To ask what you’d leave out of Christmas dinner if you didn’t have to consider others?

[Cherrysoup]

For me, it would be most of the veg.

I was grateful to be invited to a family member’s Christmas dinner last year, but with 4 different stuffings and endless veg, I was a bit bewildered! Fabulous, but so much work for the hosts. The company was fantastic, I wouldn’t have cared if we’d had toast!

I think I’d stick to chicken, not turkey, one stuffing and roasties. Possibly green beans, because they’re delicious with gravy. 🍴

We don’t like Christmas pudding or Christmas cake, so we don’t have it. Likewise bread sauce, pigs in blankets, turkey...

Surely if people have accepted an invitation to come to yours for Christmas dinner, they’re not going to whinge about what is being served?

I would replace the roasted meat for extra pigs in blankets :)

I’d do a massive curry instead

Turkey too!
Blergh!

Roast potatoes.

I’ve been known to swap them for extra sprouts.

The roast dinner aspect. I like roast dinner just fine but it’s way too much faff for Christmas Day. It’s not worth it. I want to chill out as much as possible. I’d rather have a casserole or slow cooker curry. Something tasty for minimum effort.

I’d still have all the actual meal of a Christmas dinner it’s the desserts Christmas pudding, mince pies etc I don’t like any of them rest of family have them all where I either end up with trifle slice, sticky toffee pudding & custard or ice cream

So many different tastes here, I like to have a choice. I like to offer a choice. Because there is a few selections of foods you can just take what you like. With the amount of people I had last year and all different tastes, my ils thought they had to eat everything lol then I get a text this week telling me to leave out the sprouts, don't roast the carrots and parsnips like I did last year and just have boiled like I did last year too. And no garlic potatoes as they repeat on them. ALL my favourite veg and what they only want is boiled crap. I'm making it so I'll do tons of veg for everyone. I love my Christmas dinner and I always make sure to have plenty and a good choice, no point sitting there wishing for different food .

Turkey, cranberry sauce, bread sauce and sprouts.

Yuck, yuck, yuck and yuck!

Turkey (am veggie), brandy butter, chestnuts, mince pies and Christmas pudding would all be on my 'no' lisa

Meat. Love roast potatoes and parsnips, steamed sprouts, proper gravy from the veg water, bread sauce. Christmas pudding with brandy butter, so liquid with brandy that it has to be kept in the fridge till the last minute. One year at my parents I was so fraught that I forgot my veggie dish so just had everything except the meat and it was lovely just the same.

Brussel sprouts
Swede
Red cabbage

I do them for others but hate them all. I love parsnips.

I'm not a meat eater anymore, so would only do that for DD2 and DH.

I'd get rid of cranberry sauce. I hate it. It is like putting jam on your savoury food. Why?

None of it. I love Christmas dinner. Why would you leave anything out?

Stuffing. And trifle. And Christmas pudding. Apart from the stuffing I have managed to ease them out of Christmas in my house.

Most of the veg to be honest!

We just do;
beef
yorkies
Pigs in blankets
Stuffing
Roast potatoes
Spinach
Gravy

I love the turkey, veg, bread sauce, turkey and pigs in blankets. Also love christmas pudding, and all the leftovers.

I'd get rid of cranberry sauce, potatoes (whether boiled/roast/whatever) and probably the starter. Who needs to fill up?

Nothing really apart from sprouts love everything else. No big deal to do sprouts for my DH and middle DS though! We love a traditional roast on Christmas Day.

Turkey. I hate it!

I adore Christmas dinner! As an adult you get less presents so the food and company is THE best part of Christmas!! Love it!

I had scampi one year - I hate roasts so it was brilliant. I've since had to conform 🙄

Tbh if it was just up to me all there would be is stuffing roast potatoes and pigs in blankets

Sprouts. No brainer. Evil little fuckers that taste of farts.

DH loves them and is sad that I only cook them once a year.

(There is nothing preventing him cooking them, naturally. Only he appears to believe they only exist at Christmas and I have not disillusioned him on this one).

Yorkshire puddings. Love them but they don't belong on Christmas dinner

Off to put my hard hat on!

We actually did start leaving out most of the veg a few years ago and xmas dinner is so much easier and nicer for it. It's not that we dont like vegetables, we do and we have them with most meals but its always a faff, you dont really need them and were hardly going to become malnourished if we skip having veg with one meal. Parsnips and sprouts excluded however because they're ace