NAOMI LOVES Newsletter: Christmas in a time of covid

A Christmas menu
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If covid restrictions stop you welcoming big
numbers into your home at Christmas, could you
prepare a feast to deliver?
The idea is that you deliver pre-cooked (or
pre-prepared) Christmas food to family, friends
or lonely neighbours nearby. Then on the day
(Christmas lunch maybe? or a dinner the week
before?), you all cook/heat up the meal, and eat
together “in spirit.”
You’ll need to think about how you can prepare
your meal to travel to your loved ones’ homes,
ready for them to enjoy hot and fresh on the day.
On the left is a Christmas menu I created for our
“Christmas in July,” which I then made up into
three separate portions. One portion was for us
to eat at home, while the other two were made
to be delivered to family members in two other
homes.
We couldn’t race around delivering the feast
while it was still hot (not without eating our own
cold), so I designed the meals to be “mostly
cooked,” and delivered them a day early, ready
to be fi nished or reheated for lunch.
I’ve shared tips on how I did this on page 30,
in case you’d like to try something similar for
yourself.
I’ve also made my menu into a printable template
for you, so you can write your own menu onto
the blank page to share with loved ones when
you deliver the food (a “proper menu” makes
it feel more special and festive); and another
blank template for you to jot down any cooking/
reheating instructions that go along with your
feast. Simply print off the two following pages of
this newsletter to use the menu.
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