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.

2 ginger biscuits from Lapland while unwrapping presents.

2 boiled eggs and soda bread for breakfast.

3 segments of chocolate Orange.

Handfuls of crisps, a lindor chocolate and a small slice of maderia cake at my mum’s.

Christmas dinner - 2 slices of Quorn roast, 2 vegi kilted sausages, 2 roast potatoes and a potato croquette. I didn’t leave room for the veg.

Yule log and ice cream.

Half a packet of cheddars watching Eastenders.

Two slices of toast really early. I'm minding my DD'S dog, so went on an early dog walk.
10.45 buttered Christmas cake when visiting.
Then home. 2pm-ish, a few southern fried chicken wings, kettle honey barbeque crisps with hummus. Lindor mint chocolate.
7.30ish Christmas dinner, on account of my DD being in work. I just had Turkey, which I love, roast potatoes, peas and parsnips. My DD doesn't eat veg and I'd had a full Christmas dinner the week before. Chocolate during the evening. Tea drunk all day, Vouray with dinner.
Turkey sandwiches all day for me and Orange Bailey's tonight!

Just to add, I totally get that as you decrease your food intake, your appetite drops. I've been surprised that I just don't want what I'd usually eat/buy.

Breakfast: lemon yoghurt, Earl Grey tea. Then two cups of coffee.

11.30am: five smoked salmon blinis, one and a half glasses of champagne

1pm: turkey, pigs in blankets, roast potatoes, roast parsnips, stuffing balls x2, bread sauce, carrots, sprouts, peas, gravy. Christmas pudding and brandy butter. Grapes. Two glasses of rioja.

7pm: three stale bits of baguette with chicken liver pate, gin and tonic, more grapes, half a glass of rioja. Two chocolates.

Plus loads of water all day.

Bacon sandwich for breakfast with 2 mugs of tea and two digestive biscuits.

Dinner was chicken curry and rice with a huge naan bread and several poppadoms. Didnt want pudding because we had too much curry. Had a large bottle of pale ale with dinner

Afternoon had two mince pies some cinnamon pretzels and turkey and stuffing dortio things from tescos free from range and rest of pale ale
Evening a piece of pork pie 3 pickled onions some more dortio things and 4 hot dogs and a diet coke. Had a large pink gin later on
Will be more curry today because i made loads as a family member was supposed to be coming but was ill instead so plenty left for today. Just DS and me for dinner have not got a clue what he ate yesterday but its way more than me

B: A hot cross bun and a croissant
Sn: Too many Percy Pigs, three pieces of chocolate and two cold chicken goujons
L: Roast turkey with roast potatoes, mashed potato, roasted carrots, savoy cabbage, cauliflower cheese, stuffing, three pigs in blankets and two Yorkshire puddings followed by an M&S reindeer chocolate mousse thing with double cream
Sn: Two sausage rolls
D: Half a Margherita pizza

Lots of fizzy water, decaf tea and orange squash. 12 weeks pregnant and v hungry it would seem.

Breakfast Black coffee should also have had a cinnamon danish but I gave it to my son and had a yogurt.
Lunch. Gammon, stuffing, 4 quarters of roast potatoes, 2 half’s of roast parsnip, 1 half of roasted carrot, lots of peas, large pile of cabbage, 2 yorkies and gravy. Pudding slice of Yule log. Drink one jack Daniels honey with lemonade.
To drink during the day several tins of fruit twist zero.
Nibbled a handful of mixed nuts.

But I am a diabetic so lots of the above I am only able to eat small amounts of and to try to balance it out I won’t have the other Christmas nibble foods that add to the carb and sugar intake.

I am so sad it's all over. Christmas lunch is my favourite meal of the year. Wish I coudl turn the clock back and eat it all again.

Love these threads,

Christmas day I had:
1 tea, 2 coffee
Brunch - plain bagel with mushroom tofu scramble, tex mex breakfast hash, tomatoes, orange juice
1 tea. A few biscuits (choc chip shortbread, macaroon, chocolate fingers), 1 glass of fizzy rose while making dinner.
Dinner - mushroom and nut wellington, stuffing balls, pigs in blankets, mashed and roast potatoes, roast carrots and parsnips, red cabbage, sprouting broccoli, brussels, gravy, cranberry sauce.
2 more glasses of fizzy rose, Trifle, chocolates, 2 cups of tea and a mint thin.

Today I have had (so far):
1 tea, 2 slices of wholemeal toast with marmite.
1 coffee, 4 mint thins.

All vegan 🌱

2 hm sausage rolls and a cup of coffee for breakfast.

Couple of Scots clans as I started veg prep. A handful of carrot sticks and hummus once I was finished, and half a bowl of crisps (cereal bowl) while we opened presents. And 2 Lindt white choc balls.

