Free Range Christmas Turkey Gluten free corn bread stuffing paleo yam casserole Green Beans with lots of butter

Wine, Wine and more Wine! (that's my dessert!)

My solo London Christmas dinner will be:

• Lamb belly (breast) stuffed with zest, mint and whatever else is on hand. Cooked until there are some cracklings.
• Red cabbage braised with apples, cloves and other spices. Topped with lots of butter. (Smells like Christmas)
• Some sort of soup from broth reserved from lamb bones.

Then off to explore Romania for New Years.

If back home, Christmas would be:

• Main: Seafood Gumbo or Shrimp Étouffée. And maybe a fried turkey.
• The rest: usual stuff. Various casseroles, some sort of corn bread, potatoes, pies, pies and more pies.

It's 8am on Christmas Eve here in Australia, and my usually-slothful self is up and about, ready to head to the Queen Victoria Market (in Melbourne) to score some vaguely cheap, wild-caught crayfish (lobster), prawns and oysters. Dad has already started on our huge Christmas ham, and there will be all manner of roasts tomorrow for our Christmas lunch down by the beach. There will probably be salads, but since I'm not in charge of lunch, they'll probably be adulterated so I'll avoid them and stick to the meat. Mum has made a sugar- & gluten-free cheesecake, but I won't be indulging. I will probably be making my usual date & nut balls, and perhaps a fruit & nut pudding concoction, but again I'll probably avoid those. I've weighed in - it'll be interesting to see whether I gain at all whilst I'm away!

Merry Christmas! (ie Happy Generic Consumer Holiday!)

I'll be smoking a grass fed brisket and free range turkey. As a matter of fact I'll be putting the rub on the brisket and the turkey in the brine this morning. I think my wife is doing some side dishes (both paleo and non for family) but the brisket and turkey is what I'm craving.

after eating paleo/primal for nearly two years i've decided to go "off the wagon" this christmas. I'm spending christmas at my in-laws' house in a little town in southern Czech Republic and i'll be consuming, and have already started, copious amounts of baked goods, potatoes, and TONS of christmas cookies. Czech people go crazy with homemade christmas cookies and all the girls compete as to who can bake the most. Lots of people bake up to 15 different types of cookies! And on christmas day we've got to eat 13 different meals. There's no hope and honestly i really don't even feel like attempting. Every other time i'm at my in-laws' i'm strictly paleo, so they're getting a huge kick out of watching me stuff my face! I'm trying to see how much weight i can put on in a week, and then how quickly i can get back to my "pre-christmas" weight of 180lbs:)

Icelandic lamb!!! Not sure what else, I'm not cooking. :)

I'm making rabbit Dutch style.

Marinated in half vinegar, half water, onions, cloves, cinnamon, bay leaf and Spanish pepers over night. Then brown the rabbit and sautée the onions and put them back in the marinade with a bar of dark chocolate, carrots and parsnips.

Whole baked salmon, sweet potato with pasture fed butter, lacinato kale, fresh salad. Popcorn was the treat of the day.

Local lamb roast with herbs, and I roasted some local fingerlings in the lamb fat. Greens, sauteed with salt pork. Coconut milk chocolate pudding made with grassfed beef gelatin and a hint of honey, topped with whipped heavy cream lightly sweetened with grade B maple syrup, also local. Split a bottle of Farnum Hill Extra Dry Cider with my loving man, and for snacks I sliced up some wild boar salami and used a rock from the back yard to smash open a few walnuts. A little strong coffee to finish.

And there's all kinds of 100% unsweetened gourmet chocolate in my stocking that doesn't know what it's in for over the next few months.

I am a happy paleo! Stuffed myself silly on the lamb and looking forward to a few days of leftovers.

Pork Loin in natural gravy, turnips au gratin.

We have prime rib and a capon my MIL is cooking. There will also be my mashed potatoes (made with Kerrygold butter & heavy whipping cream) and fresh green beans. I made a paleo-ish almond butter fudge too. We always have a tray of shrimp and raw veggies set out as appetizers, plus cheese and crackers. I snuck in some raw cheese and will probably have to sample the brie. Plus the wine! I am especially looking forward to the bottle of Well Read which is organic and has no sulfites.

Christmas Eve my mom is making baked ziti (a tradition, though we are Southern and not Italian) and saving extra sauce and meat for me to put on some spaghetti squash. There will be salad and olives and probably some red wine.

Christmas morning we always have coffee, freshly squeezes OJ, and freshly baked scones, but this year I'm making Elana's lemon-poppyseed coconut flour muffins instead, possibly with blueberries.

I'll be doing Christmas dinner, which will be roasted free-range chicken with sage, mashed sweet potatoes with coconut milk and cinnamon, green beans, and probably some steamed spinach. I'll also probably do some poached pears or something.

Baked salmon

Stuffed mushrooms w spinach, walnut, cheese stuffing

Roasted butternut squash, parsnips, onions, and chestnuts

Huge green salad

Fruits, cheeses and nuts

Reasonably paleo and keeps the pescatarians and vegetarians happy and well fed.

We do the traditional southern Italian seafood dinner for xmas eve at my in-laws. This is always one of the best meals of the year and I'm excited that they're making it more paleo friendly by doing less breaded stuff for our benefit. I'm still gonna have a small bowl of linguini with clam sauce though.

Also my offer to make bacon-wrapped scallops as an appetizer was accepted. This should be interesting as I've never made it or any kind of scallops but how hard could it be?

My wife's making a fairly primal chocolate mousse with just good dark chocolate, cream and honey.

Usually in the past I've beasted on sausage bread and spinach bread on christmas but this year we'll be skipping that.

Pumpkin muffins made from pumpkin, quinoa flour,pecans,coconut fat, and a "frosting"of banana and farmer's cheese.(made them an hour ago, already had three,plus two pork ribs and lots of coffee).Christmas dinner will be BBQ chicken wings, and mussels.Probably some sweet potato fries on the side.It's just me and the dog this year, so we'll have lots of time for walks use up the carbo overload..

Rutabaga latkes topped with coconut applesauce (recipe from Robb Wolf), Whole9 Stuffing (ground beef is the base), free-range whole chicken baked with spices, flourless chocolate torte... gonna be awesome!

I made grass-fed beef bone broth paleo pho (with shirataki noodles instead of rice noodles) and a raw chocolate cashew "cheesecake". Everything was delicious and everyone was very happy and full.

It wasn't a typical Christmas meal but we're atheists anyway. :)