What do you do for Christmas dinner?

Kitchenbunny

For Christmas Dinner, we usually do roast chicken with all the trimmings, except we have it cold most years Cold cut chicken (meaning we can roast it either the day before or in the morning and not worry about it) with stuffing balls, little sausages, etc, but with something like a homemade hash brown with some of the veggies in. As we're busy most times visiting on Christmas Day itself, it's nice to have a movable feast, so to speak

We do have hot Christmas Pud and Mince Pies though Hot, of course, with brandy sauce or cream.

Kitchenbunny xx

Curious_George_2

what do we do? everything!
from scratch, sorry OP but aunt bessies roast pots taste like floor sweepings compared to our real ones!

we are also price tarts and have stuff we know we will use stocked up already from previous bargain hunting trips... but we will be having the works,
and cold meat and mash with pickles on boxing day nom nom nom

I budget and meal plan all year... but not for the chrimbo holiday

lickylonglips

There's only 2 of us, and we're off on holiday early on the 27th, so am going to keep it relatively simple and low-key:
breakfast will be bagels with cream cheese and smartprice salmon offcuts
for lunch i'll do a small turkey with roast potatoes, carrots, brussels sprouts, peas, cabbage, gravy, yorkshire puddings and sausagemeat stuffing. we'll have it with cava and orange juice. for dessert we'll have christmas pudding with squirty cream (although we'll probably not get to dessert cos we'll be so stuffed!). i'm going to prepare and cook all the vegetables apart from the potatoes in advance, make the yorkshire pudding batter the night before and cook the turkey in advace, just to reheat.
i think for tea it'll just be leftover turkey and stuffing in sandwiches with maybe some bought cakes or nibbly things.
i think i'm going to have a go at making some shortbread and mince pies this year.
it'll be bubble and squeak on boxing day with the leftover veg, maybe with some smartprice bacon pieces thrown in and served with a fried egg or two.

Boodle

It really is interesting to read what lovely dinners you are all planning

For breakfast I am toying with the idea of Portugese custard tarts to have with coffee, but I might just go with muffins of some sort. It depends on how I feelon Christmas eve when I come to make them. I am usually really hungry by mid-morning though so will probably end up having toast and jam or a bowl of branflakes too.

There are two adults, one toddler and one baby for Christmas dinner. For starter I plan on serving roasted sweet potato, pecan and spinach salad.

We were planning on a chicken this year, but I have gone vegan and DH & DD veggie (as vegan as comfortable for them really.) TBH, it was pretty much the veggies and condiments that make Christmas dinner for us anyway, rather than the meat element. So instead we will be having:

Wild mushroom wellington (although we are also tempted to do a lentil pie with traditional "sausage"-type spices instead)
Carrots and parsnips
Sprouts with hazelnut butter
Sweetcorn
Roasted potatoes
Braised red cabbage
Stuffing
Bread sauce, cranberry sauce (bought jar), mustard and gravy

Afters will be Christmas pud with custard (DH prefers it to both hot and hard rum/brandy sauces.) I won't have cheese and DD simply doesn't like it, but DH will probably have some in for himself. Will probably be full enough after that meal to eat any then though

Supper will probably be some leftover veg as a fry-up but I usually only cook enough for the meal, so it might well be a sandwich and crisps or something.

Family are coming on Boxing Day so we will have:
A pie like the lentil one mentioned above
Sausage Rolls
Mushroom puffs
Bought onion bhajis with mango chutney for dunking
Stuffing balls with mustard and cranberry sauce for dunking
Crackers with hummus, mushroom pate and creamy cheese (going to try making my own with soy flour from a recipe on the internet)
Mincemeat pies
Christmas cake and a tunis cake

Justamum

Boodle wrote: »

Wild mushroom wellington (although we are also tempted to do a lentil pie with traditional "sausage"-type spices instead)

They both sound tasty. Don't suppose you could post the recipes or links to them could you

Patchwork_Quilt

There will be four of us on Christmas Day, as far as I know, and Christmas here is just like Mum used to make

Breakfast - croissants for three, gluten free toast for me. I think. After reading what everyone else is having, this may change

Lunch - served late

Large organic chicken, roast potatoes, mash, carrots, own sprouts and parsnips (I hope), some form of stuffing and very many pigs in blankets. Gravy made from a chicken roasted some time before Christmas and frozen. Bought cranberry sauce for DS.

