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Top Ten most commonly forgotten items for Christmas dinner

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StuntAcorn · 24/12/2025 10:07

The top 10 most forgotten Christmas dinner items are:

•Cranberry sauce
•Cream
•Stuffing
•Christmas crackers for the table
•Gravy granules
•Carrots
•Cheese
•After-dinner mints
•Wine
•Custard

(From Aldi website)

Anything you'd add to that, in case it jogs someone else's memory?

I would add foil and batteries.

OP posts:
Brenda34 · 24/12/2025 13:24

Gravy granules?!
I clutched my pearls!

ByQuaintAzureWasp · 24/12/2025 13:33

Gravy granules on a christmas dinner. Nasty!

RescueMeFromThisSilliness · 24/12/2025 13:36

Foil.

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BigSkies2022 · 24/12/2025 13:46

In my housie
: turkey, stuffing, bread sauce, sprouts, cranberry sauce, Christmas pudding, Christmas cake, brandy butter or any variation of it. Those sweet creamy drinks that somehow become acceptable at Christmas- Baileys, that kind of thing. Quality Street. Chocolate liqueurs.

13RidgmontRoad · 24/12/2025 14:23

Toilet paper, coffee in this house.

MonsterBookOfChristmas · 24/12/2025 17:35

We have a gas meter
Every year we have a panic dash finding somewhere to top up on christmas day. Grin

CrushingOnRubies · 24/12/2025 22:27

I forgot the wine this year. Visiting both sets of parents over the next couple of days. Bottle bag of wine and bubbly, remembered half hour down the road that it had been forgotten. Do we turnaround and collect bag or go to supermarket and spend money and stress / battle our way through supermarket at 3pm on Christmas Eve ???… we turned round and collected bag

Empress13 · 25/12/2025 00:14

I forgot the unsalted butter for the turkey! Had to rush to local shop to get it

AmIthatSpringy · 25/12/2025 00:57

BigSkies2022 · 24/12/2025 13:46

In my housie
: turkey, stuffing, bread sauce, sprouts, cranberry sauce, Christmas pudding, Christmas cake, brandy butter or any variation of it. Those sweet creamy drinks that somehow become acceptable at Christmas- Baileys, that kind of thing. Quality Street. Chocolate liqueurs.

You forget all these? Wow

Icouldwriteabookonmydisastrouslife · 25/12/2025 01:05

I forgot the dog food . I did buy it and left it at my Mums so as I live next to Tesco I dashed there and people were still pushing full trolleys round . There was a 9 minute announcement come over whilst I was leaving and I thought how unfair it is for the poor staff who want to start their Christmas and they still have people pushing trolleys round minutes before they shut at 7pm !
They don’t usually let anyone in after 3.45pm on a Sunday , security should’ve shut the doors at tonight to give the staff time to serve everyone and get them out for 7pm !

angelcake20 · 25/12/2025 13:43

We’ve forgotten to pack the crackers, though we did actually buy them.

MarmaladeSandwich7 · 25/12/2025 13:47

I forgot white bread for the bread sauce & had to go to the petrol station shop that never closes

bleakmidwintering · 25/12/2025 13:49

Pigs in blankets? I presume you mean forget to put in oven

TwoLeftSocksWithHoles · 25/12/2025 13:53

Granny

Where's Granny?
Oh Gawd, I think I left her upstairs in the toilet. 🤔

deeahgwitch · 25/12/2025 13:53

Brown bread if having smoked salmon

HeadyLamarr · 25/12/2025 13:57

I don't even want 5 of that top 10!

Anyone who forgets the cheese isn't understanding what Christmas is about (mostly a cheese-eating festival with added gifts)

lucysmam · 25/12/2025 14:07

I forgot the table crackers 🤷‍♀️. Tbh though, I looked at some & they were rubbish so may diy next year (note: may 🤔).

Xiaoxiong · 25/12/2025 17:32

Well I forgot to make the pigs in blankets and nobody noticed until the end of Christmas Day! I’ll make pig in blanket toad in the hole tomorrow instead.

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