Fellow seniors. What suggestions have you?

Oh Grumpy, you lovable old grit. you need eggnog and rum. Wish you were here cause if you were, You could spend Christmas with my family, of course two felines roam the place, but hey bring your paint brush and you could paint the little buggers red and green for Christmas. You could save you change and splurge at a Chinese restaurant.

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I make steak sandwiches for the family contributors once per week. I toast slices an Italian soda loaf for the bread area. effective skinny beef steak - that is both called minute steak, sizzle steak or schnitzel - that I truthfully have marinated in Balsamic vinegar and olive oil, then grilled. Crispy lettuce or spinach and rocket flow on the toasted bread first, then the steak, sliced tomato sprinkled with freshly floor black pepper, tasty cheddar cheese, Lebanese cucumber, skinny slices of pink (I say that is red) onion and a pair strips of pink capsicum. I drizzle really of a tangy coleslaw dressing on, then yet another leaf of lettuce (to ward off the toast going soggy), then the lid.

Only 5 minutes to eat it ' ? !!! You need to slow down and learn to taste and enjoy your food a little more, my friend .

BTW...Is your real name Scrooge ? You sound just like him!

If I were you, I'd make a meal of my favorite things, however much they might not go together. Maybe a small portion of dressing with gravy, pickled peaches, artichoke hearts, spiced apples, deviled eggs...everything I love.

G.O.G., this is really about 'sociality' rather than food. Food you can organize any old time. Christmas, however, demands some kind of 'festivity' if it is to have any meaning, so my feeling would be, 'food' has to go along with 'company.' Even if it's just one other person. So I would try, in your circumstances, to connect somehow. Invite a neighbour. Go get yourself invited to a Senior Center. Something, anything, where you are not alone.

If you were close by, I'd invite you to a Christmas Dinner like a shot. But 13,000 miles away it just a bit too far to do that..!

Look around. No-one is completely alone, unless they want to be. And I say again. The 'what to eat..?' thing is not important. It's the 'who to eat it with..?' is what makes it have any kind of meaning.

Many local community/church dinners will deliver to you. Look for your local chamber of commerce and either call them or look at their web sight for activities in December. The dinner may be on a day other than Christmas in some instances. You are so not alone in being alone. I've in the past spent Christmas alone with children living elsewhere etc. Its not always an easy day to travel if you work so I totally understand. I would plan snacks to eat the whole day. Pop popcorn on the stove top, have cheese and crackers ready, get a couple candy canes at a check out counter, they have cookies in a sleeve you can slice and bake. If you like peanut butter cookies try this: 1 egg, 1 cup peanut butter 1 cup sugar. Mix and bake as cookies. Put a piece of chocolate in it if you like that for festive treat. How about english muffin pizza, toast the muffin and then put some sauce, pepperone and cheese on and broil or bake. Have you tried drinking juice mixed with club soda, it's good and is a little better than just juice. Be sure and come here YA seniors. We'll be checking in too and you'll be the hit of the party.

Go to one of those free dinners that churches give every year. You get prepared food, no clean up afterwards, and you spend time with a lot of people.

Get ya a TV dinner???

But it's okay for us women to spend time everyday cooking,cleaning up and washing dishes and have the mates or family take only 5 minutes to glob it all down? that an insult to us women!! who slave over the stove everyday! LOL

You can cook your dinners like you always do and freeze them and add variety to the meal add you go.

Cooking for one is no fun.

You could head over to spend Christmas with other people and have a lunch there - http://www.fote.org.uk/ or your local community church. Parishes usually have a senior citizen's dinner.

What about a pub? Is that also too expensive?

M&S do nice ready meals, could do that?

If by any chance in the universe you live in Bedford, I'll come over and bring you Christmas dinner. We can play a game of scrabble too and you can beat me at it because I'm rubbish.

get an already cooked chicken, some veggies, and whatever else you eat on Christmas. if you dont eat it all, have the rest on boxing day

Get one of those frozen turkey dinners and slice of pie.