What food your christmas consists of?

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For example Christmas eve, Christmas day and Boxing day

I was born and raised in Australia so my Christmas is always a bit more casual than most. It's almost like a huge party and over the week of Christmas with around 60-80 people flitting in and out (keeping in mind between my bio and foster children and their families that's around 30 people alone), so we do huge platters with deli meats and cheeses and giants hunks of different meats with different sides and cakes and slices and a seafood platter. We just switch it around during the day and everybody grabs what they want when they want. Everybody cleans up after themselves when they are done. Much better and less stress that way.

Christmas Eve - always go out for a bar meal late afternoon & just some nibbles for supper

Christmas Day - toast for breakfast & then full Christmas dinner at parents

Boxing Day - bacon sandwiches for breakfast then a takeaway for tea

Christmas Eve will either be a hearty meal or party food. This year I am going hearty and it will be beef cheeks in red wine with either saffron risotto or mash.

Christmas Day is breakfast with scrambled eggs, smoked salmon and mimosa. Lunch / dinner will be traditional roast and this year I am doing goose. No pudding. Supper will be cheese, biscuits, pate etc.

Boxing Day. Just toast for breakfast. Pub lunch or dinner.

Christmas eve will just be picky bits as and when around veg prep and activities with the kids. Christmas day is a mini fry up (7am), christmas dinner at 2pm and a cheese board and chocolates later. Boxing day is a very small breakfast, another turkey dinner at in laws and another cheeseboard. Next day after that is turkey sandwiches and chocolates

Christmas Eve night will probably be a take away.

Christmas day. Breakfast is just normal breakfast for me. DS gets to eat whatever selection box he wants.
Lunch is a traditional dinner with turkey and all the trimmings.
Evening is usually when we have dessert as we are full from lunch.

Boxing day is just leftovers

What kind of desserts do people have on Christmas day? I am looking for ideas.

Christmas Day we have bacon Brie and cranberry toasties for breakfast then pigs in blankets with mash Yorkshire and gravy for lunch. Means we’re not slaving away and can play with the kids!

This year we're having slow cooker chilli on Christmas Eve.

Christmas Day breakfast is croissants, ham, cheese etc. Nice and easy and everyone can just help themselves.

Lunch is soup and rolls

Then full Xmas dinner at 5ish and cheese board in the evening.

Boxing day is turkey, ham and leek pie with roast carrots and mash. (We go out for lunch)

Bloody love Christmas.

Mine is
Christmas eve: cheeseboard and crackers with pork pie and pickles and party food cobs ect.
Christmas day turkey, beef, roasties, new potatoes, Brussels, carrotts, parsnips stuffing pigs in blankets.

Christmas pudding and custard.

Boxing day cold meat chips and pickles

Christmas Eve is usually a takeaway or something easy.

Christmas Day we have turkey sandwiches at about 11 and then a full Christmas roast at about 4/5.

Boxing Day is an all day buffet.

Xmas day traditional roast dinner meat varies each year this time we’re on venison and chicken
Salmon prawn type starter
Never bother with desserts as plenty of chocolates later
Boxing Day I’m on my own as DC see their DF so salad and cold meat
Xmas eve whatever we fancy - sometimes a buffet, last year was lasagne

Xmas eve I’m always conflicted on, sometimes we have a mini version of a Xmas day roast but with a chicken or beef instead.

Usually chocolates and biscuits and cheese is involved!

Xmas day is fry up or scrambled eggs and smoked salmon breakfast. Cereal and chocolates for the dcs.

Lunch we don’t have til later-4pm with prawn cocktail to start, hearty soup, turkey with all the trimmings, trifle, Yule log, more biscuits and cheese and chocolates later! With lots of Prosecco red wine, Baileys and vodka!

Boxing Day- leftovers.

I wouldn’t get a takeaway as I feel it’s unethical to make someone else work unnecessarily over the holidays.

Christmas Eve - MIL does salmon with new potatoes and veg. I’m a vegetarian so she usually gets a nice veggie pie or similar from M&S for me.

Christmas Day - breakfast is homemade cinnamon rolls. Lunch is cheese / snack things. Parents do a huge joint of beef and trimmings. Mum does a great chestnut and parsnip loaf for me, but it’s amazing so the meat eaters also have it as a side. Christmas pudding and a chocolate pudding.

Boxing Day - leftovers in sandwiches, cheese.

It’s just me and my mum this year so Xmas Eve will be probably Pedro gnocchi and some wine.
Xmas Day is Booths Xmas Dinner for tea with posh tea, coffee, mince pies and bread and butter pudding.
Boxing Day is cauliflower cheese and mushroom parcels.

Pedro? Pesto!