Pud made for us every year by a friend. Custard for DH (it may be tinned) and cream.

Mints and coffee with cream.

Cava to drink.

Tea - if anyone can be bothered, there will be cold meat, salad, bread, home made mince pies and shortbread, home pickled onions and crisps. Home made Christmas cake and a selection of cheese. Clementines and grapes. Tea in a pot.

gailey_2

Well last xmas money was tight so we decided against turket as we like to buy free range pultry and even the non free range seemed pricey.

instad we went to lidls got frozen goose breast for £9.99 and one large free rage chicken £6.50 and served both was lush.
with what we saved new years we had leg of lamb £8 and lobster£5.
I guess still a lot but got more for our money.

Sometimes i think its more moneysaving to have leftovers for sandwiches or other meals like chicken curry.

we do like tp do m&s for some treats but try do majority in lidls/sainsburys.

I hate xmas puddig so get hubby mini ones.

love clemetines and nuts at xmas which chocolat fudge cake and cornish icecream.

Every year i say im collecting stamps which i had as skint again this year!

Glad

breakfast - smoked salmon and cream cheese bagels with bucks fizz

xmas dinner will be a turkey crown and beef from local butcher, home made bread sauce and home made horseradish, pigs in blankets and home made stuffing
Veg will be winter mash (potatos, carrots, swede and turnip)
red cabbage cooked in port and orang juice
sprouts with chestnuts
french beans, carrots tossed in mustard
roast potatos and parsnips

home made xmas pud with brandy sauce and/or mince pies (always make the mincemeat myself, tastes so much better)

port and a cheese board for tea

I'll cook a gammon and make some onion marmalade on xmas eve for people to pick at over xmas

Nelski

Glad wrote: »

breakfast - smoked salmon and cream cheese bagels with bucks fizz

xmas dinner will be a turkey crown and beef from local butcher, home made bread sauce and home made horseradish.
Veg will be winter mash (potatos, carrots, swede and turnip)
red cabbage cooked in port and orang juice
sprouts with chestnuts
french beans, carrots tossed in mustard
roast potatos and parsnips

home made xmas pud with brandy sauce and/or mince pies (always make the mincemeat myself, tastes so much better)

port and a cheese board for tea

I'll cook a gammon and make some onion marmalade on xmas eve for people to pick at over xmas

spooky :eek::D me too

dont forget the christmas cake ........HM of course;):rotfl:

silverchair

jenner wrote: »

its not really money saving, but what do you have on the table for Christmas dinner and how many does it usually serve?

I'll start. I usually get nearly everything from Marks, even though its expensive because its v tasty.

We have 5 of us, might be 6 this year, not sure. I will get a chicken roast, beef roast and lamb roast (come in their own little tin and you just cook em for about an hour or so), 2 bags of Aunt Bessies roast potatoes, carrot and swede mash, 2 sides of bread sauce (my favourite), sausages in bacon, brussel sprouts, gravey, little cheese and garlic bites (bit avant guard), 3 different stuffings (love stuffing), cabbage, cranberry sauce, horseradish sauce, mint sauce.

then for afters yule log, christmas pud, plain clotted cream (cant stand brandy butter).

i dont like turkey and not over keen on chicken so dont like doing a roast, hence the 'roasts' in tins, dont get any left overs either, it all goes.

yum

I get everything from M&S too. Theres only me & OH so its not hugely expensive. I have the family thing xmas eve. M&S food tastes good & is really easy, less washing up, less preparing, less stress.