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

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!

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 !!

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.

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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.

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!

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.

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.......

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.

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!

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:

hopfully lots of wine!!!! and some rum in my egg nog:drinker:

Smoked Turkey courtesy of New Braunfels Smokehouse, spiral sliced ham, green bean casserole, broccoli cheese rice casserole, chicken "giblet" gravy (no actual giblets) olive/pickle tray, angel biscuits, pumpkin pie, pecan pie

I don't know what's on the menu at my boyfriend's family's house -- he mentioned possibly ham and/or crab cakes..... and at my grandma's house for Christmas eve, probably ham, steamed broccoli, not sure what else.... I know I'm bringing roasted parmesan green beans! YUM!

We're doing it the french way (in england) so will have christmas dinner on the 24th. i'm making -

Smoked salmon on courgette blini’s
Goat’s cheese and parma ham crostini
Stilton stuffed mushrooms
Onion soup with garlic croutons
Goose with orange stuffing and cranberry sauce
Garlic and rosemary roast potatoes and parsnips
Bacon Brussel sprouts
Red cabbage with apples and walnuts
Pigs in blanket
Cheesy broccoli
Cheesecake

Mince pies and baileys

I'm hungry just thinking about it mmmm i cant wait!!!!!!

We don't usually do anything special on Christmas Eve for dinner. I try to keep it light since most years I'm up wrapping gifts for family or putting gaming tables/bikes together. This year, we're doing Surf and Turf again, since it was a huge hit. The menu for lunch is mostly finger foods (for the kids).

Lunch - Buttermilk Chicken Fingers, Spicy Cocktail Meatballs, Mini Calzones, Waffle Fries, and a Fruit Tray
Christmas Dinner - Grilled New York Strip, Grilled Lobster Tails, Shrimp Scampi, Caesar Salad, and Baked Potatoes
Dessert - Chocolate Cake, a mini Ice Cream Bar, & Jamaican Rum Cake