Christmas period meal planning

[Doordine]

Would anyone like to join in/inspire me in my Christmas meal planning?

I've cleared out a freezer so we can get our shopping in bits rather than one big shop on the 23rd.

So far, I've got:

Christmas eve dinner - jerk rum ham with egg and chips

Christmas day breakfast -? Considering a christmas blend coffee though
Lunch - traditional roast turkey with ALL the trimmings (we eat around 1pm)
Dessert -?
Dinner - nice snacky buffet bits. Cheese and cold cuts, not sure what else? What are your must-haves?

Boxing day breakfast - maybe a fry up
Lunch - boxing day sandwich
Dinner -? Curry?

What kind of meals do you have between xmas and new year?

Very tempted by the christmas colin the caterpillar cake for dessert on xmas day!
But actually would really like to bake something this year...

We always do a festive tapas on Xmas Eve. Camembert, cheeses, salamis, crackers, breads, chutneys.

I always like the idea of waffle with dipping chocolate from Jamie Oliver on Xmas Eve breakfast. Never made it though.

Christmas eve dinner , tiny meatball lasagne ( the meatballs are tiny not the lasagne)
Christmas day breakfast smoked salmon and scrambled eggs
Christmas dinner ginormous chicken, roast potatoes, roast parsnips, red cabbage, sprouts, carrots and whatever veg DH buys ( we're only 3 adults this year) stuffing, pigs in blankets, bread sauce and cranberry sauce.
Pudding not decided yet. We already have Christmas puddings but they're usually too filling
Boxing day cold meats, cheese , crisps, nibbles tends to be put out and we graze.

We usually have fresh pea and ham soup and good bread Christmas Eve. It's the ham stock, and ready very fast on a day when we can be very busy.

Christmas morning we have croissant type breakfast with Asti and good orange juice.

Salmon starter, Turkey and trimmings.

Tea time- Whatever the pudding was, as we are never hungry enough to eat it, so pavlova or a rich chocolate cake, usually.

Boxing Day, leftovers and ham.

Depending when we have visitors, we do a raised pie with the various meats, stuffing and cranberry sauce. Cheeses, crackers.

Not set in stone yet but thinking about-

Christmas Eve tea- slow cooker cola-glazed gammon with homemade chips

Christmas day
Breakfast- bake-at-home croissants and pain au chocolat
Christmas dinner- prawn cocktail starter, pork roast with all the trimmings, dessert not sure but been looking at roulades a lot, we don't like Christmas pudding and don't want anything too chocolately.
Teatime- picky leftovers, cheese and crackers, pate, chutney, cold gammon from Christmas Eve, posh crisps, macarons, chocolates

Boxing day is pretty much a repeat of christmas- leftovers for dinner and picky snacky bits for tea. If there's any leftovers left after all of that I make Christmas dinner soup and freeze it or have it for lunch for a few days.

I need to get on with this, I'm working up to and including Christmas Eve and I don't want to be wrestling with queuing for food shopping etc. If you have leftovers from your Xmas Eve ham could you use that on boxing day?

In the days after Christmas we'll probably have curry and/or chilli, chilli would be premade and frozen since it's something I batch cook. Stir fry too probably, maybe baked eggs/shakshuka. Basically we would look for tasty, easy to cook things with long lasting ingredients which are a contrast to the Christmas Day type food and leftovers.

Christmas Eve supper = toad in the hole with home made onion gravy (made before) and mash potato

Christmas Day breakfast croissant & pastry from local artisan bakery

Olives & vegetable crisps & smoke salmon blinis for snack before late lunch With a decent bottle of champagne

Roast dinner, roast lamb which has garlic and rosemary stuffed into the outside & placed on top of onion, roasted very slowly, so prepared Christmas Eve and pop in the oven at 8am
Served with Jamie Oliver cauliflower cheese with broccoli sauce, purple cabbage & apricot, Yorkshire pudding stuffing and pigs in blankets peas and carrots & roast potatoes ( extra veg for Boxing Day bible & squeek)

Caterpillar cake and Christmas pudding clotted cream

Boxing Day breakfast, mushrooms on toast with flaked chilli & poached egg. Extra toast & Seville marmalade

Late lunch bubble & squeek with a cauliflower cheese ( Make 2 on Christmas Eve) & cold meats with a selection of pickles

Having two cooked meals late is enough for us

@tentative3 I love Christmas week as prepare the roast dinner on Christmas Eve eve and Christmas Eve, then make sure there is plenty of vegetables that we can eat bubble & squeek for the next 4 days after with cold meat.

