We have Hangtown Fry (scrambled eggs with fried oysters) and a salad on Christmas Eve. We also put out cheese and cookies and candy for snacking.
Christmas Day breakfast is sausage rolls, candied bacon, shirred eggs, and orange rolls, then later we have a traditional English roast beef dinner with horseradish sauce, roast potatoes, Yorkshire pudding, and Brussels Sprouts. Dessert is mince tarts and plum pudding with Brandy hard sauce.
My husband’s Italian family always had the Christmas version of ‘Sunday Sauce’ with spaghetti, for the main Christmas dinner (at about Noon. Mom had been making it since the day before.)
Then in the evening, they’d have vegetable soup and home-made hoagies.
For Christmas Eve, they had Pizza. (For 26 years, now, my Christmas Eve dinner has been Pizza - I don’t think that will never change, it’s sort of sacred.)
He won’t give me the Christmas Sauce recipe - he says it’s useless to even try, unless you have tomato sauce made from tomatoes grown by his own family :-)
My grandmother used to buy the Crosse and Blackwell plum puddings, and make her own hard sauce. That’s one of my great Christmas food memories.
I haven’t seen those puddings in stores here in many years.