Put some nuts in your mouth

Christmas is synonymous with many things: irritating relatives, supermarket jingles with the wrong number of syllables on repeat on the radio, eating until all you can do is lie down in a dark room whimpering "Please, no more" and it's the last thing that this post addresses. Like Christmas chocolates in a bowl on the coffee table (the calories don't count once you go past the first handful), nuts are incredibly moreish. In our house the walnuts and Brazil's are stripped out pretty quickly and we end up with a bowl of hazelnuts that nobody really wants to eat sitting on the table, making us all feel guilty every time we pick up anything else to snack on. Our nutcracker has really seen better days and any of the below would make an excellent substitute:

Nutcracker with Bowl Catcher, £35
Alessi Nut Splitter, £10
Squirrel Nut Cracker, £20