If your family legitimately likes and wants burgers, that is fantastic. A lot of food focused holidays are less about the wishes of the people and more about the blunt observation of tradition. You may find that burgers are your new tradition, and everyone will look forward to it! Just make sure they weren’t joking. lol. I am also thinking of downsizing the food this season. We made a great lasagna last year, and I think we will go with that again. We used to have beef tenderloin each year. My husband adores it and looks forward to it, but the price has more than doubled and it was hard enough to spend $70 on just the meat for a meal two years ago. Best to you and yours no matter what is served at the Christmas table!

Two words: Turkey tenderloin.

You may be an undigested bit of Burger King, a blot of whopper sauce, a crumb of sesame bun, a fragment of underdone french fries. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!

We are the makers of manners! Have the best burgers EVER!!

I can't believe this post accumulated 318 comments in 7 hours. Actually I can believe it. Anyway. Beef wellington is easy and always feels really special. You don't need as much beef since you hide it in the puff pastry.

One year I opened my turkey to find it very spoiled. That year we ordered Chinese food. It was such a hit that we did it for at least five more years.

The food isn't what makes it Christmas dinner. The family around the table make it Christmas dinner. Don't let a fictional character from 150 years ago Mom shame you into what you think a Christmas dinner has to be.

Even if it’s just for one year, your family will always remember the fun of Burger Christmas!

Give the people what the people want and make the fanciest burgers ever made!

We have tacos for Christmas dinner since my adult kids requested it! And like someone else said, they’re tired of turkey/ham and the fixings. We all love Mexican so why not? Your kid’s idea of burgers is perfect😉

We have fondue on Christmas Eve. Christmas Day, we wake up to hash brown casserole in the crockpot and cinnamon rolls (both recipes from the WTM message boards back in the day) and in the afternoon it’s chili (red in the crockpot) and chicken chili. We ALL get to hangout together in or pjs all day (midnight Mass goers here) and no one spends the day in the kitchen.

We have frozen pizza. The horror! I cried one Christmas Because our many young children did not want a fancy dinner, no one ate it and I had to clean it up and was sad about it. Next year we had pizza. Everyone was happy. Very little cleaning.

Christmas dinner can be whatever you want! On Christmas Eve we do Chinese take-out. And usually our extended family Christmas celebrations look like soup and a sandwich platter, and chicken fingers eaten on Christmas plates!

One year, I made beautiful beef fillets for the adults and chicken-fried steaks for the kids. All the men in the family were looking over at the kids' food. So now, I make chicken-fried steak, everyone is happy, including my wallet.

Yes. The purpose is the fellowship right? Who cares if it's a turkey or prime rib or hamburgers. Make it special by being a fancy dinner with three forks for hamburgers.

I mean, I am a fan of lasagna so that no one is standing in the kitchen and we all get excellent naps. 😆

A pork tenderloin would also go well with shrimp or scallops. But honestly, if all they want is hamburgers I see no reason not to unless you really want to do something more elaborate. It's a family holiday, just because tradition tells us we should pull out all the stops for Christmas dinner doesn't mean we have to do it that way.

When our kids were little, we found that a formal Christmas dinner just didn't fit us. The kids wanted to snack and play with their new toys and build their new Lego sets more than they wanted to get dressed up and sit at a formal meal. And, especially with the layout of the house we have had for the past couple of decades, a formal dinner means the cook(s) is/are stuck in a separate room away from the fun of watching/playing with the kids. A far less fancy and formal meal works for us, especially if it can start slow cooking the night before so Christmas Day prep is much less. I read your post to my husband, who said, "Burgers sound awesome!" So I vote that you do burgers if that is what your people want. That being said, your feelings matter too, and if it is fun and exciting to you to cook a complex meal and sit down at a fancy table, that is completely reasonable. Your kids are old enough to help make that happen for their mom. A compromise might be to do a more formal meal, though maybe not prime rib (because ouch!), Christmas Eve. We did a more formal sit-down meal a few times on CE, so maybe that would work for your family.

We do roast beef, peas, Yorkshire pudding and twice baked potatoes. We will pay a bit more for a good cut of meat --- but not $240

We’re doing pot roast!

My parents , we had oyster stew, chili, and pizza. On Christmas Day, my mom’s side, was pot luck dinners, every one brought their favorite foods, meat was turkey, goose, pheasant, and ham.

We normally do a prime rib, but are seeing the same thing, $$$$$ so we are thinking homemade lasagna, it feels special enough and it’s easier to make a vegetarian option. Go for the burgers, give the people what they want! Use some of the savings to buy a new game to play as a family!

A burger bar would be so fun. Restaurants sell bougie burgers just as expensive as prime rib these days.

Thanksgiving is about the food. Christmas is about opening presents and putting stuff together and reading the books and playing the games and watching the shows and laughing and talking on the phone to people in other parts of the country (or world) and basically doing whatever the heck you want to do whenever the heck you want to do it. The food can be whatever you want it to be. I don't know how it happened, but 3 or 4 years ago my husband glommed onto a standing rib roast (prime rib) for Christmas dinner. He loves making it, we love eating it, so it has stuck as the latest tradition. Unless he can't find a decent cut at any of the local stores, I'm sure we'll have it again this year, no matter the cost. In past years we've run the gamut, though. Take out BBQ, homemade pizzas, smoked ham, surf and turf, you name it, we've had it for Christmas dinner!

We have pizza and have for 22 years now. 🤷🏻‍♀️. It started when we were young and both working at different churches. We came home from Christmas services and slept all afternoon. Whatever we planned didn’t get made and instead we pulled the frozen pizza in off the porch (Alaska) and now it’s tradition.