Share with AO.com how you get your kitchen prepared for Christmas! £300 voucher to be won! NOW CLOSED

[EllieMumsnet]

Christmas can be a time to be with family, indulge in all your favourite foods, share gifts and have some well needed relaxation. However it can also be quite hectic, particularly within the kitchen all that food has to be stored and cooked somewhere! With that being said, AO want you to share how you get your kitchen ready for the Christmas period.

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Do you decorate your kitchen to give it a Christmassy feel? Perhaps you have an ‘eat up everything in the fridge’ dinner to clear some space for the Christmas food? Maybe you buy extra kitchen utensils to ensure you’re not short of anything on the big day?

Whatever you do to get your kitchen prepared for Christmas, post it on the thread below and every MNer who posts will be entered into a prize draw, where one lucky winner will randomly selected to receive a £300 voucher of their choice (from a list).

Thanks and good luck!
MNHQ

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[EllieMumsnet]

Congratulations to @palmfronds for winning the prize draw of a £300 voucher!

[Candyperfumegirl]

Have a big clear out early December and try to use everythjng in my freezer so I have lots of room.

[suki98]

I empty cupboards and fridgefreezer of food that may not be eaten.I then clean cupboards and fridgefreezer before Christmas food goes in them.

[CatRash]

I get out the Xmas tea towel and oven glove. Job done!

[SQuashandasqueeze76]

Use up food in the freezer, get the ovens cleaned although this year I am attempting that myself. We have a open plan set up so there is a tree and decorations plus get the xmas tea towels and husbands xmas apron out ready for him to cook the xmas dinner.

[KittyKat88]

Yep, sounds like time for the annual oven clean (that's definitely a 'blue' job in our house - lol) and I defrost the freezer so we can fit all the extra Xmas goodies in!

[pinkspideruk]

defrost both freezers and make a list of whats in each and then make a meal menu using up whats already in there so it starts to be empty by the beginning of december

We also do a deep clean of the entire kitchen, sort through the cupboards to make sure everything is used and space made for the christmas goodies

[Jocelynne123]

I just simply clean it, ensure there is wine chilled and get the family involved with preparing christmas dinner. We set the table and have a centre piece and christmas table cloth in the dining room. After everyone chips in to get the dish washer loaded and the kitchen sorted so we can all relax xx

[Jade5093]

I have my oven professionally cleaned every December 🎄

[Dessallara]

Clean it and make sure all worktops as clear as possible :)

[ceroooss]

We don't really decorate the kitchen however we definitely try and use a lot of the freezer food and fridge food up to allow for lots of delicious treats for the Christmas shop!

[cathryn1]

Christmas cutery and plates for our house

[molly57]

I use up food in the freezer to make room for fresh.

[sarsar123]

We run our freeze down to make room for christmas food and alway buy christmas kitchen roll.
We never put decorations up in the kitchen....but our kitchen is very small.

[modernmillie1]

I don't do much differently apart from having a 'do not touch 'til Christmas' box of food!

[IceBearRocks]

We do a Christmas festive clean !
Everything that doesn't move is scrubbed.
Out comes the Christmas table clothes and tea towels.... The centre piece appears on the table and run down the garden for fresh Holly!
Oven cleaning and fridge cleaning are imperative ! Then turn the house red, green and gold!!!

[Sleepysausage]

November tends to be our 'eat the freezer and cupboard' we try to eat up all the bits and bobs that have been languishing at the back for the year. Makes room for all the Christmas foods and saves money !

[BGcat14]

I do a deep clean and the night before I get all the utensils and kitchenwear out ready.

[spanglisher]

I try to use up everything that has been lurking at the back of the freezer and bring out the Christmas fridge magnets but that's about it. The kitchen is generally immune from the OTT decorations covering the rest of the house.

[xxxxclarexxxx]

we always have a bit of a christmas sort out first! the tree up and the decorations and lights! aways end up buying more so it starts to look like a christmas grotto! and christmas eve is always baking all day!

[sofieellis]

We try to empty the fridge freezer to make room for party food. I also clean the oven (a job I hate!).

We have a kitchen/diner and we decorate the dining end with tree, decorations and fairy lights around the separating archway. It makes the whole room look really pretty, but without anything in the kitchen area itself.

[InvisibleKittenAttack]

Clean everything. not looking forward to that.

My kitchen isn't really big enough for decorating.

[sarahw2]

We get out the Christmas tea towels, and Christmas placemats - can't wait!!

[srobbo71]

We have Christmas lights on the kitchen windows, a chritmassy table cloth on and a little Christmas salt and pepper pot as well as Christmas tea towels! I have kids so Christmas infiltrates every bit of our house. I doubt it will stop when they leave home though - I love Christmas :)

[bex552]

I clean the oven and get rid of anything i haven't used for the past year to make room! I also defrost the freezer and try and use up as much as possible to make room!