Gingerbread at the supermarket?

Dear users, dear authors,
is gingerbread already in the supermarket, or are all the Christmas items out in the supermarket yet? Do you enjoy seeing them there, or is it way too early for you?

Way too early—I’m waiting for the day when they take the Easter items off the shelves and put the Christmas items on the next day. They’re all crazy over there!!!! The corporations’ greed is insatiable; otherwise, they’d at least wait until mid-November.

Best wishes, Inge

I don’t know… For me, gingerbread season actually starts with Oktoberfest—after all, they sell gingerbread hearts there, too. And that’s when they taste the very best, fresh out of the oven. By Christmas, hardly anyone likes them anymore. In any case, after summer, I’m always happy when gingerbread comes back. Especially when the weather outside gets unpleasant. (Well, this year the weather is still pretty summery.)

Way too early.... November would be fine 

It’s way too early for me, too.

Gingerbread hearts at the fair are one thing—they belong there, and I’m happy to buy and eat them (or do whatever else you might want to do with such a heart)—but I think it’s awful to see gingerbread men, speculoos, and stollen on the shelves this early. By December, no one will really be in the mood for them anymore.

I’m sticking to my guns. Mid-November is when I start baking, and by the first Sunday of Advent, everything’s ready to eat—whether store-bought or homemade. As we all know, anticipation is the greatest joy 😊

Here, the Christmas items hit the stores on September 1, but I don’t know who bought how many stollen and such when it was 30 degrees in the shade—September was still very summery.
We usually wait until Advent to buy these things; otherwise, we’d miss out on all the treats that come between summer and Christmas, like Muscheln, Weckmänner, the St. Martin’s goose, and so on. It’s just way too much all at once.

For about four weeks now, the Christmas treats have been on the shelves in our stores… they’re coming out earlier and earlier.
On the Friday before the first Sunday of Advent, I’ll bake my first stollen of the season—a quark stollen…
Other than that, I don’t buy a single thing related to Advent or Christmas.
I’m still in AUTUMN mode 😁
But if you like it… My husband, for example, definitely buys the occasional package of speculoos or Dominos... simply because he likes them—he’d buy them even in the middle of summer if they were available 🤣
Although, a little bottle of amaretto-marzipan liqueur in a cappuccino—those little bottles are only available during the pre-Christmas season... 

Well, for me, it’s definitely way too early. By the time Advent rolls around, I won’t be in the mood for it anymore. We don’t buy gingerbread until right before Christmas, either.
Although I did buy a bag of Butterspekulatius to try. But that’s it.
The rest won’t make it onto our plates until Christmas or Advent.

Besides :-) You don’t buy gingerbread—you bake it yourself :-))) My husband already said today that he wants to start soon, but I said right away: if at all, then not until November—it’s still too early for that now :-)

Best regards, Inge

Baking them myself... I’ve actually baked them myself before, and then I polished them off “all by myself”—my husband preferred to buy them. Those “cheap” star-shaped, heart-shaped, and pretzel-shaped cookies... I’m speechless 😔
I guess there weren’t enough “chemicals” in mine 🤷

Ha, just like at our house! He actually prefers cheap supermarket stuff to homemade—how convenient; it saves me a lot of time.

He went shopping today… Pfeffernüsse with white icing 😜
I prefer to bake my own—I just really enjoy it. 

I always buy the first ones on the first Sunday of Advent. There aren’t any before then. 

No, I don’t need any. But I wouldn’t anyway—I bake my own. Right now we have apple and plum cakes, nut wreaths, and pumpkin bread. We’ve got to work our way through all that first.
Best regards, Marita 

That’s the thing—every season has its highlights. If I start with Christmas stuff as early as summer, I’ll miss out on way too much.