Where are you getting your christmas lunch ingredients

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Being a student I work seasonally in tescos, and last night at about 1am when I was stacking some turkeys I don't know, to me it just seems fundamentally wrong to buy from a supermarket ingredients for christmas dinner. It's that one special meal of the year you know.

In my family we tend to get our meat for christmas day from a butchers in cricklade and the vegetables from a farm in purton or millets farm. It's not cheap but it's definitely worth the extra to go a bit lavish, really makes the meal.
What was really depressing is the frozen turkey crowns and aunt bessies roast potatos, blimey, bugger that!

Anyway I'm curious about the good men and women of OCUK, do you go for special ingredients or just go standard supermarket affair and why?
 
Local butcher - turkey, sausages, sausage meat, bacon (better quality, & to support a local business)
Homegrown - potatoes, parsnips, greens (much nicer and fun to grow)
Sainsbury's - sprouts, carrots (due to crop failiure :()
M&S - xmas pudding (being supplied by in-laws)
 
been to M&S this morning and bought a free range bronze turkey and 3 mustard crusted beef + trimmings. was planning on getting the meat from a local farm shop but never got around to it :(
 
Most of mine is from Supermarkets with some of it homegrown. All of it will be cooked from hand, no pre-prepared crap :p

If I had a car I would have driven to a localish place to pick the meat up as the quality is excellent. mNot e that most of my stuff comes from supermarkets simply because I don't have the means to drive to specialists

- GP
 
Local Butchers for: Chicken, sausages, bacon, sausage-meat & black pudding (breakfast).

Organic veg box for: Baically most veg, and some booze, choc for desserts etc.

Local greengrocers: Any little extras or shortages.

About it.
 
Think the parents have got everything from the supermarket.

We did an early Xmas dinner for friends and got all the meat and veg from Borough Mrkt. The meat was a tad pricy compared to the supermarket but totally worth it. The veg seemed pretty cheap!
 
Just went to the farm to pick up our Goose. There was a mess up, and they couldn't get the right size for us (7 kilo). However, the guy magicked up another one and so the two we got come to about 8.1kilo. For the mess up, he threw in a kilo of gammon, about 1.3 kilo of pork shoulder, 2 packets of sausages, a brussell sprout branch, some carrots, a big bag of spuds and some parsnips! :o

My father, being the gentleman that he is, insisted that he took some money and they settled on another £20. Total bargain!

No idea how we're going to cook two geese though.

All free range, from a farm.
 
That's it, reputation is everything to those guys. Also, I doubt he'd be able to shift the pork at this stage anyway. I just hope the goose is good!
 
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