Following on from the very divisive thread from earlier, asking whether one has a starter before Christmas dinner or not, I am now feeling a bit nosy curious as to what people actually eat on the big day. Here's what ours usually looks like:
Pre-breakfast: Kids usually have some chocolate from their stockings that we politely decline in sharing
Breakfast: Oven goes on for the turkey and we warm croissants and pain au chocolat in it whilst we are waiting for it to get to temperature. These are served with lashings of tea, freshly squeezed breakfast juice (orange and grapefruit) and butter/jam
Mid morning: Probably some more chocolate or some Twiglets savoury nibbles if we fancy some
At some point in the morning we will take all the Christmas dinner peelings to give to our sheep, along with a Christmas swede for each of them!
2pm (ish): Main event - no starter - which comprises turkey, roast spuds, sometimes new potatoes too, roast parsnips , sprouts, mashed carrot and swede, broccoli, peas, pigs in blankets, our special stuffing (cooked in its own dish not in the turkey - pack of stuffing with extra fried onions and a pack of sausage meat, all mixed together and baked) and possibly some Yorkshire puddings if we are feeling particularly hungry. All served with fizz of some sort (Shloer for the kids) and lashings of gravy etc
Pudding may or may not be served after dinner (DH is the only one who likes xmas pud)
Some point in the early evening: a buffet style supper of cold turkey and possibly a baked ham, pickles, cheese and biscuits, fruit and possibly more chocolate.
AIBU?
...to ask what your usual meal plan/content is on Christmas Day?
StillSquirrelling · 19/11/2014 21:49
Scrambled egg with smoked salmon for breakfast followed by the first glass of fizz of the day.
Lunch at about 3-ish
Starter of smoked salmon (if not for breakfast) or salmon pate and blinis.
Turkey crown x 2 (no basting for hours for me!) Roasties, parsnips, stuffing, cauli and broccoli cheese, carrots and a ton of pigs in blankets.
I buy a pudding every year and we usually have it at Easter...
The whole day is snacking and drinking and I love it.
Boxing Day - snacking then off to mil for a very boozy buffet 
No breakfast here - mum used to do a full cooked breakfast when I was growing up - of all the days you don't need a full cooked breakfast, I think christmas is definitely one of them!
Something fizzy about elevenish, usually Buck's Fizz - although last year DH fucked up his ONE AND ONLY job, which was to get some orange juice for the Buck's Fizz. He came back with a bottle of robinsons squash 
Starter about 1pm - a selection of homemade pates with chutneys and Melba toast, served when guests arrive in the living room and help yourself.
Lunch between 2 - 3 - turkey, about a million pigs in blankets, stuffing, braised red cabbage YORKSHIRE PUDDINGS and the usual veg, bread sauce etc.
Mucho wine.
Nighttime drinks will be more spirit based and will just nibble on leftovers, chocolate and maybe cheeses
Christmas pudding gets eaten, like as not, either later in the evening or on Boxing Day.
There's only me, DH and 5yo DD, and we only have our own Christmas once every three years as we spend Christmas with PIL or my parents the other years. When we're at home, this is the loose plan...
Breakfast: bacon rolls or pastries and some juices. DD will most likely want olives, so we'll get a nice tub of deli ones. We then open presents and post photos to FB and twitter for family & friends.
Lunch (probably about 2pm isn): roast chicken or a turkey crown, roast potatoes, peas, carrots, roast parsnips & carrots, pigs in blankets, load of gravy (nice pre-bought stuff!). Dessert is likely to be pavlova or apple pie, maybe gateau. I don't really like christmas cake, christmas pudding or mince pies 
. I like to get a box of After Eight mints in too! We'll have some wine for DH and I'll probably have some fake stuff.
Tea: Chicken rolls, maybe with chips.
During the day, we'll eat a fair bit of chocolate and nibbles.
I like to watch a Christmas film during the day and we try to go out for a walk. I'm unsure where this year as we've only just moved to the area, but we'll find somewhere just for an hour or so (unless the weather is wet). We'll also play a family game with DD and make some lego stuff.
my DD will be with her dad this year.
So me and OH will get up around 8am.
Croissants and proper bucks fizz.
He will go off to see his kids open their pressies and give them pressies.
Then back to mine.
This year we are going out for lunch.
Can't wait. I usually have around 15 people over for dinner. This year it's only 12 and off the local we will go!
No prepping 2 days before, the night before, from early on Christmas morning.
No worrying about how much I will spend on all the bits.
No dishes afterwards. It's gonna be great.
Breakfast is no different to any other day.
Presents are opened by dcs (we don't get any ourselves)
Skype my folks
Lunch is a bacon roll or whatever
Play with toys etc
Dinner is roast chicken with roast potatoes, veg and gravy or whatever we feel like (normal everyday food). Can't be arsed to try and do anything special, nobody cares anyway, as long as we are fed the food is irrelevant.
Pudding is not a big deal either, if we want anything it will be whatever we feel like again, nothing special.
No alcohol, we don't drink.
Will probably watch a couple films or something, we really aren't festive types. I only really do Christmas at all for the dcs, my family never celebrated it so I have no family traditions.
I'm sure that sounds boring and shit to most but we don't need to stuff ourselves just because, and the dcs have a nice day getting new stuff 
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Breakfast: Smoked salmon on Rye bread with bubbly
Snacks...anything
Lunch: Baked brie in breadcrumbs and redcurrant jam, then Goose, ham, parsnips, carrots, Brussels and chorizo, roast potatoes, gravy, stuffing, pigs in blanket
Desert: Too full so nothing
We usually have scrambled eggs, smoked salmon and watercress. Coffee and bucks fizz. Dc's will have pain au chocolat/croissant and orange juice.
We've never done a starter on xmas day, sometimes I think - ok we'll do one this year but never do! Dh cooks the dinner, this year we're having turkey. All the veg etc. Xmas pudding and shitloads of clotted cream
Teatime we have cold meats, pickles that I make every year, ditto a couple of chutneys I made a month or so ago. Dh loves cheese and crackers so we'll get some different types in for then, celery, grapes an cucumber etc. I'll put some nibbles out, bread and butter for sandwiches, mince pies.
Certainly not as extravagant as some but plenty for us, I'm still stuffed afterwards As long as there's plenty of pigs in blankets and sprouts Im happy!
We've got a dog now so Im looking forward to going out for a nice couple of walks with her throughout the day, Ive also said I'll go for a nice xmas day run but Im not sure of my chances with that one
Continental breakfast at around 9 am after opening presents. Homemade croissants, pain au chocolat, my own version of Nigella's Christmas morning muffins 
, Pannetone, naice marmalade, cinnamon honey and homemade jam with milkshake.
Lunch between 12 and 1- cheese, tomato and Mayo baguettes? This is a slightly strange tradition we started a couple of years ago and it's stuck because they're so yummy and not tooooo filling.
Dinner between 5 and 6.
Starter: soup and bread roll.
Main- this year it's Delia's cheese parsnip roulade but we change it every year, roasted chanteney carrots and parsnips, maple syrup veggie bacon sprouts, veggie pigs in blankets, chestnut stuffing, truffle oil roast potatoes and homemade onion gravy.
Dessert- choice between Yule log and chocolate gingerbread cheesecake.
Drink: naice fresh juice for the DC, Mars bar vodka/sloe gin for adults.
In the evening we bring the chocolates and biscuits out.
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