frozen roast potatoes are for emergencies not for Christmas day

[PrincessScrumpy]

I made a double chocolate baked cheese cake for Christmas with the in-laws - they didn't eat it and chose tesco value chocolate cake over my homemade dessert. I had to laugh - my dessert was yummy and dh and dd both ate mine. dh was horrified that his family were so rude and also by their taste buds.

I was alarmed when I went to the fridge on Christmas eve for dd's milk to see no sign of a Christmas dinner. My assumptions were correct - all from the freezer - even the veg including roast potatoes and yorkshire puddings to go with the Iceland roast pork and lamb.

Luckily, my aunt made a fab Christmas dinner on Monday so at least I've had real Christmas dinner.

Don't mean to sound snobby, but I come from a family that enjoys homemade food.

Good God

What is with all the 'you are snobby/precious' posts here? Can't princessscrumpy have an opinion about liking homemade food without being thought of as precious?! And frozen potatoes are shit

get over yourself. My mother is an awesome cook who ran a restaurant for years and a catering business alongside/after.

She uses frozen roast potatoes because sometimes you cannot be arsed and want to spend more time talking to family than cooking.

It is really not that important.

Yadnbu! The only frozen thing that hits our table is petits poise.

I do parboil and freeze my own potatoes though, always useful for dc dinner in a rush.

pois bloody spellcheck

just say peas, its easier ;)

Princess YABU! And very judgey. And by the way - I hope DD's milk was breast milk - as surely cow's is only for emergencies

And seriously, what kind of food 'emergency' warrants a frozen roast potato? 'Yawn'.

I'd be disappointed with frozen roast potatoes on Christmas day tbh, especially as I'd be quite happy to help out/cook entirely in preference to eating them.

The meal is an important part of Christmas day for me and so the food should be special, over and above what you'd normally have.

The tesco goosefat frozen roasties are actually very tasty - I have used them on occasion (when I am too lazy to peel spuds myself), but under normal circumstances, I wouldn't do them on Christmas day.

I used to work in a pub and frozen spuds was the only option really for doing sunday roasts.. I found they taste a lot better if you defrost them first, as they dont come out of the oven like pale lumps of coal.

God, no, YANBU at all. Shocking way to behave on Christmas Day. All to common though sadly.

YABU.

I don't like cheesecake so would have gone for the chocolate cake. My mum can't eat rich desserts so would go for something simpler. The tesco value cakes are really nice.

I normally do roasts in the chip pan for ease, frozen ones are probably nicer.

See I told you they were common.

I'm common and lazy

She can have an opinion. She just sounds very arsey and ungrateful, think that's why folk are pulling her up.

There's nothing wrong with being judgey about roast potatoes, they are a serious business and Aunt Bessie's taste like shite and nothing like the real thing if you cook them properly.

I suppose I am common too. But I do have accurate grammar.

YABU.

We had Christmas at in-laws this year. My MIL has had several years of doing the Christmas dinner from scratch, and having gotten fed up of it many years ago, has been buying it all pre-prepared from M&S in recent years. I offered to provide it this year. It all came from here:

www.cookfood.net

Ok, it wasn't as good as last year when I did the whole damn lot from scratch, but it took about 20% of the time and MIL enjoyed not being tied to the kitchen, and spending time with family instead! Her sprouts were better too, seeing as I was drunk by the time sprouts cooking was necessary, and totally mis-judged my timing....

It was damn tasty too :).

You can't do roast potatoes in a chip pan. They become deep fried potatoes. Or, um....in fact, chips.

How hard is it, just for once a year, to cook a proper roast? (assuming you have an oven obviously.)

If they eat like that on Christmas day god alone knows what the average dinner on a wet wednesday in February is like.

The country is going to the dogs. Broken Britain.

I would have loved someone to cook Christmas Dinner for me - beans on toast would have been appreciated, never mind a full roast. You are unbelievably rude and ungrateful.

Lol Fellatio

I usually parboil mine the night before so I only need to tip em in the oven on the day. It helps because I usually sloshed by 10am christmas morning

You do sound snobby though, op!! fgrin

Frozen roasties one year ...birds eye frozen turkey dinner platters all round the next ...its a slippery slope alright