Blake Shelton has the best intentions when he sets New Year's resolutions – it just doesn't always work out the way he planned.

Shelton recently told Entertainment Tonight that he often pledges to slow his alcohol consumption before the start of every new year but that it's a promise he struggles to stick to.

"I haven't managed to stop drinking yet," Shelton said. "Even cutting back has been hard. I mean, it's a resolution, though. And I'll say it again right now — that's my New Year's resolution. To either cut back or stop drinking altogether. Let's just say I said it."

But just because he might be drinking doesn't mean Shelton and his wife, Gwen Stefani, will stay up late, he told Entertainment Tonight.

"If we're at home during New Year's Eve, we're probably going to bed before it even happens," he said.

The 2023 holiday season is the couple's third as husband and wife, but they've developed an assortment of family traditions along the way – starting with unique Thanksgiving turkey recipes.

"The first year, we made a hot Flamin' Hot Cheetos turkey," Shelton told PEOPLE. "We crusted it in the Flamin' Hot Cheetos. The next year, Apollo, or maybe it was Zuma; I can't remember. We ended up doing a Funyuns turkey, which actually tasted a lot like a regular turkey. I guess whatever they put in Funyuns, it's the same stuff."

In 2021, they covered the bird in bacon.

"One of them saw a picture of the bacon-wrapped — like the whole thing, and we're doing it," Shelton said.

For Christmas, the tradition is more sophisticated. Shelton and Stefani routinely choose a recipe that seems so complicated that "people can't really make it." One of his favorites: pasta timpano.

"Basically, there are all kinds of different pastas and sauces and layers in this like bread bubble," Shelton explained. "Then you bake it, and you cut these slices, and it's literally the most fattening worst thing you could probably ever eat. But it's also the best thing you ever ate, too."

Shelton said the couple does a test run of the new dish a few days before Christmas, so no one feels like a Grinch when it hits their plate.

"I married into an Italian family, and food is, they take that serious around here, and I do, too," he said. "So it's a bad, really bad combination."