CHRISTMAS HOST STORY

Your turn to have people over? Keep them sweet (and get them to leave on time) with our guide

Hosting, much like flossing and fake-tanning, is harder than it looks. Fail to adequately prepare and you’ll invariably find yourself in the frozen food aisle bulk-buying beige, while composing 17 breezy/desperate Whatsapps and cursing last-month you for having the audacity to throw a sodding shindig. Read on for the Women’s Health guide to throwing a Christmas party that won’t cost you your sanity, your health goals or your mates