Team Christmas Dinner or Team Buffet?

[TheOwlDidIt]

It's just me, DH and DS7 for Christmas. We're going to the in-laws on Boxing Day. I've never cooked a roast in my life and it feels like overkill to do it for three of us when DS isn't arsed and Will want to play with toys. In this situation, would you just do nibbles and party food?

Yes would definitely cook a Christmas dinner for three. Nibbles and party food is just supper/evening snack.

How come you’ve never cooked a roast? I’d absolutely cook a roast for 3, but I cook a Sunday roast most weeks.

Ask them what they’d like?

Make sure they pitch in to help, whatever it is - it’s your Christmas, too.

Do whatever you like. If you’re having a roast on Boxing Day then do a beige buffet on Xmas day - my kids would have preferred that anyway!

Whatever you fancy!
Party food sounds good if you are going for a big dinner the next day as you won't be home to eat your leftovers
:)

There's usually only three of us and I do a traditional Christmas dinner. We do a (whole, organic, heartstoppingly expensive) chicken rather than turkey though, or maybe a guinea fowl. Turkeys are too big and we're not that keen on them.

Then it's all about the trimmings. DH loves a pig in a blanket, bless him.

Buy the gravy (it's the only time of the year I do it) so you're not half cut trying to make it yourself. Otherwise, it's a piece of piss. It's literally just putting things in an oven. Go to M & S and get everything pre-done, jobs a good un.

We’re having a cold buffet for 17 on Christmas Day but even if there were a smaller number I wouldn’t do a roast as no one really likes it. It’s not something we cook on a Sunday let alone Christmas Day.

Yes I'd do Christmas dinner even just for the two of us. Though if I didn't want to be feasting on chicken/turkey for the rest of the week (unthinkable - for me, leftovers are one of the joys of Christmas), I might consider cooking just breasts or drumsticks, and concentrating on all the other wonderful things that lift a Christmas dinner from being "just a roast" - stuffing, bread sauce, cranberry sauce, pigs in blankets, parsnips in blankets of otherwise, brussels, gravy, maybe yorkies, and whatever other vegetables you want.

But if in-laws are going to do a full Christmas dinner on Boxing Day, then do a buffet, and make it as special as you can. There's all sorts of fun food around at the moment, eg Chinese dumplings like snowmen, Christmas tree shaped biscuits.

I just don't enjoy cooking. And I was one of those children forced to have a roast every Sunday (I know right? Absolute child abuse 😂) so I kind of rebel against having them.

I find roasts really simple! But you can eat whatever you like.