What should I make for Boxing Day lunch?

[AveAtqueVale]

Need to come up with boxing day lunch for 9 people, including:
3 small children with varying levels of fussiness
1 grown man with a deep suspicion of anything other than meat and potatoes
1 other grown man who is incredibly health-conscious and picky
1 dairy-intolerant person
1 coeliac
...and a partridge in a pear tree.

We're elsewhere for Christmas lunch so won't have anything in the way of leftovers. Torn between putting together and bits and bobs buffet in the hope that everyone will find at least a few things they can eat, cooking a roast (particularly as FIL won't have had any proper Christmas dinner the day before) and cooking something easy but entirely non-festive like shepherds' pie or chilli. I massively cba. Normally like cooking and planning what to give people but I think I'm just out of the way of it with the pandemic. Also thinking I should maybe have pondered this sooner as now no delivery slots obviously so have to brave an actual trip to the shops .

Quality Street, and Pringles for the smalls

Salad, griddled marinated chicken maybe some potatoes of some sort should cover the rest of them.

Pile of bread and cheese and crackers

A decent ham, pork pie, salad, coleslaw, little garlic and rosemary potatoes, bread, cheese. Something gooey for pudding - trifle?

Tbh quality street and Pringles sounds epic. I might join the smalls with those and a Disney film and let the fussy grownups sort themselves out...

I'm planning a big fry-up, followed by quiche with salad in the evening. You could adapt that for smaller people.

I’d do the cold stuff - ham, pork pie, veggie quiche for the vegetarians, bags of salad, cherry tomatoes, jacket or mashed potatoes, pickles. Cheese and biscuits and trifle or Stollen.

Go for minimum effort.

New potatoes, salad, coleslaw, bread and cheese, roast meat x

Yes buffet is the way to go. Cook a gammon and roast a chicken, get some nice cheese and bread. Variety of salad and cold pudding trifle/cheesecake.

Buffet for sure, but maybe a curry or chilli and rice too? It can be made in advance, so no real hassle.

Sad for your FIL but no one else will want another roast.

@mamaduckbone

A decent ham, pork pie, salad, coleslaw, little garlic and rosemary potatoes, bread, cheese. Something gooey for pudding - trifle?

I'd go with this.

Turkey and salad.

I think a buffet can turn into a faff especially if you want to make things yourself. I’d be tempted to go with something like a beef bourguignon or coq au vin, parmentier potatoes and veg. But not sure if little ones or fussy one would go with that.

I'd cook a turkey crown just for eating cold on Boxing day!
Serve with jacket spuds, coleslaw, beet, toms, picallili, pickled onions etc. All laid out for everyone to help themselves to. Easy peasy and delicious.
Add some ham or a pork pie if you fancy it.

I literally do all their favourites so there is no waste.... pizza, big roast that can be reared apart, a ton of picky bits.
No waste as they are industrial waste disposal systems.

Pizza and a selection of salads

A massive ham and some sausages or pigs in blankets
For the kids- accompany with chips and beans or veg sticks.
For the adults do nice potatoes like rosemary diced roast potatoes.
Lots of green veg.
Cauliflower cheese.

All ok for coeliac. Everything but the cauli ok for dairy intolerance. Picky healthy nutter has lean ham and loads of green veg. Man who wants meat, veg and potatoes is happy.
It’s fairly easy and Christmassy too.

Gammon in the slow cooker with a pasta salad for the kids, a chickpea and roast butternut squash for the cealiac, and a fresh spinach, orange, walnut and chicory salad for the health conscious and to keep everything fresh. For desert ice cream and (shop bought) brownies for the kids, berries and ice cream for the rest, just berries for the health conscious, just brownies for the dairy intolerant. Some cheese for variety

Well im on pil duty on boxing day, usually do the full xmas dinner for the four of us in the family on xmas day, then boxing day pil come so i do a soup bread cheese and salad sot of lunch, they usedto stay over in a nearby hotel so would do a full on roast dinner again in the evening for them, beef and yorkshires rather than turkey. This year they are not staying so coming just for lunch so im doing home made tomato and pepper soup, a gammon joint, green salad, potato salad, coleslaw, marinaded prawns, smoked salmon or a cooked side of salmon, breads and cheeses, a trifle and an apricot frangipani tart

I think I'd cook a turkey crown & have it with baked potatoes / salad etc
I feel a little sorry for your fil if he's not getting any Christmas dinner at all & it's something he'd like.
For the small children I'd stick some sausages in the oven to have with crusty bread etc