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”?

Big juicy fillet of steak 🥩

My boyfriend is vegan so we will be having a Tofurkey roast today with all the usual vegetables and trimmings but tomorrow on Boxing Day when my friend joins us for a second Christmas dinner, he will have the rest of his tofurkey, but we will have goose.

Chicken. A decent organic, free range one.

We've never had turkey as no-one likes it, sometimes we have beef but finances won't stretch to that this year, so I just bought two chicken breasts for DD2 and me

I get to make skirlie to Have with it, that's my favourite bit about having roast chicken!

Astrid

I don't like Quorn either, but surely if that is what people want to eat then that's fine?

I'm not Christian, and I'm celebrating Yule rather than "the birth of our saviour"

Steak and chips. Dcs are having pizza and chicken nuggets . Cupcakes for dessert, can't wait!

Confit duck legs for us today. Although we’ve roasted up a turkey crown already for the all important Boxing Day turkey curry.

Roast beef with about 90 billion roast tates, Yorkshire, sprouts, parsnip, carrots, swede and gravy. Oh with stuffing and pigs in blankets too.

A chicken breast joint with stuffing and sausage meat for the carnivores.
Cauliflower cheese for me.

Lam shanks, roast potatoes, Yorkshire puddings etc. All the trimmings but not the turkey

Husband is a chef and working today. When he gets home this afternoon me, him and DS are having a carpet picnic of baked baguettes, charcuterie, fondue, tomatoes, pickles etc. With paper plates and iced tea. No washing up, little prep = more family time. Perfect! !

Roast duck with homemade orange gravy. Delicious, moist and perfectly proportioned for two adults and two DCs.

My DCs would disown me if I didn't serve up a roast with sprouts, they absolutely adore them

I grew up with a larger family that had goose.

Wing rib of Sirloin this year. Maybe goose next year.
We like to try something different every year, we've done middle eastern italian and indian but the turkey year was pretty awful, organic - supposed good quality but not worth the faff - tasteless - everyone wanted the legs as they were the least awful bit.

Vegan tofurkey and vegan pigs in blankets!

We decided to have the full Xmas dinner but without the bird/meat. Just lots of pigs in blankets and good sausage meat stuffing. Cauliflower cheese, red cabbage, roast potatoes, maple parsnips, carrots and peas with gravy.

It was yummy!! All the best bits!!

We aren't good with left overs in this house.

We have a fusion of Danish and English traditional food at Christmas so we're having pork and duck with sugar browned potatoes and white cabbage (Danish traditional) with parsnips, sprouts, pigs in blankets and stuffing (English)

Guinea fowl here, it's just the two of us this year and it seemed like a good size. Never eaten it before so fingers crossed it's OK!

Beef. Roast potatoes. Honey roast parsnips and veg. For me.

Fucking chicken.