For some people, a meaningful Christmas would mean spending time with families and friends in the comfort of one’s own home. We have a few suggestions for takeaways that’ll allow you to savour a sumptuous Christmas dinner minus the long queues, traffic jams and shopping crowd.

Poached Soy Sauce Turkey with ‘Tau Kwa’ and Fragrant Rice from Goodwood Park Hotel

Price: $168 Capacity: Serves 8 to 12 Last order on 21st Dec Tel: 6730 1867

Inspired by the Cantonese-style braised soy sauce chicken, this turkey features tender meat that boasts flavours of soy sauce, star anise and cloves. Accompanied by Teochew-style braised beancurd, flavourful chicken rice and homemade chilli sauce, this is ideal for easing the familiarity-seeking elders into eating this foreign fowl.

Buah Keluak Turkey from Swissôtel Merchant Court

Price: $118+ (excluding 7% GST)

Capacity: 6 kg, serves 10 Last order on 22 December 2011, 12pm Tel: 6239 1848/1847

How about another local style turkey? This Buah Keluak Turkey marries both traditional roast turkey cooking technique and Peranakan ingredients. The lotus leaf glutinous rice and buah keluak gravy that accompanies the turkey make up a meal.

Turkey Roast from Da Paolo

Price: $60 per kg Capacity: About 4kg Last order 20th December.

Minimum 3 days advance order. Pick up order forms at any Da Paolo Gastronomia outlets.

It is a conventional turkey, except that it comes fully deboned for the convenience of the diners. Stuffed with Iberico chorizo sausages, white carrots, caramelised peaches, mushrooms and herbs and accompanied with an orange and honey sauce, this will definitely be a crowd pleaser at any party!

Theobroma from Antoinette

Price: $148 Capacity: 1.8kg, serves 20 Takeaway from now till 20th Dec. To order 3 days in advance Request order forms from sweets@sugardaddy.com.sg

A contemporary twist to the conventional log cake, Theobroma is made up of layers of dark chocolate cremeux, dark chocolate mousse, flourless chocolate sponge with chocolate crisps, hazelnut dacquoise biscuits, nuggets of salted vanilla caramel and, wait for it – jellies.

White Chocolate Liquor Truffle Tree from Bakerzin

Price: $54 Capacity: About 950g Last order on 18th Dec www.bakerzin.com

One of the joys of hosting a dinner is to watch your guests going gaga over the food that you’ve prepared. You can achieve that with Bakerzin’s chocolate truffle tree, which has 63 white truffles filled with Pink Champagne, Brandied Cherries, Rum and Whisky. Each mouthful is a heavenly mingling of melting white chocolate and heady liquor. Everything about this tree is edible, including the sugar coated stars and the white chocolate snowflake at the top of the tree.