Baked beans on toast for Xmas dinner-your thoughts please

[FillyjonkTheFireEater]

Pros

1. Everyone likes baked beans, unless they are weird. No pushing sprouts round a plate

1. No issues re vegetarians/vegans/people who eat meat but call themselves vegetarian

1. Quick to prepare

1. Looks rather festive

1. Goes rather well with ale

Cons

???

Cons -

I LOVE TURKEY!!!

sounds like a great idea too me, more mo ney for wine then and more room for all the quality street and roses!!!

Hmmmmmmm, might run the idea past dh.

What a good idea. Make a change from nutroast.

am seriously tempted

last year my mate bought those curry meal deals from tesco for their christmas dinner! She said it was great, hardly any washing up, and saved money, also no wasted food because every one had chosen the curry they liked.
If i thought i couold get away with it i would do it

I suppose I could posh the beans up with a fried egg or two...

god it would be so effing easy.

Hardly any washing up either

My kids are 1 and 3, I mean, ffs, why not?

I am hardcore food fascist the other 364 days of the year

@ Curry

Theres so much pressure isn't there?

When we were kids, our turkey wasn't cooked in time for lunch - we didn't know until Dad went to carve it! Ended up eating beefburgers and sausages, turkey chucked back in the oven and Mum in floods of tears as she'd "ruined" christmas day - bless her, none of us were even bothered, we enjoyed it!

ah, when I were a lass...lump of coal and a satsuma...all trees round here...

but then, christmas dinner, cabbage that had been boiling all morning and elderly turkey...

I am actually, deadly serious. I note that noone has produced a serious con as yet.

I don't like baked beans though.
What can I have???

I never cook Christmas dinner. It's meant to be a holiday, a celebration with your family, right? So why spend it in the kitchen?

We buy lots of gorgeous little deli items, some good bread, cheeses etc and sit down to a glorious feast which takes about 2.7 minutes to prepare (some of the tubs are a little tricky to open, you see).

When her children were little MIL allowed to choose what to have as a Christmas meal (she is a food sargent so this was a welcomed break). They ate baby rack chops with plenty of chips every Christmas for many years

why not, we put so much pressure on ourselves to cook a massive dinner no one eats.

I would do beans on toast (or i would if me and dd liked them)as you say dc are i and 3 they won't know any different.

DH likes them with grated cheese.

Do it and have a stress free day with your children thats what christmas is for.

The only con i can think of they can make you a bit windy, mind you so brussels so not much of a con.

For the record i don't like turkey either, and my dm is doing dinner this year, a nice piece of roast pork.

I'm trying to convince DH to get every thing from M&S but he feels part of the Christmas magic will be lost (what magic? I wonder)

I can't actually see what is so stressful about roasting a bird and doing a few veggies though..
Piece of piss.

NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Not in our house, my dad cooks the best Christmas dinner

MMMMMMMMM I can almost taste all the different types of veg, the roasties the meat mmm

My brothers and I have a competition every year whos going to eat all theirs. I havent won since I was 16 as Im always hungover.
This year Im staying in on Christmas Eve and theyre 16 and 17 so theyll be hungover.

Revenge tastes like turkey

When DP said we would do something simple for Christmas dinner beans on toast was what I had in mind. He then went on the say that its simple to just cook a chiken, tates and frozen veg and the kids will eat that without too much moaning. I told him that I may as well cook a bl**dy Christmas dinner then as it was nearly the same FFS!

The reason I think its so amazing, is because I dont actually do anything

I play with DD, beat my brothers on their computer games and then by magic it appears on the tabl

ah, we have vegetarian issues, md

so we'd have to roast a whole load of things

and by "we" I mean "I"

I like the idea of the deli stuff also

we did that last year, actually.

Damn veggies

only con is the gas emissions afterwards

Filly,you just roast yerself a big pans of veggies then.No probs...

Get yer arse over to my place-I'll rustle you up a stress free veggie Christmas dinner in no time at all.