Tell me your Christmas menus

[Kendodd]

Breakfast, lunch and dinner, all of it, I need ideas!

Ist breakfast tea or coffee and mince pies whilst opening presents
2nd breakfast/brunch smoked salmon or bacon with scrambled eggs with bucks fizz or orange juice or cava.

Lunch
Garlic and chilli prawns with salad and breadsticks or
Roasted red pepper and tomato soup
Turkey with roast potatoes and veg plus pigs and chicks in blankets, cranberry and bread sauce
Pudding whatever DS1 decides to do

Evening
Possibly cheese and biscuits and crisps.

Our actual christmas dinner involves

at least 2 types of meat
2 different stuffings - one with fruit
goose fat roasts
mash potatoes with onion
pigs in blankets
honey roasted carrots
Brussel sprouts with lardons & chestnuts
honey & mustard parsnips
yorkshire pudding
gravy
cranberry
other sauces
some additional sides as mum panics there isn't enough!

I'm salivating as I couldn't see my family last year due to covid rules & I look forward to it all year.

So looking at what others are having I might do toasted panettone for breakfast with butter and jam. I just slice and toast under the grill, right? I'll make a fresh fruit salad and some natural yogurt and coffee and juice or smoothie as well.

LOVE the idea of mulled apple juice!

Christmas eve
Lunch homemade lentil soup and homemade sausage rolls.
Tea: salad and homemade chips.

Xmas day
Breakfast tangarines and bake at home apin au chocolate
Lunch around 1pm turkey etc
Pudding. Around 5pm not sure yet

Breakfast- bacon sandwiches

Breakfast- bacon sandwiches

Starter - not decided, probably filo nests with three choices of flavour
Then

Turkey roast with

Sprouts
Parsnips
Cauliflower cheese
Roast potato
Mash
Carrot and swede
PeaS
Stuffing

Maybe cabbage, maybe leeks in cheese sauce also

Profiteroles or Christmas pudding or Some sort of gateux or cheesecake

And a cheese board. Which I am the most excited about.

Breakfast: croissants and posh jams

Starters: watercress and Stilton soup

Main: turkey, roast potatoes, lots of veggies, pigs in blankets, stuffing, Yorkshire puddings, cauliflower cheese and plenty of gravy

Dessert: Bailey's chocolate brownie trifle, pavlova wreath and Xmas pudding (lots of us - 14! So a couple of desserts)

Evening: cheese and crackers, mince pies

Bacon butties and coffee for breakfast for adults. Sweet pastries and OJ for DC.

Traditional full turkey roast for lunch. Served at roughly 2pm. No starters because it's a big meal.

Rest of the day is just leftovers and whatever chocolate/treats we've gotten in our stockings, paired with nuts, crisps etc.

Nice cheeseboard after DC go to bed, usually around 8/9pm.

Ah sorry, I forgot Christmas lunch dessert! We have a Nordic Ware pine forest bundt pan which I make a nice rich, vanilla sponge cake, dusted with icing sugar.

Full English with gammon ham, mushrooms and gherkins. This is a throwback to when my dad had done a full morning milking cows by breakfast on Christmas Day,

Prawn Cocktail. Roast. Christmas pudding.

Sandwiches and crisps if needed with the telly. Chocolates.

We are simple creatures.

Breakfast: croissants and fruit salad

Lunch:

Crabcakes
Jamie's 6 hour roast pork (and usual Xmas dinner accoutrements)
Marmalade steamed pudding and cream

Dinner: leftovers, cheese etc.

Breakfast: Smoked Salmon & Scrambled Eggs on toast with Bucks Fizz or orange juice and sparkling water

Mid morning: homemade sausage rolls

Lunch: Roast Turkey, 2 types of stuffing, roast potatoes, Yorkshire puddings, Cauliflower Cheese, Red Cabbage, Roast parsnips and carrots, Brussel Sprouts with Chestnuts and bacon, pigs in blankets, gravy and cranberry sauce.
Dessert: Not going for Chtistmas Pud this year for the first time ever. Some kind of lemon 🍋 dessert tbc.

Evening: Turkey, Stuffing & Cranberry Sandwiches, cheeseboard & Christmas cake

Probably a well deserved Baileys before bed!

Brekkie - bacon sandwiches
Christmas dinner -
Honey roast gammon
Chicken
Roasties
Yorkies
Swede
Carrots
Peas
Sweet corn
Broccoli
Cauliflower
Brussels with bacon
DP will have red cabbage as he’s the only one who eats it
Stuffing
Roast parsnips
Gravy

For dessert
Christmas pudding or a Christmas themed sponge cake from m & S

Non of us really drink so drinks on offer will be
Shloer
Percy pig fizz
Appletizer

In the evening
Nuts
Crisps
Chocolates
Leftover sandwiches ( if wanted )

