Share your favourite Christmas family moments and traditions with Lidl: chance to win £100 NOW CLOSED

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Christmas is coming (FAST!) - and the team at Lidl would love to hear all about your family Christmas moments - perhaps from your own childhood or memories you are creating with and for your own children?

Are you a super-organised shopper, a festive fashionista in your Christmas jumper, or more of a last-minute panicker? Do you do ‘stir-up Sunday’ to create your perfect Christmas pudding or cake? Is there a tradition of choosing your tree that the whole family look forward to? What about when you were a child - are there older family traditions you recreate or look back on fondly which help get you in the community spirit?

Whatever your Christmas traditions are, Lidl would love to hear them!

Please post them on this thread and you will be entered into a prize draw where one winner will get £100 worth of Lidl vouchers (note the winner will be sent 4 x £25 vouchers, one voucher can be redeemed per transaction).

Thanks and good luck
MNHQ

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My mum and I always go out and buy one new small decoration for the Christmas tree each year, so absolutely nothing matches, but it still looks fab. Christmas morning breakfast is smoked salmon and scrambled eggs. Mmm.

We take turns going to each of the in laws houses on xmas day but this year my mum is very ill with cancer so we are doing two years in a row with my parents which she's very happy about! My brother, sister in law and nephew come over on boxing day from England for a week. Mum normally makes all the variety of puddings but this year im taking on the role...im not very good in the kitchen though but I'll try my best!

Watching Miracle on 34th Street on Xmas Eve, followed by midnight mass, with carols preceding

At Christmas time my children and I bake shortbread and decorate it is like Christmas trees etc. We wrap it up nicely and the children take it to our neighbours even if we have never met them, lots are elderly and are very pleased to speak to the children. Spreading the Christmas cheer! X

Pate on toast for breakfast, every year without fail. It's small but it means a lot.

Tree and decorations up last weekend in November. Alway watch Home Alone as our first Christmas Film. Open stockings upstairs. Dad is always first to go downstairs to make sure Farther Christmas is not still there.

We have Christmas eve baths and somehow Santa has magically been and left presents of new pyjamas on our beds. Then once we are all clean, we snuggle in front of a Christmas eve movie, eat popcorn and stollen before hanging the boys stocking and going to sleep ready for the excitement of Christmas morning.

We decorate our Christmas tree & put up the Christmas decorations a few weeks before Christmas, just enough time for the kids to get excited over Christmas. Then on Christmas Eve at night time whilst the kids are asleep we put the Christmas presents and filled Christmas stockings under the tree. We have a not so traditional meal of Peking crispy roasted duck, with cucumber, spring onions, crispy sea weed, plum sauce in thin pancake wraps.

Christmas stockings hanging over the fireplace as it wouldn't be Christmas without them. Also my Christmas playlist for the kitchen to make all the preparing and cooking more bearable.

We love doing christmassy things on the run up to christmasand things that we always do are put the decorations up the forst weekend of december, go to the villahe loght switch on, buy anew tree decoration each year, bake mince pies together, have a magical elf visit for december, write letters andp oat them to santa, visit the reindeers at local park on xmas eve, drive to a big estate that has amazing xmas lights. Love all our traditions

We have small presents kept back until Boxing Day which we call tree presents. After dinner on Boxing Day in the afternoon we exchange them. My Nan started this 70 years ago when my Dad was little and it has been carried on and passed down through the generations. The funniest thing was my Nan when she was alive. She got my Mum and Aunt to buy her main presents to give to everyone from her but she bought her own tree presents. They wouldn't have a name on them so every year she would feel them and work out who's they were. She would give somebody a present and then as they opened it she would start shouting and say "that isn't yours, give it here that belongs to " - the funniest thing was though that everybody got the same present anyway - After Eights!

Opening stockings in bed with the dc while I drink a lovely (nicer than norm) coffee. The dc have orange juice and a small selection pack.

It's honestly my favourite part of the day because it's so chilled out and everyone is happy.

I miss going to the pub on Christmas Day. It was a local tradition and many families would meet in the pub, pre lunch, for a drink. It was lovely to see our friends just for an hour or two, particularly when we got older and only really saw each other when people were back from uni or work etc

When the boys were younger, we used to have a party on Christmas Eve and - not as bonkers as it sounds - it wore them out so they slept well. Once everyone had gone home, we wanted to help them calm down before bed, so we used to light candles and turn off the lights, and by candlelight, we’d read The Night Before Christmas and a couple of the readings from the Nine Lessons and Carols, and sing a carol or two. Sadly they are too old to want to do this now.

On Christmas Day, we open stocking presents first thing, then we open the presents from under the tree after lunch.

I make the same thing each year for Boxing Day - I boil and glaze a ham on Christmas Eve, and we have it cold on Boxing Day, with home made coleslaw and baked potatoes.

Going to the Christingle service and drinking hot chocolate when we get home,

christmas eve boxes, my kids really look forward to getting their christmas eve boxes and they dont really have much in just sweets , magazine, bed socks, and other little stocking fillers

We bake some homemade goodies for Father Christmas on Christmas Eve.

we love to watch Xmas movies in the weeks up to Christmas

We have started our own tradition with our girls. The first weekend in December, we go and have breakfast with Santa at the garden centre and then go home and put our tree up and decorate the house. Our elf comes on the first of December and brings christmas pyjamas for everyone, a christmas film and hot chocolate, so we hunker down in our newly decorated lounge and watch the film together. It's heavenly.

Favourite tradition was new PJs and a film on Christmas eve

Shopping for Christmas trees at the garden centre!

On Christmas eve we go to church get a takeaway on the way home, go outside and sprinkle reindeer dust and search the sky for father Christmas, then we leave out a mince pie and a glass of milk,then we all snuggle up together and read the night before christmas before I tuck the children in.

We always go to London Zoo on Christmas Eve. We did so before having children and now it’s even better. Will be having breakfast with Mrs Claus there this year.

One of our Christmas traditions is for me to spend hours rearranging baubles on the Christmas tree after my daughter has gone to bed then convincing her it looks “just the same” in the morning!

£100 would go some way to buying her her own tree that she can decorate with tinsel galore somewhere out of sight

We buy one new Christmas bauble or decoration each year. No, we don't have a colour coordinated, perfectly balanced tree :)