Your Christmas meal plans

[indysteel]

Christmas eve we'll probably pick out a new recipe from one of our cookbooks.

For Christmas morning, we'll do our typical weekend breakfast of bacon, and eggs with veggies. I may try a blueberry almond meal muffin recipe if I'm feeling adventurous.

Christmas dinner will be a whole chicken on the chicken roaster with roasted veggies and a salad. This is becoming a tradition for us!

Yummy. DH proposed to me the first time I made roast chicken (Cook's Illustrated's recipe fir crispy skin chicken) I'm not sure which/who he loves more: me or the chicken.

[limewave]

Normally I work Christmas Eve and it's a mad frenzy to finish up at the office and then rush home, get the kids, blah, blah, blah get to Christmas Eve service. We have no tradition. In fact, I have absolutely no idea what we've done in the past, would not be surprised if I brought home pizza.

I'm debating what to do, honestly, I'd be happy with a bowl of veggie soup. The kids are SUPER picky eaters right now and nothing will please them but chicken nuggets or pb&j. That's not what I feed them most nights: I usually have to listen to hours of screaming and crying and fit throwing when I present them with a legitimate meal. But I don't want to go through that on Christmas Eve, it's exhausting enough already!

I was thinking about making pork chops with apple chutney . . . but not sure if its really worth the effort (or having to listen to complaining all night).

For breakfast I make an egg and sausage casserole that I can make ahead. Then I have fresh fruit pieces and yogurt. And, of course, the bottomless pot of coffee