This may be controversial but...

[MrsJBaptiste]

... I'm sat here drinking prosecco waiting for our Indian takeaway to be delivered. No stress, everyone happy.

I know most people love a Christmas dinner but my God, I prefer this kind of Christmas Day 😀

Too much pressure these days to do an ‘Insta’ Christmas!

This again? We were just talking about how MIl always went all out to do the perfect Christmas. That was long before SM was a thing.

A thought for those providing takeaways or indeed any other food for outside their household, such as army catering.

I did not have a traditional Christmas dinner, but enjoyed the meat I chose and no Brussel Sprouts.

You sensible woman, you!

On Christmas eve I parboil the potatoes and parsnips, prepare the bird on its trivet in its disposable roasting tray, chop all the veg and put it in the fridge, in the saucepan, and do the gravy from chicken stock frozen weeks in advance - which also then goes into the fridge in its saucepan. It's taken me 20 years to realise how much easier this makes life on Christmas day. It's one of the things I would teach my younger self if I ever got to bend time.

God I'd hate that so much I love my Christmas roast but I love everyone doing Christmas their own way and not caring what they're 'meant' to do.

I love Christmas dinner, but only cook for me, dh and the dcs, if I had people over I'd be stressed about timings etc. We ate at 4.45pm today, it's a faff but I do enjoy it when it's done.