Usually, on New Year’s Day, we have a roast dinner, I can’t remember when this ritual started but we used to enjoy it. Most people don’t celebrate New Year’s Day but we really enjoy it; it is also really nice for teenagers who feel lousy after clubbing all night on New Year’s Eve, once they manage to crawl out of bed lol!!!!
We decided to avoid a ‘bird’, lol!! an old English custom in British families is to compare meat to women. I guess feminists might hate this, but a lot of women like it because they like to feel attractive to men.
We avoided a bird because of the turkey crown incident?
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We only managed to get chicken dinner ready meals anyway, but the chicken was edible, didn’t want to admit to this, but if you don’t want to talk about it but are starving you may like to try this idea out on Wednesday wine night, or the weekend.
Have to say our New Year meal was delicious, if you missed out on Christmas you could treat yourself to this idea on Wednesday or Sunday.
New years meal 2024
review
M and S
giant Yorkshire pudding
It wasn’t like chicken in a giant Yorkshire pudding used to be, but if you haven’t eaten properly for a while, like us, it will probably go down really well. We went without food before once, so if you are starving you can eat almost anything and it tastes really nice.
I would say it is more like stew in a Yorkshire pudding. It is quite small so I made Paxo and Aunt Bessie’s Yorkshire puddings to go with it. Also made extra bisto gravy.
I decided to give my Yorkshire pudding and sausage to the man of the house, so he got a good feed, but I was stuffed with what I had.
The sausages looked gorgeous, like cocktail sausages used to be, the reviews were they were like cocktail sausages used to be.
The chicken was generous and tasted lovely.
We had a rose to go with it, but you may prefer a good red.
Coeur De Cardeline Rosé 75cl
We got this on offer
coop.co.uk/products/coeur-de-cardeline-rose
Then we had
Sainsbury’s
black Forest Gateaux
followed by
Lor
de Caff coffee
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Conclusion
If you can’t get hold of decent meat and you are not dieting, I would recommend this on Wednesday wine night.
If your Christmas was ruined and you can’t get meat like us, think you will love this for a Sunday treat.
We are doing this again at the end of January if things don’t get better.
Have to say I was brought up to cook Sunday Roasts, Covid is the second time in my life where I haven’t eaten properly. When you cook, your main objective is for the people you are cooking for to have good feed.
Treat yourself to this idea until proper food comes back, the last time we had to eat like this we found you can eat the ready meals a few times in a row and they taste gorgeous, but then you start craving some proper good quality food.
If you are starving I recommend this option, you don’t have to tell anyone anyway as it is none of their business. We both felt really good after it and it has made us feel well.
I tend to eat ready meals a lot anyway as I’m not a foodie, maybe this is why I’m apple without a small waist, who knows? but would prefer meat at the weekends and definitely for Christmas dinner.
Sort of hope the low-calorie ready meal options come back soon as well as quality meat and veg.
If you try this idea, just enjoy it!!!
This will get rid of any depression caused by veganism.
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