Please share your Christmas menus!

[RueDeWakening]

I've got 8 on Christmas day (3 kids, 5 adults), inc 7 from Christmas Eve to the 29th. Plus a dog.

Christmas day is sorted - full English breakfast, snacky lunch and Christmas dinner in the evening.

What else are you eating? I need a plan so I can finalise the shopping order, but am all out of inspiration.

Eggs benedict for Xmas breakfast with Buck's Fizz

Hot chocolates with all the toppings and homemade shortbread around 11/12

Full Christmas dinner at 4pm

Platter of indulgent snacks that will feed us from Xmas night to Boxing Day;
Ham, breads/oils, potato salad, quiche, cheeses, chutneys etc

Xx

Christmas Eve:

Full English breakfast
Soup if anyone wants it later.
Picky buffet dinner.

Christmas Day:
Croissants & fruit salad for breakfast.
Christmas lunch - the usual
Cheese board later

Boxing Day:
Leftovers & bubble and squeak for brunch.
Leftover sarnies, cheese board and trifle later.

27th:
Pancakes fir breakfast
Turkey and ham pie made by my own fair hand for dinner!

Christmas Eve
Breakfast is normal
Lunch will be normal
Dinner takeaway
Christmas Day
Breakfast- before 10 am soda bread with bacon and melted chees
Lunch - around 1pm starter of soup and bread or prawn cocktail
Dinner - around half 3/4pm mash potatoes roast potatoes pigs in blankets turkey ham stuffing pea roasted carrot and parsnip with gravy
Dessert Eton mess banoffee pie profiteroles
Then we will go visiting family and eat what ever they have on offer if we can stomach it and kids will eat more sweets than they have from Easter 🤣

Boxing Day
Normal breakfast
Lunch and dinner will be left over turkey ham and stuffing and party food as and when people want it. Desserts will be leftovers from Xmas day

Snacks will consist of chocolates, crisps, pretzels and all the other accumulated junk food 🤣

Gosh we arent organised at all judging by this. Xmas Eve pizzas after Mass. Christmas day breakfast same as any other day with Panetonne amd fruit salad. No more food but lots of toy playing until full traditional dinner at about 3 then chill and puck. Boxing day buffet style thats when the pork pie and other bits from the farmers market come out. We take it as it comes tbh. Is it supposed to be more formal?

Christmas breakfast scrambled egg and smoked salmon
Christmas lunch turkey ready meal(had last year was great) trifle for dessert
Christmas dinner/supper cheese cold meat platter
It’s one day 😊

breakfast, toasted panettone and butter/jams
lunch, fresh bread, pate, cheese board, cold meats olives
dinner, beef roast, homemade yorkshires, pots & roast parsnips, green veg pigs in blankets and stuffing balls
dessert, croquembouche profiterole tower
evening snacks, hotel chocolat selection box cheese straws christmas cake

boxing day, eggs for breakfast, roast dinner sandwich, blue cheese brocolli pasta, christmas pud and brandy cream

looking forward to it!

Christmas eve will just be normal food, whatever i have in the house and feel like at the time.

Christmas day will be normal breakfast
Dinner at about 3pm
Maybe a sandwich or snack in the evening
I tend to overeat during dinner so dont eat much else.

Boxing day will be normal breakfast and buffet food for the rest of the day.

I do not make a big deal about food over Christmas. There are more important things than that

OP has said she has visitors. She has Christmas Day planned already. She is looking for suggestions for the other days. Christmas Eve to 29th.

We just have MIL coming - she arrives this evening and is here till 28th.

Menu plan:

Today - cottage pie and peas
Saturday evening - lamb shanks and Moroccan rice pilaf
Christmas Eve - lasagna (family tradition which I could do without but DS loves)
Christmas Day - fry up for breakfast, party food nibbles with drinks mid dayish, usual Christmas dinner around 4, will do dessert and cheese etc later
Boxing Day - breakfast - bacon sandwiches, lunch - soup, dinner - leftovers plus a couple of different veg dishes and some pork belly
27th - breakfast - just toast, cereal etc, lunch - poss toasted sandwiches with left overs, dinner turkey and ham pie

