A traditional Christmas dinner fell out of favour in our house, for various reasons, so over recent years we've been mixing it up - one year we had curry, one year macaroni cheese, and most recently, cannelloni (which actually morphed into lasagne when we decided making the pasta tubes was too complicated). Anyway, Eric was not fazed by such alternative approaches to the Christmas table, getting stuck in and happily taking home the leftovers to be warmed up for his Boxing Day lunch too. The only concession to tradition (it became our tradition anyway) was the prawn cocktail starter, an Eric favourite. This remained on the menu every year (and there were never any leftovers of that!).