What would you leave out of your Christmas dinner?

[SleighYoullBeThere]

I was debating this with a friend last night... If you had to leave out one element from your Christmas dinner, what would it be?

Choices are: Turkey, stuffing, pigs in blankets, roast potatoes, brussels sprouts or gravy.

I love sprouts, so I'd get rid of the stuffing.

Ok, who are the 3% godless heathens who've voted out roast potatoes?

I'd get rid of turkey, we never have it anyway, it's so mid. We're doing beef and lamb this year.

Turkey.

I did some amazing Brussels sprouts for a thanksgiving dinner last weekend - sprouts, sweet potato, bacon lardons, dunns seasoning roasted for 45 minutes.

Plain boiled sprouts are not my thing.

We're having Mexican this year with a side of roast potatoes and gravy.

For all your sprout haters, Jamie's sprouts are excellent.

I'd ditch the turkey. I sometimes make full size sausages in bacon as the main meat for a roast dinner 😋

😆 I've got 8 people coming for Christmas Dinner. Will probably end up cooking 80 of the bloody things.

Most of them won't make it onto the plates.

Don't like nasty greasy pigs in blankets - I cook hundreds of cocktail sausages instead. And I make at least 4 types of stuffing.

Gravy.

I don't eat it myself but the other do, it makes me feel a bit sick (smelly gloopy brown slop) and it gets EVERYWHERE.

Parts inevitably end up getting washed down the drain and then the sink utterly stinks anytime you drain hot water... I HATE it.

Pigs in blanket. Hate them

Turkey. And it doesn’t matter how you cook it; I don’t give a monkeys if you brine it, if it’s a Bronze whatever, if it had a name and you hand fed it in your garden. It is just so unexciting, and then the soup or leftovers smell revolting.

All the meat.

I agree - horrible stuff! I'd still rather get rid of the stuffing though 😆

Parsnips. My partner loves them, I can't stand them.

Tbh I'd be gutted to lose any of these but if it was life or death (😂😂) I'd say sprouts. Not that I don't like them but you obviously could pick turkey, pigs in blankets, stuffing or roast potatoes (or it wouldn't be a Christmas dinner, You can't pick gravy or the whole dinner would be dry and inedible. So sprouts is the only one left.

I looooove sprouts though so that's a tough decision! We fry ours in bacon! Delish!

Gravy.

Ruins a perfectly good meal.

This^Always leave them out!

Easy. Gravy. Don’t like it. Unless it’s a casserole I don’t like everything tasting the same.

Any vegetable you either have to cover in cheese or Worcestershire sauce to make edible is a waste of space!

Stuffing!

As a vegetarian I would leave out the meat and add in a nut roast.

Cranberry sauce should be on that list. I hate the stuff. It is like putting jam on your savoury course. I've always thought it woulc go better on toast for breakfast than with dinner.

Turkey, obviously. But, to be fair, I never cook OR eat traditional "Christmas dinner".

Turkey, I’m a huge sides fan and I love sprout dishes, I normally do Gennaro Contaldo’s sprout gratin with lots of the left over cheese from Christmas Eve.

Pigs in blankets. Hate them.

I hate sprouts, especially the smell. I only cook them once a year because DH loves them.

I wouldn’t attend any Christmas dinner where any of these items were missed off! I refuse to vote!!

I always leave the blankets out and just have pigs. Hate pigs in blankets. We just have nice chipolata sausages.