Meal Planning-Holiday Edition

[britta]

I feel like I haven't seen this thread in awhile, so I thought I'd start one!

What's on the menu this week? As always, feel free to share recipes!

GTKY: Turkey is a pretty standard Thanksgiving staple, but do you or your family have a standard meal for Christmas? If you don't celebrate Christmas, is there a holiday meal that you or your family always make?

[britta]

(I'm starting with Monday because today was breakfast and the lots of snacking)
DH is on call Christmas Eve through the weekend , so really this is a just a normal week for us. We'll have a treat with the ribs on Christmas Eve though.

Monday-Spaghetti with meat sauce
Tuesday-Bean & Veggie Tacos
Wednesday-Chicken Fajita Stuffed Peppers
Thursday (Christmas Eve)-Slow Cooker Baby Back Ribs
Friday (Christmas)-Leftovers
Saturday-Roadhouse Chili
Sunday-Leftovers

GTKY: We do the traditional turkey for Thanksgiving, but Christmas varies. We've done turkey, ham, steaks, and this year we did prime rib. I'm not a huge fan of turkey, so I'm Team Anything Else for Christmas.

[rablissful]

Monday: leftover baked potato soup
Tuesday: BLTs
Wednesday: Para with Alfredo sauce and Italian sausages
Thursday: meatloaf
Friday: Christmas at my mom's!
Saturday: chicken Caesar salad
Sunday: leftover meatloaf

My mom always makes a huge prime rib for Christmas with Yorkshire pudding. It's a staple and oh so good.

[Deleted]

This week is going to be random suppers from what meat and veg is in the fridge or freezer. However, christmas eve and day have been planned out well since I'm feeding 9-10 people, so I'm going to share those plans.

Christmas eve supper: chicken pot pie and Acadian meat pie with veg and dip

Christmas eve snacks:
Bacon wrapped scallops, bacon wrapped sweet chili chicken bites, puff pastry wrapped cheddar smokies, hot cheese dip with crackers, chips, nuts, cookies, chocolates

Christmas morning: freshly baked croissants with jams and nutella, scrambled eggs, deli maple ham, coffee, tea and juice

Christmas lunch: sandwich fixings, chips

Christmas snacks: pepperoni, cheese and crackers, holiday popcorn

Christmas dinner: spiral ham, roasted turkey breast and legs, sausage stuffing, mashed potatoes, carrots, green beans, turnip, gravy, rolls, pumpkin pie, cranberry sauce and assorted other sweets.

[britta]

@sparky85 YUM!

[littlelion]

@sparky85 yum christmas morning!

AFM
Mon: Chicken stir fry
Tues: Taco Bell tacos with beans
Weds: Chicken burritos with refried beans, white rice & avocado.
Thurs: Christmas Eve at my sisters
Friday: Beef stew with white rice
Sat: leftovers

GTKY: We do tamales at my sisters. Usually start early morning so a few of us decide that by dinner time we want to eat something else. My other sister has traditionally made a small turkey.

[gabride2010]

@sparky85 Your menu sounds awesome!

I have no idea what we are eating this week. Christmas Eve we are attending 2 parties 3 hours away from our house (both are in the same city). I would like to bake something to take to each, but I have to work until noon that day, so we'll see. We are going to BIL and SIL's the dat after Christmas, but I have no idea what we are eating. I texted SIL like a week ago to ask about it, but she never answered me back. H is going to talk to his brother tomorrow about it.

I wish I felt more festive or Christmas-y this year, but I'm just not feeling it. This is my first Christmas away from home, and I miss our friends. Everything is just different this year, and I feel so lonely right now. This will pass, and I'm not usually so full of feelz like this, but I just miss the familiarity of home and knowing that we would be having parties with our friends if we were still in GA. Being grown up is tough sometimes.

[britta]

*hugs* gabride2010. That's tough. I hope you're able to find your Christmas spirit, but I totally get it. With H being on call Christmas Eve through the weekend, I'm not really feeling it either.

[kayladawn91]

Monday: Tacos
Tuesday: Roast
Wednesday: If I'm done prepping for Christmas Eve and all of my cookie baking is done I'll make chicken and steamed veggies. If not, it will be a pizza night.

Thursday (I'm hosting H's family all day)
Breakfast: Panera bagels, sausage biscuits
Snacks: Chips and dips (spinach and artichoke, queso, and a chili dip), fruit, crackers, veggies
Lunch/Dinner: Spiral cut ham, scalloped potatoes, corn, rolls

Friday: Mostaccioli from a local pizzeria that my mom always gets the day before all made up and then pops in the oven Christmas morning. So yummy!!

Saturday: Probably some sort of leftovers

Sunday: No idea

GTKY: Christmas Eve with H's family is always spiral cut ham and Christmas with my family is usually Mostaccioli.

[requiressnacks]

This week is so crazy with all the dinners planned, but here goes:

Monday: turkey tacos
Tuesday: my birthday dinner at a steakhouse
Wednesday: soup & salad
Thursday: Christmas Eve at my moms (heavy apps & cocktails)
Friday: Christmas Day at my house- beef tenderloin
Saturday: Day after Christmas Day with my dad - I host and it's going to be "thanksgiving"
Sunday- leftovers

GTKY: we typically have some sort of beef and a lasagna on the table. Gotta keep the Italian in laws happy.

[gabride2010]

Thanks britta. I hope you find yours too!

[fem]

gabride2010, I totally understand where you are coming from. My first Christmas with a big girl job I didn't have enough vacation to travel home. My in-laws were local but they were visiting BIL in Spain. My H tried so hard to make it a special day, but I ended up crying off and on while he watched a How It's Made marathon. Hugs to you.

Monday: Salmon burgers and roasted vegetables
Tuesday: Vegetable chili, cornbread and salad.

Traveling the rest of the week...

[cjchio]

We travel North Tuesday, so tomorrow is grilled skirt steak fajitas.

The rest of the week will be whatever the family is doing. I know a local pizza place is on the menu.

Christmas Eve is always a lunch at my Aunt's then out to dinner with familyfriends.

On Christmas we have brunch at my Grandma's house, then a Turkey dinner at my parent's.

I have an awesome boss and he gave me through New Years off. So I don't have to meal plan until January 3.