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AIBU?

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Original poster

I'm 37 and I have never...

55 replies

Memoo · 26/12/2011 17:40

cooked Christmas dinner!

Aibu and a lazy trout?

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Nospringflower · 26/12/2011 18:37

46 here and have never cooked it either. I am a good enough cook but not good at co-ordinating timings so would be useless at at. Have always been lucky and gone to someone else's house or my partner cooks it.

LordOfTheFlies · 26/12/2011 18:37

I cooked Christmas Dinner from when I was 14 yo because my mother CBA and abdicated any responsibility for cooking if she could

Do I win a prize?

OldMacEIEIO · 26/12/2011 18:42

play to your strenghths.

if you havn't got any, do the dishes

bananaistheanswer · 26/12/2011 19:03

I did it once with a little help. Dad did the gravy and stuffing and I did the rest. Think 'rents were hoping i'd taken the mantel but I've avoided it since. They gave up hinting this year and decided to go out instead. It was delicious, so might be the way to go for future Xmas dinner.

Turkeyfanjo · 26/12/2011 19:26

I'm 27 and have cooked it for the last 4yrs since getting with DP and having kids, prefer my cooking to anyone else's! This is the first yr I've done turkey though and never again, turkey is just bloody rubbish.

PinkCanary · 26/12/2011 19:35

You are very lucky. I have cooked my own dinner since 19 and am 32 now. Ive now also assumed responsibility for all our single / widowed elderly relatives. What I wouldn't give to have someone invite me for a Christmas dinner instead though...

Original poster
Memoo · 26/12/2011 19:44

Pink, you are invited to ours next year. Dh will be cooking.

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Notinmykitchen · 26/12/2011 19:45

I've never done it either, the idea fills me with terror. Luckily I married a good cook, and it doesn't bother him in the slightest. I do assist, with peeling, chopping etc, and washing up after, just a rubbish cook!

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Memoo · 26/12/2011 19:48

Btw, I'm not saying this is surprising because I'm a women. It's because I'm a grown adult with a home and 3 children. I find it equally suprising if a man had never had a go either. In my family and circle of friends all the men cook as much as their wives, in some cases more.

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Original poster
Memoo · 26/12/2011 19:49

You sound just like me :)

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ClaraSage · 26/12/2011 20:09

I am 46 and have never cooked Cmas dinner. DH loves to do it. ( I do wash up, sort of, like......)
Mother's friends think it's scandalous !

coffeesleeve · 26/12/2011 20:31

I'm 34 and have cooked it (at my parents' house) for the last 6 or so years. My mum feels too old to manage it these days.

But, I'm 34 and have never cohabited - I think that makes me more odd than never having cooked Xmas dinner :-)

NinkyNonker · 26/12/2011 20:34

I'm 30, and never have either. When we're home, DH does it.

mycatsaysach · 26/12/2011 20:34

45 never done it and don't intend to start anytime soon Smile

ViviPrudolf · 26/12/2011 20:37

Nah me neither, but I'm 32.

Mum's Austrian so Christmas celebrations are generally Christmas eve when she goes to town with the spread, added to that the PiLs are best avoided around high days holidays so don't have to cater for them plus DP is a pretty shit hot cook, so I'm off the hook.

He made me roast monkfish with celeriac puree and roast vegetables for my Christmas dinner

BlissfulMistletoe · 26/12/2011 20:42

I am 26 and have done it for 6 years, hoping dh learns to cook so I can come home from work and enjoy Christmas

RiceBurner · 26/12/2011 22:14

I'm 54, married for over 20yrs with 3 grown up DCs & I have NEVER cooked a turkey, (or any other meal), at Christmas time. (DH prefers to do it.)

Do I win?

I am RUBBISH good cook, (my MN name is quite accurate), so it's probably better for all concerned that I let someone else cook at Christmas!

Original poster
Memoo · 26/12/2011 22:30

Ok rice you do actually win!

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MummyAnnabella · 26/12/2011 22:41

I too am 37 and married 6 years with 3 dc and neither dh (47) nor I have ever cooked Christmas dinner! He went to his mums every year till he married me now we go to my mums! Would do it but my mum has hosted every year since she married my dad and that's 40 odd years now! Would be major trauma if someone else offered to host!!

KoPo · 26/12/2011 23:32

I have never cooked one either. DH normally does it although this year we were at his parents place. I can manage a normal roast dinner let alone a full on christmass dinner. We normally start at 11am is with a huge steaming mug of DH's home made mulled wine (fortified with a good amount of brandy). And the meal itself dosent have to be turkey.

I like the sound of ViviPrudolf's monkfish .... will have to ask DH to make it.

ViviPrudolf · 26/12/2011 23:34

Yes, its supernice, KoPo, bit of caper butter over the top. Turkey shmurkey.

ivykaty44 · 26/12/2011 23:41

my dad is 72 and has shopped for meat, pigs inblankets, fresh and frozen vegtables and cooked several christmas dinners. Yesterdays dinner was amazing Grin

he also makes homemade christmas puddings and i go and stir to.

I do the cake and mince pies and also have cooked dinner when in my own home on several occasions.

glammanana · 27/12/2011 00:03

I'm 60ish and have cooked Christmas lunch 42 time's catering for 2 people at first increasing to 26 then this year for 9,and I love doing it every year.

echt · 27/12/2011 03:12

57 and never cooked a Christmas dinner. I've peeled the sprouts for my dear old mum and stirred the mix for the Christmas cake. I know how to do every bit of it, but someone else always likes doing it. In my case it's my DH, and I'm very happy to let him do this, as he does all the cooking. and loves it.

TroublesomeEx · 27/12/2011 07:02

I'm also 37 and I've never cooked a Christmas dinner either.

Christmas dinner is DH's and no one else is allowed in the kitchen...

We both cook throughout the year, but Christmas dinner is his!