Christmas eve meal

I'm in my own until my sister comes in the morning so I have a "Bitsa"dinner. A platter of bits and pieces like chicken bites, sweet potato fries, dips, cheese, etc. Oh and Apple Strudel ice cream for pudding and there's a pavlova in the oven at present for tomorrow.

we’re having steak pie with potato rosti

Just omelet and salad. We haven't much in the fridge as we we're travelling to DS's for Xmas. They told us yesterday the both havid covid!! So hotel, pantomine and boxing day oub meal all cancelled! ??

This year its just me and my husband, so we are having a lovely fillet steak chips, salad and a VERY expensive bottle of Burgundy. Perfect.

Lissie66

My DH and I are having fish cakes scampi asparagus and hollandaise sauce ! With chips of course
Like a lighter meal considering having big xmas dinner next day ?

Just wondered if I’m the only person who cannot eat nibbles and tasters!
They ruin my appetite for a main meal
Can’t even manage a starter ?
I DO enjoy food believe or not

In the past we used to have something quick and easy so the kitchen was clean on Christmas morning. Now it's just me, nothing special planned.

My son can't come tomorrow for our beach picnic/meeting as his car is still in the garage - he's just phoned and coming this afternoon, borrowing his girlfriend's car, she is working tomorrow.

Anything I don’t have to cook myself.

Probably a takeaway.

We’re having duck, with satay noodles.
Relatively easy to cook and one of our favourites.

Some lovely meals on this thread, yum … hope everyone has a lovely evening. ⭐️

Costco Chicken Bakes. Quick, easy, delicious and filling. A real treat as we have been cooking from scratch with low carb/sugars and low fat all year which these definitely aren't!

Pea soup tonight and Ham tomorrow. We had Christmas Dinner on Tuesday as my son is at work all the Christmas holidays so we had it earlier so he wouldn't miss out.

Always a Chinese takeaway on Christmas Eve, it's become a family tradition!

Lobster pasta dish with steamed samphire in butter and garlic bread. Followed by lemon tart and cream.
I just have Christmas Eve with DS who then goes to his father on the day and they have lunch with DS’s girlfriend and parents whilst I go to DD and family.

I’m cooking baked cod with dauphinois potatoes, really looking forward to it. Our son is joining us

I've just had s jacket pot with cheese, coleslaw, tomatoes and a bit of lettuce.
Not very adventurous, but it was lovely.

I used to make a curry with lots of different dishes but a few years decided that was too much effort. I usually cook the gammon with veg and there would be enough left for part of the cold spread on Boxing Day.

Usually shepherds pie but this year roastbeef

Hame, egg and chips. Maybe some red cabbage with it.

When we were "doing" Christmas it was always posh fish pie (with prawns) and a veggie equivalent. Home made mince pies for pudding and carols round the piano. Today, with just the two of us I'll make Melanzane alla Parmigiana, which will have with curly kale. Pudding will be Bonne Maman creme caramels.

Being on my own I took myself off to have scampi chips and salad ...and a small strwaberry trifle !!! BUT the place I go to was not doing food today (its a club)......M & S only had trifles for FOUR ......no other place to get what I planned, so now I have scampi to cook at home ..............bah humbug !

Chicken fajitas and something alcoholic ?

Beef stew.

Another one here having home made pizza and a bottle of Italian red. I wish I could manage starters and puds. Sometimes I can have one or the other but never both. I doubt I’ll eat much Christmas dinner as though I absolutely LOVE it a morning in the kitchen somehow kills my appetite. Happens every year. I used to eat twice as much in my 20’s and not put on any weight. These days as I do eat less weight seems fairly steady. A few pounds off wouldn’t go amiss though.

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Some of the things people are having tonight sound lovely.

Fish and chips cooked by my husband! Living near the coast we get wonderful fresh fish.

Whatever I have in that's easy, as the oven is always full of turkey. Today it was just chicken nuggets, roasties and baked beans which we had at lunchtime. the oven was then warm for the turkey. This evening we'll have turkey and stuffing rolls with crisps.

I’m late but we are having macaroni cheese tonight when DH returns home.