Is my Christmas dinner unreasonable?

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I have just done a big chunk of the Xmas food shop today. I'll be cooking for 10 including PILs who haven't had Xmas lunch with us before. I luuurve Christmas dinner and all the leftovers so tend to make a bit of a feast. DH has happily tucked into said feast for many years. I'm doing...
Smoked salmon starter
Turkey
Pigs in blankets
Stuffing
Roasties
Parsnips
Sprouts with bacon
Red cabbage
Gravy
Christmas pudding with brandy butter and cream

Apparently, according to DH, PILs will not be happy because 1) pigs in blankets are a bit common 2) sprouts shouldn't have bacon anywhere near them 3) starters are unnecessary 4) it really is too much food to be able to enjoy it.

My response was that I've bought the food, I will cook the food and if they don't eat it I will happily consume the leftovers. Therefore - tough bloody luck if they don't like it!!!

I know I'm right... aren't I???

I agree with the PILs that starters are unnecessary but that's because we'd rather leave space for a mountain of turkey and stuffing.

But then we always have smoked salmon for breakfast with scrambled eggs DH Bucks Fizz.

But YANBU about everything else.

Ooh, I quite fancy your red cabbage now you mention it!

Sounds lovely to me. I must have missed the memo re pigs in blankets being a bit common . Call them sausages wrapped in pancetta - problem solved?

Yes, I know Barbara I did say it was a woo diet!! SIL is Spanish btw and lovely but batshit

See now this is how we ended up with 3 different types of sprouts. Boiled. Shredded and fried with bacon lardons. Halved and oven baked with chestnuts. And I eat all 3.

We will have turkey (this year spatchcocked dry bribed and cooked on high). Pigs in blankets. Roast potatoes and parsnips. Carrots - Boiled and swede - mashed. Brocoli and spring greens. Probably peas. There will be 3 types of stuffing. Obvs cranberry sauce.

There will be a small fish starter and cheese for pudding. Along with Christmas pudding that we fight over who gets to set on fire (I win). Then chocolates. Then a food coma. Interspersed with farts.

Cook what you want. How you want it. As long as it all gets eaten eventually.

We won't have a starter as we'll still be stuffed from gourmet restaurant dinner on Xmas Eve. But we will have buck's fizz for beakfast with pigs in blankets, how common is that? No turkey because nobody likes it, so roast sirloin of beef, Yorkshire puds, roast pots, mashed carrot and parsnip, possibly broccoli, gravy, horseradish. Xmas pud plus cream and/or brandy butter.

I'm slightly nervous because we have just moved house and I've hardly used my oven yet. Could go horribly wrong.

Turkey
Ham
Roasties
Mash
Sprouts
Carrots and or cauliflower (can't decide and edging towards carrots for colour)
Stuffing
Gravy.

No dessert. No starter

Leftover sambos of ham or turkey in the evening.

No cheese board.

Sounds lovely op, only thing I would add is more stuffing, preferably chestnut, it always seems to be the thing in short supply when you dish up the heavenly Boxing Day leftovers with baked potatoes......??

Stuffed.com.

Actually, a cheese and wine board for boxing day sounds good.

We will most likely get:

24th:(main celebration with my mother's extended family)
-Drinks, something to eat standing up (probably bacon wrapped dates, something with puff pastry olives etc...)
-fish
-pasta
-pudding

25th:
Breakfast at my mother's house, Small breakfast. Coffee,fruit, some baked goods

Christmas Day 'lunch'
Antipasti
Baked pasta
Meat
Pudding

26. My father's family Mulled wine almonds and raisins and spice biscuits buffet with different breads, butter, reindeer jerky, meat balls, elk sausage, other sausage, soup, bread for in the soup, beers, pickles, salmon etc Cake, whipped cream and coffe

Sooo... after that feast in we're about 5 kg heavier 😂😂
And that's why our vegan New Year's Eve party back in the UK is imo very understandable ;)
But seriously, you ar the cook.

They should say thank you, smile and eat whatever they like of your cooking.

No 24 after the 24th...

Oops.

But seriously, I made mys is of hungry with all that talk of food :)

All the more pigs in blankets for you!

