Shit Christmas dinners...

[wheresmymojo]

I'm at my parents...once upon a time my DM used to be an awesome host and Christmas Day involved, if anything, way too much food.

As they've got older they've decided to do 'what they like to eat'. Fair enough.

But it's sooooo disappointing.

Today's Christmas dinner was two slices of beef, three halves of roast potatoes, three mushy sprouts, one carrot boiled for 500 years, two small boiled potatoes and bisto gravy.

No pigs in blankets. No roasted parsnips. No cauli cheese. NOT EVEN A YORKSHIRE PUDDING.

Then trifle...made with room temperature custard out of a packet and ORANGE jelly disgrace.

I think my parents have been replaced by lizard people.

Has anyone else had a terribly disappointing meal today?

(Lighthearted...of course I ate it and told them how lovely it was, etc)

Why the heck did you not bring these sides?

You could have brought a really nice selection from marks

Instead you choose to bitch on mumsnet

Sounds rubbish to be honest!

Goodness me. That sounds awful!!! :((( roast potatoes are my favourite

Oh wow im so sorry for you, that sounds really grim........id be staying at home next year or take a plated lunch with you !!!!

Next year you host...

Not jealous but I would have brought pig in blanket and cheese board and decent dessert to salvage it.

I only eat small(ish) meals but my adult DS is with me this Christmas and he's getting a bloody mahoosive roast dinner because that's what he eats. I'll have a small bit of that. We're making it together.

Importantly, he has done shopping and contributed anything I asked for. He knows if he wants yorkshires, he's making them. (Which he is, apparently.)

If, however, your parents don't want contibutions and won't let you near the hob/oven, then you're stuffed.

You need to plan your own Christmas / Hogmanay dinner on another day of the 12 Days maybe?

Maybe they hate hosting and can’t be arsed anymore

I can beat that, last year my MIL went to bed for the day but told me I wasn’t allowed to cook so I had to go to the garage to buy bread and ham to make sandwiches for the kids.

This is why we stay at home for Christmas! I don’t mind how many I cook for, just us or 20 extra, I’m not fazed and would never ask for financial contributions as I know others do. But at Christmas, I want to sit down for a proper meal and don’t want to be disappointed by no Yorkshire’s or No pigs in blankets Or unsalted gravy or a shortage of gin or whatever someone else inflicts on me.

Next year, I’d run through the menu with your mum and make sure you bring anything that you feel is missing so you aren’t disappointed.

Precisely why I eat at home and nowhere else for Christmas Day.

What a joke .
🙄

Maybe op they have had enough of hosting Christmas day so are purposly giving you a terrible Christmas dinner. Have your dinner at home next year.

How old are you op? Nothing worse than middle aged or even grown up kids letting their parents cook every year. Sounds like your Mum has had enough and rightly so.

How ma y years have they hosted for? How often have you hosted?

Yes next year you host or bring some "sides" .

@Pinkandpurplehairedlady. Was she sick ? Why were u not allowed to cook even for the kids???? That’s insane. Hope u didn’t go back again

Honestly some on here should grow up and cook dinner for their parents , I could not in honesty expect elderly parents to continue to cook Christmas lunch . Why ?

Who says they are old? My mums in her 60s and would take offence if someone described her as elderly

Yeah that sounds really crap

This is exactly why despite the fact I feel awful I cooked. Because left to my mum, it would have been unseasoned, overcooked/burnt, undrained veg etc .. why bloody bother?!

My shittest was at the nursing home where my mum was receiving palliative care. She hadn't been expected to live untill Christmas. We paid what felt like a fortune, I think £70 for the privilege of half a slice of sliced bread with a tiny bit of smoked salmon, a slice of duck the size of a playing card plus veg and gravy and some sort of miniature dessert. There was offer of a glass of wine, but I don't drink. It was so brutally uncomforting.

An inlaw who can’t cook for toffee served a bland meal, I’ve
Served better midweek roasts and a load of desserts I couldn’t eat as I have a cows milk allergy “Oh, I don’t suppose you can have any of this can you?” 🤨 then made a big deal of offering me tinned mandarin segments. Must be over 10 years ago and I still can’t look at them in the supermarket without thinking fuck you 😂

Got me out of ever having to go again as dh was NOT impressed.

I like a 1970s trifle, I won’t lie. I’d have had seconds of that!

Seriously though, I think a lot of people are t really “feeling” Christmas this year. Maybe your parents couldn’t be bothered with the whole shebang.

No Yorkshire Pudding is a crime against humanity, OP, I feel for you.

@oftenbaffled

You could have brought a really nice selection from marks

Instead you choose to bitch on mumsnet

Sigh. Obviously I didn't know what was actually going to be cooked.

I'm not telepathic. It's also lighthearted.

@Pinkandpurplehairedlady

I can beat that, last year my MIL went to bed for the day but told me I wasn’t allowed to cook so I had to go to the garage to buy bread and ham to make sandwiches for the kids.

Oh my lord.

You win!