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
Breakfast - porridge oats with water [stoic]. I've tried fancy breakfasts in the past but it's not for me. It's all TOO MUCH richness. I have to ease my self in now to the Christmas Day eating or my bowels play up something terrible.
Lunch - champagne, or fizz cocktails. Things on things nibbles (smoked salmon on bread (sad face at lack of thinly sliced bread), pate, maybe even a little tasteful sausage roll. That sort of thing.
Dinner. This year it will be a rib of beef and therefore Yorkshire puddings are allowed. All the rest of the stuff. I may even do cauliflower cheese this year, but maybe not, it's a step too far possibly.
Pudding, mmm, not making a Christmas pudding this year, it's only me that eats it really. Probably trifle then. The dc's have asked for apple crumble 
cheese and port
Some nuts
Okay, so there's 8 of us at my parents house, and 8 at my grandma's house which is the other side of the same village, about a five minute walk away. We used to all go in the house house which was much easier when myself and my cousins were small, but now that we're all older (And the boys have some how become giants!) we have to split into two, it's also easier on my 80 year old grandma this way!
So in our house it goes like this -
Christmas morning/Breakfast - when we were kids was always, always bacon sandwiches. There would always be an argument that my dads bacon was never as crispy as mum makes it, and then Dad would become irritated because once we had our bacon to perfection, we's smother it in ketchup and promptly leave half of the sandwich, which due to the amount of ketchup 'ruined' my dad's enjoyment of our left over sandwiches 
. We then, one year, for some reason switched to making ham and cheese croissants, and that's kinda stuck now, but the breakfasts have gotten bigger as we have haha! it now consists of our homemade cheese and ham croissants, streaky bacon (argument has persisted over crispy v floppy) scrambled eggs and there's generally some salmon.
Between breakfast and lunch there tends to be much drinking of various 'cocktail fizz' before the wine is cracked open.
Christmas lunch -
We do have a starter, we do a prawn cocktail and some smoked salmon and cream cheese 'swirls'. Each year both my little brother and cousin will look and theirs and not eat it, each year we will continue to be surprised that they've managed to grow despite their picky eating habits.
the main event consists of turkey, ham, pork, pigs in blankets, stuffing, roast potatoes, new potatoes, roast parsnips, cranberry glazed carrots, broccoli, green beans and asparagus, bacon Brussels sprouts, red cabbage, and an on going argument of whether or not Yorkshire puddings are involved continues, with yorkshires winning around 50% of the time. Gravy, apple sauce and cranberry sauce are all made, and for some reason mint sauce also comes out (jarred).
After Christmas Dinner we do a christmas pudding at our house and then its round to grans for 'proper pudding', it used to just be her that puts the spread on but now I always make something to help, like a trifle, and we tend to have some type of yule log and meringue roulade.
We then attempt to play a game, no-one will listen to any suggestion of leaning how to play it before starting and those who are not playing will continue to shout answers out. It's funny, annoying at the time but funny now.
Tea that evening (around 8pm) will consist of turkey and stuffing sandwiches which for the past sort of 6 years or so, my cousins and I have made for everyone, and nibbles, as well as more chocolate and sweet things coming out. We all go home around 10 or 11, and the next day its everyone at my parents house for football and more food!
Sorry that was so long! I really enjoyed writing it and I enjoy reading everyone else's christmas stories!
Ooh, yummy pastries for brekkie sound good Zombie - I'm thinking something with custard and/or pear would be nice. I wonder where I could get such things. Perhaps in our new Waitrose even if it does seem a bit up itself
Pink champagne first thing sounds pretty good too 
Lovecat
Porridge made with water though Slubber 
Puritan Christmas?!
Me and DD 6yo wil have lunch at my mum and dads, with my brother, and mums cousin and his son. We eat breakfast of bacon sandwiches and bucks fizz at around 10am usually, then dinner is around 1.30pm and comprises
fresh roast turkey
roast potatoes
parsnips
honey roast and steamed carrots
red cabbage with apple
pigs in blankets
cocktail sausages in mustard and honey
sausage meat stuffing
bread sauce
cranberry sauce with port
leek and potato bake
brussels
peas
cauliflower cheese
gravy
washed down with red wine, cava or orange juice depending on age.
my dad insists on Christmas Pudding, but nobody else can ever manage any, so we also have a cold dessert as well.
we always cook too much because anything left over is chucked into a big pan to make a massive soupy stew for Boxing Day. This is a tradition and people ask for the recipe but there isnt one and it tastes different every year depending on the leftovers!
teatime we have cold meat and cheese and biscuits if anybody can fit anything in
This year we will have maybe 6-10 people joining us in the afternoon/evening, so there will be a lot of crips, nuts, chocolate, and wine going around
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