What do you eat on Christmas Eve?

Grandson has been eating his head off all day today (all healthy food), which is nice, because he's had a cold and also the noro virus so has been off his food for a good month or so.

After a BIG dinner, I made him a raspberry Eton mess, which was so yummy, I made myself some later. Mmmm.

DH and I, once the children had left home, used to have a nice steak and a bottle of red. Sadly no more.

Last year I was at DD's and can't remember what we had, though it would have been lovely as DD is an excellent cook.

Tonight I have been to DS and family, where we had a traditional Swedish smorgasbord, as DDil is Swedish. Smoked salmon, caviar, Swedish meatballs and sausages, Swedish bread, home-cooked ham, herrings, eggs, new potatoes. Should have been Janssens Temptation, but none of the rest of the family like it, so DDil didn't bother. And plenty of fizz!

Tradition started off when children were young. I would spend the whole of Christmas Eve preparing so much food for the following day - we would have several visitors. Never actually finished until late into the evening. So, we got into the habit of saving up hubbies Luncheon Vouchers and using the lot to purchase a chinese takeaway for us all. With a large family an not a lot of money, we never eat out as a family and takeways were very rare - so this was a real treat and caused much excitement.
One of my daughters has continued this 'tradition', and I joined in with that takeaway this year.