What do you have on your christmas day menu

Beki

Breakfast -

american-style raisin pancakes with creme fraiche/brandy cream (depending on preference)

Lunch -

Starter

prawn cocktail with smoked salmon, scallops, oysters and mussels (trying to be MS this year so no scallops oysters or mussels)

Main

(for the first time we're not having turkey!)
free range chicken
roast beef (kindly being bought by uncle)
roast goose (again being bought by uncle)
pigs in blankets

roast potatoes
brussell sprouts
carrots
parsnips
swede
(we used to have around 9 or 10 veg, but it was verging on the ridiculous so that is stopping this year too!!!)

h/m yorkshire pudding
gravy

Pudding

xmas pud
sticky toffee pud
jam roly poly
custard
cream (brandy squirty, single)
ice cream


Dinner -

cold meats
pickles
french stick
cheese
biscuits
crisps
breadsticks & dips
various sweet nibbles

dolly_day_dream

Right this is for 10 ranging from 8weeks - 83years, vegan and omnivore

Breakfast -tea/coffee/ bacon sarnies/ sosmix rolls/ croissants/ oj/ satsumas, chocolate and cheddars from treasure hunt

Lunch - starter - salad or smoked salmon with brown bread and lemon

Main meal - Roast turkey, mushroom encrote, roast potatoes, roast parsnips, pigs in blankets, stuffing balls, stuffing from insidethe bird, extra stuffing (you get the idea that stuffing is popular?) mashed potatoes, carrots, brussells, cauli, beans, two types of gravy, cranberry sauce yorkshires ( I have to make lots and lots of roast pots and parsnips cos they like to eat them cold as well)

Pudding - Christmas pudding, mince pies, cream, ice cream, chocolate truffle pud

Tea time - cold meats, chutneys and pickles, sausage rolls, sos mix rolls, salad, bread Christmas cake, trifle,

Plus fruit, nuts chocolates and anything else they can cram in during the day

Yes when I write it down it seems like a lot but virtually nothing gets thrown away

Everything is homemade (I start at half term each year) and this year will be taking place on January 3rd as this is the only day when we can all make it together and my D Children did not want to miss out on our Christmas meal

tru

Breakfast
Satsumas, smarties and hot chocolate - yes really

Lunch
Turkey
Pig in a pork - pigs in blankets to all you normal people :rotfl:
Mashed potatoes
Roast potatoes
Sprouts - kids sent down the garden on Christmas morning to pick them
We've got loads of home-grown veg in the freezer, we'll choose what we're having at the time
Cranberry sauce
Apple sauce - master tru puts it on every type of meat

Pudding
Mint Vienetta

Rest of day
Chocolate

Perfect

Boxing day - "Oh noooooooooo, I feel soooooooo stuffed and horrible, I'm having salad and fruit" :rotfl:

mummysaver

Breakfast

Bacon and fried egg sarnies with lots of ketchup!

Lunch

Turkey
Veggie something
Pigs in blankets
Roast potatoes
Roast parsnips
Mashed swede and celeriac
Sprouts
Carrots
Red cabbage braised
Leeks
Stuffing
Yorkshire puds (dd3 would cry if a roast didn't have these served with it!)
Gravy
Mustard, mint sauce, cranberry sauce
Bread sauce

Christmas pudding
Ice cream
Cream
Fruit

Cheese and biscuits
Pickle

Supper

More cheese and biscuits
Chocolate
Biscuits
Leftovers
Pickled onions

1sttimer_2

Breakfast - Tea/cofee and either croissants/crumpets

Dinner - Meat (usually pork but this year Ham)
Mushroom and Brie purses (for the veggies)
Roast and Mash potatoes
Brussels with chestnuts
Carrots
Swede mash
Sausages and bacon/non meat sausages/bacon

Ignor this post - must have accidentally posted it! - See second post below!

1sttimer_2

Breakfast - Tea/cofee and either croissants/crumpets

Dinner -
Starter Melon
Main Boxing Day - Meat (usually pork but this year Ham)
Boxing Day -Mushroom and Brie purses (for the veggies)
Christmas day -Delia's cheese and parsnip roulade (new this year!)
Roast and Mash potatoes
Brussels with chestnuts
Carrots
Swede mash
Sausages and bacon/non meat sausages/bacon
Stuffing
Gravy
Pud Choice of Christmas pud or trifle

This year we've only 3 of us (2 veggies) so not bothering with meat, but still having a proper meal, all family round Boxing day when we'll have the meat.

Tea - If we've room, we usually have cheese and crackers and nibbles.

kippers

Breakfast=normal porridge/toast cereal etc

Dinner=(no starter we wouldn't eat main course) Turkey crown, stuffing, yorkshires, roast pots, roast parnsips, brussells, swede, carrots, pigs in blankets - followed by xmas pud or choc sponge with custard or cream.

Tea= cold turkey/ham with a salad, pork pie etc followed by xmas cake, mince pies and my mums chocolate cake

1sttimer_2

OOH thanks kippers - forgot the roast parsnips - although with having the cheese and parsnip roulade there may be a touch too many parsnips on Christmas day - I don't want any smelly accidents if we've brussels as well - best leave them till boxing day!

inamess200

Breakfast - fresh fruit juice, home made mickey mouse shaped waffles and syrup or fruit or cereals

Dinner starter - prawn cocktail with home made bread

Ignore this post and see below - must have hit the wrong button!!!

inamess200

Breakfast - fresh fruit juice, home made mickey mouse shaped waffles and syrup or fruit or cereal

Dinner starter - prawn cocktail with home made bread

main - turkey, apricot stuffing, sausages in bacon, gravy, red cabbage, broccoli, roast potatoes and parsnips, peas of of course brussels (which i can't stand but everyone else in my family love)

Pudding - no one likes Christmas pudding so have ordered a brownie cheesecake and a vinnetta

After - home made marzipan fruits (children demand these each year a tradition passed down by my late grandmother) mints and chocolates


Tea - if anyone wants anything - home made bread cold meat and pickles, hm mince pies and yule log and anything else we can raid the cupboards for.

Yum - can't wait:T :T