What age did you start making your own Christmas dinner?

[JudasPrudy]

Ever since time began, I and the rest of my family have visited my grandparents house for Christmas dinner. DH is starting to make noises about staying home this year and to be honest I can see his point - I'm 33 and we have a 1 year old son! It just feels so wrong not to go 'home' for Christmas (although I can and will visit after dinner as they only live 30 mins away.)

When did you start cooking your own Christmas dinner? Should I start being a proper adult now at last

I was 18 when I went half on it with my brother!

Then took a break until mid twenties.

I think I was 30, when we decided to have Christmas at home with the DC rather than travelling to family.

I've not cooked a Christmas dinner yet. I still go 'home'! I'm 34 with a 4 year old.

I have to say I always keep it very simple!

I’m in my 40s and have never made Xmas dinner!

DH started doing it when we had kids of our own though.

I started hosting when I was 28, a couple of years before getting married. Before then though I was regularly doing a lot of the dinner with my Mum at my parents house.

I have hosted probably 17 out of the last 20 Christmases.

When you have your own DC is a good time to break the cycle and start some of your own traditions.

I cooked one at 18 at uni, having never really cooked anything much before, but no-one else would give it a go! Went very well. Then twice as an adult, not needed to any other times

I’m almost 31 and still go home, I can’t imagine stopping and doubt I will cook my own until my DM becomes unable to do it - hopefully many years yet. I do a lot of the other Christmas food though (big family, several celebrations around Christmas including huge Christmas Eve)

I'm 53 and have never made a Christmas dinner.
I left home at 18 and returned for Christmas every year until ds1 was 2 and decided itcit was too stressful trying to keep two sides of the family who lived a 100miles apart happy. Since then Dp has made Christmas dinner ever year.

In my 20s I used to cook Christmas dinner for my husband and I in the week before Christmas. This year I'll be doing my first Christmas Day one at the age of 36.

When my dgm died when I was 27. Stayed at her house every single year from Christmas Eve til NYD!!
Even when I had 4 dc!!

I had a temporary falling out with my parents aged about 23 and went to a friends' where we shared cooking.
After that I shared cooking with family if I was with them.

Im 4 and still not done Xmas dinner. DH does it all

Well that would be advanced for 4!

Nope I'm 44!! ....:-)

I'm 37 and have never done it between my parents or the In laws

I'm 47 and have never cooked Christmas dinner. This might be my first year though, we're contemplating staying at home this year rather than visiting family.

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We always went to my parents until they moved house to a tiny place and could no longer fit us in! I then took on the job (age wise I was about 30) and I've had everyone here every year since!

I’ve been to other people’s houses for Christmas dinner before but I usually host. Since aged 18 when I moved out. No “home” to “go back” to. Does that make me a proper adult?

I've being cooking Christmas dinner since I moved out of home at 21. I'm now 46.
Would be nice if I didn't have to anymore but can't see that happening anytime soon.

29 just after my father died

I've cooked Christmas dinner since dc1 was a baby, but I do a fairly simple version and miss out the the drama and stress of it my mum always did... I cook on Christmas Eve usually, as we go to the in laws on Christmas Day. We have a roast there but not a Christmas dinner (pork with dumplings usually, but last year we had barbeque meat cooked outdoors in the snow by bil and eaten inside with roast potatoes and Tsatsiki ...

I don't like the drama, stress and ritual around Christmas at my parents and anyway its logistically almost impossible to do the travel around school breaking up late and shift work.

I started cooking Christmas dinner age 30. It was the first year DH and I lived together and we didn't want to go home to separate houses for Christmas, we didn't want to offend one set of parents, we didn't want to be traveling on Christmas Day. So we offended both sets of parents and stayed at home.

I never do a full traditional Christmas dinner though. None of us like turkey, so we have chicken. We put what we want on our dinner, so the dds and I have Yorkshire puddings, DH has hundreds of pigs in blankets, dd1 has a corn cob, dd2 has a ton of gravy, etc. And we have a nice cheesecake for dessert, none of this Christmas pudding or Christmas cake as we don't like it. We love the freedom of doing our own dinner, our own way, on our timescale (my dps would want to eat it at lunchtime, mil has hers at 3:30/4pm, we eat ours around 6ish)