You won’t have to turn on the oven.
No one is going to pass up a french fry, either.
One reader turns to a Texas staple every year.

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Every year we go there then go drive through a huge light display, wrote Elizabeth Drown.
Nothing says Christmas quite like a pecan waffle and smothered hash browns.
Our readers only affirm why: the delivery staple is a go-to the night before Santa arrives.

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For some, its a reminder of loved ones lost.
My husband set this almost 30 years ago.
All throw away stuff so that his grandkids didnt have to wait all evening to open presents.
John died 22 years ago and we still follow his lead for his great grandkids, wrote Linda Platter.
For some, pizza is an easy way to unwind after doing all the Christmas cooking prep.
Because I cook all day for Christmas, someone gets us take out pizza, Chinese, or Mexican.
Our Christmas Eve tradition started about 25 years ago: church then out for sushi.
[Then] home to watchIt’s a Wonderful Life, wrote Betsy Watts Koch.
Sushi and a Christmas movie sounds like a pretty fantastic way to spend the holidays to us.
Another idea we loved came from Rebecca Bull Koraytem.