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Indian takeaway on Christmas day

206 replies

WhyDoYouAsk · 09/12/2020 16:29

Do any of you do this? Or have ideas for alternative Christmas Day dinners?
AIBU to say I’m not cooking this year?

OP posts:
listsandbudgets · 09/12/2020 19:00

We live near an area with a lot of resturants many of them Indian / Pakistani / Kashmairi / Bangladeshi. Last year I went out to try to find an open shop for somethng get some fresh air away from the cahos and they were nearly all open with queues out the doors. I got some lovely baklava while I was at it

QueenPaws · 09/12/2020 19:00

Every year on Christmas Day night but we go to the restaurant and eat there

QueenPaws · 09/12/2020 19:03

Last year. They give you a free bottle of wine to take home, free dessert, brandy.. perfect
Actually he gave me a large brandy for coping with my mother

Indian takeaway on Christmas day
Bunbunbunny · 09/12/2020 19:07

My oven has just broken might be a good idea especially if it's just us

PatsyStone39 · 09/12/2020 19:08

We do it ever year. None of us like xmas dinner and it's always just my partner, son and I. So not a lot of point in cooking. It's fabulous.

golddustwomen · 09/12/2020 19:08

God yes. We traditionally have one Boxing Day evening.
It's just the four of us Christmas Day this year, don't want to risk the 3 household thing with my grandparents, and we're having steak and chips!!

PaperMonster · 09/12/2020 19:10

Went for an Indian once on Christmas Day many years ago - was fab!

ZadieZadie · 09/12/2020 19:18

I hear you on the Indian roast dinner @alisha556655!! Halal turkey and spicy trimmings happening round ours.

ClickandForget · 09/12/2020 19:22

We've done this when we've had no extended family on the day. We've got a take away on Xmas Eve, put it in the fridge, and heated it the next day at our convenience. Not microwaved though. Proper oven cooked. So easy and bloody delicious. We've done this at least half a dozen Xmasses, when we get the chance. Never when we have mil though. She'd be scandalised.

Parker231 · 09/12/2020 19:26

Making me hungry!

So many people moan about the time they spend in the kitchen cooking what is really a glorified roast, having a takeaway is the answer. Takeaways will be open on Christmas Day throughout the country so start checking the menus!

Roominmyhouse · 09/12/2020 19:31

Sounds lush! Enjoy Smile

Lottieis44 · 09/12/2020 20:16

Lovely idea, enjoy!

FangsForTheMemory · 09/12/2020 20:18

If that's what you want to do, then go for it. I've never cooked turkey in my life, I eat what I want at Christmas.

maddiemookins16mum · 09/12/2020 20:25

Nope. That’s a monthly treat for us.
Christmas Day for us is the most expensive meal of the year.
We once (when just us two) purchased expensive fillet steaks.

Pipandmum · 09/12/2020 20:36

You di what you want, but you can have an Indian any night of the year. I hate cooking but I love Christmas dinner and my kids would be devastated.

Hardbackwriter · 09/12/2020 20:39

@Pipandmum

You di what you want, but you can have an Indian any night of the year. I hate cooking but I love Christmas dinner and my kids would be devastated.
You know that you could have turkey and trimmings any day of the year too, right?
thetaleunfolds · 09/12/2020 20:40

Since it's just me and my son this Christmas, I've decided to ditch the cooked meal that I know he won't eat anyway, and we are having a party buffet instead. My mother is outraged haha but we will both enjoy it (and it'll be a damn bit easier to cook than a turkey dinner with all the trimmings!)

Do what you enjoy :)

YouDidWHATNow · 09/12/2020 21:08

We accidentally had to do this last year with Chinese, and you know what? It was the best Christmas dinner i'd had in a long time. I in all my stupidity, fell down a curb walking to my Grandad's Christmas lunch time, I ended up in A&E and I was meant to start the dinner, turkey was in already but nothing else. They saw me really quickly and I was out in 4 hours, but by then it was getting on for 4pm, and my Mum who took me to A&E and helps with dinner just said I wish we could just get a takeout.. we looked and were shocked they were open and busy. So we all sat on the sofa eating chinese, me with my broken leg up on the arm, watching Call the Midwife. Turkey made amazing sandwiches the next day which tided us over quite nicely whilst sat in fracture clinic to get my proper cast on. We are tempted to do the same this year, minus the broken leg!

userxx · 09/12/2020 21:38

Yuck

That's how I feel about turkey 🤢

God, I'd love a chicken rogan josh with all the extras.

helloxhristmas · 09/12/2020 21:41

It's our Boxing Day meal, but no reason not to have it on Xmas day!

MrsJBaptiste · 09/12/2020 21:49

We've had a takeaway curry on Christmas Day for a few years now and I love it! None of us are bothered about roasts so the thought of spending all day cooking a glorified Sunday dinner is not appealing... 😣

zenasfuck · 09/12/2020 21:50

I moved into my own home at 18 and at 38, I have hosted Christmas dinner for parents and grandparents every year since I was 18.

This year, due to covid we will all be staying in our respective homes and eating dinner there so I was really looking forward to saying sod it, no cooking let's just drink wine, eat chocolate and Pringles and get an Indian takeaway

But DH is insisting on Christmas lunch the spoilsport

kowari · 09/12/2020 23:29

Don't understand the takeaway not being special thing. Some families have a regular Sunday roast then a Christmas roast. We will have an Indian takeaway with 'all the trimmings' for Christmas, different to the basic takeaway we normally have.

EveryDayIsADuvetDay · 09/12/2020 23:35

I'm away at Christmas, and a long way from my favourite Indian restaurant that does takeout.
but New Years Eve?...

ShopoholicIn · 10/12/2020 02:29

Had it 2 years back n will do it this year too