Christmas Dinner Menu

Josslette

Hi everyone Great idea for a thread, I'm so nosey when it comes to what people are cooking!

Christmas eve we're having chinese takeaway, keeps the kitchen clean and tidy

Christmas morning - OH will have coco pops/toast and I shall have a smoked salmon and cream cheese bagel

Christmas lunch
- Turkey Breast Joint
- Gravy
- Mash and Roasties
- Roast parsnips and leeks
- Swede and carrot mash
- Peas
- Broccoli cheese
- Yorkshire Puddings
- Sprouts
- White cabbage

Pudding will be GU chocolate souffle with cream

happy35

Breakfast will be crossaints and jam, fresh orange and coffee

prawns cocktail - though not marie rose sauce as I dont like it will have to find something else online to make

Rack of lamb for OH and DS
roast potatoes
mashed potatoes
sprouts
carrots
mashed turnip
parsnips cooked with brown sugar
peas
stuffing -may be home made
HM yorkshire puddings
gravy, mint sauce and horseradish sauce

later on HM trifle or profiteroles that I bought

I dont tend to eat much after my dinner but have game pie for OH and DS, a cheese board, dips and crisps and pickles

islandgirl8

Breakfast:
Salmon, cream cheese, rye bread and OJ and champagne

Lunch:
Starter: Tomato Soup and Croutons

Gammon
Salmon
Roasted potatoes
Brussels Sprouts
Carrot mash
Red Cabbage (Delia)
Green Salad
Cranberry sauce

Christmas Pud, cream, ice cream, custard
Trifle
Christmas Cake
Choc log
Mince Pies

Cheese and biscuits

Better get cracking with today's prep!

Amanda_Dawson

Who all plans on making food this week? I am sure that most of us do. I wanted to get a round up of some easy and good meal planning ideas that you can use to plan your menu. Personally I am using my crock pot big and bad this week. I have so much to do and don’t want to spend any extra money that I am tossing stuff in, early in the morning and heading out for the day or spending the day playing with the kids.
Anything that I can make ahead of time I am making. Such as snacks, appetizers and side dishes that can be frozen or site in the fridge for a few days. I want to spend as much time OUT of the kitchen as possible.
Happy holidays and merry eating!

danielley

Hi all,

Breakfast - We usually have bacon butties at my Mum's or smoked salmon & scrambled eggs at home, but as we are hosting this year it will probably be just toast / cereal to keep the mess down!

Lunch - Starter - Homemade Chicken Liver pate with chutney & toast or Broccoli and Stilton Soup with roll.
Followed by - Hairy Bikers recipe Ham, Turkey, Roast Potatoes, Roast Parsnips, Carrots, Sprouts, Cranberry sauce. - May dash for a last minute extra vegetable as it does like i'm a bit short in that dept! (maybe cauli)

Dessert - Homemade Christmas Pudding (by the chef at MIL work - not me!) with choice of brandy sauce, cream or custard. Semi homemade Yule log (swiss roll & frosting bought - going to be assembled by me!)

Later in the evening - Cheese board, crackers, grapes, chutney, olives

Merry Christmas!!!!

themull1

Breakfast - croissants/pain au chocolate/bucks fizz or coffee.

Lunch -

leek and potato soup/monkfish wrapped in pancetta

beef and turkey
stuffing
pigs in blankets
parsnips
sprouts
carrots
asparagus
roasties
gravy

christmas pudding/rum sauce
trifle
profiteroles

I've never done mashed potato, i think im in a minority.!

azana_2

we are having "whatever is left when we go to the shop an hour before closing and it's all reduced" - bit crazy really but haven't got round to food shopping and it's just us so I don't really care what we eat - any roast dinner will do and I have back up lasagna ingredients in case there's nothing left at all.

Should be the money saving expert way surely?

katrina001

I love reading everyones menus Im having

Ginos playboy eggs for breakfast

Roast turkey and cola Gammon, spuds roasted in dripping, roasted parsnips, carrots, peas, cabbage with bacon,pigs in blankets, sprouts with chestnuts, yorkies, and of course gravy.

Followed by christmas pud with cream, blackforest trifle and banoffee pie

Then lots of party food in the evening, all washed down with champers :beer:

Chris25

Amanda_Dawson wrote: »

Who all plans on making food this week? I am sure that most of us do. I wanted to get a round up of some easy and good meal planning ideas that you can use to plan your menu.
Anything that I can make ahead of time I am making. Such as snacks, appetizers and side dishes that can be frozen or site in the fridge for a few days. I want to spend as much time OUT of the kitchen as possible.
Happy holidays and merry eating!

Amanda, have a look at the OldStyle board - lots of meal planning tips & menus over there http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/forumdisplay.php?f=33

lushlifesaver

I know it's been and gone now but I love this thread!

Christmas dinner at bf's parents went like this:
Soup or prawn cocktail to start
Turkey and beef
mashed potatoes
carrot batons
stuffing
sprouts (hardly any - I love them and I think I ate half those on the table!)
roast potatoes
pigs in blankets
gravy
Chocolate cake for dessert

Previously the menu at my parents has been:
Soup or melon, possibly prawn cocktail (depends if its me or dad who has planned it!) to start
4bird roast
roast potatoes and parsnips
mashed potatoes
peas
carrot batons
sprouts
yorkshire pudding
stuffing
gravy
cauliflower and broccoli
cranberry sauce
fruit or Christmas pudding with cream and brandy butter

Never thought it would be so different eating somewhere else! haha
Next year bf and I will be eating at my parents unless we get a proper oven then I may brave cooking it all (with a little help!)

In our bungalow we only have a small combi oven/microwave/grill thing - the size of a standard microwave) so cooking a hot dinner for 6+ adults (it would be up to 10 +2 kids if bf's whole clan came) would not be possible as by the time the last bits cooked everything else would be cold!