Does your family have a traditional Christmas Eve or Christmas Day meal?

[belfpala]

Just curious about what that meal is. And gathering information.

If you don't celebrate Christmas, post anyway.

[Blueobelisk]

Not really. There's a chance I'm at my grandparent's in FL for Christmas just cause that's when (my mom (who is a teacher)) school break is. Maybe we make a roast or something but lol we aren't Christian so Christmas is whatever.

We do have some family though who likes to throw a gathering so they do cook. But it's not like we have a formal thanksgiving meal and it's not like we even eat their food. They kind of just put it out.

[vindicatorx]

No Christmas is a day off we generally make something easy and do whatever.

[Xiorin]

For us, Christmas eve is a family party with deviled eggs, summer sausage, cheese, crackers, and sausage balls with plenty of booze. Christmas day is chicken and sausage gumbo.

[Templar 331]

Yes....and I hate it every year. >.>

I don't know what we're eating, when we're eating, and sometimes where we're eating.......

[Zelk]

Normally yes, I don't now about this year though because my sister won't be home for Christmas so we might have a big meal on Jan 1st instead as she'll be home then and it's my brother's birthday. Usually we have 2 ducks with all the trimmings, and for breakfast a fry up with home made croissants.

[Rizendragon]

Just curious about what that meal is. And gathering information.

If you don't celebrate Christmas, post anyway.

Basically the same thing as Thanksgiving. Turkey, ham, all the trimmings, fixings, and sides then pie for dessert. My grandmother used to make a Strawberry Rhubarb... Been 10 years since I've had it =(

Edit: Christmas with my family usually involved 30-50 people depending on who was coming btw... so from 2p-8p it was eating, drinking, gifts, and laughter

[ZealousBlade]

A more recent thing my family has been doing is cooking a Beef Wellington on Christmas Day.

[NoRest4Wicked]

We have always done Christmas eve with a bunch of finger foods like deviled eggs, bagel bites, chicken/fish sticks, meat/cheese/cracker platter, egg rolls and what ever else they could throw in. For Christmas day it's always a nice spiral ham, potatoes (mashed and sweet) and such.

[drwelfare]

Nothing here, I just try to make sure I will have something to eat the next day so, since christmas eve and day wil be a miserable 36 hours of boredom with nothing to do.

Other than seeing me dead my family does not want to see me anyway.

[DEATHETERNAL]

The rest of the clan who all live up north in the same 300 mile radius do meet up every Christmas week and do have a Christmas meal. I haven't ever gone to it due to living anywhere from 1400 miles to 4000 miles away over the past twenty years.

The family does, I don't and couldn't tell you what they have.

[OzoAndIndi]

We used to, but since my grandparents are now gone and my mom decided to cut ties with her sister it's just my immediate family now so we usually just go out for Chinese. Which is food I like, but I miss the old dinners at home. (Christmas day.)

[Time Sage]

We go over my grandparents on Xmas eve. What we do has shuffled around since I hit adulthood since older relatives has passed on includeing the one who used to hold xmas dinner. So we kinda drifted apart from extended family for it and just do our own thing with my maternal grandparents and my mother's brother's family.

I think we're having fried chicken for dinner though. And mini hot dogs.

We used to do a tradional ham and stuff, but alot of family has since developed health issues that prevents them from eating such a dish, or were one of the ones that didn't care for it. I think there are only 2 of us that can, and want, to eat such a dish.

[gunner_recall]

Typically, we have a ton of pancakes and sausage and eggs for breakfast on Christmas. Other than that, nothing of note.

My sister and I have started making spiked hot chocolate and watching Christmas movies on Christmas eve tho.

[Halyon]

Usually do, just depends were I personally go. Usually either pork or duck. Duck this year.

[Attackrabbit]

Yup, will be going to my mother's house like every year as will my sister and her husband, my bro and his wife, an aunt and uncle with associated cousins and probably a few random old people my mum was feeling sorry for (nice that they don't have to spend christmas alone) and she will be cooking a traditional british christmas dinner, I wish she wouldn't because it's also her birthday but she insists and I can't cook so that's that

[Super Kami Dende]

Glazed Ham Roast, Bacon and Potato Hash, Roast Chicken, Potato/Pasta Salad, Prawns.

'Straya.

[Dellis0991]

Christmas was wonderful when I was little. Music, food,and family coming together it was the one time of the year where all the bullshit was forgotten. I remember this song in that hazy bit of my mind and it warms my soul...

I miss those days badly

[madmanx]

Yes, same every year...boat loads of ice cream and TV marathons.

[breadisfunny]

we have ham. i hate ham.