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Yes, fantasy and reality don't mix very well at Xmas. I suppose these "food stylists" have a lot to answer for!
After all, how many ordinary families have what looks like a medieval refectory table absolutely crammed with every Christmas foodstuff delicacy you can imagine?
Not to mention a montage of the 'Ideal Family', beaming, dressed in pristine designer stuff, perfect teeth and hair, Mum and Dad posing with elegant flutes of champagne......

Ha!Ha!Ha! Yeah, and then reality falls apart.

But Happy Christmas anyway.

Christmas food adverts, the supermarket kind, make me feel physically sick and always have.

A table just covered with vaguely yellowish brownish stuff, all of which I know tastes horrible and plasticy, leaves a nasty after taste in my mouth and not wanting to eat for a week.

If the supermarkets want to sell anything to me they would have to feature just one or two items, 'Look at our lovely sprouts and carrots'. or 'See this lovely turkey and ham joint.'. The more they show the less I want to buy.

I have this same problem on those rare occasions when for some reason I think I will just pick up 'something for lunch'', but do not know what when I go.

the time I have looked at the various ready meals on offer, sandwiches, frozen items, my hunger has completely gone, and I will come out of the shop having bought nothing and with my appetite completely gone..

Margs

Yes, fantasy and reality don't mix very well at Xmas. I suppose these "food stylists" have a lot to answer for!
After all, how many ordinary families have what looks like a medieval refectory table absolutely crammed with every Christmas foodstuff delicacy you can imagine?
Not to mention a montage of the 'Ideal Family', beaming, dressed in pristine designer stuff, perfect teeth and hair, Mum and Dad posing with elegant flutes of champagne......

Ha!Ha!Ha! Yeah, and then reality falls apart.

But Happy Christmas anyway.

😂 thanks for the laugh Margs and whethertomorrow
Agree the reality is very different!

Mary’s, some very good extra points made there. Thank you.

I usually have an elegant flute of prosecco around Christmas time but that’s where the elegance begins and ends😄
I’m untidy and the house is untidy and DP is untidy. We may or may not appear with our hair brushed.

My concern is how much of this food ends up in the bin!
Christmas has become a gluttonous event.
I am not hosting this year but when I do, I treat it as a Sunday roast with some extras.
I make mince pies, pates and soup, cook a ham on Christmas Eve and a Turkey on the day.
No food comes back into the house until everything has been eaten, we love cold meats and salads, the carcass makes delicious soups.
If everyone spent £20 less this year on food and donated to a food bank or project that fed the homeless it would bring so much joy.

I buy the best quality food at Christmas, but not an ounce is wasted, and I make stock. Cooked turkey and ham will keep in the freezer for months as will stock and almost every other Christmas food.

We often finish the Christmas turkey on Easter Sunday,with the last Christmas pudding.

Any excess fat on meat is so helpful to the birds. I have just trimmed the fat off some pork steaks and the birds will enjoy it tomorrow along with their regular food, I wouldn’t dream of throwing it in the bin.