Christmas lunch alone, what food would you choose?

Salmon tartare with a glass of a good Sancerre, foie gras with a glass of Muscat and quince jelly, confit of duck and a pepper sauce with pommes dauphinois, spinach and half a roasted aubergine sprinkled with olive oil and garlic and a good red wine with peppery undertones, tiramisu with Veuve Cliquot champagne. I will enjoy shopping for this, cooking and eating it.

Although I am now on my own and thoroughly enjoying, I will be with family and friends for Christmas and New Year in England. However it's tempting to have the above when I get back!

There's only the two of us this year. I'm making lamb Kleftiko.

I'm not one for big meals and fancy dishes, so my choice would be egg and chips, which I've had for Christmas dinner before, followed by a tin of Ambrosia rice pudding.

Heaven.

After reading these posts I definitely will treat myself on Christmas Day and make some nice food , as more then likely will be alone .

I would have a ribeye and triple cooked chips, followed by syrup sponge and a hefty dollop of extra thick cream. There would be a sponge left over for boxing day and some cream. I would finish the night off with a snowball to two.

That sounds delicious - good on you - do what you want

I like the sound of anniefrance’s menu if someone else were doing the cooking.
If on my own I would probably have toast with nutella as a treat. I doubt I would cook anything.

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I have chosen to have my Christmas dinner on my own, and will see family at some point. Thinking of my favourite food, which is cheese, I have decided on a baked Camembert with home-made baguette plus a Pavlova dessert. It will be so simple to prepare and I shall enjoy it!
If you were (or are) eating alone, what would be your choice?

I have had 4 Christmases alone and each time I treated myself to a top notch piece of steak with all the trimmings followed by cheese and biscuits 😋 and a glass of port !

I suppose I could manage a nice steak…..🥩😇

Since the 1970s my family have had beef on Christmas day- now alone for the last nine years I have continued the tradition. So steak and a range of mainly roast vegetables. Starter varies. Christmas pud was bought after Christmas last year. A glass of Bailey's later on - just one draw back to being alone - nobody to pull a cracker with

My favourite food is cheese too. But I also love Christmas pudding. So I would have cheese and crackers followed by Christmas pud and brandy cream.

The first Christmas I spent alone was after my marriage split up. My ex insisted on having our children for Christmas dinner and, believe it or not, I had a smoked salmon salad for dinner. It was so liberating after all the family Christmas dinners, and cooking for four children, to sit down to something really simple that I just needed to throw together. For pud - hot mince pie and ice cream.

Well now, it all depends on if I had to make my own or had a lamp with a genie. I'm vegetarian and GF but love vegetable pie, which I'd have with roast potatoes and brissels sprouts and stuffing (the best bit). Avocado would feature as a starter - two halves with vinaigrette, just for me. I don't like puddings although we make a Christmas one every year. I'd have cheese and rice cakes or oatcakes. Given up alcohol so probably my favourite kombucha. And yes there would be chocolate and TV and the genie would do the washing up.

So sorry grandtanteJE65 on your loss. Although I am not alone,my husband and I will be spending Christmas on our own, our choice, as my daughter died in May as the result of an accident. I understand how you must be feeling. We have decided not to cook , and instead have booked a Christmas dinner at the local pub. Best wishes to you.

Toasted sandwich, salad. Followed by chocolate Yule log, marzipan fruit chocolates and cream liqueur coffee topped with fresh cream. Slimming World day off!

Good choice!
Think I’d go for crab pasta - if it weren’t for it being out of season. And expensive wine that I wouldn’t have to share. Still have a tiny Christmas pudding though.

I live alone, have no children and the relatives I do have live some considerable distance away.
Last year, my niece came up from Lincoln to spend Christmas Eve day with me. We went to a local restaurant for a Christmas Lunch.
On Christmas day, I had what would best be called "party food". Things like mini pizza's, prawn toasts, duck and veggie spring rolls etc.
Not all at once you understand, but cooked at different points throughout the day.
Since my niece now lives in Birmingham (and I'm in the North East) a repetition this year seems unlikely.
I may cook myself a traditional roast dinner (using cooked Turkey slices) on Christmas Eve, and have similar party fare again, as this worked very well.
I live close to the sea, and if the day is fine, I'll wrap up warm and go watch the waves for a while, at some point in the afternoon. I'll be at Church on Christmas Day morning.

I would have a platter of smoke salmon, caviar, one or two cheeses, maybe some charcuterie, crackers some grapes, and a glass of wine just the one. Pudding would be something light which I would have later with a nice cup of tea.

I spent a Christmas alone a couple of years ago because I had nasty flu and my husband went alone to our family Christmas. I ate Chicken Chow Mein ready meals and fresh, prepared mango whenever I felt hungry (which wasn't that often!)
This year I've had Covid for about six week and my lovely husband has been getting the same ready meals for me again, my favourites.

And I love a good stollen for pudding.

I' treat myself to as large a jar of caviar as I could afford ( I love it but no one else in my family seems to like it at all) and I'd eat it slowly throughout the day with whatever bits to go with it that I could be bothered to prepare! I'd sit and watch a lovely ballet or 2 on the televison.

Smoked salmon, prawns and salad. Chocolate eclair (or two) for pudding. Cheese and crackers or cheese with fruit cake later. A glass or two of dry white wine. Ideal. No cooking and food I enjoy.

Alternatively if it was a sunny day with no wind lunch would be a cheese and pickle sandwich with a flask of hot chocolate on the beach with the salmon and prawns in the evening.

Definitely no need for an oven!

I have spent many years on my own. When i had my cat i used to get a pheasant. She would sit by the oven while it was cooking.
My family all gather at my sons the other side of the country but day after Boxing Day will call on me on their way to take a grandson and wife and baby home to London and bring me a turkey dinner cooked by daughter in law. Bonus will be that they bring 8th month old greatgrandson who i have only seen on Messenger. Grandsons first child at the age of 52!

DennyO2My sincere condolences. Sending you kindest thoughts.
This Christmas will be the sixth Christmas since my son died. I feel for you in your sadness.

nadateturbe sounds good to me and I'd include a peach bellini!