What does your Christmas Day food consist of?

[00100001]

Stocking chocolate for breakfast, eaten in bed, whenever you wake up.

Fry up at about ten. The inky meal cooked to order. Normally choice of sausage, bacon, black pudding, eggs any way, hash browns, bread/toast, tomaotes, mushrooms, beans, onions.

Dinner at 4ish - roast meat, potatoes, parsnips, veggies, gravy, sauces etc pudding is normally trifle or yule log and cream

Cheese selection and crackers at 8-9pm

Chocolates all day long

[MrsBellefleur]

Breakfast - Pastries and tea for the grown ups, porridge for the child. Along with some sort of chocolate for all.

Dinner - normally served between 12 and 1, two or three meats - usually gammon (cooked Christmas Eve) and turkey or beef with pigs in blankets, carrots, broccoli, cauliflower cheese, fried sprouts and roast potatoes. Whatever m&s pudding takes my fancy each year.

Tea - cold meat, cheese, crackers, crisps and twiglets and pickled onions and pate on toast. But no pate for me this year as I'm pregnant.

Chocolate and the rest of the pudding for afters if still hungry.

Boxing Day is normally picky bits again and beige party food.

[UntilTheCowsComeHome]

Reading this thread has made me think about having a change this year.

We've always had Xmas dinner pretty early (12 / 1 ish) and then we've had a full party style buffet tea at about 6.

I'm thinking of doing a nice breakfast this year and pushing dinner back til mid afternoon. This will mean we can get away with just a few nibbles at tea time.

And we're going to have chicken instead of turkey this year. DH does a great roast chicken but last years turkey wasn't the best.

[Hassled]

Yes, I'm thinking about a proper, nice breakfast and then pushing the meal back as well - usually it's 1.30-ish which means getting up insanely early to get the turkey in. We don't usually bother with starters either, and this year I want to fanny about making fancy shit (I'll regret it, I know).

What our meal does not consist of is Brussel Sprouts, and every year I have the same argument with a family member, with him saying "but with bacon and chestnuts they're delicious" and me saying "but you can't polish a turd - they'll still taste like sprouts". Every year this happens.

[FeelingSmurfy]

Croissant/Danish pastry while stocking are opened

10.30/11 it's pick a pack cereal followed by a veggie fry up

3 we have our dinner, we have done away with starters because pudding wasn't getting eaten and meal wasn't properly enjoyed, all for the sake of soup we can have all year!

Some sort of vegetarian fake meat, veggie pigs in blankets, Yorkshire puddings, sprouts, carrot and turnip, roast parsnips, cabbage, roast potatoes and gravy

4.30 ish we are ready for dessert, mince pie ice cream, mince pies and custard/cream or individual steamed puddings (Christmas or sponge) with custard/cream

Later we just pick at chocolate, Christmas cake, Crisps, nuts etc

[Cherrysherbet]

I tuck into kids satsumas while they open their stockings.

Big cooked breakfast at about 11am after presents...... Bacon, sausages, eggs, beans, hash browns, mushrooms etc... Toast and nice jam etc on table. I make Christmas morning muffins (I get everything weighed out night before, then mix and cook in the morning ) last year I sent some round to the neighbours too, which went down well. Gorgeous with butter.

General snacking until evening, when we all have cheese/ crackers/ pickles etc..
We moved our big roast to Boxing Day years ago. We like to spend the day playing with the children, and found we would spend hours in the kitchen cooking, only for the kids to be uninterested as they had been eating sweets, and just wanted to play! We now look forward to our Boxing Day roast, when the pressure of the big day is over.

It works for us anyway!

[helenatroy]

Coffee and bagels with smoked salmon and cream cheese or bacon and avocado. Glass of champagne and open a gift or two.

Then have a five course meal over the course of a day. Tend to open gifts and stocking sporadically through the day. Last year...

1.00. Starter of wild mushroom soup (tiny portion). Served with a slice of Melba toast.

2.00. My husbands black pudding and scallops

3.00. Fios gras with toasted brioche. Glass of champagne

4.00 or thereabouts the main event...
Guinea fowl, roast potatoes' roasted sprouts with lardons and walnuts, roast carrots and parsnips and a gravy made with giblets, tarragon and white wine.

When I have the space
Christmas pudding and poached pears.

[HungryHorace]

Cherrysherbert...that's the approach we are going for from now on. I'm really looking forward to it!

