Sandra Bullock's Family Holiday Tradition:

For many families, the holidays involve a perhaps stressful trip to the grocery store, but that's nothing compared to Sandra Bullock's Christmas dinner, which entails illegally importing sausages from Germany to continue a meal tradition started by the actress's mother. "Since my mother passed, we break the law, because we have to manage to smuggle German sausages into the country, and apparently bringing meats across the waters is against the law," Bullock, 47, told Jay Leno during an appearance on The Tonight Show. "You fry 'em up with some sauerkraut and potato salad, but they have to be the right ones." The Oscar winner, who is making the rounds to promote the film Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, said her family sends out an "SOS" to a handful of loved ones overseas to send the meats over to the U.S. "We just have to break the law a little bit, but eventually someone's package gets through," she told Leno. When pressed about the method, Bullock said with a smirk: "I'm not at liberty to divulge how we smuggle the sausage." "When you put it that way," Leno said, "I don’t want to know."Sandra Bullock

In This Photo: Sandra BullockSandra Bullock at the premiere of "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" in New York at the Ziegfeld Theater.(December 15, 2011 - Photo by PacificCoastNews.com)

In This Photo: Sandra BullockSandra Bullock at the premiere of "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" in New York at the Ziegfeld Theater.(December 15, 2011 - Photo by PacificCoastNews.com)

In This Photo: Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock, Thomas ThornActors Tom Hanks, Thomas Thorn, and Sandra Bullock attend the "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close" New York premiere at the Ziegfeld Theater on December 15, 2011 in New York City.(December 14, 2011 - Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images North America)

Sandra Bullock wears a long gray coat and signs autographs for fans as she leaves 'The Today Show' after an appearance to promote her new film 'Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.'.(December 15, 2011 - Photo by Bauer Griffin)Sandra Bullock interview in Barbara Walters Special 2010