What are you having to eat on Christmas Eve?

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I’ll have 5 on Xmas eve and 12 Xmas day so I don’t want to go overboard on Xmas eve. We are going to a carol service and I was thinking a chilli or bolognese once we get back. Would you be happy with that or is it not special enough?

No idea. We don't bother with anything special on Xmas eve. Don't see the point or need to

Another vote for lasagne, garlic bread and salad after the christingle service! My mum is bringing a chocolate cake and we may have some mince pies with slow gin cream. Good old Aldi!

Lasagne, homemade chips, salad and garlic bread here.

Going out to eat.

Cold lunch then a Chinese takeaway for dinner

Always a Chinese (in a box) and probably crack open some of the "Christmas" booze

Peachypie Gammon joint .5 hours in slow cooker on medium

We're having Spag Bol - it's easy to do for lots of people and won't take much time or effort AND both my kids love it
We're having homemade sherry trifle / brownies for pudding, we don't usually have pudding it's special

Slow cooked ham and cauliflower cheese, it's become a tradition, as then we have the rest of the ham for the picky bits from Xmas night onwards

My family will be advised to starve until Xmas day....or find themselves whatever is in the fridge..

Hot pork butties, then cold pork next day with the turkey

Going out for dinner

We have a table booked for 1pm at our favourite Indian, hey have already told us they are chucking out at 3, so we'll brave the seafront for a bracing walk.
It'll be a 10pm nibble for those who require it, but I don't expect many takers.

Takeaway most likely. I don't really know though as we are away.

We're going out to an Indian on Xmas eve, but if I was staying in then I'd like a picky tea.

We are having ramen with belly pork strips I'll slow cook the day before

Takeaway 🙈🙈

We used to have frozen pizza or chippy chips. Then we instituted the tradition of going to the pub for tea.

I don't think Christmas Eve needs to be special special so long as the chocolates and biscuits are open. Christmas Eve feasts are more of a continental thing.

DH's family are German so we always have a seafood buffet and champagne. We are having smoked trout, eel and smoked crevettes with lemon mayonnaise.

Some of the adults exchange presents on Christmas Eve too so it's more of a celebration than I've previously been used to.

A traditional Norwegian Christmas dinner of pork belly and sauerkraut!
SIL is Norwegian so we celebrate on both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day!

We are having chicken wraps and salad. Don't want anything too heavy before Christmas day and don't want to be doing a lot of cooking in Christmas eve either.

I like some normality in terms of meals around Christmas day or it feels like you live on buffets and snacks - if course that's ok if you like it but we are not massively keen.

Always have Chinese takeaway on Christmas Eve.

We have a mahoosive Aldi cured ham, complete with display stand, and lots of antipasti. Think it will be quite funny when we wheel it out.

I'm doing a Beef stew with Calcannon, and plain mash for the fussy toddler in laws....

Indian takeaway here!

Chicken korma, lamb tikka masala, vegetable biryani, mushroom rice, saag aloo, peshwari naan and loads of poppadums! I can't wait 😊