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. 🍴

I only cook for myself so obviously not going to include anything I don't like. I've pre-ordered a free range capon (rooster chicken) which aren't normally available during the rest of the year, homemade pigs in blankets and stuffing, roast potatoes and parsnips, sprouts, carrots, peas, cranberry sauce, gravy - perfect. I also cook extra potatoes and sprouts to make bubble and squeak on boxing day with cold meats, pickles, salad - yum.

Most of it - hate turkey, stuffing, red cabbage, sprouts, cranberry sauce, Christmas cake and trifle!

I do glazed gammon and roast chicken instead with pigs in blankets, roast potatoes, parsnips and squash, Savoy cabbage sautéed with Lardons and shallots, yorkies, gravy and bread sauce. Christmas pudding and Yule log for dessert.

Sprouts definitely and possibly some of my husbands more cantankerous relatives.

I've found my people! Christmas dinner is horrible. My DFs cooking it so I am just going to have, as per, pigs in blankets and roasties with peas and carrots I did suggest having lasagne or sausage and mash but everyone was disgusted with me.

All of it TBH.

As a long term vegetarian (preceded by years of hating meat and 2 veg/Sunday roast type meals) I'd much prefer an Indian or Mexican meal.

I’m loving the variety of tastes and opinions! I love sprouts, cooked until just done, always from fresh. Love roast parsnips, had some tonight, I find them delicious. I’m another fan of bread sauce.

4 stuffings (maybe it was 3, I can’t swear to 4!) was easily done, sausage and sweet corn, sage and onion, chestnut and something. Dunno, they were tasty whatever they were.

Cranberry (and apple) sauce is anathema, just wrong, for me, anyway. I loathe brandy sauce. I make my mil’s lemon sauce to go withChristmas pudding. I don’t like panettone, stollen etc.

Anything from a pig.

Pigs in blankets? Meh.

Sausagemeat in perfectly good Paxo? Ick.

Bacon making Chicken/Turkey taste of bacon instead of chicken/turkey? Ugh.

Giant lumps of gammon slowcooked in herbs and spices over two days and then roasted after being carefully basted in Seville Marmalade and more spices, just so DP has access to fancy ham sandwiches for the next week? Nob off.

Crisps? Bleurgh.

Chocolate? Yuk.

Full pig product fry up every bloody Christmas Morning, meaning he doesn't want to start dinner until the evening? WHY? What's wrong with smoked salmon, scrambled eggs and some bucks fizz?

I would be perfectly happy with Roast Duck, spuds (or parsnips as they are far nicer roasted), carrots, peas, red cabbage, bread sauce, gravy, followed by fresh fruit salad and crème fraiche.

Love Christmas dinner main course - even the sprouts! But Christmas pudding..... I'd be far happier with trifle, cheesecake or a slice of Arctic Roll.

Turkey and pigs in blankets and bread sauce

If I were to have only me to feed, it would have to be scallops with black pudding followed by roast duck with roast potatoes, parsnips and green beans. Sod pudding as I can not be arsed. Maybe biscuits and cheese though.

Meat, dried fruit and alcohol are the components I'm not bothered about. So most of it really 😂

Turkey

I love sprouts, cooked until just done

I love mine really soft so will be putting on to boil at the end of this month

Oh dear Cherrysoup, I am aghast to hear someone does not enjoy four types of stuffing. It’s the best bit, and you need a fruity one, a sausage one, a nutty one and the one cooked in the turkey with all the delicious turkey juices... It also goes spectacularly well with bubble n squeak,(cold dry turkey doesn’t do it for me) and is perfect for a breakfast meat over the next few days. I love a roast anyway, and the more vegetable and sauce flourishes the better.
Christmas sweets tho, I could live without. Starters are fine, but I can have the main, open some presents, and cut straight to the bubble n squeak, stuffing and bread sauce, sausage rolls, crusty rolls, smoked fish, pickles, chutneys, salads, cheeses, and crackers and usually do.
Yule log and trifle are lovely, but not on Christmas Day. That is for proper food! Christmas cake is acceptable as a fruit and alcohol accompaniment to a nice cheese. If there can be nuts instead of icing, so much the better.
PS We have been eating stuffing, pigs in blankets, roast potatoes, cabbage in cider and cranberry sauce, and sprouts with gravy for a good month, but only because I am too lazy to do anything but the best bits when only two of us.

sprouts

Sprouts and meat. Im vegetarian. The perfect dinner for me would be my dads roast vegetables, roast potatos, yorkshire pudding, leeks in onion sauce, roasted cauliflower with cheese sauce. No pudding until much later in the evening. Then, chocolate melt in the middle pudding with vanilla ice cream.

Bread sauce seems bleugh! Veg is the best bit - parsnips roasted in parmesan, braised red cabbage, herby glazed carrots and lightly steamed sprouts - yum, yum..

Ooh I forgot stuffing. I want some of that too!

I don't care about others enough to allow turkey over my threshold. Horrible bird, horrible meat.
It's slowroasted duck (or ducks) in here. If someone doesn't like a duck, there is a veg🤷

Bread sauce. What is it for? It tastes like nothing. Odd thing that.

I looooooove roasted parsnips and carrots and panfried brussel sprouts.
And duck gravy😁

Pigs in blankets? Amazing. Brutal name though😂

@Bickles we went to an Indian restaurant on Christmas Day last year - best Christmas dinner ever!

Me and DP don't think of anyone else. No-one is invited to ours for Xmas and we've made it absolutely clear we won't go to anyone else's house for Xmas. We just have all the food we want....

Chicken
3 types of stuffing
Frozen roast potatoes
Roasted carrots and parsnips
Yorkshire puddings
Peas
Cranberry sauce
Gravy
Red wine for DP
Rose wine for me

Bliss.

Carrots and potatoes

I like turkey,veg,stuffing and gravy.

I’d have roast lamb or beef, roast potatoes, Yorkshire puds, roast carrots, red cabbage and gravy.

Not fussed for turkey, sprouts, parsnips, bread sauce or cauliflower cheese.

I would definitely not have things like Christmas pudding, Christmas cake or mince pies either. Trifle and chocolate log are so much nicer imo

I never do turkey. Last year DH and i had chicken. This year is just the 4 of us, 2 adults and 2 vegetarian teens. Im thinking I'll do loads of roast veg ( carrots, parsnip, butternut, sweet potato) with vegan Yorkshires, then do beef for the adults and veggie sausages for the kids.

We don't have starters because its wanky and I'd rather have a huge main

We don't really have pudding, just graze on all the chocolate and sweets and biscuits throughout the afternoon