Will you be watching Dispatches about why not to eat your xmas dinner?

[OnTheFlossDayOfChristmas]

I won't. I don't want to know. I like my xmas dinner, and while I may be prepared to change my eating habits fot the rest of the year, xmas is a time to enjoy my food and I don't want to be put off it!

[GeorginaA]

I'm with you Floss - not when it's all bought and ready to go.

It's my first Christmas at home with me cooking - I'm nervous enough as it is, without something else to worry about!!!

[PeachyPlumFairy]

No. Maybe if it were on Boxing Day, but nt when I can't even choose because Mum is making it. I can ahrdly hone her and say @hey you know that turkey you bought to feed 12 of us and that cost all Dad's wages, well could you change it coz this woman on telly says you can get better'...

[hercules]

God no.

[Epiffany]

Yes
Because I am the smug cow who gets all her meat and veg from her local organic farm

[tillykins]

I'm the sort that would watch it and eat my dinner anyway!

[IlanaK]

I will as I am another smug one who also gets all meat, fruit and veg from the local farmers market and our organic box delivery. I just picked up our goose(for christmas day) and our beef rib joint (for boxing day) from the market today. I will eat both lunches knowing that the animlas were well treated and will taste fab!

[SenoraPostrophe]

really georgina? blimey.

It's easy really - cook as much as you can the day before (eg prep stuffing, make carrot and swede mash, get potatoes pelled and in water etc). then just make sure everything goes on at the right time.

[daisy1999]

I've NEVER cooked christmas dinner

[MrsSpoon]

When is this on?

[GeorginaA]

Thanks SP! That's generally the plan. I'm sure I'll be fine - I cook lots of roasts... it's just the fact this is such an important meal, you can't cock up and say "oh sod it, lets go to the pub for lunch instead"

[Furball]

Tonight 9 o'clock channel 4. I also wont be watching. Most things I buy these days is organic. I think it's more about 'the bird' from a supermarkets point of view.

Dispatches: Supermarket Secrets journalist Jane Moore now turns her attention to the once-a-year belt-busting extravaganza that is our Christmas dinner - analysing the nation's favourite seasonal dishes from the way they are reared and processed, to their cost and nutritional values.

[MrsSpoon]

Thanks Furball, I'll watch with interest.

[tamba]

definatly not!

[Feistybird]

Georgina - do you really think it's an 'important' meal? I don't. Yes, it's Xmas dinner but won't be at all important in our house, be another roast dinner for us!

[paolosgirl]

Nope. I'm afraid I intend to enjoy my Christmas lunch, with only perhaps a nanosecond spent on thinking about the animal's plight. That makes me baaaaad, I know.

[brusselsbeansprout]

I will but then again I am a long standing veggie. I think if you want to eat it, you should at least know how it came to be on your plate.

[GeorginaA]

"do you really think it's an 'important' meal?"

Yes, I do. Not that I think it should be important for everyone, but I think as an adult the excitement over presents is long gone (as adults we only tend to get token presents now!) so the meal is the next big focus - the one thing to really look forward to. So in our household it's a pretty big part of Christmas day!

If it wasn't, I sure as hell wouldn't be thinking of staying that long in the kitchen and we'd all be having a Birds Eye Roast for One meal microwaved

[munz]

nup, not watching it don't want to know what's in half the food I eat - or I wouldn't eat anything! lol.

turkey's coming from the butchers it's locally grown, and afaik it's from the local chicken farmer who's free range (well takes them in in the evenings) so good enough for me compared to the frozen one's we've had b4.

it's an important dinner for us - but this year we've really scale dit down as a) can't afford to go mad and b) it will only be binned anyhow.

[REINDEERPOOtlepod]

I won't be watching it. It's opposite Rick Stein's Food heroes and that's much more palatable.

[Enideepmidwinter]

yes I will watch and feel lovely and smug

[PeachyPlumFairy]

All very well if you have the option of organic / famrers market: If you have to choose between Spar or Asda, don't watch!!

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[munz]

so who watched it then? what was it like?

[OComeOliveFaithfOil]

It was presented by Jane Moore (bad eyeliner alert) and didn't really tell you much you didn't know already.

Was surprised at pigs though, EU regulations are a lot slacker than ours, yet labels can say 'British' and not have any of our pigs in!!

Our turkey is from the local farmer, Turkey John! so should be ok.

Our meat comes from farmers' market where poss or organic/free range supermarket.

[munz]

so u mean in the super market the meat can say 'british beef/pork' etc and it's really from spain/france that's awful.

[OComeOliveFaithfOil]

no, they get round it by saying things like 'british recipe' or such like.

They had some pig farmers' wives on who check on these things.

(are my apostrophes correct??!)