To think a baileys dessert from iceland isn't suitable for xmas day and a bit cheeky actually

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I'm cooking dinner tomorrow. One of us is assigned to buy veg, the other meat and the other pudding. So iv'e got a mahoosive chicken,a joint of ham and stuffing, t'other guest has bought carrots potatoes parsnips sprouts broccoli and sauces. So far so good. I phoned the pudding offender last night to find out what scrummy dessert we will be having on xmas day, and this is what she has bought.

It's dome a shaped cake/ice cream thing looks like a panna cotta on the outside and a gateau thing on the inside for 3 quid.
AIBU to think when someone has gone to the trouble of buying naice food and will spend ages preparing and cooking it, the least you could do is buy a naice pudding to go with it.
AIBU to feel a little resentful that they haven't even spent a quarter of what I have and the only prep they have to do is take it out the freezer a couple of hours before?

Am I being the ungrateful one or is she? Merry Christmas

Would everyone shut the fuck up about chicken

Coconutty I wouldn't feel like shit, I would just think that if some people are only impressed if it is home made or Waitrose, then they are not really worth getting worked up over.

Any year I've been on pudding, I have made a trifle, which has been an unmitigated disaster every time. Last time I bought Tesco Bailey profiteroles. They weren't cheap, nasty, blah, blah, they were delicious.

This year I have made soup. Unfortunately all the vegatables in it weren't grown in my walled garden, but hey ho. I know that the people I love will enjoy it.

....and I agree about chicken, I have roast chicken all year round, hardly a big occasion dish

Why do people think food from x, y and z supermarkets is all the same? It obviously isn't. It's not just the price they adjust, it's the ingredients. They can all be made in the same factory but to quite different specs. That could be as simple as free range/caged bird eggs, or butter/oil, or vanilla essence/extract but of course there is a difference. I'm quite baffled people seem to think they're all the same

Look forward to hearing the pudding update tomorrow op

We are having nobbly bobblys, mince pies and a kilo of celebrations. Impartial towards christmas i am

ooh I could murder a nobbly bobbly right now.
I love biting off the nobbly bobbles then eating the ice cream inside. mmmmmmm

I would never pretend that all supermarkets are the same or that all food tastes the same. But people have different tastes, incomes and shopping habits. If you are the queen bee in the equation and you want homemade truffles, ask for them. Don't sneer because it didn't happen. For all the OP knows, her guests are wondering where the turkey is. And where is the red cabbage? It cuts both ways.

Whatever they bring, for whatever course and wherever it's from, it' s considerate to bring a choice.

Frozen gateau thing sounds hideous btw - not because it is from Iceland, it just sounds odd. But then I am amazed at the number of people eating Arctic Roll of their own free will - the thought of it makes my skin creep.

ShotgunNotDoingThePans Little amond biscuits

Oh i dont 'alf fancy a glass or 5 of disaronno

< looks down resentfully at the 3 month old hanging off my boob >

maybe next year eh

I know, but that's amaretti darling - I said Amatetti!

I would give anything to have an Iceland here in Argentina, we are starving and inflation-addled. The dessert sounds amazing, can only dream of something like that here....

Red cabbage is the food of the devil.

ooh ooh dahhling, accept my sincerest apologies. One has simply no ideaah.

Yum.

Btw, you are quite mad you know.

I've been thinking about this while out earlier.

For me Christmas Day is quite special and I like to make and eat a special meal. We are having chicken actually, mainly because I am not keen on turkey and neither is DH, but it is a lovely free-range one and cost £30 so hardly an everyday Sunday lunch, chicken slaters! (not here anyhow!).

I have made a pudding which as it happens I have costed out before for a school fair - it costs about £6-7 to make. So I have to say again, a £3 cake from anywhere is either going to be very small (my £7 pud would easily serve 10) or made of not very nice ingredients which would be apparent when you ate it. I have no problem with bought puddings, but you get what you pay for, you really do.

I think your friend is probably winding you up because you checked up on her. Tomorrow she'll probably bring a selection of stuff.

I really doubt that anyone would go as a guest to Christmas dinner with one cheap frozen dessert (if they knew they were the only dessert provider that is)

If she really has only got that YANBU at all. Some people might not like it and it sounds poor quality. I would provide a small Christmas pudding (as I haven't met very many people who like it!) as well as a yule log, a healthy option (eg fruit salad) and some mince pies and chocolates for tea. Maybe some icecream if there were a lot of children.

How many people are you having round? And are there any children as I doubt they'll go for anything Baileys flavoured?

Red cabbage?!

Only green cabbage should be allowed

But you can't just serve it plain (in which case I'd agree with *LouisWalsh.) You need to braise it for hours with orange zest and red wine and vinegar and spices. Then it's lush, and perfect for Christmas.

I can sympathise with you OP. I was in a similar situation when I reminded DP that DS and I didn't like trifle. He got us a £1.50 chocolate log from Morrisons.

It's not so much the money, although I had gone to the trouble of buying a free range chicken, pork loin joint, venison etc etc. I sneaked out with DS and we got a chocolate torte from the Co-op and some clotted cream to have instead.

So, I know exactly where you're coming from. I'd expect more than one desert in all honesty.

It's just the baileys dessert, it's a baileys/choc gateau.
Ill update after iv'e had some.

Marking!

And ice cream for the kids.
If I dont like it ill just mix the celebrations with the ice cream and voila Creme glacee a la celebraions

Yanbu

Sounds like a dessert that would get served up by a family in Shameless

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