How To Cook The Perfect Christmas Day Turkey With Interactive Meal Planner

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Sitting down together for Christmas dinner is one of the highlights of the festive celebrations. But there can be a lot of stress in getting to that moment.

A perfect Christmas Day feast involves loads of preparation and work to get everything to be ready to eat at the same time.

It's vital to get it right if you want to avoid food poisoning because if the turkey is not fully thawed, harmful bacteria could survive the cooking process and ruin the big day for you and everyone else.

Using the interactive meal planner below, simply type in the weight of your bird from the label that's on it and then choose what time you'd like to be sitting down to tuck in.

The handy tool will then calculate your turkey's cooking time and break the morning down into a minute-by-minute plan for a full Christmas dinner with all the trimmings.

Eating turkey at Christmas is a tradition going back to medieval times. Large fowl were the centrepiece of the dinner table in the houses of the rich - geese, duck and partridge to name a few.

In post-war Britain, modern farming methods enabled more turkeys to be reared and turkey is still the most popular meat at the Christmas dinner table.

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How To Cook The Perfect Christmas Day Turkey With Interactive Meal Planner

Sitting down together for Christmas dinner is one of the highlights of the festive celebrations. But there can be a lot of stress in getting to that moment.