Holiday Meal Planning

I am doing most of the holiday cooking this year. Here is what is on the menu:

Main Dishes
White Chicken Chili with crusty bread
Stay-in-Bed Stew
Baked Macaroni and Cheese + broccoli as a side

Appetizers
BBQ Meatballs (oven)
Cool Veggie Pizza (crescent rolls w/ cream cheese and veggies)
Deviled Eggs
Fruit stuff
Artichoke Dip w/ triscuits
Cheese/Crackers or Nacho stuff
Pickles
Jesus’ Birthday Cake

Breakfast Foods
Breakfast Casserole (bread, cheese, bacon, eggs)
Cheesy Potatoes

Cookies and Snacks
Russian Tea Cakes
Sugar Cookies
Chex Mix
Mint Chocolate Chip Merenges*
Molasses Gingerbread cookies*
Mint Chocolate Oreos
Spritz Cookies (made by my brother-in-law)*

I will be adding more main dishes to the list, but my cookies/snacks are almost finished! Only the ones with asterisks still need to be made. If you have any suggestions for improving my
menu, let me know!

Toddler's Menu

String Bean's Menu for dinner last night:

• handful of frozen raspberries and blackberries
• 3 blueberries and one that was rejected because it was contaminated according to String Bean
  
• 2/3 of a banana
• 1/3 of a popcorn flavored rice cake
• 1/8 of a graham cracker smeared with (too much) peanut butter
• 1 plus a nibble of a second club cracker with a thin layer of peanut butter
• 1/4 cup of Crispix cereal
• 3 fried nacho-type chips
• 1/16 inch piece of raw onion that was immediately spat out
• 1 kernel of corn from corn salsa that did not please the highly refined palate of a 19 month old
• 1/2 a large snickerdoodle cookie

See, pediatrician? She may be skinny, but we do offer her a wide variety of foods. If she does not eat them, that's her problem.