What are you going to do with your Christmas Day food leftovers?

[TheTecknician]

Assuming you have any, of course. Leftover roast potatoes are quite rare, I gather, but mash and other vegetables often end up as bubble and squeak.

In all honesty, eat the pigs in blankets and stuffing balls cold, make turkey sandwiches and leave the left over veg in the fridge until new year and the bin it because even though I know I should do bubble and squeak but the cheese is much more tempting.

Eat them today!

I’ve made up several portions of Christmas dinner for mum’s freezer! Doesn’t cook anymore so will make a nice homemade meal for a few nights over the next month or two!

Stilton and broccoli soup with extra sprouts.
The carrots and roast potatoes will be used in meals
Stuffing will be eaten each time I look in the fridge

I'll be making
Boxing Day scones
Turkey and ham pie filling (with leftover cheese sauce)
Mashed potato soup
Turkey soup
Creamy lemon sauce to throw over some turkey and pasta
Parsnip soup

And probably some other bits too. The next 48hrs are my favourite part of Xmas and I love using up the leftovers to stock the freezer and offset some January grocery spends

All I have is turkey, ham. Cheesecake and trifle.
Turkey for dinner today.
Ham will be gone after breakfast this morning.
Desserts will probably end up binned tomorrow.

Make stock with the carcass (today) and use that for either risotto or soup or both, if I end up with a lot.

Turkey sandwiches with cranberry sauce and stuffing.

Leftover veg will get eaten today mostly, I think, reheated in some form. There's still a bit of my excellent gravy too. May have to cook extra potatoes to have with that as there are very few roast potatoes left. Potatoes and gravy is one of my all time favourite things.

I might try making Devilled Turkey using this Thomasina Miers recipe as a starting point. I heard her talking about it on the radio last year or the year before and it sounded good. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3cZGw29Ss4llXwzmn162zWB/recipes-from-christmas-with-the-food-programme

Boxing Day always starts with bubble and squeak for breakfast and then cold turkey, chips and pickles for tea.

That should use a lot of the leftovers, remaining turkey will be used for sandwiches and a couple of other meals stir fry or egg fried rice and maybe a soup.

My oldest will eat roast dinners for next few days! (I deliberately make loads so she can do this) leftover meat and stuffing then gets frozen and we will make a Xmas dinner pie sometime in January (hopefully enough to repeat as well)

Veg all gone.

Today will be cold meats, stuffing, pigs in blankets and home made chips with pickles.

All these ideas sound familiar from Christmas decades ago in the family home. I'm sure one or two curries were produced as well.

Maximum we ever have here is five, so I cook exactly what I know everyone will one, so there aren't any leftovers. Asked DH to prep veggies yesterday for first time, so we do have roast potatoes and turkey breast leftover. Will reheat roast potatoes today or freeze. DH will probably eat some turkey today (I don't eat it), then forget about it so the cats will have a treat every day until it's gone.

I never cook on boxing day. There is turkey and gammon, salads, pork pie, ,pate,, crackers, various cheeses. Trifle, yule log, cream and ice cream. A Christmas picnic, possibly on the beach but we will see.

Love leftovers! DH is going to make a hairy bikers turkey & ham pie (maybe leek as well) & I will have turkey, stuffing & breadsauce sandwiches today. Have quite a lot of veg which will get eaten cold over the next few days. We did A LOT of roast potatoes!

Bubble and squeak with leftover turkey today (plus a side of salmon as I hate cold turkey)

Second Christmas dinner today after a long walk. I've got pastry to make cheese and bacon pinwheels, sausage and sprout Mac n cheese for tea tomorrow, I'll be making a turkey dip inspired by M&S. Will probably have some turkey left still which usually ends up in a curry.

Christmas mac and cheese (with the leftover sprout/pancetta/chestnut mix and blue cheese) 😋

(Actually have to make enough sprouts that we have enough leftovers for this or I get complaints from the kids - who wouldn't go near a sprout at any other time of year 🤣)

Other than that we'll just eat the leftovers at random intervals when someone says they're starving and it's not time for one of the many, many meals that are planned!

I have another Christmas dinner. Can’t wait

Binning desserts-noooooooo😓

My husband has gone to work with a large Christmas dinner for his lunch, so there are no leftovers.

We are visiting family today, so will need to cook different things to take with us, but breakfast will be sandwiches with some of the leftovers. 27th & 28th will be the time we get stuck into the rest in earnest, with a variety of sandwiches, a turkey curry (butter 'chicken' this year. Last year was green thai IIRC), a turkey and ham pie and root veg & cheese soup. I have a number of packets of part-baked bread in the cupboard for the sandwiches and soup. The Using Of The Leftovers is my favourite part. Anything unlikely to be eaten on 28th, gets portioned up and frozen that morning, but there is rarely a huge amount that makes it to the freezer. Then on the 29th we'll start on the cheese...

I've been really unwell this week so I gave frozen all the leftover mash, roasties, veg and stuffing. After my Boxing Day family gathering today I'll freeze a bit of turkey and ham too, then when I feel better I can have another Christmas dinner as I feel like i missed out!

B&S for breakfast today and the rest of the week. A decent amount was portioned up and put in the freezer yesterday so we can have B&S in a few weeks time.
Will have cheese & biscuits for supper up until the new year.

Nothing is ever thrown away, we always buy the correct amount of food and over buy/cook to allow for B&S well into the future. It is a favourite of ours.😁

I just heat them up as they are - don't make anything else with them. I think we have enough for one more meal (there's three of us).

We have only ever hosted Christmas twice in 24 years of being together (3 times if you count Covid) & this is one of the things I miss most! I love making meals with leftovers! I would do soups, pasta sauce with cheese board ends, pies, sandwiches, stir fries, risottos and more!

At father-in-law's today but SIL & her family (BIL, 20 year-old DD & 17 year-old nephew) have been living there for the past 18 months so she has taken over Christmas food. FIL can't cook & I guess it's a way of paying him back. Let's just say our culinary ideas are poles apart (she prefers convenience, we prefer fresh European food) & she bins all leftovers. So it's pizza today, which will go down well. Have to keep reminding myself that being together is the main thing, especially as we are missing MIL who died a few years ago.