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What is your Christmas eve meal/snacks

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AJFsmummy · 22/12/2015 16:43

Normally we order a full works Chinese banquet, this year we are hard up....so im surfing the web now for cost effective ideas.

What does everyone else have? xx

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Minibelle · 22/12/2015 16:46

I've bought party food from tesco for Christmas Eve. They had a pretty good range, just gotta resist temptation to eat it now!

milkmilklemonade12 · 22/12/2015 16:48

We have Mexi-Christmas Eve... A Mexican theme night cooked up by DH!

We have fancy dress (although you don't have to do this Wink), DH cooks burritos, fajitas and nachos, churros for dessert and mixes raspberry margheritas. We have a piñata, play cards and have wild Mexican themed music on in the background.

It's a fab lift from the regular pies and meats and buffets we have from thereon in, and just sets everything off with a bang... I love it Grin

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AJFsmummy · 22/12/2015 16:49

We had those spicy roulette croquet things.....rather nice..xx

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Savagebeauty · 22/12/2015 16:50

M and S curry

WiryElevator · 22/12/2015 16:51

Not a lot as there is so much food on Xmas Day. Lunch will probably be sandwiches or eggs. We are meeting lots of friends in the pub late afternoon so there will be wine and crisps. Maybe some nuts. It is Christmas, after all. Xmas Grin

Maybe some hot chocolate and Xmas cookies/mince pies when we get back. Some cheese and crackers perhaps.

Davros · 22/12/2015 17:52

Take away kebabs and champagneXmas Grin

SparklyTinselTits · 22/12/2015 17:59

My mum is Polish, so we have a traditional Polish Christmas Eve (it's more the main event in Poland than Christmas Day). Traditionally fish is served. Meat isn't eaten out of respect for the animals that watched over the baby Jesus in the manger (I'm still a little bit Hmm about that myself). We usually have a whole salmon (which mum cooks in the dishwasher Grin), mum makes Barszcz, which is a rank beetroot soup, and pierogi which a like little dumplings filled with cheese, potato and onion yumminess.

I'll probably gain about 4 stone, but I love Christmas Eve Xmas Grin

MummyPig24 · 22/12/2015 19:53

We have cold meat, sausage rolls, cheese, crackers, grapes and chocolates.

MummyPig24 · 22/12/2015 19:55

Oh whoops, Christmas Eve. I thought you meant Christmas night! Christmas Eve varies. We are going to my grandma's this year, she is a notoriously awful cook and her oven has just broken. I'm not sure if that makes it better or not.

gerbo · 22/12/2015 19:57

Pizza night! Normally I make my own or tart up bases, but it's posh sainsburys ready done ones so I can sling them in and we are eating quickly. Garlic bread and salad. Yum. Frankly there's enough cooking on Xmas day for me!

Quornmakesmefart · 22/12/2015 22:27

We have our Christmas dinner on Christmas Eve - it's our tradition Smile.

We cook a huge Chrstmas ham as well as the turkey, then come Christmas Day all the hard work is over and everybody can help themselves to the contents of the fridge. Also means I get to spend Christmas day with the DC and their presents rather than half of it in the kitchen...

FelixFelix · 22/12/2015 22:30

We are having nibbly bits - so some party food type stuff, crisps and dips, cheese and crackers etc.

ImperialBlether · 22/12/2015 22:32

Sparkly, I want to come to your house on Christmas Eve!

AdoraBell · 22/12/2015 22:40

I'm stealing your Mexican idea for next year Milk, sounds fab Xmas Grin

This year we are having salmon with veg and rice and will watch a movie, DDs in new pajamas.

AFingerofFudge · 22/12/2015 22:44

sorry can I just go back to what sparklytinseltits said -
your mum cooks the salmon in the dishwasher?????!!!

Davros · 22/12/2015 23:40

I don't get why doing all the cooking and eating on Xmas eve is "better", it's just a day earlier and those who do it end up doing in Xmas day what the rest of us do on Boxing Day. I can't see any real difference?!

serin · 23/12/2015 00:25

Blimey, I have Googled dishwasher salmon and can confirm that it is a thing.

Lots of recipes online!

Who knew.

Laura2006 · 23/12/2015 00:38

This year we're having ham, egg and chips Smile

Janeymoo50 · 23/12/2015 08:00

Homemade fajitas, pack of tortilla wraps, some veggies (peppers, red onions), pack of chicken and one of those sachets of Mexican seasoning (the Maggi one is great as you stick it all in a roasting bag in the oven for 45 mins). Add some grated cheese, cheap salsa, tub of sour cream and packet of Doritos for dipping. If you're careful the whole thing comes in at under £10.

ohmymimi · 23/12/2015 08:29

Glühwein, fondue with sourdough cubes, baby roasties and cocktail sausages, boozy mince pies and brandy cream. Xmas Smile

Pengweng · 23/12/2015 08:50

We have party food and pork pies. To be scoffed while putting all the pressies under the tree and watching the Masterchef final. Grin

Washediris · 23/12/2015 09:08

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JimmyGreavesMoustache · 23/12/2015 09:12

fish pie at lunchtime
buffet supper after the Crib Service at church - cheese, crackers, Christmas cake, party nibbles.

Chattymummyhere · 23/12/2015 11:14

We are doing the Pizza Hut £25 get two large pizza's, garlic bread and one side. I also have a £10 off voucher due to bad service last time.

macnab · 23/12/2015 11:53

We are being complete slatterns and getting an indian takeaway!

If anyone's going to the trouble of doing their salmon in the dishwasher, don't be wasteful - make a job lot of dishwasher vodka in it at the same time Xmas Grin (yes, that too is a thing!)