What have you eaten and drunk today?

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I needed a few minutes pause halfway through my Christmas dinner. This is unusual and I was surprised but I've been eating less generally lately due to being busy/cba and not snacking anything like I normally do. Don't worry, I soon recovered and finished my veg but did give away my Yorkshire puddings to the dc. I just didn't fancy them which again is odd. I then managed a further 2 stuffing balls while chatting to my mum and finishing my wine. We were chatting about how we don't know how people can have a starter, main course, pudding, cheese and crackers etc all at one sitting. We don't even have meat although we did when I was a child.

Part of today may have been the fact I was co stay my on the go as mums often are and spending ages in the kitchen seems to decrease my appetite.

Breakfast: homemade cinnamon bun and two cups of tea

Second (more reasonable hour) breakfast: a fried potato sandwich

Christmas dinner: honey roast parsnips and carrots, roast potatoes, marrow fat peas, broccoli, cranberry sauce, stuffing balls x4 (or was it 5) and a glass of wine

Pudding (several hours later): homemade sticky gingerbread Bundt cake

Supper: cheese and crackers (5)

Baileys while watching Call the Midwife

About 5 chocolates, 2 chocolate biscuits, one after eight mint, 3 cheesy Doritos and a few glasses of water.

Oh and a mince pie.

What did you have? Traditional or not? Family traditions that others might find weird? Tell me your Christmas Day gastronomic delights.

Breakfast : Smoked salmon, scrambled eggs, toast, croissant, jam, orange juice, coffee, champagne.

Lunch : Ham sandwiches, pork pie, crisps, apple, mince pie.

Dinner : Venison steak, roast potatoes & parsnips, carrots, sprouts, green beans. Chocolate fondant, ice cream. Red wine.

Evening : cheeseboard, crackers, port.

Night while watching cricket: 3 pints beer, whisky, crisps, pistachios.

My eating today has been super weird!

One chocolate truffle

Half a pain au chocolat and lots of coffee with milk

A few leftover sushi rolls

Drove parents an hour each way for a PCR test

Two meatballs with tomato sauce and tzatziki

Coffee with milk x2

Three blini with salmon caviar, butter, creme fraiche, hard boiled eggs, dill, chopped red onion, plus lots of prosecco.

Brunch - croissant with bacon
Snack - slice of pannetone
Dinner - far too much!
Baked Camembert starter
Soup
Turkey with cauliflower cheese, potatoes, parsnips, stuffing, pigs in blankets
Christmas pudding with cream

Lots of cups of tea, three glasses of wine.

Midday…huge mug of tea and two Christmas biscuits.

2:30-ish, glass of Prosecco and a couple of chocolates while opening presents.

5…slice of turkey, stuffing ball, 2 roasties, 2 pigs in blankets, spoonful of sprouts, couple of parsnips, spoon of mash, gravy, spoon of bread sauce, spoon of cranberry jelly. Left half of it. By the time Christmas dinner is ready I’m usually sick of the sight of food.

2 glasses of wine.

Dessert is planned in an hour or so.

Too much

Breakfast: berry granola and gingerbread coffee. Very unusual for me as I always have tea first thing.

Glass of buck’s fizz made with Prosecco and clementine juice
Lunch: turkey with stuffing, pigs in blankets, mash, roasties, sprouts, carrot and parsnip mash, red cabbage, gravy. Glass red wine

Sherry

M and S best ever trifle, cup of tea

Brandy and soda

Water throughout the day

Cup of tea for breakfast. Didn't fancy anything else. Very unlike me...

Festive muffin for elevenses.

Pizza for lunch.

Beef stroganoff with parmesan roast potatoes and peas with parma ham for supper.

Then a tiramisu whilst watching die hard once the kids were in bed.

Yum!

Forgot I had a few olives with Xmas lunch, left by dd2 who had them, pizza and salami for lunch. Doesn’t like the traditional food.

DH and I used to be able to eat starter, main, pudding all in one go but can’t manage it now, in our forties.

Smoked salmon sandwich
Warm vegetable salad (Sarah Raven recipe) with feta cheese
Half a bottle of v.nice sparkling white wine

Most of a packet of sour cherry candy kittens
A packet of Joe & Seph cheddar cheese popcorn.

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas!