And also pigs in blankets but that’s a given 🤗

Breakfast the whole family can choose anything. My kids aged in late teens go with jelly ! Im smoked salmon and scrambled eggs, dh a bacon sandwich.
In between Champers, bucks fizz, etc
Lunch Turkey plus all trimmings.
Xmas pudding set alight by youngest child. Option of another desert for those that don't like Xmas pud, usually a choc and brandy tart.
Xmas night coated turkey and gravy sandwiches, cheese board, port, etc
Boxing Day Buffet Nigellas ham in coke, left over turkey, vol au vents, etc

Breakfast: Brown sugar Blueberry Muffins (grandmother's recipe)
Hot cocoa with cinnamon

Mid - Afternoon Luncheon/Tea (set out as a buffet, family drops in from 2-5 pm with gifts, etc.)
Ham sandwiches
Pimiento cheese sandwiches
Pineapple sandwiches
Fruit salad
Cheese board
Hot Artichoke Dip with wheat crackers
Individual Cherry Cheesecakes
Hot bread pudding (uses all the crusts I cut off the sandwiches)
Fruit cake (no one eats it but we have to have it)
Cranberry Christmas Punch (non-alcoholic, family recipe)

Late Night Snack
Any Good Chocolates that we got as gifts
Hot apple cider
Leftovers

Breakfast - home made brioche or bacon sandwiches
Lunch - turkey, nut roast, red cabbage and apple, roast potatoes, potatoes dauphinois, roasted sprouts, carrots, parsnips, peas, cranberry sauce, bread sauce and gravy.
Pavlova or chocolate chestnut cake.

Tea - sandwiches and salad.

Breakfast-croissants

Lunch- nut roast for me, free range turkey for rest, roast potatoes, carrots, peas and veggie stuffing balls. Xmas pudding and custard.

Later- cheese, crackers, pickles, hummus, salad.

Mince pies.

I try not to over buy tbh. It’s nice to have special food but I also don’t want a lot of waste. We are fairly restrained so that probably seems quite dull.

Breakfast- champagne and chocolate

Brunch- eggs benedict with ham on toasted sourdough, mimosas

Dinner - no starter as no one can ever fit one in! Roasted turkey, ham, pigs, stuffing, garlic and rosemary goose fat roasties, confit carrots, honey roast parsnips, brussels panfried with sherry and panchetta, red cabbage, gravy, cranberry sauce. Pudding will be a choice of Christmas pud and brandy butter, sherry trifle or chocolate tart

Supper - picky bits buffet. Cold meats, cheese, crackers, antipasti, etc

Oh I can't wait!

@A580Hojas

Any old breakfast for those who eat breakfast. Might buy some croissants which we generally only have on birthdays.

From 11am loads of snacks of the unhealthy variety, nuts, booze, a few little heated up M&S treats.

4-5pm Christmas dinner - turkey and all the rest although I never bother with bread sauce. But we have posh stuffing, pigs in blankets, parsnips and sprouts in addition to the usual Sunday roast so that elevates it a bit and a jar of cranberry sauce for DH who is the only one who likes it.

Pudding, a mince pie, brandy butter and cream a bit later in front of TV.

Simple but kinda traditional.

Might buy some croissants which we generally only have on birthdays.

Buy the croissants - it is a birthday! Must be the biggest birthday party in the world!

Breakfast is variable year to year, "lunch" is just appetizers/chocolate/goodies but dinner is the same meal I've eaten at every major holiday my whole life:

Dinner:
-Turkey
-broccoli casserole
-mashed potatoes
-stuffing
-gravy
-cranberry sauce

Dessert:
-Grasshopper pie and something else for my husband

Yum

Breakfast - pain au raisin and almond croissants, and the DC knocking up fancy hot chocolate or coffee - syrups, toppings, iced, frothy...

Lunch (with veggie-friendly trimmings)
Bronze Turkey
Triple nut roast
Roast potatoes
Pigs in blankets ( +veggie alternative?)
Parsnips
Chantenay carrots
Sprouts & chestnuts
gravy
Cranberry sauce

Black Forest Xmas pud (taking a risk!)
Brandy butter
Traditional Sherry and raspberry trifle

Supper
Cheese and charcuterie board (depending on how late we eat lunch)

@Allaboutyou222

Breakfast-croissants

Lunch- nut roast for me, free range turkey for rest, roast potatoes, carrots, peas and veggie stuffing balls. Xmas pudding and custard.

Later- cheese, crackers, pickles, hummus, salad.

Mince pies.

I try not to over buy tbh. It’s nice to have special food but I also don’t want a lot of waste. We are fairly restrained so that probably seems quite dull.

We are similar in my house.

I love food and like to have indulgent things to eat, but so many past Christmas' became like an onslaught of food. It started to feel like a chore to eat it and, as you say, there was lots of waste.

Now we just buy a few nice things that we like, and we don't plan any big meals apart from Christmas dinner because we know there will be plenty of leftovers.

@Kendodd
I advise you to slice the Panettone thickly. Also because its quite sweet it can burn very quickly. It does not take long to cook. If you slice it thin it just breaks up when you butter it. It is a great breakfast though as its so light.
This year for the first time I am trying one from Wilko of all places! They are £5 and come in a lovely reuseable storage tin