Now Gen Z are giving Christmas dinners a 'woke' rebrand with gluten-free mince pies, coconut-oil roasties and vegan pigs in blankets

Christmas dinner in 2024 doesn't look quite like it used to - at least in households where Gen Z is involved in the cooking. According to new supermarket data generated by Ocado, 37 per cent of shoppers say they'll be bypassing the famous turkey altogether this year, with 33 per cent of Gen Z declaring they'll actually be cooking a Christmas duck instead. Gen Z are creating woke substitutes for traditional Christmas dinner She said the special recipe was for those who were 'plant-based' and who feared they 'can't enjoy pigs in blankets' this Christmas. According to Ocado, 33 per cent of Gen Z shoppers said they'll be cooking duck this Christmas People are trying out unconventional Christmas dinners with roast duck, gluten free mince pies and vegan pigs in blankets. A number of shoppers have elected to incorporate new additions to the customary meal, and have departed from typical roast chicken and roast turkey dinners The trend could be borne out of soaring inflation, with things now so dire that the average cost of a traditional Christmas dinner has risen by 6.5 per cent in just one year Issy Sedgwick, in London, took to TikTok to share a plant-based Christmas dinner that includes roast potatoes, cauliflower cheese, carved tofu turkey and buttery agave glazed carrots Elly used tempeh, rice paper and vegan sausages to create her vegan maple pigs in blankets She said on the special day, her and her boyfriend would be tucking in to a 'loaded plate' of roast potatoes, cauliflower cheese, carved tofu turkey and buttery agave glazed carrots.