If you're not eating turkey this Christmas, what are you having?

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DP hates turkey and is making a pheasant in a duck in a goose

That's if our oven is fixed in time!

roast gammon, possibly with honey and mustard glaze or treacle, all the usual trimmings.
We usually have turkey but we had the "do any of us actually like turkey?" conversation the other day so as a consequence we are having ds's favourite - ham.

We always have chicken as don't like turkey, too tough and fatty.

Piggles I agree with omdb, I was veggie for years but hated putting people out at Christmas. Nut roast is fine served cold or buy a Quorn roast, keep it in the freezer and stick it in the oven if needed. If feeling generous you could buy a few Aunt Bessies roasties to go with it and still have your goose fat spuds. I'm a confirmed meat eater now so feel your pain!

We're having duck. Turkey's a bit meh and, as there are only 4 of us (including 2 dc who only have a mouthful of meat) I don't want an animal the size of a toddler to chomp our way through.

Beef on Christmas Day and Lamb or venison on Boxing Day. BD is a bigger day in this house! CD is 4 of us. BD is 18!

Guinea Fowl. I'm not sure if I've had it before, but looking forward to it.

Only 3 of us, ordered from our local butcher, so now just have to find a nice recipe.

either curry made night before and heated with microwaved rice or pizza .Just me and 4 dc at home done it for few years now and so much less stress

No turkey in our house this year either, we all hate it so we are just going to have a ham instead. Probably Nigella's ham in Coca Cola as that is the kids favourite. I will also do roasties, mashed potatoes, roasted carrots and parsnips, creamed leeks, sauteed sprouts with shallots, parsley and onion stuffing and gravy. And fillet steaks on Boxing day.

Yummy capon here, so much tastier than turkey. Will cook nigella's ham in coca cola for boxing day.

Thanks :) I think I will just go ahead and make the meaty feast for me and DH as intended - no reason why we shouldn't get the dinner we want to have just because the kids 'might' show up for dinner too.

My mum is a Pescatarian, so I am quite used to not having meaty Christmas dinners - usually we'd have a big juicy salmon for Christmas dinner and lots of un-meaty trimmings, so catering for un-picky veggies would present no huge issue to me, but these kids really are picky.

They both seem to hate more foods than they like, and of course they both hate what the other one likes

love this thread, DC's and I all hate turkey but DH insists as traditional, I am going to point they all at this thread and start a "no Turkey" campaign, hmmmmm, what to have, and what to do with a freezer full of dead turkey and sprouts!

When I was growing up our only food tradition was never to repeat the same main course for Christmas dinner, or have turkey.

We are having slow-cooked leg of lamb.

Doing turkey and roast pork with crackling for DH and FIL (they like crispy pig skin for some unknown reason) with stuffing, roasts, yorkies, bacon wrapped sausages (so I can snaffle them whilst cooking), apple sauce and gravy you can stand a spoon in. Yum.

Was going to do Christmas Eve's pudding in place of traditional Xmas pudding but may just do sticky toffee pudding instead.

Will have turkey at my sisters but am doing a ham (in ginger beer, smothered in ginger jam and then roasted) to have cold with pickles and chutneys later on!

Stillbobbiesgirl?

Pepperoni?

At Rivens???

Capon or chicken

Boxing Day Nigella's ham in coke and Christmas pie