{"id":2171,"date":"2020-12-15T16:21:32","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T16:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.naturetravels.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2171"},"modified":"2020-12-15T16:30:31","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T16:30:31","slug":"5-swedish-christmas-foods-to-buy-from-ikea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.naturetravels.co.uk\/blog\/5-swedish-christmas-foods-to-buy-from-ikea\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Swedish Christmas Foods To Buy From IKEA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Bob from the Nature Travels team gives some suggestions to bring a bit of Sweden to your Christmas this year&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Every year around this time, at least in the years when we&#8217;re not planning to be in Sweden for Christmas, Sofia and I make our annual pilgrimage to IKEA to raid the Swedish food section and stock up on some of our favourites for the festive season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just as there&#8217;s an awful lot more to Swedish design and culture than IKEA furniture, so there&#8217;s also an awful lot more to Swedish cuisine and culinary traditions than you will find in the IKEA food section.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nevertheless, if you&#8217;re looking to bring a little bit of Swedish Christmas into your home, it&#8217;s well worth trying out some of the delights on offer next time you visit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some years ago, IKEA moved from stocking the &#8220;real thing&#8221; (the brands you would find in a Swedish supermarket) to own-brand versions of most of the foods and drinks. In a few cases, these are definitely not as good as the originals, but others aren&#8217;t bad at all. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So here are our suggestions for some Swedish Christmas food and drink to put in your blue and yellow shopping bag next time you&#8217;re there:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Swedish Christmas Food #1: Pepperkakor<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s nothing more Swedish (except possibly the old cassette copy of ABBA Gold that you almost certainly still have in a box in your attic somewhere) than &#8220;Pepparkakor&#8221; or &#8220;pepper cookies&#8221;, which IKEA calls &#8220;ginger thins&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beautiful, light, crunchy, fragrant little things, ideal to have for your morning &#8220;fika&#8221; (now there&#8217;s another bit of Swedish culture to learn about &#8211; see our blog article about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.naturetravels.co.uk\/blog\/fika-in-gothenburg-sweden\/\">Swedish fika<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;re feeling domestic, you can also buy your own pepper cookie dough at IKEA to roll out, cut into your own shapes and bake in the oven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We rate the IKEA ones pretty highly &#8211; they&#8217;re a good approximation of what you&#8217;d find in any Swedish home at this time of year!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.naturetravels.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/swedish-christmas-IKEA-1.jpg\" alt=\"Five Swedish Christmas Foods To Buy From IKEA. 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Photo: Nature Travels.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sweden Christmas Food #2: Sill<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>It certainly doesn&#8217;t need to be Christmas for Swedes to be eating &#8220;sill&#8221;, or pickled herring, but just as at Easter, Midsummer, or when there&#8217;s any other excuse, &#8220;sill&#8221; is utterly wonderful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The IKEA versions are not as good as the herring from the &#8220;classic&#8221; brand ABBA (no relation to the band), but they&#8217;re not bad, and better than some of the own-brand products you might find in Swedish supermarkets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s quite a variety of flavours to choose from, so experiment and find your favourite. Mine are &#8220;Senap&#8221; (mustard) and the original &#8220;Inlagd&#8221; (plain). IKEA also stocks a Dill flavour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Go to Sweden and you&#8217;ll find a lot more to choose from, including Sk\u00e4rg\u00e5rdssill (archipelago herring), with cod roe caviar, and \u201cTomatsill\u201d (tomato herring), which I have to say I\u2019m not too keen on. But the IKEA range will be enough to get you started.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eat them with &#8220;Kn\u00e4ckbr\u00f6d&#8221; (&#8220;crispbread&#8221;, which luckily you\u2019ll also find in IKEA!) and hard-boiled eggs or, if it&#8217;s the right time of year, new potatoes and a creme-fraiche and dill sauce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.naturetravels.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/swedish-christmas-IKEA-3.jpg\" alt=\"Five Swedish Christmas Foods To Buy From IKEA. 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Photo: Nature Travels.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Swedish Christmas Food #3: Dammsugare<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Dammsugare&#8221; means, literally, &#8220;dustsucker&#8221;, and is a reference to the resemblance these delicious marzipan treats have to those 1950s cylindrical vacuum cleaners. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As with pickled herring, it doesn&#8217;t necessarily need to be Christmas to tuck into a pack of &#8220;dammsugare&#8221;, but it&#8217;s a great excuse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just don&#8217;t make the mistake of buying just one packet &#8211; you&#8217;ll have finished them before you leave the car pack. I recommend buying in bulk! You can always hide them from yourself by secreting them at the back of the freezer. And when it&#8217;s time to defrost them, if you&#8217;re really impatient, they&#8217;re actually still quite nice half-frozen!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.naturetravels.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/swedish-christmas-IKEA-4.jpg\" alt=\"Five Swedish Christmas Foods To Buy From IKEA. Photo: Nature Travels.\" class=\"wp-image-2176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.naturetravels.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/swedish-christmas-IKEA-4.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.naturetravels.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/swedish-christmas-IKEA-4-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption>Dammsugare &#8211; just make sure you buy more than one packet. Photo: Nature Travels.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Swedish Christmas Food #4: Julmust <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Julmust&#8221; or &#8220;Christmas must&#8221; (&#8220;must&#8221; means &#8220;unfermented juice&#8221;, but there&#8217;s no juice in Julmust), is a fizzy soft drink a little like Vimto or Dandelion and Burdock, and is the kind of thing you won&#8217;t want to drink too much of, but a bottle or two feels quite Christmassy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s also &#8220;P\u00e5skmust&#8221; (&#8220;Easter must&#8221;) which starts to appear in the shops in the run-up to Easter. But this is pure marketing &#8211; P\u00e5skmust is a relatively recent &#8220;tradition&#8221; and is identical to &#8220;Julmust&#8221;!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.naturetravels.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/swedish-christmas-IKEA-6.jpg\" alt=\"Five Swedish Christmas Foods To Buy From IKEA. Photo: Nature Travels.\" class=\"wp-image-2188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.naturetravels.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/swedish-christmas-IKEA-6.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.naturetravels.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/swedish-christmas-IKEA-6-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption>Julmust &#8211; no Swedish Christmas is complete without it. Photo: Nature Travels.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Swedish Christmas Food #5: Gl\u00f6gg<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The wonderfully onomatopoeic &#8220;gl\u00f6gg&#8221; seems like a very good word to describe a Christmas drink.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gl\u00f6gg is similar to any mulled wine-style drink and comes in alcoholic and non-alcoholic versions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The correct Swedish way to enjoy gl\u00f6gg is to serve it hot in a small glass, with a plate of almonds and raisins by the side which you can add to taste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.naturetravels.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/swedish-christmas-7.jpg\" alt=\"Five Swedish Christmas Foods To Buy From IKEA. Photo: Nature Travels.\" class=\"wp-image-2187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.naturetravels.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/swedish-christmas-7.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.naturetravels.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/swedish-christmas-7-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption>Sk\u00e5l! (Cheers!) \u2013 add almonds and raisins to pretend you\u2019re getting your five-a-day! Photo: Nature Travels.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>God Jul och Gott Nytt \u00c5r! (Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>from the Nature Travels Team<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Looking for outdoor experiences over the Christmas period? 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