Explore festive Christmas foods with these easy-to-make holiday recipes

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There are many foods associated with the traditional Christmas holiday. These include gingerbread cookies, fruitcake, and eggnog.

Many families in the United States bake a ham on Christmas Eve. In Britain, roast turkey is more common. During the cold winter months, people eat more root vegetables like mashed potatoes, carrots and yams.

But other countries have their own Christmas foods. In Japan, some people get KFC for Christmas. In Mexico, tamales are a Christmas speciality. In Australia, where Christmas comes during the summertime, they prefer prawns and oysters.

Everyone enjoys Christmas differently. Still, we can all agree that holiday food is delicious when shared with loved ones.

Grinch fruit kebabs

Ingredients

• 10 miniature marshmallows

• 20 strawberries

• 1 banana

• 10 green grapes

• 10 toothpicks

Instructions

1. Wash the fruit. Then, remove the green tops from the strawberries and slice the banana into 10 flat pieces.

2. Take your toothpick and poke it into the green grape. Then, add the banana slice and then the strawberry. The flat end of the strawberry should be touching the banana. Above the strawberry tip, add one marshmallow.

3. Enjoy your snacks while you watch How the Grinch Stole Christmas.

Mexican Christmas fruit punch

Ingredients

• 1 litre of water

• 6 tablespoons of brown sugar or cane sugar

• 1 cinnamon stick

• 2 cloves

• 3 guavas, cut into chunks

• 1 large red apple, cut into chunks

• 1 pear, cut into chunks

• 1 orange, sliced

• ¼ cup of dried hibiscus flowers or peeled tamarind pods (you can also substitute this with lemon juice)

Instructions

1. Place all the ingredients into a large pot. Heat it on the stove until it boils. Then, cover it, lower the heat, and let it cook for another 30 minutes.

2. Taste it and add more sugar if you think it is not sweet enough.