We have not had a christmas meal for years due to going to visit the old folks in the care home. What I am doing this year is trying to reproduce the last meal that we successfuly had when the parents were still well enough to cook for us. They had chicken, we do not eat dead birds, so we substituted vegetarian sausages, with parsnip, sprout and carrot, which came from their garden. Mine only come from a supermarket plastic bag. The point is not to have a grand dinner but to bring back memories of happier times that are now gone forever.