Getting together with family and the food are my favourite parts of Christmas Day celebrations. The presents … I could take or leave them. This year we had lunch with my family and dinner with my husbands. My family usually eats the same food every time we have Christmas lunch, with the occasional addition. One year we had salmon as well as our traditional turkey and ham, this year we had a second dessert of bread and butter pudding. Here’s everything I ate on Christmas Day.

• Breakfast (just eating enough here to get through to lunch)
  • Just Right with homemade bottled peaches, strawberries, raspberries and blueberries.
• Lunch
  • Roast Turkey
  • Baked Ham
  • Roasted Potatoes
  • Roasted Pumpkin
  • Roasted Carrots
  • Roasted Cauliflower
  • Steamed Green Beans
  • Steamed Peas
  • Cranberry Sauce
  • Gravy
  • Slice of Bread
  • Plum Pudding
  • Custard
  • Brandy Cream
  • Bread and Butter Pudding
• Dinner
  • Roast Rolled Turkey Breast
  • Layered Garden Salad
  • Mango, Avocado and Tomato Salad
  • Rhubarb Cake
  • More Custard

We ate lunch at my brother’s place at Point Lonsdale which is next door to my parent’s house so we divvied up the cooking between us. For dinner, we had to drive back to Melbourne to my sister-in-law’s house (a two-hour drive). Our contribution was a salad and a dessert so I made the layered garden salad and gluten-free rhubarb cake on Christmas Eve.

Yes, I was ridiculously full by the end of the day.

Is feasting a big part of your Christmas Day? Did you overindulge this year?