Cooking & Baking
Related: About this forumArrgh! Lebkuchen and Stollen
Are already in the stores. Lebkuchen is the larger gingerbread cooks. Many times with a chocolate icing. The small ones are here also.
Just out of curiosity, I checked the sell by date in a couple of different brands. They should all last past Christmas.

Diamond_Dog
(38,469 posts)Gingerbread house kits in the stores in September
flor-de-jasmim
(2,236 posts)justaprogressive
(5,422 posts)It's getting earlier every year!
elleng
(140,745 posts)Coffee not easily available, so have to work on it.
Old Crank
(6,215 posts)Who had the Universal Theory of Creep.
As in things get earlier every year.
spinbaby
(15,325 posts)Expect all kinds of German goodies, including the first of the Christmas cookies. If you want the chocolate covered marzipan, you have to grab it before early November.
Old Crank
(6,215 posts)Year round. I'm waiting for the Christmas chocolate gauntlet we have to run to get to the cash registers....
Some are alcohol filled.