Christmas menu for 10 people

With drinks: Smoked salmon toasts with dill cream; Sausage puffs; Beet, fresh goat cheese and walnut verrines. To start: Chestnut soup with crushed hazelnuts. For the main: Turkey breast stuffed with chestnuts, porcini sauce. For the cheese course: Cheese board. For dessert: Chocolate praline yule log.

For 10 guests, the big picture: cooked chestnuts (800 g), turkey breast (1.8 kg), Brie de Meaux (230 g) and dark chocolate (300 g). The full grocery list, aisle by aisle, is right above.

In two trips. Three days before, the stuff that keeps (12 items: produce, dairy, bakery and pantry). Then the day before, the fresh stuff (15 items, like sausage meat, turkey breast and cocktail sausages). You'll dodge the last-minute crowds.

To sit down at 8:15 PM, the first step of the big day starts at 6:15 PM: preheat the oven to 180 °C. The main (turkey breast stuffed with chestnuts, porcini sauce) goes in the oven at 6:15 PM. Every step of the game plan is timed backward from when you sit down to eat.

It's not vegetarian: for a meat-free table, there's a full vegetarian menu. A kid counts as half a serving in the quantities.

Yep, from 2 to 12 guests: change the number at the top of the page, and the quantities, the grocery list, the budget and these answers all follow.