Christmas dinner

[mrsawhite]

Just making a few lists. We will be cooking for 8 and I am trying to work out how much of everything to cook. Obviously don't want to not have enough! Getting a turkey to feed 10 so that's sorted. But how much veg to do? Having soup to start and trifle and Xmas pud for afters 😋

Ooh could this be moved to Christmas @MNHQ

Any dietary requirements?

Nope. Just not sure how many spuds, carrots etc to get!

You need to make more than enough as leftovers are the best bit! I’d get a bigger turkey as I’d want enough for cold cuts in Boxing Day, soup and pie etc after Xmas

Can’t you just make what you’d do for a normal roast but double it? I’d usually bank on one carrot PP, so a bag will be fine for 8, but for 35p it wouldn’t hurt to do a couple of extras.

Similarly one large potato makes 4-6 roasties, so 8 potatoes, which is enough for the meal itself. However for the sake of seconds or leftovers I’d bank on 2 large potatoes PP.

Zero sprouts as they’re gross!

Woooowww &
@RaisedByPangolins 8 potatoes per person is enough not for whole meal 😱

Have to do sprouts haha. Just the 2 of us on Boxing Day. And planning to do a gammon for us and cheese n biscuits so not too fussed re leftovers. Apart from roast potatoes of course. So do you think a 2.5kg bag of potatoes would do? 1 carrot per person? I think will just do a half red cabbage. I like it but doesn't seem to get eaten much of going on previous years

@babasaclover

Woooowww & *@RaisedByPangolins* 8 potatoes per person is enough not for whole meal 😱

Huh?! Sorry. Not sure if it is or is not enough

I guess the size of the potato matters. But essentially imagine the pieces on your plate - if the potato makes 4-6 chunks then that’s probably about right for a first serving. However DP and I would go back in for 3-4 more. And I’d want spares! So two potatoes = 8-12 roasties per person. Is that too many? Or not enough?!

The one thing I'm going to do lots of is roast potatoes!

@RaisedByPangolins okay now you are talking serving one then back for seconds. Roast potato is by far the best bit of the dinner I had a monster hangover yesterday and it sorted me right out 🙌🙌🙌