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

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  • Malissas
    Malissas Posts: 64 Member
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    I'm also from Perth Australia and Christmas Day (and boxing day) are so very hot!
    We always put on Christmas breakfast with croissants, ham, swiss cheese, scrambled eggs, bacon, ham off the bone, mushrooms, tomatoes, fruit salad, berries, stone fruits, yoghurt, juice, champagne, water.
    We dont have lunch.
    Any usuable leftovers from our combined breakfasts and lunch (from all the extended family) get taken to my grandmothers for dinner. Which is an assortment of ham, chicken, seafood, roast, salads, potato salad, coleslaw, fruit, bread. My grandmother always cuts up a panetone and a fruit cake. She used to make italian meatballs and cutlets but she is 93 now so has warned us that she is too old to do it this year (we'll do it for her as a present - she'll love it :).
    Everything is fresh, not processed and delicious!
  • Elizabeth_C34
    Elizabeth_C34 Posts: 6,376 Member
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    Basted Oven Roasted Turkey: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/Elizabeth_C34/view/365-meals-project-9-how-to-properly-safely-and-deliciously-cook-a-turkey-172456

    Winter Salad: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/Elizabeth_C34/view/365-meals-project-8-winter-salad-172196

    Green Beans with Roasted Almonds: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/Elizabeth_C34/view/365-recipes-project-7-roasted-green-beans-with-almonds-171431

    Candied Yams: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/Elizabeth_C34/view/365-recipes-project-6-candied-yams-170966

    Homemade Cranberry Blackberry Sauce: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/Elizabeth_C34/view/365-meals-project-3-cranberry-blackberry-sauce-170552

    Probably make some pumpkin and pecan pies and some fresh bread too.
  • lynner22
    lynner22 Posts: 21 Member
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    Top sirloin roast cut into steaks, lobster tail and crab legs. Mashed garlic potatoes and salad.
    .. and of course a decadent chocolate dessert of some kind, or cheesecake. or both.
    Happy holidays everyone :) enjoy your fest no matter what it consists of !!
  • meshellmybell76
    meshellmybell76 Posts: 139 Member
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    I'll most likely be snarfing down a yogurt and Luna bar while hiding in a supply closet IF I actually get a chance to run off and take a break while working an 18 hr shift in a dingy old nursing home :sad:
  • ShortayBaybay
    ShortayBaybay Posts: 138
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    I just do the family tradition=] We snack all day, and then eat a meal at night. Since I am trying to lose weight,I will not be eating alot of food.

    Snacks - Ham and cheese rolls, cheese ball, crackers, carrots, celery, peanut butter, ranch dressing, shrimp, cocktail sauce, tarter sauce.

    Drink - 7up/Sherbert punch.

    Dinner - Ham, Turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, corn, lima beans, mac and cheese, and dinner rolls.

    Deserts - Rice Krispie tree, Chocolate chip cookies, mini cupcakes, Sugar cookies, Bon - bons, and oatmeal cookies.

    =]
  • Behavior_Modification
    Behavior_Modification Posts: 24,482 Member
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    Lasagna

    Garlic Texas Toast w/ Cheese

    Salad

    Corn

    Cheese, Sausage & Crackers

    Cheesecake

    Wine

    Chocolates
  • Ely82010
    Ely82010 Posts: 1,998 Member
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    Christmas Day: Pot roast in the slow cooker, with lots of vegetables, and maybe a side of brown rice for the grandchildren. We don't eat appetizers but I may prepare a plate with cherry tomatoes and some cheese (grand kids love this too).

    Hawaiian rolls, sparkling apple cider, and homemade strawberry lemonade, and some wine for my husband, son, and for me. My daughter in law is making some cherry-cheese tarts for dessert and we have European cookies for the kids.

    I probably bake some salmon on 12/24; it is just the two of us.
  • NoAdditives
    NoAdditives Posts: 4,251 Member
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    We're having a nice ribeye roast, green beans sauteed in olive oil with garlic, mashed potatoes, roasted potatoes, brussels sprouts, some rolls and a homemade cheesecake with gingerbread cookie crust and a caramelized apple sauce. I'm sure there will be wine and sparkling juices to drink, in addition to water and tea.
  • LJGmom
    LJGmom Posts: 249 Member
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    We have traditional turkey and mashed potatoes Christmas Eve with lots of goodies for snacking. Christmas day Brunch with egg bake muffins fruit cinnamon rolls, then Christmas dinner pork loin cheesy potatoes and pie. Then we get together on Monday with hubby's family and its a potluck of every food you can imagine. All of these have tons of cookies dips and desserts. I will be miserable!
  • mamagooskie
    mamagooskie Posts: 2,964 Member
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    Tofurky roast for me, ham for the fam (maybe chicken too if the mother in law brings it) perogies, cabbage rolls, stuffing, buns, pickles, beets,olives, a few salads of some sort and chocolate cake for dessert. We will also have all the pre junkfood goodies like potato chips, chocolate, etc.
  • epona_mus
    epona_mus Posts: 207 Member
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    My inlaws will be cooking their typical heart attack dinner:
    - Prime rib
    - Twice baked potatoes stuffed with copious amounts of butter, sour cream, bacon and cheese
    - Brocolli casserole (brocolli smothered in cream of mushroom soup, sour cream, mayo, and cheese)
    - Salad with bacon and blue cheese
    - Yorkshire pudding cooked in pan drippings
    - Pumpkin cheese cake and ice cream cake for dessert

