To say the Turkey is the least important part of Christmas lunch?

[LastChristmas20]

There must be others like us around. I'm hoping some are MNers!

Really the Turkey is just a formality.

I may in fact do a roast chicken. Or buy Turkey slices.

Christmas dinner is about all off the other sides. The main Christmas meat is actually the pigs in blankets and stuffing.

Duck produces relatively little meat, especially once most of the fat has melted away, so it's suitable for a small family's meal.
you just need to buy enough for the amount of people to be fed!

We tend to have lamb, or fish platters.

Turkey is a great meat high protein meat for every day, I prefer something a bit more festive.

Christmas should be all about festive food you enjoy! Fish fingers seem a bit sad, but apart from that!

When we go skiing, we have a Christmas fondue!

YANBU. It’s the pigs in blankets and stuffing and Yorkshires and my mums cheesy turnip mash that are the exciting bits!

Meat is the least important part of any sunday roast. When I went vegetarian I just cut out the meat, it's all about the roasties and yorkshires.

You haven't lived unless you've eaten my uncle's Tandoori turkey. OMG out of this world.!

See I was about to agree w you - and then you said ‘cauli cheese, red cabbage and yorkshires’ - none of these have any place at Christmas dinner, what are you THINKING.

Bread sauce
Pigs in blankets
Roast potatoes
Stuffing
Gravy
Turkey
Sprouts...
And nothing else...particularly not parsnips...have never recovered from the time I thought I had lots of roast potatoes and the majority were parsnips...yuck...

The Blessed Bird has now landed ( been delivered by DPD) and will be lovingly treated. Given its price, I think it was daily hand massaged by angels and slumbered to the sounds of lutes and lyres in a hopefully idyllic field.

100% agree! Although we’ve not had turkey for years! We usually have beef although one year we had duck breast and one year chicken breast stuffed with stuffing and wrapped in Parma ham. Still feel the same though as much as I love those things, it’s all about the sides! My mum called the butcher the other week who told her there was no need to preorder beef and I’ve told her on the off chance that there’s a problem to just buy a shed load of pigs in blankets!

I love turkey sandwiches as leftovers. On the day it's all about the sides for sure. But Boxing Day I want cold turkey, mayo and salad on cheap toasted bread, if I'm lucky with a bit of stuffing shoved in.

We are a turkey free zone too.

The turkey is the blank canvas on which to spread your other festive delights.

Along with the bread sauce, it provides a satisfying blandness to contrast with the richness of the more delicious parts of the meal.

Like the bread of a sandwich.

To get us in the mood, we did a roast/traybake last week.

Pigs in blankets and stuffing balls mixed with red onion, roasties and roast carrots and sprouts with a late addition of frozen peas and some chicken stock for the last 10 mins. (In the Ocado Life mag).

We flip between beef and chicken
most years.