Christmas dinner - Is this really odd?

whiteguineapig

when the children were little, one year i let them pick what they wanted for christmas dinner
we had
waffles and beans and sausage (tinned!) (their favourite meal at the time)
i didn't do that again

FizzWhizz

I've honestly never understood the fascination with roast turkey, in previous years I have cooked chicken, guinea fowl, goose, duck and beef.

This year, our five children are all away with their "other" parents for Christmas lunch so DH and I are going to the outlaws. They cook their turkey the day before and I can almost feel the cotton wool texture of the breast meat in my mouth already. Boke.

I would MUCH rather be tucking into your proposed Christmas lunch. Enjoy!

Bennifred

whiteguineapig wrote: »

when the children were little, one year i let them pick what they wanted for christmas dinner
we had
waffles and beans and sausage (tinned!) (their favourite meal at the time)
i didn't do that again

I did this too (OH was working on Christmas Day that year) - mine chose crispy duck pancakes :j and now we have that every year "because it's traditional" - twenty years and counting.......

lobbyludd

we always have turkey at my mum's because she really likes it, and she's cooking so she decides and we appreciate it.

but, it's rare we have turkey for christmas, I probably wouldn't notice if we never had it again, and I'd be really happy with exactly what you've described:)

but we've had variously nut roast, beef, venison, duck, pheasant, chicken, lamb, a swiss noodly beef thing and racklett, and a japanese meal, etc depending on who we're with for the day - turkey really isn't that traditional for the UK anyway, and it's a special meal whichever way you do it as long as you like what you make rather than stick slavishly to a lazy (largely US) media expectation if you don't like it.

Frith

Because there has just been me and 2 young children for the past 9 years, we have all the vegetables and trimmings then I just grill turkey breasts under the grill!

One year they decided they would rather have salmon so we grilled fillets of that instead.

krlyr

I would think it stranger to cook something you're not that keen on just because it's a social 'norm', when no one other than yourselves will really ever know!

We rarely had turkey for Christmas growing up as my dad wasn't keen, and as a result none of us kids were that fussed on it. I will eat it now as an adult, but to be honest it doesn't do much for me and if I was to cook a roast dinner for Christmas I'd probably just do chicken..infact, if it were just me and OH I'd sling a couple of chicken breasts in the oven and not even bother with a 'proper' bird!

meanmarie

For the first time in more than40 years, most of my offspring are staying in their own homes for Christmas, we will be 4 rather than the usual 12 to 16, so we are having goose, has always been too small before...really looking forward to it.

Have what you fancy, especially if its something thats a treat for all.

Marie

cyclingyorkie

Youngest is about to turn twenty and doesn't like turkey.

Last year she had chicken chow mein!

Petlamb

I agree with Krlyr - it'd be much stranger to cook and eat something you didn't really want to just because you're "meant to". Enjoy your Christmas!

Islandmaid

Agree with all above

It,ll be our first christmas without the kids - we,ve decided on steak, garlic potatoes, veg and peppercorn sauce - pudding.... Welll we,ll have a little treat

Have what you want - its Christmas not a perscription x