Chez Sparkles it'll be

Bacon rolls & Buck's Fizz for breakfast (we're classy 😂)

Carrot&coriander soup with crusty bread/croissants
Smoked mackerel pate or salmon with brown bread
Honey baked gammon/fillet beef wellington
Pigs in blankets
Roast potatoes
Boiled potatoes (for ds)
Roast parsnips
Carrots
Stir fried sprouts with walnuts
Broccoli
Red cabbage
Sweet corn (it's the law that you have it with gammon)
Gravy
Possibly Yorkshire puds

Trifle
Chocolate log
Mint/chic cheesecake

Cheeseboard later on

Sorry, just to clarify, is your DH suggesting you should serve a Christmas dinner without pigs in blankets? I've never heard something so outrageous.

PrincessConsuela I despise sprouts but oh my goodness yours sound amazing.

The only way my family can tell the difference between Christmas lunch and an ordinary Sunday lunch is the pigs in blankets. Don't tell me I've been common in all these years. Who decided they are common anyway? Debrett's?

Your OH sounds like a dick. Tell him to stfu.

Sorry, OP, I think YABVU - there's no bread sauce or cranberry sauce on your menu. And sprouts with bacon are even yummier with chestnuts and Riesling (Keith Floyd, RIP). Oh, and what about a prune, apricot, apple, red onion and port stuffing for the turkey, a la Sophie Grigson, no less?
Do it your way, it sounds fab! They don't have to eat everything on offer and I'm seriously not getting the pigs in blankets being common, they're just yum whatever class you might think you are!

Sorry if someone has already said this but how on earth are pigs in blankets common?! Good food is good food and when some one else cooks for you the only correct repsonse before, during and after is "Thank you, this is lovely." Your menu sounds fab. I always do an italian reciepe that we love on Christmas day which is very little work but tasty, with chicken instead of turkey.

I'd cook them extra pigs in blankets.

Or this www.birdseye.co.uk/products/traditional-turkey-dinner
it has no pigs in blankets.

Honestly, some people have bugger all on Christmas day or are alone. People complain about the weirdest things. Your dinner sounds lovely.

Sounds bloody lovely. Can i come instead?!

Sounds a normal Christmas dinner. The Queen has turkey and although I can't find a reference to pigs in blankets, there are Royal Warrants for suppliers of bacon and chippolata, to I reckon they grace the Royal table!
Sprouts are the devil's own vegetable so never served here ( I pay for it all, cook.it and host it every year, so I feel no obligation to cook them despite the demands).
Meat changes year to year, I'm not a turkey fan, so maybe one in five years. Otherwise, house, duck, beef, gammon. This year is suckling pig. Always do red cabbage, roast potatoes and parsnips, something green and leafy, peas or broad beans and usually another roast or pureed/ mashed veg. Starter varies but usually vegetarian as have sort of vegetarian guest. Faux Gras this year. Stuffing, sausage and bacon, assorted gravies / sauces depending on meat. Christmas pudding, mince pies and another pudding. Maybe black forest trifle or profiteroles this year. I love left overs which is just as well.

Hmmm goose not house!

Ungrateful buggers. In this house everyone eat what they want from what's being served and do what they want. Just cook as usual, lots of pigs in blankets are consumed here

We are having:

Beef + lamb
Turkey + chicken
Pigs in blankets
Roast parsnips
Roast carrots
Roast potatoes
Stuffing
Yorkshire puds
Bread sauce
Cranberry sauce/mint sauce AND horseradish
Peas and broccoli
Rainbow chard
Brussels sprouts w pancetta
Red cabbage
Swede mash
Cauliflower cheese
Shit load of gravy

The reason I make so much is I like the variety PLUS we are living for Boxing Day leftovers. No starters, plus we'll have a ham and loads of cheeses and pickles/chutneys all that. I don't go mad on presents, but the food I literally look forward to for months. Best dinner of the year!

YANBU! Although you're a bit unreasonable for leaving out Yorkshire puds

Thanks for reminding me to add Red Cabbage to my shopping list!

A lovely range of choices to please everyone in there.

It's ridiculous to say it's all too much... have they even asked how big the turkey will be or how many sprouts you'll be preparing? That would be the quantity indicator, and nobody is going to be forcing them to eat anything they don't want to!

Enjoy the day. They are lucky you're being so hospitable.