) All I will be doing on Christmas Day is literally putting things in the oven/on the hob so don't need to spend much time in the kitchen at all 
September/October/early November
Make chutneys/jams/pickled veg and fruit/mincemeat/Christmas cakes (10 this year!
) (Feed cakes with brandy weekly) Start ordering non perishables every week (spices/nuts/cling film/foil/tinned food/alcohol etc)
2nd week in November
Make roast squash and sweet potato soup
Marinade ribs and freeze
Make red cabbage and freeze
Make Christmas chocolate biscuits for hampers and freeze
3rd week in November
Make pates
Make fudge for hampers and freeze
Make pork and parsnip cobbler and freeze
4th week in November
Make Christmas puddings (you can do this earlier but I like to keep with tradition and do it on Stir up Sunday)
Make Christmas rocky road and freeze (for hampers)
Make Panforte and refrigerate
Make some mince pies and freeze
First week in December
Make some more mince pies and freeze
Make mincemeat and apple jalousie
Make cheese twists and freeze
Make sausage rolls and freeze
Make pizza dough and freeze
Second week in December
Make braised venison in wild mushroom sauce
Make cranberry and orange relish
Make meringues (for New Years Eve dessert)
Make marzipan and cover Christmas cakes
Make Christmas spiced chocolate cake and freeze
Make stollen and refrigerate
Third week in December
Bread sauce
Stuffing
Prepare pigs in blankets and freeze
Custard (for trifle)
Rum butter (for the mincemeat jalousie)
Brandy sauce (for the Christmas pudding)
Make icing and ice Christmas cakes
Make spiced nuts for hampers
Make chocolate mousses and freeze
Make gingerbread house and biscuits for the tree decorations
22nd/23rd December
Make trifle (for Boxing Day)
Make lemon roulade (for Boxing Day)
Make Yule log
Make Panettone
Christmas Eve
Brine turkey
Make giblet stock for gravy
Take bread sauce, brandy sauce, stuffing, pigs in blankets and cranberry and orange relish out of the freezer
Prepare chocolate sponge pudding and sauce for children's dessert on Christmas Day
Prepare Christmas morning muffins
Parboil potatoes and parsnips, drain and put in roasting trays, leave in a cool place
Peel and chop/slice veg and blanch, put in freezer bags in fridge
Christmas Day
(For lunch at 1.30 pm ish)
9.00am Take turkey out of brine (or fridge) and leave to come to room temperature
9.30 Preheat oven
9.40 Put pigs in blankets in oven
10.10 Take pigs in blankets out of oven and cover in foil
10.20 Melt fat for turkey, baste with half the liquid and put in oven
10.30 Put a pan of water on to boil for Christmas Pudding (may use slow cooker for the 2 puddings)
11.00 Baste turkey with remaining fat
11.20 Steam Christmas Pudding for 3 hours
12.00 Preheat oven 2 for the potatoes
12.30 Put potatoes in oven
12.45 Put parsnips in oven 2 below the potatoes, baste turkey, put stuffing in oven 1 below the turkey, boil water for veg
1.00 Turn potatoes over, take turkey out of oven and cover in foil, put foil wrapped pigs in blankets back in oven to reheat, put chocolate sponge pudding in steamer above Christmas pudding (unless using slow cooker for these), cook veg
1.15 Heat through bread sauce, red cabbage, make gravy
1.20 Take stuffing, potatoes, pigs in blankets out of oven, carve turkey
1.30 Serve!
tee hee! 
I empty my freezer in October/November in preparation for all the cooking! 
