To ask what you think of this xmas dinner

[Shereturnsforonemore]

Ok here goes
microwave pulled pork
frozen Brussels
frozen roast potatoes
frozen yorkshire pudding
ah bisto

Christmas pudding ( ready made) with tin custard.

drinks were a selection of beer vodka rose wine cider and soft drinks and fruit shoots

What would your reaction be ?

yanbu sounds nice
yabu yuk

It's not that its frozen, its just that its rubbish. As a meal, its just sad and sounds tasteless.
Frozen sprouts....with nothing on them to make them edible, they're just little balls of sour misery.

We can't cook so when its our turn we normally pay for going out for xmas dinner.

Why can’t you cook? It’s a fairly simple basic skill for adults. Not something to boast you can’t do.

Your menu sounds pretty joyless and cheap quality.

It sounds ok, other than the frozen sprouts - fresh ones are so much better - and I would opt out of dessert.

Fresh veg and potatoes isn't much effort. I wouldn't have eaten microwaved pulled pork. My brother can't cook, he hosted this year, I took the turkey and DM a roast gammon we all mucked in in the kitchen. Wasn't very difficult at all

YABU to the pork. The rest would be fine.

I wouls have been most disappointed to have custard with the pudding.

Cream all the way for me!

We did have fresh carrots and sweetcorn i forgot to add that.

I did also provide a evening buffet with tesco xmas party food which is pretty standard for our family

I would never complain but as you are asking, Christmas dinner is basically my favourite meal and it tastes best when it’s all home made so for me it’s nice to make the most of it!

Sorry, but I doubt that.

Assuming things weren’t served frozen it all sounds fine except for the microwave pulled pork and Christmas pudding but only because I personally detest Christmas pudding. I always use frozen veg and frozen roasties / yorkies on a roast dinner as they taste just as good if not better than fresh and make my life so much easier, you can’t beat a proper cooked joint of meat though and I’m very much a traditionalist when it comes to turkey at Christmas.

It's just a meal. Not everyone has to hold it in such high esteem. I don't have an issue with the people who have said it is not what they would serve or would choose it it is the 'yucky yuk' type posters I have an issue with.

There is no denying that people here are ready to stick the boot in as much as they can. Lucky you if you haven't noticed it.

Sweetcorn on Christmas Dinner! You said you couldn't cook, but that is actually a crime.

I don't think there's anything wrong with that, if you like pork instead and if you're wanting to not slave in the kitchen BUT I feel a few things are missing. I'd like a pig in blanket, some mash, some extra veg, stuffing...

But a Christmas dinner isn’t difficult to make, what part of it “can’t” you cook? Personally, if I was coming for dinner, I’d prefer to eat a sub-par meal that you’d put some effort into than a load of stuff out of the freezer. With the exception of dessert, which I don’t care for anyway, so it could be anything.

Honestly - yuk.

I don't like pulled pork. Frozen sprouts are disgusting. Don't much like frozen roasties - Aunt Bessie's etc always taste oily to me. Bisto gravy is dull.

But if that was the first Christmas dinner my adult DC had hosted I would be impressed and if I was a guest I'd be polite. Depends on circumstances.

So you can't cook...fine, but it also sounds to me like you don't really understand food.

You could have bought pre prepped,low effort stuff that would have been so much nicer.

A decent ready made Christmas pudding is fine, but why custard? Sounds a bit school dinnerish. You should have bought a tub of brandy cream.

As for microwave pulled pork? Why didn't you buy a fresh joint of meat that just needs to go in the oven. There's loads of prepared veg that is fresh and tasty.

This!!

I’m there for the people not the food so I wouldn’t care what your served op

it wouldnt be my first choice but if someone else if cooking I’ll eat whatever I’m given and tbh nothin you’ve said is ‘bad’ altho I don’t need to read all the posts to know mumsnet vipers are out in force telling you you’re wrong 😂

We did have fresh carrots and sweetcorn i forgot to add that.

SWEETCORN?!?!?!

🤮🤮🤮

Ps I have sweetcorn with my roast dinner too 😄

Typical MN, insisting people 'scale it back' for a stress free Christmas yet when they do it's sad and yuk.

Just for the frozen brussel sprouts , that is yuk , no excuse .

But the ops stress free options sounds vile. There's so much lovely, fresh prepared stuff around nowadays. It's the choices not so much the effort imo.

I don’t drink so no brandy butter I prefer custard anyway. I also love sweetcorn though non on my Christmas dinner.