The country's prisoners will enjoy a simple but hearty Christmas lunch, costing about $6 per person.
Corrections say more than 30,000 meals are being prepared and cooked by prisoners under the supervision of qualified tutors as part of industry training.
Corrections national commissioner Rachel Leota says the Christmas Day menu is the same across the nation's 17 prisons and meets nutritional requirements.
"It costs about $6 per prisoner, a similar amount to every other day," she said.
The lunch meal of chicken, potatoes, carrots, peas and gravy, followed by apple pie, is a regular weekly prison meal on the national menu, which would normally be served in the evening.
