What's on your menu for Christmas??!!

Tamales on Christmas Eve, but we're planning on making this little gem on Christmas Day: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/360696-if-you-re-a-fan-of-crockpot-cheeseburgers

Still debating whether we'll add the pepperoni this time or not, and whether we'll use macaroni or tater tots.

A whole lobster.

Turkey and HAM.

I'll be home alone for Christmas (all my family is in Texas and my hubby's deployed) so ummm...vodka sounds good to me. Just kidding though, I'm going to make my own self a little Christmas dinner with salmon, spinach tomato salad, fruit salad, and a cake bite..they're like the homemade version of Starbucks cake pops...my mom was making them years before Starbucks xD

Christmas morning breakfast will be a large glass or two of Bucks Fizz, croissants, fruit salad platter and yoghurts - sausages and bacon for the meat eaters. Then this year we decided to have Christmas lunch out as I didn't want leftovers lying around the house for days on end!

In Dubai they have a terrible thing for healthy folk called Friday Brunch, all the hotels do a 4 hour all you can eat and drink marathon buffet each and every Friday, and some evenings and of course special occasions! They do it soo, soo well! So, we're going to a restaurant that serves a buffet with 7 live cooking stations plus a traditional christmas food one. My Christmas lunch will probably consist of salads, I'll definitely have some bread and suffer the consequences later, and some Italian food, followed by several small deserts and copious amounts of fizzy stuff!! We're having lunch with my inlaws (lovely people), friends (lovely people) and my friend's mother in law (nightmare!!) so we will all doubtless have too much fizzy stuff!
My husband bought a tonne of biscuits and goodies from Marks and Spencer so no doubt after lunch we will come home get into our lounging clothes, pop a few christmas films on and start making our way through some of that. I'll try to be as good as I can but, I'll have a day where I'm not stressing too much about what I eat....I'll probably log it just to know what I've had, but it may take me half the evening..............................

So excited already.....only 5 more days!!!!!

Christmas Eve at Mom and Dad's-
-Ham, lasagna, roasted root veggies, coleslaw, rolls. Desserts will be traditional Czech stuff like kolachki, poopockie (that is how you say it, I have no idea how to really spell it. They are these lovely yeasty rolls soaked in poppyseeds and condensed milk), and of course MY BIRTHDAY CAKE, yes my birthday is actually on Christmas Day!

Christmas Day at our home-
-Standing Rib Roast, garlic mashed potatos,brussel sprouts, gravy, rolls, egg nog and MORE BIRTHDAY CAKE!!!!

and of course, homemade Christmas cookies all weekend!!!

Christmas Eve at my parents (brothers, nieces and nephews)
Ham and various side dishes, chips, cheeseballs and such. Trying to see if my husband's friend is cooking tamales. She makes the best.

Christmas Day, we have dinner at our house with my parents. My brothers go to their inlaws and such. My inlaws are in Mexico, so that is not an option, so we have my parents over for dinner. We have roasted duck, scalloped potatoes, lima beans and pie.

Christmas Dinner in the South

Honey glazed ham
Roasted turkey
Homemade cranberry sauce
Hashbrown casserole
Mashed potatoes/gravy
Broccoli with garlic cashew sauce
Sweet potato casserole
glazed carrots
Cornbread dressing
green bean bundles
deviled eggs
oreo pie
homemade rolls
lots of homemade chocolates- my favorite is turtles!
banana pudding
apple/cherry pie
fruit salad
pumpkin roll

There should be about 25 of us at my parents for Christmas dinner and I can't wait to see everyone!

Being Italian, we have what's called 'feast of the seven fishes.' So much seafood! I love it!

Beef Tenderloin w/ roasted shallot and bacon wine reduction
twice baked potatoes
asparagus w/ hollandaise sauce
yorkshire pudding

chocolate molten lava cakes with ice cream and caramel sauce
chocolate kahlua pecan pie

Christmas Eve - Lasagna (I make)
Christmas Day - Roast Beef, Baked Potato, veggies (At brother-In-Laws)
I'll be making Pecan Pie and Chocolate Pudding Pie
and I'll get Lobster for Lobster salad rolls

I'm having turkey with my hubbys family,they are Salvadorian,and use different seasonings that are so yummy! N my family is Mexican,so my mom makes tamales with rice and really fatty foods! So im in for a treat!

Ponche
Pozole
Bunuelos
Atole
Churros
Capirotada
Gelatina con rompope

Bendito sea Dios.

Also, bunuelos w/o atole would be a crime.

Turkey, stuffing, whipped potatos with butter and cream, turnip, carrotts, quash with butter...this works out to just under 1000 cals! Add the apple crisp, ice cream, baileys and whipped cream and you have just over 1300!!! And I am gonna eat it all:) Could probably cut back on the portions a bit...and I am probably counting more for the potatos than i will actually eat...whatever, its chritsmas!