10 Fun Christmas Themed Meal and Snack Ideas

Welcome to a fun and realistic Christmas themed meal list! This was honestly SO much fun to make and prepare. It didn’t turn out picture perfect each time, but it’s a realistic approach to fun Christmas meals.

And be kind to yourself during the holidays. There can be a lot of pressure to do and make a lot, and just be there and available for people. So if anything, I hope this list turns into something fun for YOU to do.
Don’t stress about it being perfect, put on your favorite playlist or TV show and have some fun throughout the day. This is also a great time to remember to slow down and enjoy the season before it’s gone/

So let’s dive in and go over 10 fun ideas you can do all December long for the Christmas loving girlies!

Spaghetti Christmas Tree

There’s so many different ways you can do this, and of course mine didn’t turn out exactly as planned. But that’s the fun of it too!

You could easily use pesto, but I really like mashing avocado and using that as the “sauce”.

So all you need to do is cook your desired pasta of choice (I like Angel Hair pasta, but that’s also all we had at the house), mash your avocado and season it (I like salt, pepper, and the Mushroom Umami seasoning from Trader Joe’s), then mix it all together once it’s done.

Obviously I still have some work to do when it comes to the presentation, as I couldn’t get the tall swirl for the pasta Christmas tree, so do your best. Then I cup up some cherry tomatoes into eighths, placed them around like ornaments, and then did my best to cut a piece of cheese into a star. If you have an actual cut out, then you’re golden! Or you can do it the harder way like me and see what happens.

And there you go! You could add a protein as a side with your pasta tree, or just have this as a carb loaded meal, up to you!
But just have fun and play around with it.

Caprese Snowmen

Ok, these were super fun and cute! Honestly, what a great appetizer to bring along.

All you need are skewers, little Mozzarella balls (I found these at Trader Joe’s), basil (I couldn’t find basil ANYWHERE except for the whole plant at Trader Joe’s too, so we’ll see how long it lasts), colorful cherry tomatoes and balsamic vinegar.

After that, it’s just assembling. It goes Mozzarella ball, basil, Mozzarella ball, then half a cherry tomato. For the nose, all I could think was to use yellow cherry tomatoes and try to cut them into a triangle. It wasn’t perfect, and you have to make sure you have a really good knife to but it and scoop most of the insides out, but I think it turned out ok.
Then I just took the end of a blunt skewer, dipped it in the balsamic vinegar and gave them eyes and buttons.

And tada! You have tiny Caprese snowmen to enjoy!

Reindeer Toast

Be aware, you are NOT going to be eating warm toast at all when it comes to cute toast characters. But I will say, it was a fun art project to start the day!
There are a couple parts you’re going to need when it comes to making these cute guys, but besides that, it’s very doable.

So grab your favorite peanut butter and jelly, the thicker they are, the easier it’s going to be to put them on the toast. I used the back of a spoon to form the shape, so choose whatever side spoon you’d like. Also, don’t forget to add the ears to your reindeer. I did and was wondering why they looked so goofy.
Then you’re going to want to melt some chocolate chips; white and semi sweet to be exact.

After you have the peanut butter and jelly on the toast, you’re going to take a tooth pick, dip it in the semi sweet chocolate chips and make the eyes and antlers.
Then you can take the white chocolate to make the snout, with a dot of semi sweet chocolate for the note. You can also use color dye to make the note red, or grab some strawberry flavored chocolate chips as well.

Again, aside from cold toast, this was a fun little morning project! I’m excited to keep trying to make these toast characters and see if I can make them better as I go too. But it’s definitely a fun beginner friendly craft.

Cheesy Pull Apart Bread Christmas Tree

Candy Cane Pizza

Ok, this one was a bit of a fail on my part. So I would highly recommend getting pizza crust dough that you make, even the box mix would be better! Because I got pre-made pizza crust since I couldn’t find anything else, and it didn’t work out.

So I don’t recommend getting the Target brand pizza crust, boring and gross. I wish I had gotten the Jiffy mix, we grew up making all their mixes and they’ve never let me down. So I’ll try that again later. It will also be easier to make whatever shape you want.

Of course I saw a candy cane shaped pizza and had my heart set on it. And as you can see, I was let down. Luckily the Christmas tree wasn’t too bad, but it still wasn’t great.

But this can easily be fixed and made into a super fun pizza night with family, friends, partners, or just a solo date night fun.
Grab the CORRECT pizza crust dough, some marinara, your favorite cheese, pepperonis and whatever else you’d like to put on your pizza. Assemble and decorate, then cook according to the directions on the box.

I will 100% be doing this again and succeeding. And when I do, I’ll add the updated candy cane pizza below.

Pigs in a Blanket Christmas Wreath

Talk about an easy and fun snack to make! You can do so much with this, and it just needs a couple decorations.

I got 2 crescent roll cans and a pack of mini weenies for this, and there were maybe one and a half crescent rolls left over.
I cut each crescent roll in half with a pizza cutter and then rolled them up on 2 pans.