Christmas Eve,chilli,lentil usually.Easy to make,can make as big or small depending.
Christmas day smoked salmon and scrambled eggs for breakfast,roast meal at 3ish ,breaks between coarses so no need to cook any tea as cheese usually happens around 6.
Boxing day buffet put out at lunch time and left for people to pick at all day.
This year I am going to relatives ,Christmas Eve will be the same as I am cooking.I will be mostly washing up on Christmas day and food will be vegan so intrigued as to what we will have.Boxing day over to my mum's who has planned duck and something veggie for dd.I will be helping cook and wash up.
I am looking forward to this.Was so poorly last Christmas I only had tomato soup,didn't even want wine!

Christmas Eve: full English breakfast at half 11/12ish so no lunch, tea is a Chinese takeaway every year.

Christmas Day: sausage, bacon or egg or combo sandwiches are handed out to guests as they come into the house between 8 and 10.
Then full Christmas dinner: turkey and beef, mash, roasties, mashed turnip, cabbage, carrots, peas, sporuts, green beans, parsnips, proper gravy (choice of turkey or beef) and Yorkshire’s and stuffing. Pudding is trifle, I’ve cream or chocolate cake.
Tea is left over meat and veg if you want it with bread and cheese put out as a buffet. And chocolate, cheese, fruit and alcohol are available all day on the side. (It’s a lot but our Christmas dinner is for 27 people who all like and want different things)

Boxing Day we have a massive family party think 40-70 people. So we only do a buffet tea: smoked and unsmoke joins of ham, cheeses, spreads and pate, bread, crackers, hot beef or turkey dips, crisps, sausage rolls, onion rings, leftover veg and stuffing, chocolates, cakes, trifles and a traditional Christmas cake.

Day after Boxing Day is broth making day eight the leftover meat which is then distributed among family to eat over January and February.

When we get home I will buy a small turkey crown just so that I can have turkey stuffing sandwiches and turkey soup.

Christmas Eve village supper. Gammon with Cumberland sauce, baked potatoes, salads. Pavlova.
Christmas Day.
No breakfast or toast or banana or a yoghurt.
Usual smoked salmon, tomato and mozzarell skewers for vegetarians, Turkey et al, then mince pies and pudding
Soup, Cheeses and pickles or salad, if anyone is hungry.
Boxing Day.
Brunch at our club after walking the dog.
Canapés at Boxing Day drinks.
Macaroni cheese or club sandwiches for the piggies.

Christmas Eve will probably be a takeaway.

Christmas Day will be kids eating chocolate coins/ selection box for breakfast. We have big roast dinner at lunchtime- turkey, gammon, pork, pigs in blankets etc and all trimmings making sure we cook alot more than we need. Rest of the day and Boxing Day is then just lots of leftovers, with added cheeseboard, crackers, pringles, dips, salad etc.

Dessert usually some kind of chocolate cake but I've seen some nice dessert stuff in M&S I'll be getting this year.

YABU. There’s a sodding forum specifically for this sort of thread.

Christmas Eve
B - Christmas granola, yoghurt and fruit
L - giant sausage roll
D - beef fillet, dauphinoise, veg, red wine gravy. Ice cream Yule log.

Christmas day
B - brie and cranberry croissants, pain au Chocolat and Coco pops for the kids
L - soup with crusty rolls
D - prawn cocktail, smoked salmon, avocado salad. turkey, gravy, roasties, pigs in blankets, parsnips, sprouts with chestnuts, stuffing. M&S salted caramel Xmas pud. Cheese.

Boxing Day
Going to family

Christmas Eve, always busy, so usual breakfast, maybe home made soup with bread and cheese for lunch, a specially nice fish pie for dinner. Always cook a big piece of gammon Chr. Eve, but it doesn't usually get started on till Boxing Day.

Chr. day breakfast, bagels with smoked salmon and cream cheese, nice and easy. Probably pancakes (Waitrose ready made) for very little Gdcs. . ,
Trad Christmas dinner, not before 4.30 - 5, party nibbles for adults a couple of hours before, Gdcs will have their usual sort of lunch 12 ish.

Hardly anybody's ever hungry later on Chr. Day, but if they are there's cold turkey and gammon, plus always salad and nice bread. Not to mention mince pies, etc.

Boxing Day, very little cooking, but maybe a fry-up brunch, and cold turkey/gammon/salad/coleslaw/baked potatoes later.

No chocolates for me ever. Hate the stuff. Don't think kids should have it for breakfast.

Having now disassociated myself from most of the human race, I recommend port jelly. Make it with much less sugar and you can serve it with stilton as well. Clearly not for drivers or children!

Christmas Eve we have posh pork pie and lots of cheese and cold meats with lots of pickles and bits.

Christmas Day breakfast will be pancakes and bacon with fruit and maple syrup.
Bellinis and nibbles with presents.
Christmas dinner with all the trimmings followed by Christmas pudding chocolate and traditional.

Boxing Day will be left overs and more cheese and cooked meats etc.

There will be lots of fruit, nuts, chocolate, panettone and lovely Christmas bits available at all times.