[IsItGinTimeYet]

Family arrive Christmas eve around 2pm, we head out for a late lunch/early dinner around 4pm and that saves the hassle of cooking for 14 three days in a row . Home for a movie, popcorn and cheeseboard with plenty of wine.

Coffee and pastries with essential stocking chocolate when opening tree presents.

Prosecco or a gin fizz and canapes when gusts arrive. Normally brie and cranberry filo tarts, smoked salmon blinis, antipasti skewers and nuts/olives.

Fully poncetastic Christmas lunch around 3.30/4pm. Ham and turkey are a must with more pigs in blankets than anyone should be able to eat. Three desserts are essential... Trifle is the only recurring staple plus two others.

Cheese, homemade fruit loaf, crackers and grapes around 8pm with port or a hot drink and truffles.

Boxing day is porridge then a long walk followed by turkey and chilli jam toasties then everyone leaves and we all collapse in a heap!

[ToastedOrFresh]

Wow !

Just reading this has got me salivating. Well, except for the vegetarian husband with his jacket potato and salad and their child who just wants pizza.

However, we will be having scrambled eggs and smoked salmon with sparkling wine to drink with breakfast.

Roast chicken with all the trimmings. We'll gladly eat turkey but prefer chicken. We will have wine with this too.

Dessert will probably be a recipe I picked up whilst living in New Zealand for a spicy trifle.

Make fruit compote, layer it between sponge cake, top with cream. It is to die for.

Evening will be the remainder of the sausage rolls I made on Christmas Eve plus cheeseboard and crisps and nuts. Wine and/or beer served as required.

[WiltingTulip]

I was just thinking about this. Something casual/easy.

Breakfast: fresh fruit salad, yoghurt, muslie.

Lunch: bread rolls with assortment of salads, meats, condiments to make rolls. Prawns for the meat eaters which I'll order and pick up the day before.

Dessert: baskin Robbins icecream with a cake I'll order and pick up the day before.

Dinner: take away or whatever we have.

[BiddyPop]

Breakfast:
Freshly squeezed orange juice, coffee. Something decent (rasher sandwiches, a small fry, jus rol croissants, etc). I try and have some fresh fruit as well.

Nibbly bits at various houses as we travel around.

Years we stay at home:
A tray of nibbles (M&S) in early afternoon while opening presents.
Possibly smoked salmon (but likely the nibbles are enough).
Turkey, stuffing, spiced beef, roasties, roasted root vegetables, cauliflower cheese, brussels sprouts, gravy.
Cheese and crackers.
Christmas pudding.


Years that we travel:
Mostly as above but repeated at lunch and dinner-time, as DMIL cooks for 1pm, while DM cooks for 8pm roughly.
DMIL has soup to start, DM has smoked salmon.
DMIL doesn't do cheese course.
Both have ham as well as turkey and probably also have spiced beef.

[HairsprayBabe]

Brekky 11am Niace ham and eggs with pickles and crusty bread
Lunch 3pm Soup to start then Turkey roast with all the trimmings
Pud 5pm choice of mince pies, xmap pud, trifle or yule log
Supper 8-9pm Cheese and crackers more pudding

food coma

fin.

[ShotsFired]

I think this year will be something fuel-y for early brekkie, followed by a yomping bike ride to get the blood flowing. Back home for showers and eggs benedict/scrambled/whatever.

Then probably some sweets or biscuits for a few hours, before we walk to our late (traditional festive roast) dinner at a local place. Walk home and then probably more chocs and sweeties on the sofa till bedtime.

Given that I'll probably have done some kind of roast/big meal the day before, then leftovers for Boxing Day. If I haven't, then a "fresh" roast! Or maybe a curry, see how we feel!

I will now RTFT and probably change all my plans to something I see here...

[LivinOnAChair]

Ah I love Christmas!

Breakfast: a selection box while we open presents then bacon/sausage sandwiches a bit later on

Lunch: full Xmas dinner; roast meat/tatties, veg, pigs in blankets, stuffing, sprouts and chestnuts and usual Xmas pudding/trifle (chocolate fudge cake for me coz I can't stand either)

Tea/supper: sandwiches with posh buns and left over meat (if anyone can manage)

It's DS's first Xmas this year and I'm doubly excited for dinner coz he'll be 10 months by then and he eats absolutely anything put in front of him even now!

[NotCitrus]

Kids: a pile of chocolate and some special cereal from their stockings.
Me and MrNC: something easy but a bit luxurious, probably some brioche and smoked salmon and scrambled egg, real coffee, juice, melon.

