One British mum has confessed she’s already started preparing for the spectacle that is Christmas dinner, having already peeled her potatoes and cooked some of her vegetables.
Some of us who’ve spent more than one morning grinding away at the stove, cooking up a major festive feast, will be all too familiar with the feeling of watching all your hours of hard work be devoured in a matter of minutes.
Brits love Christmas dinner, with roast potatoes and gravy being some of the most ubiquitous items on our plates, according to a YouGov survey.
Other holiday favourites include turkey, stuffing, the love-them-or-loathe-them Brussel sprouts, and mince pies.
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Instead of being stuck behind her cooker on Christmas morning, Hannah Wrighting, a mum-of-five and popular content creator, has come up with an ingenious idea that she vows makes ‘such a difference’.
Because failing to prepare often means preparing for failure, right?
Taking to social media, the self-confessed ‘chaos coordinator’ revealed that she’d started cooking her family’s food more than a month in advance of the big day.
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In a clip, which has already amassed one million views on TikTok, the content creator claimed that her ‘hacks’ will help you save ‘so much time’.
She and one of her daughters began by peeling and cutting up parsnips and carrots, while a voice-over explained that she also peels, chops, and par-boils her roast potatoes in cold water.
“Make sure you chop them quite chunky because that way they aren’t going to burn,” Wrighting claimed.
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Once her potatoes are done on the hob, she lets them steam dry for extra crispiness, repeating the same par-boiling and drying regime with her other root vegetables.
The social media star made sure all her food was cooled before packaging it up and popping it in the freezer.
She claimed that the food didn’t taste ‘any different’ after it had been frozen and thawed again on Christmas Eve.
“I take all of the frozen stuff out of the freezer and pop it all in the fridge, maybe Christmas Eve day time? It saves me so much time. I’m not faffing around.”
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In a follow-up clip, Wrighting showed social media users how she preps stuffing using sausage meat.
After mixing the sage and onion stuffing mixture with the pork, she cracked in an egg, mixed the concoction, and used her hands to form it into a log shape before freezing.
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Both of the videos, posted under the Not Your Basic Family moniker, have divided viewers, with one TikTok user typing: “Hell no I’m waiting for Tesco to put the veg down to 15p before Xmas before doing that.”
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“Everything ordered from M&S not sure how I feel about preparing Christmas dinner in November!!!” someone else claimed.
A third remarked: “Such a good idea but honestly I could never. I love Christmas stress rush and preparing with a Baileys on Xmas Eve.”
Another commented: “Good idea but would it be better to do them couple days before.”
What’s your verdict? Will you be preparing your Christmas dinner ahead of time or leaving it until the last minute, as always?
Topics: TikTok, Social Media, Christmas
Ella Scott