How to cook Christmas dinner from the freezer

How to cook Christmas dinner from the freezer

With the festive season edging nearer, it might just be time to get going on the seemingly mammoth task of preparing for Christmas dinner. Not least because of the prospect of food shortages thanks to the supply chain crisis. Indeed, in the first week of October, Aldi reported that panic-buying Britons had begun stockpiling, with the budget supermarket selling 1,500 frozen turkey crowns a day and pudding sales soaring by 45 per cent. Meanwhile, Marks & Spencer revealed in the early days of Autumn that their sales of frozen Christmas food rocketed by 500 per cent compared to last year, with more than 25,000 turkeys sold by the end of September. But whether you’re given to panic or premeditation, is it really possible to take the heavy lifting out of Christmas Day before the tinsel is even up? Kate Hall, 35, a home cooking consultant and food waste advocate, thinks so. The Bromley-based mother-of-two runs The Full Freezer , which works with individuals, groups and corporations and brands to offer advice on how to safely freeze and cook from frozen, in order to reduce food waste. Now she has launched The Stress Free Christmas-Dinner , a downloadable collection of savvy