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Do you have a standard Christmas menu?

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Devo1818 · 19/09/2022 17:26

If so what is it?

Mine goes something like...

Christmas Eve - cooked breakfast
Lunch this year will have to be on the go as we are going into the city to see the lights and window displays
Home made ham (jerk/rum) with egg, pineapple and chips.

Christmas day - breakfast - kids have those selection pack cereals, me and DH have posh marmalade on sourdough toast with real butter

Turkey dinner with all the trimmings, dessert varies

Evening - cheese board, cold cuts, pate, crisps, chocolate, booze

Boxing day - boxing day sandwich
Lunch at mums
Dinner is a buffet with a sausage roll wreath as the main event

Then leftovers pretty much until NYE

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Luana1 · 26/09/2022 09:14

We usually go for a pub lunch on Christmas Eve (but just eat from the normal menu rather than the christmas one), then have a side of salmon with either rice or quinoa and veggies in the evening.
Christmas day is always croissants and smoked salmon with prosecco for breakfast, then a full christmas lunch of goose or beef, followed by whatever looks good from Cook for dessert (last year was a chocolate hazelnut pavlova type thing) usually around 3pm. Dinner is a cheese board for grown ups if anyone wants to eat anything else, and frozen pizzas for kids.
Boxing day is the rest of the smoked salmon with croissants again, and leftovers for lunch, and then we do a different roast meat for dinner, last year it was lamb.
Love reading everyone's menus :)

Lovethatforyou · 26/09/2022 10:28

Christmas Eve - pork and home made onion stuffing sandwiches.

Christmas morning - coffee, croissants, bacon sandwiches for those that want them.

Roast Turkey dinner for lunch. Preceded by prawn cocktail starter… and dessert varies. Maybe a fresh cream roulade or sticky toffee pudding.

Dinner is usually a small buffet.

Boxing Day, cold cuts, home made chips, pickles and onion stuffing :)

myleftventricle · 26/09/2022 10:46

WoolyMammoth55 · 20/09/2022 21:48

I'm a bit stumped this year - my oldest DS is 5 and last year I did a big roast lunch with all the trimmings and he wouldn't eat a bite of it! I eventually had to get up cook him a bowl of cheesy pasta in the end, which was fairly gutting.

Me and DH enjoyed it but youngest DS isn't yet 2 (wasn't yet 1 last Xmas, obvs!) so only ate a few mouthfuls - he's still like this and picks at his food then gets bored and wants to go and play.

All in all it was a frustrating Xmas last year food-wise and I'm not sure if I should just give up the roast for a few years and make pizza instead? Both DCs prefer that significantly! And it's much less hassle and expense!

But I suspect I'd probably be a bit sad on some level - Xmas dinner was a real family tradition growing up... Just can't get my head around the hours of prep (and clean up!) for neither of the kids to eat more than a mouthful.

Why don't you do the roast for you & DH (and accept you'll be eating leftovers that bit longer) AND do pizza for the kids. Then everyone wins. You don't have to have the same and you get to enjoy yours. They may decide to eat the odd sausage or whatever but if not it's fine. Just think of it as if they were veggie and you didn't want to eat quorn on Christmas Day!

Shgytfgtf111 · 26/09/2022 14:29

I'm thinking of moving everything back a day and having Christmas lunch on Christmas Eve this year but normally it looks like this:

Christmas Eve: Cook gammon in cola and sausage rolls for tomorrow night
Tea time - either fish and chips or takeaway pizza

Christmas Day:
Breakfast - cream crackers (don't judge, its a childhood tradition!) and cheese
Christmas dinner - Turkey crown and Quorn roast, Gammon, roast potatoes, carrot and swede mash, proper mushy peas, Yorkshire puddings, pigs in blankets, pickled beetroot and pickled onions, gravy
Tea time - buffet food of sliced meats, leftover pizza, sausage rolls, cocktail sausages, Pringles, scotch eggs etc

Boxing Day:
Breakfast - fry up
Lunch/dinner - sandwiches and chips with bloomer bread and leftover meats and mushy peas

Yum yum

ParentallyUnprepared · 26/09/2022 15:25

Christmas Day

Breakfast - cinnamon buns
Lunch - Turkey sandwich / nuts / chocolate (basically anything in sight)
Dinner - Christmas lunch

Boxing Day
Leftover buffet from 2pm

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