It took about 15 minutes for them to cook at the temp on the can, and then just arranged them on a plate.
The only thing to make it “Christmas themed” is the ribbon, and I had to dig around my house to find a little leftover. So if you want this for a holiday party, just be sure to grab a cute big bow to really tie it all together.

Ham, Cheese, Cranberry Christmas Tree Sliders

These, SO good! I made these for lunch one day, and I think I’ll bring them to most family gatherings now.

All you need are a pack of Hawaiian Rolls, ham or turkey, swiss cheese and cranberry sauce.
Cranberry sauce goes on the bottom bun once you cut the rolls in half, a slice of turkey and swiss cheese, the top bun and then melted butter on top. All the recipes I saw recommended poppy seeds on top but I didn’t have any, so I just added salt and pepper.

The oven was set to 375 degrees fahrenheit, and I’d recommend cooking them for 10-12 minutes. The recipe I saw said 20 minutes, and they would’ve been BURNT if I left them in that long!
So a quick toast of the buns and melting of the cheese, lay out like a Christmas tree and you’re good to go!

Reindeer Pancakes

Oh my gosh, this was so much fun! It definitely didn’t turn out perfectly for me, and took a couple tester pancakes to get right. So here’s what I recommend.

If you want to get some good protein in, use your favorite protein pancake for this. And if you’re cooking the bacon in a pan, make sure to clean it out or use a different pan to cook the pancakes if you don’t want bacon bits and grease on them. This part is STRICTLY aesthetics, so don’t worry about it if you don’t care.

After that, it’s just a larger pancake for the head, smaller pancake for the nose, and then oval shaped pancakes for the ears.
Put the bacon behind everything, then place your berries for the eyes and nose. I also saw someone use a raspberry for the nose so it could be Rudolph.

Aside from making different shapes to create the reindeer head, this is a super simple and fun breakfast idea! It wasn’t bad at all, and this coming from someone who doesn’t like complicated things.
Hope you have just as much fun as I did!

Mitten Grilled Cheese

Did I have a mitten cookie cut out? No.
Would a simple Christmas tree have been easier? Probably.

But I saw an AI image of mitten grilled cheese and tomato soup, and I wanted to try and create it!
I totally would recommend getting a cookie cutout for ANY holiday to make themed grilled cheese because this was so fun! It brings me back to when my mom would cut out our peanut butter sandwiches with different cookie cutouts and it making my day so happy.

So grab a loaf of bread, your favorite cheese, a can of tomato soup, the confidence that everything is doable and easy, and you too can make grilled cheese in the shape of a winter mitten that will totally keep both your hands warm.

Basel and Cheese Puff Pastry Christmas Trees

This last one was so simple and good, but MAN could I only find the expensive puff pastry and that was annoying!
Maybe this is normal, but I could only find the gluten and dairy free puff pasty which, is fine and all, but almost $10 for one!? It didn’t even come with two!? Aside from that, it was good, just annoying.

So here’s what I did since I couldn’t double stack it and was NOT going to pay $20 for a fun Christmas snack.
I cut the one puff pastry I had in half with a pizza cutter. Then on one of the halves, I put a layer of pesto on it, and layered provolone cheese over the whole thing. Use whatever cheese you’d like, provolone was was I had in the fridge.
Then, you cover the full half with the empty puff pastry so it’s sandwiched in. Then, you’re going to cut it into strips. However thick you want, but don’t overthink this too much. With one sheet cut in half, I got about 6 slices.

Now for the tree part, and this is hit or miss and I obviously am no expert. But you’re going to zigzag(?) each strip on itself so it looks like a tree, or a version of a tree; bigger on bottom and shorter on time. Then you’ll put a skewer through it, top to bottom. I snapped off the extra length of the skewer just to get it out of the way.

Then you bake it at the temp on the box or can, mine was about 375 degrees fahrenheit I believe, for anywhere from 15-20 minutes or until they’re nice and crispy and the cheese is browned.

You can cut out more cheese stars like I said above with the pasta, but in all honesty, at this point I was tired of it. So I cut out one more for decoration, but it wasn’t thick enough and just kept breaking. So if you can see a little break and crack on my cheese star, it’s because it was literally falling apart and I was trying everything I could to balance it for the picture.

And those are the 10 Christmas themed meals and snacks I tried this week!
Note to the wise, do NOT do these all in one week. Pick a couple to try throughout the holiday season, or just if you happen to have the ingredients at home.

The Christmas holidays should be fun and magical, not filled with stress and waiting for it to be done.
So I hope, if anything, these bring a little magic and whimsey to your day, and remind you that not everything needs to be perfect to be fun. These are DEFINITELY not picture perfect, but they’re realistic for the average person trying to do something fun for Christmas.

And if you want some fun Christmas themed workout ideas, be sure to check out my Christmas themed fitness games and crafts.

So enjoy, have fun, and Merry Christmas!