What are you eating this holiday weekend?

Anything I want. It's the holidays. Won't derail me.

We're not doing the bigger family Christmas until January because we have a big project due January 1st, so it's going to be pretty simple. On Christmas Eve my mother-in-law is probably going to make vegetable biryani with basmati rice and I'm going to make a lentil vegetable soup, crescent rolls stuffed with dates and Dubliner cheese, and I might make brownies and/or buy desserts. Some of our friends are getting together on Christmas night at a vegan restaurant and we will probably go, so if we do I will get my favorite Indian butter "chicken" and some cake. Thursday is our third wedding anniversary so we're going to the restaurant where we got married and I will probably have some kind of fancy pasta dish. This weekend is just going to be a normal weekend (already had holiday parties earlier in the month).

Pretty normal stuff. We're not traveling and all of the parties (except actual Christmas Eve/Day) are over for us. After a four hour hike this morning, had some extra calories from a protein milkshake and stuff...but nothing unusual. My husband's currently making a from-scratch calzone (yum!) and we're going to share a bottle of celebratory prosecco from my recent raise at work.

Today I had fried rice.
Tomorrow I am having orange chicken and maybe sugar cookies.
Christmas eve we are having fried chicken, macaroni and cheese, salad and cake
Christmas day we are having deviled eggs, veggie tray, ham, mashed potatoes, cranberry apple orange salad, green beans with mushrooms
December 26 reward- cinnamon rolls and leftovers

I am not attending any Christmas parties this year. Doing some stress management by keeping things simple and low key.

We have had 3 family parties since Thanksgiving and have 2 more after Christmas so I declared a "no family" policy for Christmas and it's just my husband and me - we need the break!

We are doing normal weekend foods but I I picked up a bunch of cheese and crackers and munchie type stuff for Christmas Eve (while we watch movies) and am doing prime rib, baked potatoes and asparagus for Christmas dinner (keeping it easy).

I'll be going out to an early dinner at a local restaurant for Christmas Eve. Christmas Day we're just doing loads of appetizers: chicken wings, shrimp cocktail, veggie dip, chips, cheese and crackers, plus many more. Not to mention the dessert. We did that a few years ago and loved the simplicity.

I am eating....everything! It's Christmas!

We're currently having a lazy weekends food-wise (left-over sausage butties on a rainy Sunday might be heaven...)
and we've got mince pies and sweets in. I don't even want to know how much I've eaten. We got some Percy Pigs from M&S and I've discovered that there's 19g of sugar in three sweets. Wowzers....and I have definitely eaten more than three.

We have our traditional Christmas Eve Chinese Takeaway tomorrow and then the usual on Christmas day- chocolate/sweets for breakfast, a Christmas dinner (Turkey, Lamb, Chicken, Pigs in blankets, mash, roast potatoes and parsnips, honey glazed carrots, sprouts, sage stuffing, cranberry sauce and onion gravy) followed by trifle then After Eights and cheese and crackers to keep us going.

I cooked a Thai coconut and shrimp curry yesterday, with lovely fresh local shrimps. This will last me 2 more days. And I'll start cooking a Moroccan soup with chickpeas and mince balls today as I brought lamb mince from my local market that needs preparing.

I went to a few Christmas parties so I got to eat a lot of Japanese food and cookies the past couple of weeks. I got a cold on Saturday though, so tea, soup, and orange juice are what I've been having so far.

Chocolate kisses!