Christmas dinner - Is this really odd?

bargainbetty

This year there will be 13 of us, so we are having a bit of pork, a chunk of beef, a small rolled turkey crown (because my mum thinks we have to) and I have prepared 58 sausages wrapped in bacon. This weekend, I'll do more sausages. Last year I prepped 50 and half were gone before they reached the table.

Have your Christmas dinner, your way. My best Xmas dinner ever was the year I came down with flu and was sent home with a pack-up after the presents were done. I nibbled the bits I liked throughout the day, at my leisure. Personally, I'd happily skip the sit down altogether and just have a massive buffet if I thought I'd get away with it!

NoGoodNamesLeft

My OH and I both love turkey but we would definitely skip it if we weren't keen. Neither of us likes xmas cake or pudding though, so we're making a black forest trifle for afters instead. Make what you want and have a lovely day

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We have opted out of getting turkey this year. We are having fillet steaks and lovely assorted veg and I will probably make gooseberry fool with stripes of blackberry syrup. I will have made christmas puds and a lovely cake but they are nicest in the weeks after christmas. There will be a few nice snacks and chocolates and tbh that is enough as there will be the 2 of us. I have done christmas dinner for 40 years, like you meanmarie and no way am I slaving over a hot stove

Cooked gammon on boxing day and then kept for cold meals and sandwiches

meritaten

The point of Christmas day dinner is for people to 'feast' on food which at other times of the year is considered a 'luxury' or their favourite foods.
I hate that it has become such a standardised affair now! not everyone likes a 'roast dinner' - I don't, I would rather have steak and chips - but OH loves Xmas dinner and the rest of the family would freak out too!
Dammit - I am seriously thinking of ruining my reputation and 'messing' up! then hope they all decide to make their own in their own homes!

psso

zaxdog wrote: »

The bits we love about the meal are: roast tatties, stuffing, bacon wrapped chipolatas, veggies and gravy

My question is has anyone else done this or is it really strange?

We started the Christmas menu at work yesterday and funnily enough I said to a work colleague I`d be quite happy to have the bacon wrapped sausage, carrots ,roasties and gravy for my Christmas dinner, never mind bothering with turkey.

In fact when I think of it, that`s what we did have last year, but we each had a chicken breast with oatmeal stuffing wrapped in bacon along with it.
Pudding was a banana and toffee pavlova - delicious.

kboss2010

My mum and I used to go for a nice Chinese meal on Xmas day! Who says you have to follow tradition?

kazwookie

Your meal so you eat what you want!!

I'll be doing chicken and LOADS of roast spuds as the extended family will arrive, and all they want is the roast spuds, as they don't know how to cook them, as they don't have ovens!

And I love cooking the spuds for them all, they draw the line at xmas pud they hate the taste.!!

Each to their own, enjoy what ever you have.

DigForVictory

What on earth is odd, let alone Really Odd, about having what *you* want to eat on Christmas Day?
If any unexpected guest shows up, falsely & vilely accuse the neighbours dog of having nicked the bird...

MrsAtobe

This year it'll just be me, my OH and the dog, so we're having beef Wellington . I will get some cheaper steak for the dog, so that he has a special meal as well. I can't eat Christmas cake or Christmas pudding (dodgy digestive system) so we will probably end up having panettone with brandy sauce. I will miss my home made chestnut stuffing though, so I may just have to make some, and freeze it.

I'm not sure what we'll eat on Boxing Day, mind, that's normally leftovers.

Sue14

For me personally I don't feel it's a Christmas dinner without turkey and all the trimmings, as that's what we always had when I was growing up, but you should eat what you want. The first year my DS and his fiancee were living together, they spent the day at home and their Christmas dinner was a huge pile of yorkshire puds and roast potatoes, as she is a vegetarian and he only eats 'proper' meat (as opposed to burgers and sausages), when he has to and he loves yorkies and roasties, lol!