Old Style preparations for Christmas 2012!!!!!

Face1992

Soworried wrote: »

Christmas is coming and I am in a flap. :eek:
I have already started to buy extra items and freeze them so that the christmas shop is not so much of a shock to my system.:cool:
So far I have cocktail sausages, smoked salmon and Gammon joints. I am thinking of starting to buy £10 a weeks worth between now and then.
What items should I start with? Does anybody want to join me in getting the food ready?

Are you feeding a few hundred people with your £170?

chirpychick

Soworried wrote: »

I am planning on sorting the menu first. Then I can make a shopping list and try to get it all between now and christmas hopefully reduced.
I want a goose and a beef joint for the main christmas dinner. That is as far as I have got with the planning.
I think I will sit down this afternoon and menu plan. I love christmas. :j

LOL you wana come round mine for a hot chocolate and marshmallows and listen to carols whilst you do it :T

We are going all out this year and buying a Turkey roll from the butchers! I am very excited about this!

Do share your list wont you, so I know if I have forgotten anything :rotfl:

I might also do mine today too.

There is a wonderful slow cooker leftovers recipe i can dig out for you, we usually have this on Boxing day after our walk. It is DELICIOUS! (except we usually have chicken not turkey! Did I mention how excited I am about having Turkey LOL)

Soworried

Face1992 wrote: »

Are you feeding a few hundred people with your £170?

7 of us, and it will be £160 as I shop at a weekend and there are only 16 left.

Face1992

Soworried wrote: »

7 of us, and it will be £160 as I shop at a weekend and there are only 16 left.

so £22 per head?

For one day's food?

Soworried

chirpychick wrote: »

Do share your list wont you, so I know if I have forgotten anything :rotfl:

I might also do mine today too.

There is a wonderful slow cooker leftovers recipe i can dig out for you, we usually have this on Boxing day after our walk. It is DELICIOUS! (except we usually have chicken not turkey! Did I mention how excited I am about having Turkey LOL)

I will share it once it is done, make sure you do as well incase I miss something. :rotfl:

That would be really good of you, I have a 6l slow cooker. :j

Soworried

Face1992 wrote: »

so £22 per head?

For one day's food?

No, not for one day. For the whole festive period.
You don't need to worry about my budget, everyones will be different. :beer:

Pee

Just to say I really like the live and let live we all do things differently tone of this post.

I save £30 a month for most of the year for Christmas, which is a different way of doing it, but makes for a much nicer January than my old ways. (By planning ahead you should all also have a nice January. It is my pet hate that once Christmas is over and there is nothing nice to look forward to, it seems, cold and short days and then struggling to pay the bills with Januarys wages.)

I am interested at the things you can freeze that I have never tried to freeze before, though, so will keep reading.

shellsuit

Aww, Soworried, you seem so nice!

I hope you have fun planning and shopping and get everything you want.

You're not hurting anyone are you, you're just really excited!

pigpen

Sambucus_Nigra wrote: »

We traditionally have chilli on C*mas day - nachos at 11 after our trip to the allotment and chilli later in the day. This year though, with our hooge harvest of spuds we may well have a normal roastie in the evening, the only concession is the OH chooses a different spectacular pudding each year and I make it - and I make yorkies with the roastie. Very little extra spend and none of this putting stuff away for months.

I do a 'christmas dinner' on christmas eve because OH doesn't think it is christmas without.. but it is a Sunday roast with veggies in bowls to help themselves too... I have toast! By the time I cooked for them all I don't want to eat it... another very common problem for the chef! Dinner, board games, bath, new DVD and bed!!!

Christmas day I am lucky if I can get a bowl of cereal and a sandwich down the children.. OH eats leftovers and I have... toast because I am too tired to eat anything else!

Boxing Day.. MY!! Birthday (please note who does all the prep and cleaning for this!!).. my family descend.. so in addition to the 10 I normally cater for we have an extra 15-20 descend in the form of parents and sisters and partners and grandchildren and I am sure a few random people off the street. I do a run and grab style dinner with leftovers and salads and stuff with jelly and trifle and cake and biscuits and cheeses for dessert.. we swap presents and have a lovely day of just being family. I look forward to this all year!

I love giving presents and finding bargains I know they will love

Soworried

shellsuit wrote: »

Aww, Soworried, you seem so nice!

I hope you have fun planning and shopping and get everything you want.

You're not hurting anyone are you, you're just really excited!

Thankyou, That is the idea.
To get everything I want without breaking my budget.