DH opened cremant while I prepped dinner and we drank 2 bottles between us (he was definitely at least a glass ahead of me though, possibly 2).

We had Parma ham wrapped around a fig with a few lettuce leaves garnish as a starter (dd was "starving").
Turkey, stuffing, roasties, sprouts, roasted roots (carrot, parsnip, butternut squash, onion), gravy - 1 well filled plate but I didn't go back for more.

Later in the evening, Dh and I had Christmas pudding with a spoon of whipped cream and I had a glass of dessert wine with it. And I had a french coffee after that.

Christmas Day:

2 croissants with blackcurrant jam
2 cups of tea

A bowl of chicken sensations crisps

3 glasses of Prosecco

Turkey, 2 pigs in blankets, carrots, green beans, roast potatoes, mash, cauliflower cheese, broccoli and gravy.

Chocolate cheesecake and cream
Small piece of Christmas cake.

Cup of tea

2 turkey baps with more crisps

3x glasses of water

Today so far:

2 rounds of Cheshire cheese and tomato on toast

2 peppermint teas

2 after eights and a snickers celebration

Just waiting for party food to cook consisting of tex mex chilli beef pasties, mini beef wellingtons and Indian samosa's.

Couple of Scots clans as I started veg prep

@BiddyPop as a Scot, am alarmed at your murderous tendencies. Were the clans Campbells and MacDonalds?

It was;

1 apple and coffee followed by panettone (the Sainsburys one is lovely)

Mince pies and more panettone whilst unwrapping presents

Christmas turkey dinner with all the trimmings

Prosecco and orange juice

Earl Grey tea

Nice crisps

More panettone

Celebrations chocs

Not as much as I could have eaten actually!

Caesar salad with steak and egg for breakfast, mini cheesecake leftover from Christmas eve, loads of champagne

Baked ziti and catered BBQ for dinner, in bed by 7 due to aforementioned champagne!

1 crumpet and some water .... really overdid it yesterday it seems and Ihave thrown up copiously now so hope that none of the good / drink I ate will register!!!

Today I’ve had
Christmas dinner x 2
Meringue Torte
4 chocolates
3 canapés
2 glasses of bucks fizz

Second Christmas dinner with the pigs in blankets.

Mushrooms, scrambled egg, baked beans, tottie scones, butter, honey. Tea to drink.

Coffee whilst out.

Lentil and Ham soup, egg mayo sandwich with crisps. Tea to drink.

Carvery dinner with wine.

This morning I walked around the village, walked by the river, walked through the woods. I've done over ten thousand steps today, just over 6.5km walked !

ShallWe there was an alliance between the McToffees and the McDarkChoc clans, who were fighting against the O'Twisty clan of the waxy paper glen...
🤣

Xmas eve:
2 eggs with slice of wholemeal
Lentil soup with ham
1 duck pancake
Red Thai curry with coconut rice
Small slice cherry cake
1 Lindt chocolate
1 biscuit
1 mincepie
1 glass red wine

Yesterday:
2 eggs with slice of wholemeal
Large roast dinner
Bowl of mixed fruit
2 biscuits & half a mince pie
Bottle of prosecco

Today
2 eggs with slice of wholemeal
Lentil soup with turkey
Small roast dinner
Fruit & greek yoghurt

I need to go on some loooooong runs.

Toast with butter

Homemade beetroot, parsnip, carrot and butterbean soup (much nicer than it sounds) with half a cheese sandwich on the side.
A few crackers with posh Brie.

A lump of chilli cheese.

Four squares of Ritter sport coconut macaroon chocolate.

Leftover roast spuds with leftover lentil chilli Patatas bravas style with more cheese and salad on the side.

A piece of Christmas cake.

Leftover roast lamb and roast potatoes

A cappuccino

Some jamon, ossau iraty, olive oil crisps and golden peppadews.

Lots of fizzy water.

About to have chicken and rice .

Had an upset tummy last week and today is the first day I’ve been able to eat much except chicken and rice or salmon and rice.

Criossant with nutella
Scrambled egg and smoked salmon and toast.
Turkey and ham salad.
Handful of celebrations.
Just about to start on pudding (chocolate bombe and raspberries)

Day late to this but today, toast, mince pie, maltesers, after eights, cheese sandwich and pringles.

Christmas cake & posh chocolates & tea for breakfast.

Fried eggs & leftover ham for brunch (with orange juice)

Christmas pudding & cream & more tea late afternoon

Just had a leftovers sandwich - Turkey, ham, stuffing, a pig in blanket & chutney - & a glass of alcohol free Prosecco. Followed by some ice cream.

My eating is just silly at Christmas, but it’s bloody lovely to indulge for a few days!