued):

Leeks

Mushrooms (cultivated)

Onions (stored)

Parsnips

Pears (stored)

Potatoes (stored)

Pumpkins (stored)

Quince

Radicchio

Salads (most grown indoors)

Shallots (stored)

Swede

Turnip

These can grow here, but most of the ones you will find in shops are imported:

Cranberries

These have to be imported :

Banana

Clementines

Dates

Grapefruit

Mango

Melons

Plantain

Pomegranate

Sweet potato

December Growing

Jobs in the garden this month, things for children to grow & do.

December Cooking

Things to cook with children with seasonal foods in December.

Buy the book of the month - click the book image below

Cover image for The Foodies Books December Book of the Month - Apple And The Copycat. It is a colourful book cover for children in electric blue and pink showing an apple character. This is a lower res version for the web.