To cook a chicken on Christmas day?

[StarsUponThars]

I can buy a higher welfare chicken for less £ than a lower welfare turkey. And it will be lovely.

Do let me know! It sounds amazing and dp (cooks Christmas dinner) would be delighted if I could find a new way to serve leftovers.

Chicken here too!

Not at all. Christmas is bloody awful but, and thus may be surprising to some, it can be less bloody awful if you can at least get to eat what you want. Turkey is not compulsory. I've never cooked turkey, we have pheasant, allow 3/4 pheasant per person and one for the cats.

We have gammon and beef every year...oh and we're Jewish pah to tradition!

Chicken is nicer than turkey - I wish we were but DH insisted

We're having Chinese takeaway.
Salt and pepper chicken wings
Won Tons with sweet and sour sauce
Mussels in black bean sauce
Crispy seaweed
Quarter Peking duck with pancakes
Singapore noodles
Boiled rice
Prawn crackers

Chicken for us. It was always a capon. We'll be doing the same again this Christmas.

Caitlin17

My cat wants to come to yours.

We always have chicken. In my country, it's quite traditional.

We have had many Christmas dinners with a good butcher's chicken, turkey is nasty whichever you do it - have once had beef, and this year are doing a roast duck. YANBU

What's with the obsession with a roast?! No cooking going on here, the oven gets the day off. Buffet food and gallons of plonk!

I agree Christmas dinner's all about the trimmings, so we'll be having chicken too, though I'm planning to get the best I can afford.

Chicken here too. I prefer it. Also the year the turkey delivery guy threw my incredibly expensive turkey in the hedge and swore at me, well it sort of took the edge off turkey for me.

YANBU. You can get a really lovely, free range organic chicken for less than a factory farmed turkey. Easier to cook too, and fewer leftovers to deal with.

We are having Peking duck for starters, then rack of pork.

We're having chicken and lamb. We all decided we weren't really into Turkey so why eat it just because it's Christmas?

Go for it! We are cooking a leg of lamb for Christmas Day

Yanbu. In my family we had whatever we fancied. One year sausages and mash another year duck l'orange! We do keep it traditional now I'm married and dh likes the traditions.

I was going to have chicken

I've spent

£45. For a goose that feeds 5
£30. For a turkey
£29. For a rib of beef

Which I'd spent £6.00 on a large chicken now

Chicken and a lump of beef. A really nice, posh type of chicken that costs more than a tenner. I love turkey but no one else does.

Boxing Day is a roast lamb.

Chicken is nicer than turkey. The only point of turkey is if there are a lot of people to feed. As we have never had more than 4, we have always stuck with chicken.

I despise roast turkey...brace of pheasant in our house!

We're having pheasant because they were something like £3 each & I can't afford a turkey.

Chicken.

A nice free range chicken for us too. Yum.