The best Christmas party food and drinks – tested by Nisha Katona

Smoked salmon, mulled wine and more, rated by the founder and executive chef of Mowgli Street Food restaurants

• The best Christmas chocolate and cheese
  The best Christmas bakes and cakes

Co-op Irresistible pigs in blankets crisps
150g, £1.70, coop.co.uk
The crisps are fabulous – waves and waves of piggy gourgeousness. And I like the crinkle cut.
★★★★

Tesco Finest savoury nibbles selection
115g, £2, tesco.com
The cheese and poppyseed twists are a bit dry and loveless. Nothing celebratory about the cheese and garlic twists, I didn’t get much butter. The breadsticks could double as an equine toothbrush.
★★