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Original poster

to be hunting for a microwaveable turkey dinner for DD

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nessus · 23/12/2013 15:53

Your honour(s),

Although DD(12) is an unrepentant carnivore, I plead to be excused from the botheration that is xmas dinner assemblage.

The defence offers up that I am a veggie that hardly eats at the best of time. We are a 2 person household. I paid for DD to have xmas dinner at school before breaking up. I have offered to drive her to her dad's for xmas dinner and spend the day after she opens her pressies at home with me. We are spending 27-29th with family where she will have a zillion post xmas turkey honouring dinners. I am a lazy bint. I will gag if I touch raw meat (it's bad enough making meat containing pack lunches).

As a concession, I am willing to go hunting for a microwave meal after I drop her off to guitar lesson in a few minutes. Yes, I am the saddo that intends to shout surprise as I offer up a ready meal to my child on xmas day...Though I may be judged harshly by the jury, I ask that counsel refrains from calling SS upon sentence being passed.

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Fudgeface123 · 23/12/2013 15:57

I'd probably throw it back at you! Can you not cook something veggie for the two of you?

MrsDmitriTippensKrushnic · 23/12/2013 15:58

I think that's fine, but there are alternatives. How about buy a Turkey drumstick and get DD to cook it herself (with hands off supervision)? It could make it more of an event?

Sirzy · 23/12/2013 16:00

what will you be having?

Why not get a small turkey breast that she can cook herself?

sooperdooper · 23/12/2013 16:00

If she's 12 can't she have a go at cooking turkey herself?

elliejjtiny · 23/12/2013 16:02

What about one of those small portions of turkey that go in the oven and come in a foil tray so you don't have to touch it. My sister is veggie and she uses those.

overmydeadbody · 23/12/2013 16:02

Just buy her some meat to cook herself.

At 12 she should be able to roast a bit of meat.

DamnBamboo · 23/12/2013 16:04

Buy a nice piece of chicken in a foil tin from any good supermarket. Waitrose do some lovely ones and you won't have to touch it. Serve with whatever you will have yourself and there you go!

MrsDmitriTippensKrushnic · 23/12/2013 16:04

And I agree with Fudgeface as well - doesn't have to be Turkey, do a veggie meal for the two of you. It's not the food that's important, it's sitting down together and celebrating as a family. I loathe Christmas dinner but I love being with my family, whichever combination it happens to be, cliched soppy Christmas tosh though it sounds

Original poster

nessus · 23/12/2013 16:06

Offering a veggie dinner could be the straw that breaks the camel's back as DD already thinks every veggie meal I serve her is a punishment.

I will have scrumptious museli when, and if, I get hungry.

She did suggest a couple of days ago that i could simply buy her the turkey breast slices. Bless her...

More than happy to do the veg and 'tats to accompany this. And lord knows I love me some Brussels.

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Iamsparklyknickers · 23/12/2013 16:09

I would get some turkey slices from the deli if you're going to do the veg bit anyway. The gravy will warm it up.

stubbs0412 · 23/12/2013 16:14

Wtf. Are you saying you cannot be bothered to cook a Christmas meal for your daughter ?
Get off your (presumably) skinny arse and cook for her.
Childhood does not end at 12. Veggie or not.

GoldenGytha · 23/12/2013 16:18

Get her a chicken breast fillet,

She can wrap it in foil and put it in the oven herself, and you can make the roast tatties, veg, gravy etc.

jendot · 23/12/2013 16:21

Get the ready cooked chunky roast chicken slices from tesco and cover in gravy.... I'm sure she won't notice the difference!! The rest of the roast dinner can be made veggie!

lunar1 · 23/12/2013 16:22

What a lucky girl!

AmberLeaf · 23/12/2013 16:24

My Mum was vegetarian.

She still cooked a traditional Christmas dinner inc turkey.

If your principles dictate your eating preferences, fine. but I think serving up a ready meal on Christmas rather than bung a bit of meat in the oven for your DD is taking it too far.

specialsubject · 23/12/2013 16:26

being a veggie is fine.
hardly eating is not.

problem?

peachysnail · 23/12/2013 16:26

I feel sorry for your daughter. She wants to spend Xmas day with you and you can't be bothered to cook a nice meal for the two of you to share. Why would you not want to eat a meal together? It sounds like you have issues with food in general op. Have you thought about getting help before they start affecting your dd?

peachysnail · 23/12/2013 16:27

Salmotrutta · 23/12/2013 16:27

stubbs - no need for rudeness.

I don't think the OP is "lazy"

Just not liking the raw meat thing - perfectly understandable in a vegetarian.

I'm not a veggie and I hate raw meat.

OP - good suggestions about buying pre-cooked turkey etc. that you can warm up!

AmberLeaf · 23/12/2013 16:29

muesli when and IF you get hungry?

sounds like more than vegetarianism going on here.

wilkos · 23/12/2013 16:29

You're giving your 12 year old a ready meal to eat on Christmas Day, and you will have muesli if you get hungry.

Okaaaayy.... That sounds like fun

whois · 23/12/2013 16:29

You sound like you have some food issues OP with your reference to 'hardly eating at the best of times' and eating musli 'when and if' you get hungry.

If you're going to make the rest of the roast then don't bother getting a ready meal. As others have said either get a chicken breast in a foil tray, or the thick cut slices of chicken or turkey from the deli counter.

Gileswithachainsaw · 23/12/2013 16:29

What on earth are you cooking that makes her think it's a punishment

The idea of you serving her a micro meal for Xmas day is awful. I was a vege for 13 years I still managed to cook meat for people at work.

It's mean, I'm sorry but it's really mean, cook a meal you will all eat and she can roast a turkey leg or something herself with your help.

candycoatedwaterdrops · 23/12/2013 16:31

You sound mean! Get her something decent and instruct her how to put it in the oven.

bronya · 23/12/2013 16:37

Make the rest of it, then get turkey slices from the Deli and microwave them to warm them up. Sorted!

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