Advent - new beginnings and Christmas Dinner suggestions.

basketcase

If anybody in my family wanted the traditional stuff I'd do the same.

Treats on Boxing Day instead of turkey sandwiches/curry?
Or possibly Christmas Eve?

uralmaid

I always have a list, and then another list in case I lose the first one.

basketcase

uralmaid said:

I always have a list, and then another list in case I lose the first one.

Do you have a list of the lists?!

Savvy_Sue

uralmaid said:

I always have a list, and then another list in case I lose the first one.

Mine's in the google calendar so DH can see it too. 

louby40

My brother and I usually take it in turns to host Christmas lunch. But now that we've downsized we can't sit 12 people around our kitchen table so this year we are having a Christmas buffet. 

We don't buy gifts anymore apart from for our own children and my parents buy for the grandchildren.

We're off to Morocco on Boxing Day for 10 nights, so looking forward to that. 

Humboldt

Such wonderful ideas for Christmas dinner.  Sorry @Organgrinder, but for us it is a traditional Christmas lunch of turkey and orange glazed gammon with all the trimmings.  This year our dessert of choice will be B@iley's cheesecake.  Followed by coffee and mints and/or chocolate truffles.  Later, a cuppa with a choice of warm mince pies, Stollen, or Christmas cake.  Later still, a cheese board, fresh and dried fruit, chilli jam/chutney, and perhaps a few warm sausage rolls.  I am fortunate enough to have the time to make most things from scratch, and actually enjoy the whole process.   

@Savvy_Sue I also have a rough timetable to keep me on course and like @uralmaid, various lists to ensure all goes fairly smoothly. @louby40 Morocco, wow. I hope that you have the best of times.

Organgrinder

"Traditional" is fine. I just don't like it much!

But myself and Mrs O will probably have something extra like a Beef Wellington so I can indulge myself.

Now, a very important question. Where do you get your crackers? (Of the pulling not cheese variety).

Savvy_Sue

Organgrinder said:

Now, a very important question. Where do you get your crackers? (Of the pulling not cheese variety).

Half-price or better the year before. Although I think we're not fussed this year ...

Savvy_Sue

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Savvy_Sue said:

Organgrinder said:

Now, a very important question. Where do you get your crackers? (Of the pulling not cheese variety).

Half-price or better the year before. Although I think we're not fussed this year ...

You can purchase them fairly cheaply after Christmas but they are not that expensive anyway. We tend to go for the luxury type ones that contain better ‘presents’. The Habitat ones from Sainsbury's are good. They also come in the correct colours for our Christmas table lol! 

At least some of the time, I must be looking in the wrong shops! I did see some today in B&M, 12 for £4, but the 'gifts' inside did not inspire me. I was in Sainsbury's earlier in the day and heard myself thinking "HOW much???"

But I do have a family which is particularly averse to wearing the hats; doesn't want to hear the jokes; and rejects any 'tat'. Which is why unless I see some Really Good ones Really Cheap on Christmas Eve, we'll do without. 

I did find a nice tablecloth with robins on in Sainsbury's, only £3. Not a complete Scrooge ... 

Savvy_Sue

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Savvy_Sue said:f

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Savvy_Sue said:

Organgrinder said:

Now, a very important question. Where do you get your crackers? (Of the pulling not cheese variety).

Half-price or better the year before. Although I think we're not fussed this year ...

You can purchase them fairly cheaply after Christmas but they are not that expensive anyway. We tend to go for the luxury type ones that contain better ‘presents’. The Habitat ones from Sainsbury's are good. They also come in the correct colours for our Christmas table lol! 

At least some of the time, I must be looking in the wrong shops! I did see some today in B&M, 12 for £4, but the 'gifts' inside did not inspire me. I was in Sainsbury's earlier in the day and heard myself thinking "HOW much???"

But I do have a family which is particularly averse to wearing the hats; doesn't want to hear the jokes; and rejects any 'tat'. Which is why unless I see some Really Good ones Really Cheap on Christmas Eve, we'll do without. 

I did find a nice tablecloth with robins on in Sainsbury's, only £3. Not a complete Scrooge ... 

Your family sound a real bundle of laughs! Groaning at the jokes and wearing the hats for a while is part of the tradition.

They're lovely really, but we have a bundle of sensory issues and an complete indifference to doing things 'the way they should be done'. You can see the pained tolerance on their faces when I have insisted on pulling crackers ...