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Anyone do main meal on Xmas eve?

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sleepevader · 26/12/2011 22:02

if so why and what do you eat Christmas day?

Want to spend more time with the children so considering in!

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sleepevader · 26/12/2011 22:03

*it not in!

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GlaikitFizzEggNog · 26/12/2011 22:05

You do know you've missed, don't you! Xmas GrinXmas Wink

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sleepevader · 26/12/2011 22:08

Really Christmas had happened?!!!
Must have slept through it!

No had a lovely day - just thinking ahead for next year.

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MollyintheMoon · 26/12/2011 22:12

My Swedish friend does meal and presents on Christmas eve. I'll have to find out how he spends Christmas day.

GlaikitFizzEggNog · 26/12/2011 22:14

God I need at least 10 months to recover!!

OhThisIsJustGrape · 26/12/2011 22:15

Always do main meal on Christmas eve. We have it at lunch time (roast beef) then in the afternoon I cook a gammon and chipolatas. Then on Christmas day we have left over cold beef, gammon, chipolatas and mashed potatoes. With pickles and salad etc.

All I have to do on Christmas day is boil the spuds (which I peel on Christmas eve). I get to spend all Christmas morning with the DCs instead if stuck in the kitchen.

Boxing day we just eat whatever is left over.

Only problem with doing it this way I do end up spending pretty much all of Christmas eve in the kitchen so I have to have finished all last minute buying etc by 23rd but it's easily doable and it makes Christmas eve more enjoyable and special IMO.

FringeEvent · 26/12/2011 22:15

We did our main meal on Christmas Eve this year, mainly because it was easier for my Mum and her husband to be here on that day and be able to have a few drinks, and then travel home on Christmas Day afternoon after a nice cooked brunch so they could make it to their commitments with his side of the family on Boxing Day without the risk of getting delayed in traffic etc.

But my Mum is French and this is the normal way to spend Christmas in France, so it didn't feel particularly unusual for any of us - I spent every other Christmas as a child visiting my French grandparents and doing it this way around. Spreading the festivities over both days works out nicely IMO, it's a lot more relaxed and there's more time to enjoy each stage (meals, presents, games, etc).

herbietea · 26/12/2011 22:19

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sleepevader · 26/12/2011 22:26

Thank you all for the replys.

Part of the reason is also because I once went to a friends in France for Christmas (best Christmas ever before children) and we had the most delicious banquet ever. Such happy memories. I think we also opened all the presents after the meal (like your friend Molly)

The downside is being in the kitchen alot and not doing activities with the children or going to crib service (another thing I was hoping to do next year)

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sleepevader · 26/12/2011 22:28

Herbietea- my sisters birthday is Christmas day. Maybe my partners should have done it this way round!

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gastonscave · 26/12/2011 22:39

I always cook the main meal on Christmas Eve here as well, much prefer it this way. We eat around 5ish and the inlaws come around. We are usually done around eight or nine and then I nip down to my parents to do their wrapping and for Midnight Mass.

Christmas morning we have a lovely breakfast, salmon and bagels or a fry up after the the bedlam of all the unwrapping. Then we head down to my parents for Christmas dinner around one

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