What Is Your Favourite Christmas Food?

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  • BrianMcFaddenFan82
    BrianMcFaddenFan82 Online Community Member Posts: 89 Contributor

    We're having a 3 bird roast with roast potatoes carrots and sweetcorn as they're the only two veg my mum likes.

    My late dad hated turkey as it was too dry for him, so we would have a chicken instead.

    My late dad's favourite meal was a Sunday roast made by his late mum, my nanna.

    My fiancé is the only one who likes sprouts, but me n my mum can't stand the smell of them never mind anything else.

    My mum used to have to buy the fresh sprouts for my late stepdad but he'd cook them himself.

  • Amalegra
    Amalegra Online Community Member Posts: 39 Empowering

    Favourites all year round, especially Christmas, are roast dinners, in particular the roast potatoes and pigs in blankets. I love Christmas cake and Christmas pudding too-in small amounts! Have to be careful as my digestive system is somewhat delicate to say the least. I really miss the nuts and dates I used to have but sadly I can no longer eat them.

  • Marydoll5
    Marydoll5 Online Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 678 Championing

    WE are having turkey crown, ham, roasties, sprouts, cauliflower cheese pigs in blankets stuffing and carrots and parsnips with gravy.

    We get small portions and eat it again on St Stevens day.

    My favourite is definitely the pigs in blankets. A bowl of them would be all I need.

  • WhatThe
    WhatThe Online Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 4,557 Championing

    Marydoll, we would eat it all again on Boxing Day too 😋 favourite for me was onion sauce which we only ever ate at Christmastime.

    I wanted to know more after reading your post and found this for anyone interested..

    Boxing Day

    The Feast Day of St Stephen is on the 26th December, every year. Many people in UK forget, or are not aware of, St Stephen’s Day – we know it better as Boxing Day.

    When Queen Victoria married Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg, he introduced many Germanic traditions into fashionable society. Christmas trees and Christmas cards are just two of those which have since become the norm in the UK. The tradition of Boxing Day, although not directly attributed to the Victorian era, did come to the fore around this time, possibly as early as the 1830s.

    Boxing Day is, in a way, similar to the concept of Mothering Sunday. This was when people in service were given time off to spend with their families. The people that they were in service to, would give them food (leftovers from their Christmas Day feasting) in some kind of box for their family. From this we get the name Boxing Day.

    If you research the historical records of Medieval times and even earlier you will see that giving of alms in various forms has been a tradition on St Stephens Day. The well-known carol ‘Good King Wenceslas’ is a St Stephens Day carol and traditionally sung on that day and not on Christmas Day. The carol is about Wenceslas, who was a king of Bohemia (part of modern day Czechia), giving to a person in need. The reference to boxes and Boxing Day may also come from the fact that churches used to have boxes to take collections from people throughout the year. These were opened on 26th December and the money given to the poor.

    Whatever the origins of the name Boxing Day we should remember that the 26th December is also the day to celebrate the Feast of St. Stephen, the first Christian martyr.

    By Lindsey Bradshaw

  • Marydoll5
    Marydoll5 Online Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 678 Championing

    @WhatThe that is really interesting thanks for posting it

  • durhamjaide2001
    durhamjaide2001 Scope Member Posts: 14,896 Championing

    chocolate lol

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