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!
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Clear out all the cupboards, defrost the freezer and give it a good clean. Then stock up on all the Christmas goodies.

We go out for Christmas dinner! Leave the cleaning up, cooking and cleaning up again for someone else!

I make sure that all my kitchen has been cleaned from top to bottom and we use Christmas plates!

I absolutely clean the kitchen from head to toe so everything is sparkling before I set about destroying it with all my cooking. I do often light a Christmas candle or 2 and love keeping some mulled wine and the scent of the winter spices

The table gets a lovely Xmassy makeover, and we try to keep the place a bit tidier than normal never works

I run down the freezer contents to make room for a massive turkey!

Start eating from/clearing out the freezer from November onwards so that you have plenty of space in it in the run up to Christmas (so that you can cook/bake in advance and freeze).

Get knives sharpened.

I abandon my kitchen and go and stay with the in laws for Christmas week!

Eat up the odds and ends of random foods in the freezer to make way for meats and plenty desserts.

Use cinnamon zoflora in the steam mop and get out the santa cookie jar! Make sure theres enough room in the fridge for the turkey.

My slightly naff carol singer ornaments go in the windowsill and fairy lights round the window. Christmas tea towel, oven gloves and apron comes out. I have bowls of satsumas and selections of nuts in the counter.

I just give everything a good clean and clear out the cupboards and freezer.

A big defrosting of the freezer, clean the oven and prepare so there's plenty of work surface to use. I like to have a Christmas apron and tea towel too to get me in the mood

My kitchen is 'compact', and every space has to count!

I get rid of clutter on worktops which has accumulated to make space for Christmas fayre. Usually the fridge has a good clean so that turkey, cakes, trifles and other treats can fit in easily, and I usually clean the oven.

Sometimes I stick a bit of tinsel and glitter round the wall cupboards, but as we usually party in the lounge, the kitchen doesn't receive other special attention.

I have a peeling Ikea kitchen. I prepare it for Christmas by spending as little time as possible in it, I hate it.

Clear out the freezer and eat the stuff that's been in their a while, then give the kitchen the love it deserves by giving it a deep clean all ready to mess up again, lol.

I get Christmas themed aprons and chef hats for the family as they all like to muck in and help with the xmas food preparation.

I have a small pre-lit Christmas tree on my kitchen windowsill and Christmas themed magnets on my fridge.
I also like to give it a thorough clean before the big day arrives.

Right now I’ll be buying a new freezer as DS (18 months) has managed to snap the door off the current one.

I try to make the kitchen a welcoming, festive place, as there’s so much activity that goes on in there. I let the kids decorate table cloths and place mats, we have a spare little fridge for all the extra food, and I try and tidy the cupboards to make space for the special ingredients, just to make them easy to get hold of.

Well this year will be different as I currently have a blank space to put my new kitchen in before the end of November ( with a fair wind) so I will be putting my sparkly new kitchen in just in time and am hoping it will be it's own decoration as I will be too scared to put decorations up on the new paintwork!!

I just try to make sure I have got rid of anything I don't 100% need so I have a bit of extra room. Very sparse on the decorations though as they just get in the way!

I love lights and candles in the kitchen to set the scene and add ambience, especially as we spend plenty of Christmas preparing in there.

The only thing I do to prepare my kitchen for Christmas is give it a good clean and make sure it is full of yummy food!

We do have a ‘eat up everything in the fridge’ dinner night, twice a year once before we go on our summer holiday and once just before the big christmas delivery.

DP calls it Feast Night it is his favorite night of the year and actively looks forward to it!