    Since I have suffered through enough holiday dinners with these guys to know that there will be nothing on the menu for me to eat, I'm bringing my own feast:
    - Stuffed portabello mushrooms
    - Wild rice and butternut squash pilaf
    - Salad greens - probably with apples, pecans, pomegranate seeds, balsamic vinagrette
    - Roasted brussel sprouts
    - Something chocolate for dessert

    Last year I was miserable - not able to eat anything (not because I was on a diet, but because literally, everything on their "traditional" menu would send me to the hospital with a gall bladder attack.)

    This year, I'm going to be bringing my own food and enjoying a dinner I can eat.
  • Kell44
    Kell44 Posts: 14 Member
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    chinese take-out! I married into the tradition and kept it after the divorce. Tasty and refreshing after all the heavy, rich foods all month long. And clean-up is a breeze!!
  • seal57
    seal57 Posts: 1,307
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    I'm working Christmas Day so I don't know what I will be having....Haven't decided yet but it will be something that I can whip up in a flash......


    I drive taxi's and us maxi drivers usually get a short break to have lunch.......
  • kadoodle76
    kadoodle76 Posts: 234
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    Breakfast is cinnamon raisen french toast and cocoa with a candy cane in it :)

    While we wait for dinner to cook we drink Wassail and eat sesame crackers with port wine cheese (my mom eats all the black olives and gherkins cuz no one else likes em lol)

    Cranberry glazed ham, cresent rolls, pecan sweet taters, green bean cassarole, mashed taters with chives, and stuffing.

    I am making cake pops and punkin pie with homemade cinnamon whipped cream for dessert. And I will probably munch on the Lindor Truffles and Ferrero Garden coconuts that I asked for in my stocking :)
  • thirtyandthriving
    thirtyandthriving Posts: 613 Member
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    We have dinner Christmas eve and left overs christmas day.
    We will have ham, homemade noodles, greenbean casserole, mashed potatoes and gravy, sweet potatoes, maybe a salad, rolls and two pies probably pumpkin or apple, but definitely pecan ( my favorite). Hubs will have to choose between apple and pumpkin. ;)
  • skittybang
    skittybang Posts: 1,525 Member
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    On Xmas eve day - we don't eat until the "1st star appears in the sky" (Wigilia- Polish)- - with clouds, around 5:30, haha. Around that time everyone is given opłatki (a thin, rectangular wafer - similar to "host" you'd see in church.) The tradition is we go around to everyone in the room, you take a small bit of theirs and they do the same to you and you wish maybe a happy new year, merry xmas, whatever - just some kind of niceties you want to share with them. After all that we have like a zillion trays of pierogi (potato cheese & sweet cheese) some barscz (beet soup), and some sort of fish dish (we don't eat meat on this night.)

    On Christmas day it's a free for all - no truly traditional dishes - just a big dinner with the whole fam.
  • lkm111
    lkm111 Posts: 629 Member
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    Christmas is at my house this year. I am making baked ham, Pioneer Woman's Potato Gratin (heavenly!), Brussels sprouts, corn (daughter's request), my favorite broccoli salad, rolls, pumpkin pie and snickerdoodles. I may make one more dessert, but don't yet know what. I found a fudge recipe with NUTELLA in it. Not sure I need it, but I definitely want to try it! Oh, and chex mix - yummy! :smile:
  • queenpushycat
    queenpushycat Posts: 761 Member
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    3 hours of Cardio Dance classes... no rest for my fats. lol

    and then... a few sushi...
  • blink1021
    blink1021 Posts: 1,118 Member
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    Christmas mornining - homemade cheese danish and pumpkin spice pancakes (thats for my son & husband I will be having a shake. and a mimosa or two.

    Christmas Day - ham, mashed potatoes with skim milk, green beans, cranberry sauce, cheddar biscuits, lemon meringue pie for desert and wine. I will be participating in dinner just limiting portion size :happy:
  • Pidders89
    Pidders89 Posts: 1,169 Member
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    Turkey, roast potatoes, swede, carrots, cauliflower, roast parsnips, pigs in blankets, cranberry sauce and gravy....I CANNOT WAIT!!!!!!! :smile: :drinker:

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