Lunch: roast poultry, roast spuds, parsnips, chipolatas, carrots and peas, two types of stuffing balls, gravy. Loads of Yorkshire puddings. Possibly red cabbage if I get round to it in advance or ask my mum to hit Waitrose. Some cheese straws and/or mince pies while it's being got ready. Might do pheasant or duck this year.

Go for bracing walk. The kids think this is the law before they are allowed the rest of the presents, and I'm not telling them otherwise. Then tea/coffee/hot chocolate, Christmas pudding or Yule log.

Supper - there are cheese and biscuits etc, or leftovers.

We then go to ILs/my parents/BIL/friends for much of the next few days, so the idea is to eat leftovers until NYE when we have a party.

[petalsandstars]

Cherry is there something special in your Christmas morning muffins? Love that idea

[JasperDamerel]

There's a Nigella recipe for Christmas morning muffins with cranberries and orange juice. I seem to remember you measure out most of the ingredients the night before and just mix the wet and dry bits in the morning. They were nice, but not staggeringly so, and I prefer a more savoury follow-up to stocking chocolate, so I didn't make them again.

If cake for breakfast appeals, it's a pretty good start to the day, and they smell lovely and make you feel all cosy and domestic when you bake them.

[2catsandadog]

Christmas Eve, normal dinner

Christmas morning - cranberry and orange muffins for breakfast. Then off to Church. Starter of soup or terrine when we get home. Then turkey and trimmings at 2ish. Then pudding about 5. Cheese board at 8ish.
Drinks are non alcoholic punches and copious amounts of wine and port. And coffee. Always coffee.

[Mummyshortlegz]

I practically brush my teeth with champagne. We have cinnamon buns and the kids will have pancakes and chciolate coins sprinkles on. Lunch will be at 2 maybe this year. We normally eat at 12.30 because we have small kids (3 and 1). Full on turkey and all the trimmings. I often leave sonektbkng in the oven. (See earlier champagne quaffing. I am the cook. In the kitchen. With the bottle). We rarely manage the pudding but will try. The kids love custard so that will happen.

Dinner will be turkey sandwiches or party nibbles from the freezer for the kids.

Evening snacking will be cheese, crackers and baileys.

Bring your own slacks.

[CalmYaTits]

Breakfast- chocolate
Lunch- roast obvz
Dessert- Christmas pudding or crumble
Dinner- cheese, crackers and wine
Dessert- chocolate

[LunaMay]

We rarely do breakfast, haven't since I was a kid as we were always rushing around. Every now and then we go to a friends/relatives for breakfast but find a big breakfast messes with our main meal.

We eat our main meal around 1 usually turkey chicken and pork with all the trimmings.

Later in the afternoon and evening we bring out the prawns and platters with leftover meats and salads.

Then we have all the chocolates, crisps, popcorn etc through the day.

Boxing Day is always a bbq with seafood and leftovers. Mum is usually trying to offload ham by then.

Mum really wants to change to having the bbq on Christmas Day instead but us 'kids' just can't take with the idea

[Stillunexpected]

Breakfast: Various danish and mini muffins, fruit salad (mostly prepared the night before, fruits stored separately, and combined with apples and bananas on the morning) with greek yoghurt and granola, variety of juices, lots of tea!

Lunch: Smoked salmon with brown bread

Various chocolates, coffee and mince pies available during the day

Dinner: (6 ish) Turkey, roast potatoes, chestnut, apple and sausage meat stuffing, roast parsnips with parmesan, red cabbage, sprouts with pine nuts and nutmeg butter, gravy and cranberry sauce, for dessert - pudding and trifle

[ooonatoffolo]

Pre-kids: smoked salmon and scrambled egg bagels. champagne. coffee.
Roast Goose and trimmings. Christmas pud. Cheeseboard.

small kids: chocs from stockings, cheerios, pot of tea and toast.
roast chicken and trimmings. choc trifle. cheeseboard.

now kids are older (12 and 9): bacon butties, cheerios, coffee and tea.
Roast chicken and ham, trimmings. Christmas pud, cheeseboard

supper - turkey sandwiches and Christmas Cake

then a Boxing Day Buffet - fancy buffet and puds.

BD + 1 = curry

For 3 years between ages 3 and 6 I swapped the Christmas Day and Boxing Day food so I didn't miss too much gift opening / playing.
It worked well.