What time do you eat at Xmas day?

[supercaliforniasurfer]

We usually eat at 3ish, but was debating about moving it to lunchtime this year as it sometimes feels a bit late for the DC.

Just wondered what other people do?

Currently
9ish - breakfast
3pm - the big dinner
7pm - buffet

I think dinner/buffet are too close together at the mo.

About 5. Far too much of a rush otherwise.

Brunch-type breakfast, not heavy, about 10-11. Scrambled eggs with smoked salmon, or bagels with smoked salmon and cream cheese.

I find people are far more ready for a big meal later, though even when I did it at sort-of lunchtime it was hardly ever on the table before about 3. Especially one year, when I'd had so much Buck's Fizz I completely forgot to put the potatoes on...
Having it later also gives time for a walk even for the cook, which we always do on the day unless it's actually raining.

I don't find it a rush to eat at 1. It's just a normal roast! I do a lot of veg prep the night before. We are having a joint of beef this year so only takes about 1.5 hours to cook.

It means we've got all afternoon free to see family, go for a walk, play games etc. I don't want to be stuck in the kitchen all day long so it works well for us.

Around 3-4 here. The buffet always gets pushed back to Boxing Day. If the adults are hungry after a few drinks later in the evening we might crack open some nibbles on the cheeseboard or something but that hardly ever happens. Everyone is grazing on chocolate/nuts/mince pies all day anyway.

I also wonder if normal Sunday habits have a bearing on Christmas day habits. So those who have a roast or other cooked meal in the middle of the day on Sunday are more likely to eat earlier. We never, ever cook a hot meal (let alone a roast) at lunchtime, so prefer to eat Christmas dinner late on too.

Probably right, Whoknows. I would rarely do a Sunday roast at lunchtime (if I do one at all these days). Too much of the middle of the day taken up, and a big meal at lunchtime just makes me want to snooze.
From when I was quite small my mother did the same for the same reasons - we'd have it about 5 or 6.

Breakfast around 11-11:30
Dinner 4:30-5
Evening nibbles & drinks 9pm until last person standing

Bacon rolls for breakfast after presents around 10 am

Xmas lunch around 2pm

Picky buffet from about 7/8pm onwards which is generally when we have pudding as too full after lunch

Breakfast is usually a celebratory drink once the bird's in the oven (about 7.30am last year).

Lunch around 1pm - we're hosting my DSis, BIL and their 2 DC plus my dad, same as last year, and they turn up around 12ish.
Tea (cold meat, cheese, crackers, fruit) if anyone wants it in the evening.

When it's ready. This has varied from 1 to 4pm

I don't like a set schedule

We don breakfast between 8 and 9, a snack at lunch time and xmas dinner at around 5. We tried doing the main meal at lunch time a few years ago but the dc were to excited by all their new toys to sit down and eat it!

We never have breakfast on Christmas Day. When the children were little they might have had some toast or something because they had such an early start, but we tend to have aperitifs and canapes mid-morning and then the full dinner at 3-4ish.

We have pastries/chocolate coins for breakfast normally.

Lunch at 1.30 ish (DTs are 4 and would starve if we did it any later).
Leftovers/cheese/mince pies/cake later on if peckish

Gettinglikemymother I read that as you eat 10-11 eggs as part of your 'light brunch'

Cereal or toast quite early - around 7am, then something more brunch like around 10. The 'starter' (usually soup) around 1pm, the roast dinner around 5, desert around 6.30/7, cheese around 8. With chocs throughout the day!

When I lived at home we always had dinner around 1pm and finished in time for the Queen ...the a proper tea at night.

I haven't eaten a main meal that early for years so we have it around our usual time, maybe around 4/5. Last year I dispensed with the duck we used to have and just had fillet so dinner only took as long it took to roast the potaotes

It depends who is with us.
If it's just us or my family we have Christmas Dinner at about 5. Breakfast is usually about 9 and we don't have lunch as such although there's plenty to eat if people are peckish.

If it's the in laws they have to have Christmas Lunch, one at the latest. Then they have Christmas Tea buffet thing at about 6.

For me as the cook, I find that trying to cook for lunch time is a rush. I feel I am missing out on time with the kids in the morning as I'm in and out of the kitchen. It works for PIL because they cook nearly everything on Christmas Eve. I prefer hot Turkey though.

We don't really eat breakfast, just snack on chocolate. Last year we had shop bought pancakes for anyone that wanted them.

We eat Christmas dinner at 1pm. Then we have a snacky tea at the ILs in the evening.

Breakfast about 8ish -definitely by 9.

Travelling years:
Scrounge a snack - 12 noon (starving!)
Turkey Lunch - 1pm
"Nibbles" while opening presents - 5pm
Turkey dinner - 7pm (ish! - has been known to start at 9.45!)
Waddle to bed....whenever

Stay at home years:
Nibbles while visiting family - 12 noon, 2pm
Nibbles while opening presents - 4pm ish
Dinner - 6pm ish but not later than about 7.30 start

Stay at home years involve more substantial nibbles at different stages, spaced more regularly and suitably, and we control dinner time (so if turkey was late getting started, we have more nibbles with presents and do fewer potatoes).

Travelling years involve keeping out of 2 matriarch's kitchens and sticking to their timetables, and not having access to anything in between in case we spoil our dinner. So its "starve, feast, here have more now even though you're still stuffed, feast, can we tempt you to even more.....!"

I long for a year when others travel up to us!

For us, its no different to any other day. The kids are hungry by about 12.30pm. I will cook a sunday roast. I detest cooking and I don't much like turkey, so a chicken and Aunt Bessie are our friends.

In the States we usually have lobster (on the beach if it's not too cold) but we'll be in the UK this year so it's down to Dad if he's well enough, me if not.

It'll probably going to be a piece of beef or pork. I don't really miss the turkey we grew up with as we eat it at least twice over thanksgiving week and get given a shit ton so by Christmas I'm over it!

Breakfast -10am
Dinner -6pm

In between Xmasy snacks if wanted

Breakfast: 8ish but very light breakfast

Lunch: 1 or 2pm

Dinner: 7.30-8pm ish. Small buffet with sandwiches made from leftover lunch meat and some other 'throw in the oven' snacks, maybe some cheese and biscuits, leftover trifle

Oh what time?! Lol sorry! Just woken up and my contacts are blurry for a while haha.

Hmm, at home maybe 3 or 4 but at family in the UK 'proper' dinner time 12-1.

Was looking at all the other replies thinking- 'why is everyone putting what time they eat? Weirdos.'

Breakfast for littlies-7.30-8 am
Brunch- croissants, fruit toast crumpets, smoked salmon and bagels- something like that all of that
Christmas dinner- 4.30-5 ish
Supper- 9ish- pork pie, cheese and biscuits, pickles, mince pies

We are a family do big eaters- I swear I must put on half a stone on Christmas Day!