‘Tis the season for cheese plates, family feasts, cocktail parties, and stocking stuffers. Whether you’re foraging for a few ingredients, a hostess gift, or Christmas Day dinner, EAT has got Victoria’s Christmas list mapped out.

Choux Choux Charcuterie on Fort St. is smoking Sloping Hill Farm Hams (bone-in, half or whole). They’ve also got Boudin Blanc with Black Truffles, Boudin Noir, Breakfast Sausages, Foie Gras Terrine Entier, Fresh Pork Cuts, and suckling pigs will be available too.

The Market on Yates has a great chocolate selection including Michel Cluizel bars that are made without soy lecithin, truffles from Spain, and everyone’s favourite local chocolate bars from Denman Island, Gabriola Island, and Cobble Hill too.

Among the many treasures to be found at Ottavio’s, look for Montgomery's Cloth Bound Farmhouse English Cheddar or Quebec Raw Milk 7 Year Old Cheddar & Edinborough Preserves Farmhouse Chutney - two of the world's few remaining authentic cheddars combined with a savoury chutney from the UK. They’re also offering along with Oak Bay Villages Wines a fabulous wine and cheese box filled with choice delicious wines, traditional cheeses (local and European), crackers, and accompaniments ($60 - $150).

Muffet & Louisa’s will be carrying Sarandipity’s decadent chocolates from Ladysmith, Plenty’s got all natural candy canes (coloured with beet powder instead of dye) and everyone’s favourite go-to cracker, the Victoria-made Bonnie Bea’s Oatcakes, plus a rainbow of chutneys, jams, and salsas to pair with them. Munro’s is carrying the very handy Had a Glass: Top 100 Wines for 2009 Under $20 and A Good Catch: Sustainable Seafood Recipes among their many stellar cookbook choices.

Wildfire Bakery is baking panettone, stollen, gingerbread, and cranberry shortbread cookies, as well as chocolate-dipped shortbread cookies, and closer to Christmas, Yule Log cakes.

"En God Yul" in image means "Merry Christmas" in Swedish.