What are you buying for your christmas dinner

I shall be on my own, most of , if not all of Christmas.

So I do not need a turkey or anything like that. I need something different and tasty to see me through Christmas.

But not costing a fortune.

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Well so far in the freezer we have now a beef joint, a leg of lamb and a couple of chickens, if the meat eaters can make their minds up I will cook one of them. But at the moment we have a bit of a stale mate with no one agreeing.

I know the lady down stairs is going to be on her own we asked if she would like to join us and she is coming for tea as she had planned a capon for herself, she said she did two last year when her mum was with her and they were lovely and very easy to cook.

I think she did an orange sauce with them.

I am planning a nut roast I take half of it to make my roast and the other half I stuff a chicken with. Seems to be popular with my lot.

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I cannot remember the last time I saw a capon in the shops-I vaguely remember my dad buying one christmas long time ago. Orange sauce sounds good.

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I believe she gets her meat from a free range farm on line. I am not sure who but I could ask if you wanted to know.

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Thank you---I could check that out myself-never really thought of it.

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Were I on my own and wanting something tasty without breaking the bank then a hand of pork.

Loads of nice crackling and tasty meat-and plenty left for the next day with some pickles.

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That sounds lovely--its ages since i had pork. I will look in sainsburys on wednesday.

i checked out the capons--but they were out of my price range--more than half my weekly budget--even for Christmas I could not justify that.

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But do try to get a `hand`---it`s a bit fatty but so sweet and cheaper than leg or loin

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We have a beef joint a gammon joint and a turkey .... That's a lot of eating for the two of us .... But we are dedicated and will gorge our way into 2016 with the help of lots of wine, port, sherry, whisky, gin and our special treat at this time of year...Cointreau

Re: What are you buying for your christmas dinner

We will only buy a small Turkey for Christmas Day and Boxing Day as it will just be my Husband and I over Christmas, any leftovers will be a curry.