Hosting family and friends for Christmas meals can be stressful enough – but imagine if your guests ended up with food poisoning? That would be a festive gathering to remember for all the wrong reasons. Here, we reveal the common cooking mistakes that could poison you and your guests, and share our top tips for preparing food for a Christmas get-together without the risk of making everyone ill.

Click or scroll through our gallery to discover the Christmas cooking mistakes that could cause food poisoning, counting down to the worst of all.