What to eat at Christmas instead of turkey

Spare yourself the endless leftover sandwiches. Try other birds, pork – or a vegetable centrepiece

The best advice I can give anyone panicking about the Christmas turkey is – don’t. Small producers, who tend to employ more local labour, report that it should be business as usual for them, though they do advise ordering early.

If you can’t find a whole bird within your price range at your local farm, imagine yourself tucking into your seventh turkey sandwich of the season and consider scaling down. We waste the equivalent of 263,000 birds every Christmas, so you might even save yourself some money with a couple of legs (frankly, the best tasting bits) or a crown instead. Less turkey means more room for roast potatoes, pigs in blankets, bread sauce – you know, the things that everyone not so secretly prefers.

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from The Guardian https://ift.tt/3l333Z0

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