No Christmas dinner this year!

[TheSaucepanMan]

What shall we do instead? For the first year for many we are staying at home just the two of us..NO PLANS!

I don't want the day to whizz by as just another day but I'm not cooking the usual, so what can we do instead?

It's May..?

It's the Christmas section @garlictwist.

🙄

Please not yet even though my plans saving have changed this year August I start until Christmas not thought of.

Days when there have just been two of us we’ve done seafood, really good steak, beef wellington, fondue, massive cheese board (obv not all together), and loads of champagne and wine and cocktails. Still felt like a ‘fancier’ meal but without all the messing of a full Christmas roast. This year we’re doing roast on Christmas Eve then charcuterie and cheese and naice buffet on the day itself.

What’s your favourite meal? Do that but with the best quality stuff you can get!

Omg you could have whatever you wanted!! I'd second a huge cheese board, Inc baked cane Bert, posh bread dips and crackers. Maybe seafood platter to go with and champagne and espresso martinis. Yum yum yum yum

Yes, love the idea of a huge cheeseboard, seafood all the stuff we love and not much cooking.

Best autocorrect either. I'll be calling it a caned Bert now! I'd do a very fancy meal as in mind e ingredients or posh stuff like others have said. Start with Buck's Fizz and nice breakfast. Lunch of fancy salad then early dinner of nice things I wouldn't be arsed making normally.

My DDs are small and only eat macaroni, fish fingers and waffles, so we got an amazing chateabriand for Christmas Day. (They ate fish fingers and waffles.)

It is the Christmas section ... but ffs.

DH and I once had a Christmas just the two of us. He worked till 2pm and I lasted until 1pm ish before cracking and knocking up an entire Christmas dinner. I just couldn't do it.

We order curries the night before and heat them up. Have some nice nibblie bits in and plonk.

It's relaxing and no cooking.

Buy a raclette grill and have a lovely private party for 2.

M&S gorgeous baked cheese with tearing bread - amazing!

No no no. It's got to be turkey and all the trimmings. We were abroad one year and no traditional dinner and it just wasn't Christmas.
You can have all those other wonderful suggestions any other day. For me, Christmas means turkey (and stuffing and sweet potatoes and roasties and cranberry sauce and beans and carrots and bread sauce and so on and so on)!

How many of you and are their kids involved?

If no kids well.

Champagne breakfast if you like it with anything you feel like.

Same for lunch.

Same for snacks.

New jamas.

Lots of nice wine and champagne.

Lots of eating as and when you feel like it.

Kareoke maybe

Maybe hire a hot tub?

This may be my Xmas actually but with my dd and DSS

No need for posters to be rude. This is the Christmas section - the exact place Christmas questions are welcome all year around 🙄

If it were me, I'd have steak, potato gratin (can buy frozen so no fuss), and have it with a nice (bought) sauce and some veg.
Would then buy cheese, crackers, chutney, more cheese, and maybe some chocolate / something sweet and some stuff to make cocktails and bottles of Buck's Fizz.

Early-ish steak lunch then grazing on cheese for the rest of the day. Perfect

Last year Christmas was ruined for so many, I can see why people will want to plan this one early. If I was in your situation, my dream would be a lovely hotel and Christmas dinner in the restaurant. Bliss.

“I know this is the Christmas section where conversations are specifically about Christmas but I’m still going to scoff and act like it’s such an awful thing to see on my MN feed because I’m a massive grinch”

Some people really need a little Christmas cheer, or a fucking brain.

Chateaubriand or a really good steak with dauphinois potatoes and some green veg would be lovely. For me it had to be a traditional Xmas dinner though. We spent our first Christmas alone this year and it was bloody lovely, although I slept a lot (didn’t realise I was pregnant!)

Canned Bert is my favourite autocorrect ever now.

Christmas dinner baguettes!

For Christmas eve we always cook a honey mustard ham and have that hot with crispy roast potatoes and veg. Then Christmas Day is spent with family but boxing day is the left over cold cut ham, cheeses, chutney, some nuts and grapes all with part-baked mini pain rolls that are hot from the oven. Absolute minimal effort and filling.

I would start with a champagne breakfast, or a lovely coffee and freshly baked pastries.