After mashing vegetables it means I don’t really need to cook again and only have to prepare on Xmas dinner over two evening ( work up until Xmas Eve 4pm)

Ham, mash Xmas Eve, champagne, mince pies

Xmas Day, chi chi starter (not sure what yet), Fillet of Beef, trimmings. Pudding this year will be a chocolate mousse yule log with kirsch soaked cherries and chocolate baubles made by a dear friend who has started a bakery business
Boxing Day or the 27th, depending on what we are doing - roast turkey and all trimmings,.pear and almond tart.

Then live off leftovers for days!

Xmas day breakfast is always a muffin with poached egg, hollandaise and parma ham, a Gordon ramsey recipe

So many good ideas.

I'd entirely forgotten about bubble and squeak!!

Because we have our xmas lunch quite early in the day, I don't want a heavy breakfast but thinking of doing a 'big deal' breakfast on boxing day. The works. Then like many of you have said, leftovers...

Christmas Eve dinner - Jacket potatoes and ham with this winter slaw realfood.tesco.com/recipes/winter-slaw.html The mustard dressing in this slaw complements the ham really well. Warm mince pies and custard for pudding!

Christmas Day brunch - croissant stuffed with scrambled egg and smoked salmon.
Christmas dinner (late afternoon) - no starter, but turkey and trimmings with choice of Christmas pud or Yule log for dessert

Boxing Day breakfast - panettone French toast
Lunch - warm bread rolls with leftover ham, coleslaw and apple sauce.
Dinner - ?

Thursday (NYE) - truffle mac and cheese followed by chocolate fondue

New Year’s Day brunch - Brioche bread pudding
NYD late lunch - beef bourguignon with Ferraro Rocher cheesecake for dessert

Oooooo panetone French toast!!

Also drinks.
I've got on my list for over whole xmas period..
Champagne
Mulled wine
Baileys hot chocolate

Thinking maybe some nice cocktails for NYE

Ooh drinks
Champagne
Expresso Martinis or Black Russians (slightly less fattening and more alcholic than Baileys but just as delicious)
Probably a couple of bottles of really good red on xmas day

Christmas Eve - chippy tea, always

Christmas Day - croissants & chocolate for breakfast then the works (no starter) at around 2. Dessert is usually a cheesecake and mince pies a couple of hours later.

Tea, which nobody wants but everybody eats, massive cheeseboard, leftover turkey and gammon, nice bread, more pigs in blankets.

Boxing day depends on where we are and who we're seeing. This year as it's likely to just be me DH and kids I'm considering a load of party food that can be whacked in the oven at various points between board games, films and snoozing

Your plan for boxing day picky bits sounds exactly the same as mine - where does good 'shove in the oven' party food? M&S?
Need some good buffet type ideas...

Christmas Eve: salmon en croute with baby new potatoes & some kind of veg. Probably Christmas pudding ice cream with toffee sauce. Gin/White wine/cocktails.

Breakfast- eggs benedict (DH) bacon & eggs (me) kids- chocolate cereal.
Pain au chocolate & strong coffee.

Lunch: naice bread & bits. Smoked salmon, posh ham, olives, salad, Camembert etc
first glass of bubbly.

Dinner (about 530pm) more champagne. roast turkey, roast potatoes, pigs in blankets, roast parsnips, braised red cabbage, celeriac purée, buttered leeks, cranberry sauce. Maybe Yorkshire puddings. Carrots.
Christmas pudding & or mince pies with brandy butter.
Amaretto.

DH & I will prob have cheese & port after kids go to bed.

M&S party bits are nice.

Yum!
Also considering Colin the caterpillar!

Its the best cake! 😂

I haven’t had to cook either Christmas Eve or Christmas Day dinner in years, but we can’t see family this year because they aren’t being conservative and DH is immune compromised so this post reminded me I need to make a plan.

I’ll probably do a beef tenderloin for one meal. That is all I have so far.

Christmas eve.indian takeaway i think.
Christmas day beef and lamb with all the trimmings followed by m&s sticky toffee trifle

Normally I would know but I don't know if I'm at home or my parents as we are in the middle of moving and how many student DD's will be with us, or whether they will go to their other parent/boyfriends houses. Consequently once we have moved and the 2nd December has passed so we get an impression of likely restrictions I can plan.