Ooh this is fun, have only been on doghouse threads before. We are 8 for Christmas, all adult young to old with two vegetarians in the mix.
First two arriving tomorrow...
Cauliflower cheese and garlic bread for lunch, I shall make two and refrigerate one for a side with Xmas lunch.
They will be out in the evening so DH and I will have salmon with roast veg traybake.
Xmas eve, breakfast scrambled egg and smoked salmon
Lunch whatever I chuck at them since will be busy preparing for main event.
Supper, a vegetarian moussaka I made and froze down a couple of weeks ago.
Xmas Day, breakfast croissants and jams, rest of guests arriving 11am for champagne and nibbles, blinis with smoked salmon, veg tartlets, mini stuffing balls, olives.
Lunch at 2.30, traditional turkey etc, vegetarian option filo parcels stuffed with chestnuts, wild rice, mushrooms.
Cheeseboard later and some salady bits with cold sliced beef.
Boxing Day, DH does a big fry up brunch. Youngsters and us walk dog up to our local pub, oldies have a break and watch tv. Boxing Day evening buffet with cold meats, smoked salmon, quiche, salad, coleslaw topped off with a trifle or cheesecake that my mother makes and brings.

Christmas Eve
Normal breakfast
Lunch Christmas ham and chips and veg/ beans- DS will have omelette and chips
Dinner- out at a party so nibbles and maybe more nibbles or cheese once home. DS can have crumpets and fruit for tea
Christmas Day
Breakfast pain au chocolat
Lunch- around noon- starter of smoked salmon terrine, prawns,salad,bread and butter
Around 3- Christmas dinner main course
Around 5- pudding/ mince pie and coffee
Evening- cheese
Boxing Day
Breakfast blueberry pancakes
Lunch cheese, stand pie, ham, salad
Dinner bubble and squeak

Boxing Day lunch is my favourite- cold turkey, stuffing, cold ham ,PROPER homemade chips and pickles. It's the law in my house.

Christmas Eve lunch and inlaws and then snacks when we get home.

Christmas Day - breakfast is pains au chocolat for the kids and salmon for DH and I

Lunch is Christmas dinner, we are having pork and turkey with all the trimmings. About an hour before I'll put out crisps, olives etc.
Pudding is Christmas pudding and ice cream. There's 6 of us this year.

We have lunch about 1/130 so when people get hungry again, about 6, we'll have cheese, slices of ham, crackers and open some chocolates.

Boxing Day will be picking at leftovers.

Christmas Eve full English breakfast, pizza for lunch and boiled ham with egg and chips for tea.

Christmas Day Scrambled egg and smoked salmon for breakfast. (Bacon for dh as he doesn't like salmon). Mince pies mid morning and a ham sandwich for Dd before we visit our local for a few hours.
Christmas dinner served about 5pm is roast rib of beef, Yorkshire puddings, with roast potatoes and parsnips, mashed carrot and swede, sprouts and braised red cabbage. With a vanilla cheesecake and mandarins for pud.

Boxing Day will be normal breakfast. Home made chicken liver pate for lunch and cold meat with bubble and squeak and pickles for tea.

Also have plenty of yummy cheese for a cheeseboard/simple supper at some point.

We have large family and lots on so have planned

Xmas eve
Brunch - full English
Dinner- baked Camembert, breads cheeses, pate etc and truffles for pud

Xmas day
Breakfast - Banana and Nutella toasties, kids choice
3pm soup, turkey with all trimmings, pavlova/Xmas pud

Boxing Day
Breakfast - brioche/ fruit
Lunch - party food, trifle, mince pies

27th
Breakfast - whatever we have left
Lunch - soup - roast beef and trimmings, puddings from previous 2 days

Christmas Eve

Normal breakfast (I.e porridge)

Lunch soup of some type with a cheese toastie

Dinner will be ham, mash, pickles as Dh cooks it every year

Christmas Day

Breakfast smoked salmon bagels & champagne for adults
Christmas tree jam crumpets for the little ones

3pm Turkey, roast Potatoes, pigs in blankets, stuffing, parsnips, carrots, peas, Brussels with bacon, Yorkshire puddings. Gravy. Cranberry sauce

Dessert Christmas pud (only really for my parents as nobody else likes it) strawberry pavlova or lemon cheesecake for everyone else

In the evening a cheese board & meat selection. With wine/port

Boxing Day

Breakfast full English ( helps the hangover) champagne

3pm roast beef and all trimmings

In the eveningturkey sandwiches, cheese etc if anyone wants anything

From the 26th to 30th normal dinners (I.e Spag Bol, cottage pie, salmon with greens, pizza)

New Year’s Eve

Breakfast crossiants, pan au chocolate, nice coffee

Lunch whatever my friends bring

Dinner a variety of M&S Buffett food and lots of champagne