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What do you eat on Boxing Day?

27 replies

SaintNiChaolas · 08/12/2012 21:11

We normally have about 20 for a meal on BD.

Nothing too onerous for the love of baublrs.

And I like to avoid anything too Roasty, iyswim?

please may I steal your ideas?

OP posts:
thenightsky · 08/12/2012 21:12

Nowt... boxing day is recovery day. we eat a bit of marmite on toast mostly.

Gumby · 08/12/2012 21:12

Leftovers of course
Turkey
Baked potatoes
Salad
Cheese
Piccalilli etc

bedmonster · 08/12/2012 21:13

Another Xmas dinner! We go round to MILs for a goose and all the trimmings and I love it as much, sometimes more, than xmas day Grin

noisytoys · 08/12/2012 21:13

Leftovers. Pick and nibble all day

AfterEightMintyy · 08/12/2012 21:15

Left over turkey. Left over ham. Bubble & squeak. Pickles. Then Cheese, celery, crackers or microwaved Christmas pudding and warmed up mince pies.

But if I were hosting a meal for 20 then I would have something else Xmas Grin.

wheredidiputit · 08/12/2012 21:15

If we are at home it would be cold meat and mash, but as we are going to the inlaws we having a buffet this year.

MonsterBookOfTinsel · 08/12/2012 21:17

If we are at home the dc decide, normally beans on toast with turkey leftovers.
This year we are going to the pub for an anniversary meal.

sausagesandwich34 · 08/12/2012 21:17

turkey and chips with white bread and butter at lunch

buffet tea usually supermarket frozen buffet food that just hets shoved in the oven

my mother has the world's biggest freezer!

loflo · 08/12/2012 21:18

I make piles of curries, dhal etc the week before Christmas and smell of onions for days after pile into containers and freeze. Then on Boxing Day it's a simple reheat job and making a big pan of rice. Yum Grin

Celestialcloud · 08/12/2012 21:21

I'm doing gammon in coke in the slow cooker this year but that's probably a bit roasty. Nice and easy though!

JiltedJohnsJulie · 08/12/2012 22:08

I've just done a thread like this and got some really good responses. Can't do links at the moment but its in the food section Xmas Smile

EnjoyResponsibly · 08/12/2012 22:17

Cold turkey and beef, hot cheese and potato pie, salad and pickles.

Christmas pud, pavlova, sticky toffee pudding

The at about 10pm we have a "spread" that's sandwiches, sausage rolls, cheeseboard, crisps etc

All this interspersed with Elizabeth Shaw, After Eights, Miniature Heros, buckets of nuts and cheese.

HoHoHokeyCokeyPigInAPokey · 08/12/2012 22:18

Marks & Spencers party food.

Thing3WasKissingSanta · 08/12/2012 22:30

I am taking the DC to my parents this year and they are doing an indoor picnic. We will be having sandwiches and other picky bits.

I am going to do the ham in cola for Christmas eve, I think, as it is my DD1s birthday and last time I made it she said it was the best thing she had ever had Grin

Sparklytinsel · 08/12/2012 22:32

I do another roast on boxing day. It's normally beef but this year I'm thinking of doing lamb.

TerraNotSoFirma · 08/12/2012 22:35

I usually have people in on Boxing Day.
I have what's left of the Christmas Eve ham, a big cheeseboard, fresh fruit, nice bread, various nibbly bits and choccies.

TeaOneSugar · 08/12/2012 22:36

Another full christmas lunch at PIL :)

hugoagogo · 08/12/2012 22:36

Leftovers and cocoa pops-not on the same plate obv.

Celestialcloud · 08/12/2012 22:40

Thing3 that is so nice!!

PenguinBear · 09/12/2012 08:57

We have Christmas day take 2 with rest of the family so have everything the same as on Christmas day! Xmas Grin

betterwhenthesunshines · 09/12/2012 09:24

Something light and refreshing - eg Crab cakes with salad and sweet chilli.

Convert · 09/12/2012 09:53

DH works on Christmas Day so we have PIL, SIL and BIL, their three kids and BIL and his boyfriend over. I do a buffet lunch with loads of party food then for tea we have sandwiches, cakes and I make scones. Lots and lots of alcohol and chocolates, crisps etc.
The 6 kids run riot all day and we play games like charades and pictionary. Then we get all the kids in jamas and we all snuggle up to watch the gruffalo or something. I'm really looking forward to it!

SilverAndSparklyKat · 09/12/2012 10:01

We go to my dads for Boxing day. A long walk to the pub for a couple over the fields and then back to a massive forerib of beef. A lot roast, I know but it's ace!

smilingthroughgrittedteeth · 09/12/2012 12:42

DP insists on bubble and squeak which I can't stand, so DP and DSC have that and I have macaroni cheese as none of them like that its the only day of the year I will cook different meals for everyone for lunch and tea is leftover turkey/ham and salad

Taffeta · 09/12/2012 13:05

We have 16 for BD and I will do:

  • coronation turkey
  • hm gravadlax with dill sauce
  • ham - cold with cranberry and orange compote, pickles, coleslaw, and a fab SR salad that has fruit in as well
  • a veggie quiche - prob leek and stilton
  • some vair good cheeses, sourdough and other breads/Peter's Yard crispbreads, plus pickled silverskins, gherkins, celery and grapes
  • some divine pistachio Turkish Delight I got at Borough Market yesterday
  • crisps, nuts, chocolate
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