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What's on your menu for Christmas week?

7 replies

ScaryHyena · 10/12/2024 10:45

We are at home for the whole Christmas period for the first time ever (Me, DH & DD) so I'm looking for inspiration for what to eat in the days leading up to/after Christmas Day! Hoping to only brave the shops once on the weekend for a massive shop.

Christmas Day itself will be the usual (salmon, eggs and fizz for breakfast, turkey & roast beef and all the trimmings followed by cheese and chocolate on tap for the rest of the day!).

I was thinking of making a curry on Boxing Day or the 27th using the leftover turkey, going all out with the sides, dips etc but other than that I've no idea!!

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InnerPlop · 10/12/2024 10:58

Following with interest OP, as I need to get my act together and plan this out too!
I have Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Boxing Day food planned and not a lot else.
We always have fish on Christmas Eve. This year I'm doing a seafood platter, to include King Prawns, prawn cocktail, smoked salmon, sea bass, scallops, mussels and fish fingers (but I'll rebrand them as goujons 😂), with lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber.
Christmas Day, for breakfast DH and I will have smoked salmon and cream cheese bagels, kids will have chocolate coins and their usual cereal. We're going a bit off piste for Christmas dinner and having build your own festive burgers.
Then boxing day it'll be a fry up for breakfast. Then I'll shove all the party food I can get my hands on in the oven, put it all on the table along with the cheeses, pates, general snack food for us to graze on throughout the day.

We'll definitely have a roast dinner at some point. And I'm going to steal your idea of having a curry too!

Moier · 10/12/2024 12:34

Whatever my daughters are buying/ cooking/ making/ baking and I'll be happy..just spending time with my daughters and Grandsons

BrieAndChilli · 10/12/2024 12:52

I am going to do

Mon 23rd - Wreathe pizzas with salad in the middle
Xmas eve - baked camembert with bits to dip in
Xmas day - normal stuff
Boxing day - Big cheese board with left over meats, pickles, dips, nibbles etc and maybe a quiche
27th - normally bubble an squeak
28th - a nice pie or curry

caringcarer · 10/12/2024 13:31

I do a large gammon ham Xmas Eve and there's always enough left for Boxing day cold cuts. Turkey stew with dumplings on 27th. Any turkey left stripped and frozen for a curry in the New Year. Turkey and a beef on Xmas day and leftovers used for cold cuts along with ham for Boxing Day buffet.

Forgottenmyphone · 10/12/2024 13:39

Christmas Eve -
Chocolate and cherry overnight oats
Cauli cheese soup and crusty rolls
savoury spiced baklava

Christmas Day -
Scrambled egg croissant sandwiches
Turkey and trimmings
Leftovers + cheese board

Boxing Day - don’t have to cater for
27th - Christmas pilaf
28th - roast cauliflower tagine
29th - Hasselback butternut

30th - Red cabbage, cauliflower and coconut dhal
31st - eating out
1st - mushroom bourguignon pie with parsnip rosti topping

JanetareyouokareyouokJanet · 08/12/2025 15:43

I love doing a big shop and then staying home Christmas week.

im thinking ham and mash, Christmas dinner, Boxing Day buffet (smoked salmon, mackerel pate, sausages rolls etc) a nice luxury fish pie, turkey and ham pie maybe and then a nice Indian takeaway or marry me chicken.

mondaytosunday · 08/12/2025 15:49

Food as normal - nothing sir oak. Then in Christmas Eve a takeaway. Christmas Day the usual (we have french toast with maple syrup and bacon for late breakfast then nothing til dinner at about 4.30). Boxing Day is a baked ham with the usual that goes with that. Son returns to his house for work on the 27th so no big meals planned but have extras like cheese board with chutneys and crackers, some favourite sweet treats etc. usually beef roast dinner fur New Years Eve. It’s just me and my daughter (20) after my son leaves.

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