Xmas day starters, what are you having?

[ChrissyShenkle]

I need ideas, my brain seems to have stopped working and just can't think of anything nice

Chestnut soup with bacon croutons

Scallops

Isn't that breakfast?

A pork & Stilton pork pie and minestrone. It’s a family tradition.

Grazing board with cheese, charcuterie meats, pate and hummus at about 2pm then dinner is at 5! First time hosting so feel we might have got too much 😂

Bang on

That makes 2 of us

I've decided to go totally 1970s and do melon with Port.

And then cheese with Port for supper.

No that's a bacon butty 😀

Another one who has never had a starter Christmas Day but I do constantly graze on crap from the moment I wake up.

very traditional here either prawn cocktail with iceberg lettuce and brown bread and butter or pate for the ones of us who dont like prawns

Bruschetta for us this year as there is a newborn to content with so wanted something picky. Then some other bruschetta type things with olive tapenade.

Smoked salmon and sour cream on homemade blinis.

No starter. I'd never heard of Christmas dinner starter til I came on mumsnet.

Pate and a freshly baked crusty bread roll we have planned.

My starter is usually a bit of the crispy bacon off the top of the turkey when I'm carving. We have never done a formal starter - I love the main event so much and go large on the elaborate sauces / different types of stuffing etc so it just doesn't seem necessary.

This thread is making me very hungry.

Starter aside, growing up we didn't have breakfast on Christmas day, and would just tuck into some chocolate then save ourselves for the dinner. Now with my own family I tend to just do something really light like yoghurt/pastries if wanted, dc's are too excited opening presents. I find we all enjoy our dinner more as well. I never understand how people will have a substantial rich breakfast, eat chocolates, have a starter, large main and then dessert with Christmas nibbles later on. How do you do it?

Wow!

I am in Awe. How does anyone have room for the turkey, roasties, two kinds of stuffing, pigs in blankets, sprouts, parsnips, bread sauce, cranberry sauce, gravy. And then the Christmas pudding! (And cheese and chocolates).

I shall make something small and nibbly, involving smoked salmon, to be eaten on the sofa with a glass of prosecco.

As far as I'm concerned, eating is basically the whole point of Christmas.

Xmas Eve dinner is a gammon, baked potatoes and cauliflower cheese.

On the day we do breakfast at ten, champagne and canapés from about 11.30-3.30, main meal at 4.30/5ish. Cheese and pudding take you through until about 6.30, then if anyone is peckish later there's cold meat (gammon, turkey and beef), pickles and nice bread (and more cheese, obvs).

Boxing Day is leftovers bubble and squeak with a fried egg on top for brunch, then a big spread of antipasti, nice nibbly things and a baked Camembert for tea.

My Christmas fridge is getting there already...

Starters are for people who don't make enough roasties.

We have a starter and it depends on people’s likes, some have prawn cocktail, some pate, some soup etc but we always have to wait about 4 hours to have dessert cos we’re so stuffed from the main meal!!

Devils on horseback

We just have melon (dh likes it)
we never had starters growing up