Skip to content
    InfinityLooper
    Laptop showing a timed Christmas cooking list and a tablet with a printed timeline, in a room with fairy lights and baubles

    See the trailer and every preview page

    PrintablesUnlocks with one sponsored offer (an ad; we earn a commission) or your email.

    Christmas dinner timeline spreadsheet for up to 20 dishes

    A Christmas cooking timeline spreadsheet for Excel and Google Sheets that turns up to 20 dishes into a timed, step by step schedule, with an example workbook and 3 printable timeline pages.

    • 5 files (XLSX, PDF, ZIP)

    Download

    Free preview · Unlock the file

    1. Choose offer
    2. Complete it
    3. Download

    Unlock it with one sponsored offer; we earn a commission. Offers are for ages 18+.

    Offers open in a new tab. Your download starts here once the partner confirms, usually within a minute or two. No account needed.

    What is inside

    List each dish once with where it cooks, oven, hob, fridge or bench, its oven temperature and its prep, cook and rest minutes from your recipe. The workbook then writes the day out as a timed list, such as 10:15 preheat oven to 180 °C and 10:30 into the oven, with Fahrenheit shown next to Celsius.

    A second sheet charts every dish against the clock. If the turkey, ham and potatoes want the oven at different temperatures in the same slot, those cells go red and a flag column says so, which gives you time to shuffle the plan.

    Alongside the blank workbook there is a filled example menu to copy from, a PDF with the Google Sheets copy link, a start-here guide, and a zip of three printables in fillable, print and PNG form for ticking steps off in the kitchen.

    Good for

    • Hosts juggling one oven on Christmas Day
    • Roast dinners with several sides
    • Printing a step list for helpers
    • Planning a festive lunch to a serving time

    Questions

    How many dishes can the timeline handle?
    Up to 20. Each row takes one dish with its cooking place, oven temperature and prep, cook and rest times, and the schedule is built from those rows.
    Do I need Excel to use it?
    No. It is an Excel workbook, but the included PDF has a link that copies it into your own Google Sheets account.
    Is there a printed planner with this?
    This one has three printable timeline pages. The larger Christmas dinner bundle adds an 8-page planner with menu, guest and shopping pages.

    Related downloads