How do you do Xmas dinner?

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I was thinking when I was little Dad used to take charge of making the turkey and stuffing, and it seemed to be a HUGE operation with everything from scratch (one year the turkey even had to be plucked at home).
So does anyone
a. still do the above?
b. nip to M&S and open the packets and bung it in the oven (or is Mum going to Iceland)?
c. somewhere in between?
d. go out and get someone else to make it ?

Cook it all myself and from scratch.

Usually pissed by the time I'm cooking though

Same as Santa but I'm not sure this year now I have DS to look after.

I'll still cook the meal but will drink less. Either it will be a better meal or I will be a less happy woman, or both most probably

D !!!
It's only me and ds here so I can usually bribe my mum into acomodating me!
My 2 brothers still live at home so it's easier for my mum to make a little more for me than me try to adjust myself to cooking for 5.
And yes it's only 5 as Ds is autistic and lives on cream crackers, crisp, toast and other dry stuff.

Last year I did M and S. It was wonderful, and also I wasn't knackered/ pissed off/ resentful that I had done all the work. So I could actually enjoy myself

If you want to cook, and it makes you happy. Cook it.

If you'd rather sit down and play with the kids, buy it in.

do whatever makes you happy

go to my mums and not have to bother

DH is working on Xmas Day so maybe the DDs and I should just veg on the sofa watching films and eating chocolate all day

I cook from scratch. Tis only a slightly more elaborate Sunday lunch, after all.

But I do it for the evening - serve up at 6pm, or sometime nearby, rather than lunchtime.

So we all have time to open presents, drink sherry, eat crisps/peanuts/cheese footballs etc.

For lunch I might serve up home-made soup and bread, cheese, then fruit. Just a little something to keep us going til the big meal.

But my kids are older (6 and 4) and can survive to 9pm bedtime without getting difficult.

I do it myself, but we arent too keen on turkey and my oven isnt very large so we have a turkey thingy from m&s, the rest I do.
I always remember my mum chopping and peeling xmas eve so it was all ready for xmas day and it makes it feel mroe exciting for me, so I do it then and only have to switch things on at the right time, plus as of this year I won't have to do any form of breakfast(new tradition of PIL for xmas brekkie) so my kitchen wont be used until the dinner is done.

From scratch, but I draw the line at plucking the turkey... and I get the turkey from a supermarket now that they do such good quality ones (used to be you could only get really good fresh turkeys at a butcher's shop).

Almost everything else is from scratch (the cranberry sauce and M&S potato croquettes are the only exceptions).

Dh does ours. I am commis chef. Do all the mundane jobs in the kitchen on Christmas Day. He cooks turkey from scratch, but does cheat with M&S gravy.

i do pizza or pasta

Bah Humbug Alice!

Daphne,how fantastic that you eat cheese footballs. I didn't know they still make them!

I cook it meself. Don't find it anything but a total pleasuer.

tis homemade pizza
and i dont eat meat

and i do feel bit bah humbuggy

What do you have instead of Christmas Pudding then Alice?

Oh hello Moondog. Cheese footballs - only DH eats them. The rest of us find them repulsive. Sainsburys do them, in a great big cardboard tube - this time of year only .

choc cake

or

choc mousse

Yumsa!

Actually, Alice, I think I prefer your Christmas dinner to ours... don't s'pose there'd be room for one extra?

im a little removed it would have to be a table across europe

had pizza for tea at ds birhtday twas good

You cna get vegetarian Christmas pud

Why, where are you Alice?

sensible austria

no cheesefootballs here

Ooh, fantastic! A snowy Christmas dinner and ski it all off afterwards. You are soooooooooo lucky. I'm

nah
no need to be jealous
no mountains here

my sil is a ski instructor though!

I want to go skiing again! Haven't been since before the dds (11 years or so ago) and really really miss it.