So. I've got twelve for the Christmas week, including two vegetarians and three fussy eaters, here is my meal plan, tell me if I need to do more.

[JessePinkman]

My dh will be doing big breakfasts everyday. Mwah.

So I thought:

Friday night salmon, new potatoes, green beans and maybe orange flavoured mayonnaise.

Saturday night: Lasagne, macoroni cheese, pasta pesto and a veggie salad. I love avocados to cut into the richness of macoroni cheese. Maybe some garlic bread too.

Monday night: I think I will make some soup for our house guests and then have a party, so sausage rolls, anchovy puff pastries, can't remember etc mini pizza things, olives for me, can't remember the rest of the party food. Crisps?

Tuesday: Ah the turkey, two stuffings or three, but two veggie, chestnut and sage and onion, cauliflower cheese, sprouts, parsnips, carrots and something mashed, sweetcorn, red cabbage, potatoes of course.

Wednesday: roast beef same as above but with a lovely nutty mushroom stuffing.

Thursday: Beouf bourginon and or veggie stew with pommes daupinoise, green beans.

Friday: its a shepherds pie, and a veggie one to go with it. Brocolli and courgettes on the side.

Saturday: they have gone? right? baked beans on toast.

What do you think?

Sounds good. If you are looking after that many people I would definitely try and make the stews ahead and freeze them. Also rather than cooking a meat and veg for the same day, why can't meat eaters eat something veggie so you only have to make one thing. E.g. on the Thursday do a hearty veggie stew with beans and dumplings. Also, when you do the beef, can you make extra stuffing to cook separate from the beef and cook as a kind of mushroom pate/roast thing? Otherwise you're obviously making an effort to cater to everyone and hopefully your guests will be happy enough to realise that and not make a fuss if it isn't all to their taste!

You've missed out Sunday! And what about puddings?
What about lunches? I know your DH is doing big breakfasts each day but are you expecting them to only have breakfast and supper? If that was me, I have to say I wouldn't be happy! If breakfast is about 11ish (and so covers lunch), I'd have to have a pre-breakfast bowl of cereal before; if breakfast was at 10ish, I'd need something mid-afternoon to keep us going.
My only other comment is that there are a lot of big meals. Another roast the day after Xmas Day? We'll be on left overs. And what about any other "picky" meals - that's one of the things I love about Christmas.

If it helps, my meal plan:
Sat evening (not sure when people are arriving) - pizza
Sun lunch - out
Sun evening - risotto or pasta or something else simple & not Xmassy
Mon lunch - soup (already in freezer)
Mon evening - ham & salads
Tues lunch - turkey etc
Tues evening - picky bits
Weds lunch - soup (making tomorrow to put in freezer)
Weds evening - turkey & ham pie
Thurs lunch - just us...beans on toast
Thurs evening - just us ... omelette
Fri lunch - no idea. Off to the supermarket on Fri morning
Fri evening (new set of guests) - lamb casserole (making tomorrow to go in freezer)
Sat lunch - roast pepper & tomato tart with salads (again, making tomorrow)
Sat evening - roast beef
Sun lunch - out
Sun evening - just us...leftover beef maybe?

Oh crap! What are we having on Sunday?

Puddings, luckily the family are coming over and bringing puddings with them.

I would expect a cooked breakfast and a hot meal later to be enough. I regularly ony have two meals. I suppose I should buy some extra bread and salady stuff. Really I think we will all sink enough booze to not worry about the extra meal. Now I'm thinking thats wrong and they will want three meals a day. They will won't they?

And one of the meat eaters is very fussy.

We can all manage two roast dinners in a row, this has come up before, we all love our roast dinners.

I don't have a freezer, wish I did for this.

I think I will make some sweeties.

I'm so excited to see them all

Get a takeaway on Sunday night or order pizza. You'll have enough cooking to be getting on with the other days!

As for lunch, I would say get ham/cheese in for sandwiches, some crisps and fruit/cake. A light lunch should be fine.

That would work. Though the fussy eater will not eat pizza on Sunday night, or Italian anything. And that is our only take away option (not in the UK)

I prefer the veggies to to the fussies, but I love my FIL. So I think I need one more dinner.

I thought I had it all planned.

Give me a dinner that will suit vegetarians and fussy meat and two veg types!

Its so much fun to plan for them, I love it! I love that they can all come here and have food that makes them happy.

Ah Sunday is a chilli, I'm not advertising it as a chilli to my FIL, it will be more or less beef in a tomato sauce, the veggie one is interesting, but all served with nachos, avacado, sour cream, cheddar and jalapenos.

I think its a lot of beef over the week, for the meat eaters.

But I love beef, and there will be a veggie option to every meal. Should they wish to take it.

I have had the lot of them over for Christmas before, just not for the whole week, its going to be so much fun.

I am totally in awe of you! I just don't think I could hack all that shopping and prepping!!! The only thing I would suggest is that your family/friends take you all out for dinner on one night as a thank you and also to give you a break.

Sounds good, but vegetarians don't eat fish (unless yours are fake vegetarians). So you might want to add a veggie option to the friday night.

They are fake vegetarians! One of them eats sausages too.

I like the meal out suggestion Chottie. I will be all over that!

We often work on the basis of 2 big meals a day over Christmas - offer cereal and toast for early risers then brunch mid morning and 2nd meal at about 4pm. I always have cheese and nibbles available in the evening but this is plenty of food, honestly.