Ryan O’Meara

Christmas is my favourite time of the year.

I go in to training for Christmas. By that I mean, I start to dramatically reduce my food intake and increase my exercise in the run up, purely and simply because I intend to indulge.

When I see a bowl of sweets, I’m grabbing a fistful. When I see a plate of mince pies, I’m having two. Hell, I’ll even eat Christmas cake and I don’t even like it.

Any way, here is my patented Christmas over-indulgence recipe.

I think I shall call it my Christmas Coronary Concoction.

You get yourself a large (very wide) wine or brandy glass. It needs to be big.

Squirt a hearty dose of chocolate sauce in to start.

Next, you get four After Eight mints, place them in the chocolate sauce and smash them up in to a goo.

Next you load in your ice cream – I pick a high quality vanilla but NOT Hagen Daz, no thanks!

Don’t fill to the top with ice cream, you need to leave room.

Next you get four Oreo cookies, smash em up and crumble them on to the ice cream.

Handful of M&Ms (the nut ones) – but you can sub with Smarties, if you like.

Now, the kicker…

Get two brandysnaps – insert a finger of Twix in to each (Twix fingers fit perfectly in to brandysnaps, it’s like they were made to measure), plonk your brandysnaps in to the icecream and eat.

All in all, probably too many calories to measure – but so what. A couple of thousand extra press-ups and sit-ups in New Year will remind you how good it was.