Cheese on wm toast + ham, 2x coffee

Tea, hm peanut butter cup

Turkey, roasts, bacon and cheese rolls, pig in blanket, roast parsnips, carrots, peas, cranberry sauce and gravy. 2 x glasses red wine

Christmas pudding + brandy butter

Cup of tea, 1 choc mousse- filled piece of dark choc

Satsuma, Greek yoghurt

2x sesame crispbread + Jarlsberg slice, glass of milk

Nothing. I came down with a gastrobug in the early hours of Christmas Day morning. I feel terrible, and can't hold anything down including clear fluids. I'm also 38 weeks pregnant.

Southern hemisphere here, therefore summer.

Oysters (raw with lemon)
Bread.
Raw fish salad
Glazed cold ham (brown sugar, mustard and studded with cloves).
Cumberland sauce
Various salads
Pavlova.
Cold punch.

Booze: champagne, NZ pale ale, and port.

@itsallgoneshitflavoured

Nothing. I came down with a gastrobug in the early hours of Christmas Day morning. I feel terrible, and can't hold anything down including clear fluids. I'm also 38 weeks pregnant.

You have my utter sympathies.

@itsallgoneshitflavoured

Nothing. I came down with a gastrobug in the early hours of Christmas Day morning. I feel terrible, and can't hold anything down including clear fluids. I'm also 38 weeks pregnant.

Oh no. Hope you feel better soon.

B - two small slices of toast and croissant plus tea x 2

Mince pie

L- homemade veg soup plus bread dunked in it.

Few olives

D - turkey and all the trimmings. 4 glasses of wine and a lie down

2 slices toast Christmas lunch tea that’s it

Smoke salmon with scrambled eggs on toast. Prosecco x2 glasses

Mince pie and a sherry

Melon and fruit starter

Roast turkey dinner

Christmas pudding with brandy cream. Wine x2

Cheese and biscuits. Sherry.

Cocktail and a few crisps

Massive stomach and full of wind by bedtime 😁

B - tea, satsuma, homemade waffles with berries & maple syrup.
L- 2-5, smoked salmon nibbles, Xmas dinner with all sides, Xmas pud & nutmeg sauce. Glass of red wine (driving). Tea & 2 chocs.
S - about 9 when home, Turkey sandwich and some grapes, glass of Budweiser then mug of tea and ginger biscuits.

Croissants for breakfast. Traditional Christmas dinner as mum would be outraged at anything else! Turkey, roast pork and I roasted a large rib of beef (that will be used for today's sandwiches. Christmas pudding with cream. Dairy milk.

I blame Father Christmas's delivery of two baby Annabels for me starting off today eating leftover ganache with a spoon!

Tea for breakfast plus one shortbread biscuit. Turkey, ham, roast potatoes ,4? , Brussel sprouts, carrots, stuffing for dinner. Followed by Christmas pudding and cream. 5 r 6 glasses of wine thru day, crisps!

Cheese on toast (toddlers leftovers!)
Few cups of tea

Goose, rib beef, ham, roast potatoes, Brussels with lardons, honey roast parsnips and carrots, pigs in blankets, stuffing two types, vegetable rice, plantain. I couldn't be bothered to make the swede mash or braised cabbage in the end.

Gin & tonics

No desert after all that!

Fresh coffee when we got up at 7
More coffee later and a warm croissant

Lunch - Consommé,
Smoked trout with mustard sauce and bread and butter,
Turkey, goose, pigs in blankets, stuffing, nigellas bread sauce, roast potatoes, parsnips, sprouts, carrots, red cabbage, gravy.
Few glasses of red wine

Later - Bowl of trifle with extra cream
Chocolates - quite a few
Prosecco
Water

We had tea and croissants for breakfast, then despite constantly agreeing we were hungry and needed a snack before dinner we never got round to it.
Had a can of kopparberg while I cooked.
Had a brie dippy thing and pate for starters with lovely ciabatas.

Then gammon (boiled in cola then glazed in maple syrup and mustard and cooked in oven. Fucking divine.) Roasties, root veg mash, parsnips, Brussels, carrots, cauliflower cheese, yorkshires and gravy.
With a glass of bucks fizz, never ha did before, just saw it in the shop and though "people drink that at Christmas " so bought it.

Then profiterole trifle for pud. And another kopparberg.

And thats it! The least I've ever water on Christmas day tbh!

Oh and pigs in blankets on dinner!