What food do you serve on Christmas day ?

ianbar0

virtually nothing for breakfast i save myself for dinner! may even have a jog to work up as much hunger as possible! tea consists of things to nibble.

eamon

I'm normally visiting my good friends. They provide food & lodgings, I bring alcohol and plenty of it. Dinner is usually around 4pm and for the last few years its been M&S with added extras. The evening is usually spent playing cards and then a movie. Most relaxing.

jcr16

we normally have hot roast pork crusty rolls for breakie, then lunch is a roast with all the trimmings don't like turkey so we have beef , chicken and gammon. and then don't really eat anything else for rest of day but late in evening we have a cheese board and port.

this yr is a bit different. as were having our roast on xmas eve just the 6 of us. and then xmas day were have brekkie at home but in afternoon were going to family for buffet.

madz2802

breakfast- chocolate!
Lunch/dinner- roast and im making a choc log this year
CANNOT WAIT WOOHHOOOO

hamish222

Bennifred wrote: »

It has become a tradition in the Bennifred household (well - for the last 20 odd years, anyhow) to have crispy duck pancakes etc instead of the turkey roast.
It all started one year when OH was working Christmas Day when the boys were little and I asked them what they'd like for dinner if they could have anything at all.......... Now there is outrage if I suggest anything else, lol!

Thanks just going to be my and dh on xmas day and couldnt decide what to have. And this sounds like a winner.

BustyB_2

Last year -
Brekkie - OH and his little boy had croissants (I don't eat brekkie)
Lunch - Roast chicken, stuffing, sausages in bacon, cheesy potato gratin, roasties, roast veg and steamed veg.
Dinner - OH's little boy went back to his mothers. We drove down to my family's house and had another full on Christmas dinner again lol.

This year we are going to have Christmas lunch on Christmas Eve as it was too stressful last year and too rushed.
Turkey (or whatever meat we choose), stuffing, chestnuts, roast veggies, cheesy potato gratin, sausages in bacon. mmmm hungry now.
Most likely OH and his boy will have croissants again for brekkie.
Toasted sarnies with turkey (or whatever meat we have!) stuffing, beans, chestnuts etc
Then OH and I will be going down to my family's for Christmas Dinner.
Bx

caroline78

Hubby and me have always went to my parents house (don't speak to the in laws so no rows over that), along with my brother and his girlfriend.

We normally had to get up about 6am and hubbys kids then came up about 7am to get their presents, but they have moved to Wales this year and we have had a baby so no more early starts (well this year anyway...lol).

No breakfast, although last year I had pizza with melted Mars Bar....well I was 6 months pregnant...lol.

Dinner in Mum's is a four course feast, starters home made veg soup, then melon and orange, followed by full turkey, gammon and all the trimmings (not forgetting Yorkshire Puddings for me...lol), and then trifle, and coffee and Christmas cake..

Leave Mum's and then hubby has a drink in the evening and I get stuck into all the chocolates..lol

Barneysmom wrote: »

but Boxing day we always have turkey, home made chips and beetroot.

Hmm I am hungry now.

Mum and Dad always have chips, beetroot and corned beef on Boxing Day...lol

Gleek

Christmas Eve night: Takeaway

Breakfast: Bacon sandwiches & cup of tea. (Breakfast and dressed before prezzies!)

Lunch: Chicken, bread sauce (I looooove bread sauce.), stuffing, roasties, peas, carrots, cauliflower cheese, yorkshires, mashed potato, gravy and non-alcoholic drink (nothing alcohol is drunk until grandad goes home as he is a recovering alcoholic.) Pudding is usually a trifle or cheesecake but I think I might get a couple of those asda single-pot puddings of syrup sponge or chocolate cake. Much easier and after this year the easier the better!

Tea: Anything - usually sandwiches and some crisps or leftovers - or something out the fridge - anything goes really.

margaretclare

DH and I have a tradition for Christmas breakfast: scrambled egg and smoked salmon.

Neither of us likes turkey. This year we'll be having pan-fried rib-eye steak and probably some green veg or salad with it. Then fruit salad with half-fat creme fraiche.

We won 2 bottles of wine at last week's charity quiz, but we also brought back a pack of bottled Black Sheep bitter from the place where they make it, Masham in Wensleydale.

We've been away some years but this year we've decided not. Just us 2, so we can eat what we like, do what we like.

pinklady1985

we stay at home on xmas day, xmas eve is our eldests birthday so we have a rule xmas day is for us and the kids only
im also due no 5 around new year so hoping she will stay put until after xmas! so food will be easier versions this year!

brekkie - kids are allowed chocolate from their stockings then we will all have pain au chocolat or bacon sandwiches

late lunch will be roast chicken probably as the younger three rarely want meat so turkey seems a waste
roast potatoes
bacon/sausage rolls
yorkshires
stuffing
sprouts
cauliflower cheese
carrots
red cabbage
gravy

for pud none of us eat xmas pudding so probably trifle/cheesecake (seen a nice milka one ive got my eye on!)


dinner will be snacks etc

then boxing day i do a buffet

mmmmm hungry now!