What Time Did You Eat Xmas Lunch?

[londonscalling]

I was criticised (subtly) by an elderly relative for serving Christmas lunch so late yesterday.

By the time the teenagers got up, we opened presents, ate breakfast, had visitors in the morning and then cooked lunch, we didn't eat until 3pm.

Is that ridiculously late?

She’d hate my house! Aimed for 5.30 and ended up being 6.20. I hate eating heavily in the middle of the day. 3pm is fine - makes the meal the focus of the day.

always aim for 3, usually bout 3.30 ish but was bang on time yesterday

About 2.30 we ate. Then had dessert and crisps and dip at about 7.

I think 3 is normal! That’s when we aim for.

4:30 I think :) 3 is perfectly acceptable. Dinner while the queens speech is on. Isn’t that a ‘thing’? Although we would have the tv on during Xmas dinner :) some people don’t. 🤷‍♀️

4 pm, which is what I aimed for. I was quite surprised that my calculations were correct!

4pm

Ive always had Christmas dinner late in the day. My parents have it as an evening meal.

1.30 Any later and everyone would be starving!

2.30pm then had dessert about 4 ish and cheese course at 6 ish.

Nothing like spreading it out!

Served ours up at 4:15pm.

Half three. We watched the queens speech before getting all the veg and extras out if the oven and plating up.

About to eat it at 1pm today! That would upskittle your elderly relative!! We have afternoon tea on Christmas day to take the pressure off trying to prep food and see everyone. Looking forward to my Christmas dinner now. 😀

1.30 as I love leftovers

2.20pm...just right. Then supper at 7pm.

Well, we had ours at 5.30 pm. She'd hate us.

We went to some friends for drinks, snacks and games and more drinks, strolled home for roundabout 2, then put the (small) turkey on and had our dinner in the early evening. Suited us and late teen DCs perfectly.

Tell your relative that what time you have Christmas dinner is none of their beeswax.

Starters were out at 2:30....by the time we had dessert it was about 5:00 and then the cheese board was delayed until after the kids were in bed an hour or so later (they were knackered!).

We don't have dinner til 9ish most days

Joyful you sound like my kind of people! 😃🤩😃

14.30 for us. But then I just wanted to get the cooking out of the way so I could focus on chilling

4.30 in our house. Should have been 4pm so half an hour late is not too bad. My sons have other family to visit and I have to pick my mum up, so later in the day suits us.

Oh, and we hate turkey so had venison instead which most people are horrified by! (The lack of turkey rather than the venison, that is)

Thanks. I think the criticism was because, at their age, they eat at set times every day. All their meal times are a lot earlier than ours. They eat at the same time every day regardless of whether or not they are hungry!

Always 3pm here.

1pm

Ours was very late as ds was working.

I’d planned for 3.30 but it was nearer 4 and we had Christmas puddings at 6.30!