my family dont like christmas CAKE, PUDDING or mince pies

[InterruptingKid]

and i do.
am i lucky i dont have to cook them or not?

i buy mine pies or eat my mums.
none of them relaly even like pastry

I don't like them either - I don't like any dried fruit its the food of the devil.

I still make cakes etc but just don't it myself.

Nigella does spiced apple pies and Delia's got a new recipe for an italian chocolatey cake thing.

Neither do my family. And I adore them all, which means that when my friend gives me a home-made Christmas cake every year, I have put on 3 stone by January 3rd.

I concur. Fraeks the lot of them.

IK, do you not make your own then?

The only think PITAish re the christmas pud is the tying of the string over the pleated paper. Jaysus I nearly gave myself a stroke the first time I tried to do it single handed.

ed to the core!!! How can anyone dislike any one of those?! They are a Christmas staple diet to me!

People who don't like dried fruit...I JUDGE them I do.

What's not to like?

Dh doesn't like christmas pies/cake/pudding so I don't bother making them. Not fussed either way but on balance reckon it's one less thing to worry about.

When we go through to my mincemeat loving family though he's the fraek (my mum never remembers) and refusal always sparks off a "oh I love [insert mincemeat item], oooh I can't imagine Christmas without [item]" conversation.

Which gets a bit old tbh.

love mince pies.
only me eating them = no point in cooking

buy a microwavable xmas tiny pud for me
have a slice of mums cake

waitrose once had a really nice recipe for mince meat on ,, was it puff pastyr in the oven wiht a lemon glace iciing on it

Last year I had Christmas pudding and mince pies and no-one wanted any because I had also made a chocolate and Baileys trifle, secretly hoping everyone would want the festive stuff and we'd be left with the trifle to enjoy on boxing day. But obviously the whole lot was eaten. Boooo.

I make mince pies for me and visitors, spiced apple pies for DH and other wierdos, buy mini Christmas pudding for me and MIL, make sticky toffee pudding for DH and eat cake that friend makes me.

And then I wonder why I can't be arsed to bake the rest of the year.

oh the tiny wee microwavable christmas pud is making me a bit sad.

That's what widowers eat on christmas day. They put it on a tray with a bit of bird's custard and eat it in the sitting room all alone with the jack russell and ITV on loudly.

im not fussy on mince pies as it got to taste right for me. Xmas Puds the same....i rather make my own

otherwise ill eat anything else!!

here and for pudding this year they want to try chocolate baked alsaka from this montsh GH

dont!! your pensioner tableau sounds rathe r attractive!

What is wrong with them?

It is not normal.

Those foods ARE Christmas

I want to like dried fruit - I do. I like the smell but its the texture - its just wrong.

His rheumy eyes fill up as he takes his first bite of the pud, then he turns and gently touches the picture of him and his wife on their wedding day as he mouths the words 'it's not like yours Iris'.

Godd, am welling up here.

Slub - you are a very funny lady.

YUK to over eating