To ask if you’re not having turkey for Christmas lunch, what will you be having?

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We will be having Greek style lamb casserole this year. We have different food each year at Christmas and haven’t gone turkey for years. Tbh none of the family like it and find it fairly tasteless and dry. I think Christmas should be what you enjoy. Before the 1960s few people are turkey anyway at Xmas and if it wasnt for MIL insisting on turkey in previous years we’d never have it. As it is, I put my foot down a few years back and now we just do whatever takes our fancy each year. AIBU to think people just have turkey because everyone else does and they feel they “have to”?

Crispy shredded duck with cucumber / spring onions and hoi sin sauce for dinner here. It’s forecast to be 23 degrees but looks like it’ll be hotter - far too hot for the full roast and all the trimmings. We’ve had crispy duck ever since we moved here.

Most meats can be accompanied by condiments and sauces. Turkey, cooked properly, doesn't necessarily need these.

Roast chicken (rolled and deboned and with stuffing- from the butcher) and a roasted honey ham. We serve with, crispy roast potatoes, cabbage, honey glazed parsnips, carrots, broccoli and bacon-sprouts.
Trimmings include - pigs in blankets and Yorkshires. Nothing too crazy, but not too shabby either.

I'm working so you can all admire my tasty choices
P.s the chocolate pudding things have been sampled. Evil, I tell you. Don't buy them leave them all for me

We once had a 4 bird stuffed roast which people were raving about - never again! it was such a clashing of poultry flavours and over rich stuffing. i cannot imagine anyone liking it.

I love turkey but the family doesn't so I'm cooking goose as I have for a few years. Tbh we chop and change yearly. I also love duck

Chicken or goose. Not wildly alternative!!!

Turkey this year as I'm a guest.

Used to be a capon. (Which is a castrated cockeral SpeckledyHen. End up like a very large chicken.) Haven't been able to get one for ages though.

we are 9 for dinner we're having pork and lamb ribs, goose (first time ever) and duck.

We usually have pork & beef but with a turkey crown because mother is a stickler for tradition

I'm another one saying if your turkey is dry and tasteless you are cooking it wrong.....but we do not even bother with Xmas dinner.

No-one wants to spend the day cooking so we have a Buffett. Cheeses, cold meats couple of party platters.

Then we either go out for dinner or cook a roast on boxing day. This year we are having a 5 bird roast courtesy of Lidl .

I dislike turkey, so we’re having chicken this year. I have in the past made beef/duck/pork.

Chicken and a ham

So pretty close to turkey lol, but none of us particularly like it.

We're having a lamb roast. Our family's had a few Americans and Canadians marry into it so we usually do turkey in October and November for Thanksgiving and no matter how juicy and succulent they might have been nobody can really stomach a third in December!

All sorts of meats, cheese, salads and foods we all like. Our older family members are horrified. It's hilarious how upset some of them are about it.

Beef Rib, pork leg and turkey crown here! It's like that friends thank giving episode where everyone asks for something different 🙄

Ha ha BeerBaby my MIL was so mortified one year when she found out no turkey we were invited to hers on Boxing Day for the full Turkey extravaganza. Tbh she cooked it well and very traditional but she went on and on about it.

I've done a cashew nut and parsnip roast. DS will have a quorn sausage. The rest of the family are sorting themselves out - probably turkey or beef.

If your turkey is dry and tasteless, not only are you cooking it wrong but you've also bought a poor quality bird. I love turkey

Lentil and walnut loaf.
Vegan. No animal exploitation or dead creatures for us.

We're in Italy so I've already done the Cima alla Gevovese (a cushion of veal stuffed with eggy vegetables and ground veal offal sausagemeat) boiled and pressed under a heavy weight and served cold in slices with mustard candied fruit, pickles and green sauce.

I do an English style Christmas Dinner on the 31st but this year I only have half a turkey, sawn like a lump of wood by my butcher while still frozen, poor bird!
For 2 adults and an 11yo it'll be easy peasy. I might not even need "the roaster" a huge enamel tray that only leaves the garage once a year.

Santa will be very pleased with you KSA well done

I’m making a beef Wellington with dauphinois potatoes and roasted vegetables.

I’m not a massive turkey fan anyway but we’re going on our honeymoon on Boxing Day so don’t want leftovers!

Beef Wellington (Sainsbury's one)

Are you my sister? (Apart from the Sainsbury's detail)

We're having that and roasted capon (it's a castrated cockerel) - all 4 kg of it.

We brine the birds the day before with some lemon slices.

Party food and something with lobster. We are doing rib of beef on boxing day when the PIL are coming over