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EMminently

Hi all - i've just spent ten minutes reading last year's thread where everyone has recorded what they have to eat over the Christmas period . I thought it'd be nice to do another one - i'm actually very hungry and should go and put the oven on! I'll come back and record my food!
So guys, what do you eat over Christmas? :j Do you have traditional menus or something more unique? (traditional for me!)...:D

I'll be back after dinner!

Emily_Hall08

I don't know why but we always have things like cold homemade quiche and pizza, dips, pavlova, cheesecakes, and more predictably christmas cake and log in the evening.
I like to mix things up though and get everyone to try new things though
Anyone else have these things?

jimjams_mommy

Christmas eve my husband and I would have a mini buffet of cheese, bread, pickles, quiche and sandwhichs. With a bottle of wine and a wonderfull life on video. My christmas bliss.

EMminently

On Christmas day, we kick off with a bacon sarnie and then a glass of bucks fizz. Then we take the dogs down to the beach and stop at the local pub for another quick drink and to soak up the festive atmosphere before walking back. Then we have our Christmas lunch (at 3ish) - typical turkey crown, ham, sausages in blanket, carrots, quinelle parsnips, swede, sprouts, cauliflower...gravy! There's always Christmas pudding and cake on offer but usually only eaten by the men! For Christmas tea, we raid the cupboards and have cold meats, cold veg, cheese and pickles - a help yourselves buffet. I love this! Boxing day - cold meats, pickles and chips mmmmm!
Right, now i'm off for breakfast!!

jetty

traditional xmas dinner followed by junk

shimmigirl

Christmas Eve - Lasagne or Fajitas or Pasta Bolognaise or Pizza. With Garlic Bread, Hot Rolls and Salad. Always something filling but easy to cook as my famiy come round.

Christams Day - At MiLs.
Breakfast - Bacon Rolls or Crumpets, for most for DH and children selection boxes!!
Lunch - 2pm ish - Turkey, Stuffing, sausages, Loads og veg - parsnips (roatsed and bolied) swede, Brocolli or Cauli, Carrots, Sprouts(Peas for those who don't eat any other veg) gravey, and Yorkies and Sausage Rolls ofr the picky ones who won't even entertain peas as a vegetable.
Pud for those who want - Trifle, Xmas Pud, Blackfirest gateau.
Tea: Buffet - lots of hot bits - mini kebabs, samosas, mini pancake rolls, chicken dippers. Pringles, Crisps, Various Mince pies, choc cakes, shortbread, sweets, cold meat, salad, cheese (and anything else that MiL and SiL stick in the troley when shopping)

Boxing Day:
Breakfast at home - muffins, cereal, toast.
Lunch at MiL - a repeat of xmas day - but with leftover turkey, gammon or beef.
Tea - more of the same as last night.

Rest of time we are off for xmas - nibbles at our house, and light food to get over excess of last two days.

Sometimes have a buffet at MiL on New years eve or day too - to finish off all
of the food leftover

elle_gee

Based on what we have at my parents growing up and also when I go back for Christmas this year - I'm 24 now and trying to get away with cooking Christmas lunch until I'm at least 30!

On Christmas Day morning, around 10am, we have smoked salmon, cream cheese and prawns on bite-size pieces of toast with Champagne, orange juice or homemade Buck Fizz.

Christmas Day lunch, around 1.30pm, is starter of prawn cocktail (or a seafood-allergic option which changes each year), followed by traditional lunch of turkey, roast potatoes, roast parsnips, carrots, sprouts, peas, sausages in bacon, stuffing, bread sauce, cranberry sauce and gravy. Pudding is usually christmas pudding and something gautueax-y with lots of cream.

Christmas tea is buffet, supermarket party-food, out of the freezer on to a baking tray type affair for ease with some of Grandma's sausage rolls, mince pies, and oysters (don't know if that's what everyone calls them - its a pastry case with ground almond paste baked, then cut out and filled with jam and buttercream and the almond top put back on!), plus Christmas cake and whatever pudding is left from lunch.

Boxing Day used to be a roast but we've given that a miss in recent years in favour of going to the races or just chilling out. NYs Day is also a big roast. Used to be pork on Boxing Day and beef on NYs Day.

moneysavingyvonne

Xmas Eve - go to Auntie's house (about 20 of us) - we all do a pot of food each, i do Chilli, someone else does curry, someone does rice, someone else trifle. Lots of scrummy food to pig out on washed down with lots of alcohol - lots of mixing of new drinks we have found throughout the year.

Xmas day - go to Mum's (i'm 25, and like someone else has said on here, i am putting of doing xmas dinner for as long as i can ha - i must say i do help my mum with a large glass of alcohol in hand) - typical xmas dinner at about 5 o'clock, with Turkey and one or two other meats, veg, lots of different types of potatoes. Followed by xmas pudding and some other puddings. Then later lots of nibbles, mini pizza, pringles, celebrations etc

Boxing Day - stay at home, just me and my fella. Three course meal prepared throughout the day, starting with homemade soup and warm bread, main course is fillet steak with potatoes and veg, followed by home made brownie and ice cream!!

Gosh, i'm hungry now - i could eat it all at once ha ha

Emily_Hall08

elle_gee wrote: »

(don't know if that's what everyone calls them - its a pastry case with ground almond paste baked, then cut out and filled with jam and buttercream and the almond top put back on!),

These sound pretty tasty..

Emily_Hall08

any veggie moneysavers care to share their christmas food?

icecubequeen

Xmas eve - Takeaway, this has become a tradition now, as no-one fancies cooking on Xmas eve as we are so busy sorting pressies, preparing bits for dinner for xmas day etc so we treat ourselves to takeaway usually a Curry yum!

Xmas day - Breakfast: Bacon Sarnies. Dinner served around 1pm: Turkey, stuffing, sausages in blankets, roast potatoes, roast parsnips, cauliflour, carrots, peas, gravy, bread sauce, cranberry sauce. Pudding: Xmas pud / Trifle. Later on we usually nibble on cold meats, xmas snacks etc Then in the evening we settle down with our favourite tipple usually a big jug of malibu and cranberry juice for me and magners for the OH and cheeseboard with biscuits and watch a comedy movie (always something funny as it's a nice entertaining and fun way to end the day!) or last year we watched a comedy stand up DVD, got Alan Carr DVD as a Xmas pressie so watched that in the evening, never laughed sooooo much in my life! :rotfl:

Boxing day - Breakfast: Fry up, Dinner: Roast again using left over stuff from Xmas day. Tea: whateve needs using up! (Though this year we are going to the In-laws on Boxing day and staying for a couple of days, so not sure what they have in store for us food wise!):D