This Christmas I learnt........

Violet maybe you are Blood Group B who doesn't do well on peanuts. It hampers metabolic efficiency, causes hypoglycaemia and inhibits liver function of Group B. For Group O it just says 'avoid'. I am AB and along with A we are very well suited to them, in fact 'highly beneficial' although they suggest peanut butter is better. Suits me! I devour peanut butter a lot and have done since a child.

Shelflife that's truly lovely

That I don't like cranberry sauce from a jar. Our local shops had run out of fresh cranberries by the time I shopped for them.

I also learnt that mashed potato made with oat milk is just as nice as mash made with ordinary milk and butter.

That although Covid has ruined our family get together - again!! We had a lovely Christmas day , just the two of us , missed the family but I learnt it is not worth feeling badly done to. On the grand scheme of things we are lucky people.

That peanuts do not agree with me and I shouldn't eat them ever again.

This will be forgotten shortly

I REALLY like them

That I've gone off mince pies.

I was told off, by my mother, for buying a jar, rather than making it. Christmas dinner for 15 - with four small children and a sick husband to look after - she was lucky not to be wearing it!

I always forget to serve it, even though I have a tin in the cupboard. It's not something we were brought up with.

My boys (adults now) like a turkey sandwich with cranberry and some stuffing. Sounds odd to me, but they say it's Christmas in a sandwich.

That you can get bags of frozen ready prepared root vegetables that are suitable for oven roasting - my son cooked them yesterday to go with the Christmas dinner; they were lovely and every bit as good as freshly prepared ones - a revelation to me (and massive time-saver!).

To be thankful for my life - we’re all (relatively) healthy and hopefully happy ?

I make my own a la Delia. It is an acquired taste, I think, but I like it with cheese and cold ham