What do you have for Christmas Eve Supper/Dinner

[SuzieBishop]

Supper/Dinner whatever you call it!! I want to start a tradition where we have the same thing for our Christmas Eve Meal each year and get the kids all excited for going to bed and all that!! So what sort of thing do you all have?!!

Oh I don’t know why it’s got a vote 😂

We usually do lasagne, garlic bread, wedges etc, or pizza and those party food packs you can buy. Something that can be made in advance or something super easy!

We quite often have takeaway!!!

This is my first year with DC and first year hosting, I'm going to do a buffet dinner! Going to get some quiches and tarts from Cook and do quick and easy sides like couscous and salad.

Tomato soup and sandwiches. Busy baking day so get our first mince pies warm from oven after. Then, it’s Christmas!

We have takeaway!

Baked camembert, crusty bread and some salady bits usually. Trifle for pudding and a few glasses of port.

When I was a kid we always had some firm of fish. I think that tradition cake from my grandmother, who thought you should ‘eat lightly’ on Xmas Eve.

DH and I tend to chop and change every year. I used to go all out and make a big meal - beef wellington, or Christmas ham with roasted veg, or roast duck. But for the last few years we either get a takeaway or have a party food buffet. Minimum effort, basically.

Bloody typos!

Posh picnic here- nice bread and cheeses, mini sausage rolls, smoked salmon

I usually make a wellington, salmon or beef depending on who is here for Xmas Eve.

Homemade glazed ham, mashed potatoes and peas. Warming and yummy. And left over ham for Boxing Day.

Eat out or takeaway these days, used to be anything but trad. British so Italian, Chinese etc

We have a chinese.

We get together with family and have roast pork and apple sauce rolls with crackling and salad.
I absolutely love it. It’s so relaxed and puts us in the mood for Christmas

I always do my ham Christmas Eve and often have relatives popping round so we end up with the ham being used in a buffet along with nice crusty bread, Italian meats, olives, salad, pate, cheese and biscuits and homemade sausage rolls. The ham gets brought out again on Xmas day, Boxing Day etc

We always do a cheese fondue. Delicious and easy

Depends what we do during the day. I’m working this year so may well do a slow cooker dish. For quite a few years I would do fish.

Chip shop. Which is fine until Christmas eve is on a Monday and then all hell breaks loose

It's a huge day in my house because I'm from the continent and we celebrate Christmas Eve HARD! It's the main meal for us and we open presents at midnight.

Christmas Eve is always traditional salted codfish, with a ridiculously big buffet with cheese platters, olives, deli meats, lobster and crab.

We do Christmas dinner the next day with British in-laws.

Chops and changes but a couple of different soups and homemade soda bread has been really nice in the past. Fish is popular too.

We do a buffet and the grandparents come round to see DS. He's 14 now so we might not do it this year. But then DH says 'but it's tradition....'

Blinis, small sausages in honey and mustard, prawns in ginger and lime. Followed by anything like salmon or ham or whatever. Then charades and walk in the dark. Christmas is late breakfast, church/walk and presents for children. Christmas lunch very late. All working round children.

Chinese crispy duck & pancakes

When I lived with my parents it was Chinese takeaway
Now me and my Dh and friends go to the local pub for food . Few glasses of wine then a taxis ordered for 7pm to get home to watch a film more wine and get ready for santa 😂