A Cheap Christmas meal

sammy_kaye18

Personally I agree

We have a glorified Sunday roast.

We do buy the packs of mini sausages and sausage rolls from Iceland that have 25 or 50 in a pack and cook some of them up as nibbles before hand - they are about £1.50 each.

We buy a big chicken so we have left overs for the next day.

Veg is pretty simple with carrots, brocolli, sweetcorn and possibly peas.

Potatoes are boiled and some roast

Possible yorkshire puddings if theres space.

Stuffing and gravy.

Then for desert we have Jam Sponge and Custard as noone here likes christmas pudding and I make sure to have visited the £ shop for some later night nibbles like mini cheddars, etc because we never normally fancy a meal then!

Only other thing we insist in is a few bottles of cola. I dont drink alcohol and my partner inevitably gets Jack Daniels for christmas so he can have a drinky. x

jokeyjo

just a normal roast dinner but add a few nice bits to like parsnips and pigs in blankets we used to do the huge dinner thing but ended up wasting so much so now its a 3 bird roast from aldi with loads of veg parsnips, pigs in blankets ,homemade roasties and stuffing

DomRavioli

Buy frozen veggies - no waste from preparing them, and cheap enough from Morrisons and Iceland, which I have found to be the best. I get chicken which has been reduced to clear, and then freeze it so that it will do for christmas, as again noone in my family like turkey. Tesco value stuffing is awesome, we have a family member who is visiting (usually grandmother) bring dessert, and starter is usually soup, or some little snacks, which again you can get on reduced to clear. Might be worth visiting the food shopping and grocery threads on the site, at the bottom of the main forum page - they have some really good codes on, and I'd struggle to feed my lot without them!

HTH

newgirly

We had the aldi 3 bird roast for lunch today and it went down very well with the family, well worth the money and also no preperation!

NoMoneyHoney_2

I would do as a lot have said and go with a chicken. Probably a heck of a lot easier to get hold of in the run up to Christmas too! Then I would just make it different with the veg used, roast the carrots and parsnips with honey, brussel sprouts fried with bacon, red cabbage with apple, that kind of thing.

Gleek

We have had these (for four - and then three of us) over the past 4 or so years. They did do them 2 for £5 and may again nearer Christmas. No mess and quick cooking times too (and very very tasty!)




One is just a chicken and the other is a chicken with the extra bits and bobs which you could include with any extras though for the amount of people you need I would get the just chicken one as there'd be more meat.

It comfortably fed all four of us so it may be worth getting a couple of frozen breasts to cover any big eaters and give extra for the children - still easy cook with no mess

Having said that you could get a bag of the smartprice chicken breasts (not at all small and still tasty) for £3.99 and cook them that way. Can cook from defrosted or frozen.