What will your Christmas Day menu look like?

Depends if son and daughter and their partners will make it (all work shifts), but it would normally be a choice of soup for starters (my son insists on what he calls my xmas soup - carrot, parsnip and orange) and something like pate or smoked salmon, then turkey with all the trimmings (with a veggie alternative for DiL), then usually homemade pavlova or cheesecake.

A lot of Bucks Fizz, mince pies, etc until our dinner that I will prepare for my sister and I. It will be a small stuffed chicken crown and all the usual bits and bobs with some wine. Dogs walked then home for pavlova and the rest of the night nodding off drinking Bailey's.

We haven’t spent Christmas with family since the start of the pandemic. Will be going to my daughters this year but we’ve both realised that neither of us go to town with a traditional Christmas meal any more.

Pretty much a Sunday roast, for just the two of us. We have not been invited to son or daughter, but even if we are, DH will not want to go, sadly. I will maybe do a prawn cocktail starter, and add pigs in blankets ( but no Yorkshire puddings) to the usual turkey crown or chicken. Probably no room for pudding, but with type 2 diabetes, that is just as well.
Or I could get him a ready meal and go alone to my son’s for the biggest and best meal of my life!

No starter, roasted turkey crown, roasties; potatoes and parsnips, mashed Swede, carrots and peas, homemade stuffing. Veggie alternatives for our granddaughter.
Followed by mince pies with cream or Christmas viennetta.

Oh and pigs n blankets!

Barbecue and pavlova. I’ll be in New Zealand with my beloveds.

But next Sunday (27th Nov) we’re doing a traditional Christmas dinner for our other beloveds, our two sons and their families. Turkey crown, pigs in blankets, etc. Plus crackers and paper hats and presents. All washed down with champagne. Then off to NZ two days later.
Sadly, first Christmas without my mum.

I’m having an Italian in New York with DD2, her DH and DGS2. Can’t wait! First time away and not cooking in 50 years.

I’ll be working in the care home….🤗

I try not to obsess about Christmas, but was contemplating this today. We have adults on Christmas Day and our grandchildren on Boxing Day who always want a roast dinner, cold turkey won't do it for them. So Christmas Day I'm thinking of maybe a boneless leg of lamb, with garlic and rosemary, pink of course, accompanied by Dauphinoise Potatoes, green beans and roasted root vegetables, plus a vegetarian meal for our non meat eating guest. When the children come to us for Boxing Day, Turkey crown, roast potatoes and all the accompaniments they like such as Yorkshire Puddings etc. That way we don't get the same meal two days running. Puddings various, children of course hate Christmas Pudding and Brussels so the few of us who like those traditional Christmas specialities will have them, I personally love Christmas Pudding, and it's only eaten once a year so I look forward to it.

My husband always cooks our Christmas morning breakfast of scrambled eggs and smoked salmon with accompanying fizz, about the only thing he cooks but he does it exceptionally well.

Whatever my DD produces but we will have a duck in the freezer in case of snow and can't make the journey, we live a long way apart. Also my usual Christmas pudding,mince pies and local smoked salmon all on ice. Fingers crossed.

My menus very similar to yours Jaxjacky plus Brussels sprouts, I do a brought Christmas pud & a chocolate bomb for the young children, we’ve never bothered with a starter. This year I’m going out to a restaurant but I’ll probably opt for the traditional Turkey lunch.

We're going to have bacon, sausages, eggs, tomatoes, baked beans, mushrooms, hash browns and toast made with good quality bread followed by (if there's room) ice cream mess which is basically ice cream, squirty cream, ice cream sauce, broken bits of meringue and sprinkles. Not forgetting the obligatory Cadbury's flake.

Phwoar! That sounds great.

Forgot the sprouts SachaMac I like them too. Christmas Eve we have crispy duck with pancakes etc, the fat is used for roasties on the day.

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My daughter is having it this year. One daughter will bring seafood entrées, I am doing Christmas pud and trifle, granddaughter will do a fruit platter and the one who’s house it is at will do the turkey. We all take bottles of whatever we like to drink and share.

Whatever I fancy nearer the time. It's just me, and I can please myself.

....but will probably raid M n S deli section a few days before for lots of bits and bobs, for my favourite sort of meal always is buffet style choose what you want.

Sounds good Wyllow3. I'm disabled so can't do much, no appetite anyway. But I'll treat myself to M&S lunch. Will go DD for few nibbles later.

Sounds spot on Sawsage2 their ready meals can be pretty good too if you want something hot.

But I must say I do get annoyed at Christmas food catalogues, there must be loads of people would like a sort of festive selection for one, even paying that wee bit more, they are missing a trick there, and you'd probably get 2 meals out of it anyway. -

There will just be the five of us as usual. DS and family live abroad. I am afraid I hate cooking so M and S will provide a turkey crown and their ready prepared veg. There will also be pigs in blankets for DGC and stuffing. My favourite part of the meal is Christmas pudding, so that will be lit with brandy and served with a choice of cream, custard and/or brandy butter to go with it.

We're all at my son's place this year , wonderful since we'll all be together after a Covid- influenced time last year. Everyone is bringing something - I'm making a wreath-shaped pavlova and a lovely trifle. Son and daughter are supplying ham, chicken, and many salads and side dishes. I can't wait for a wonderful family get-together.

Don't really care about the food. The company is terrific.

A tradition here is brunch about 12 including a full English.
Then Turkey with all the trimmings around 7pm and we often stay at the table until quite late.