Christmas starter yay or nay?

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I grew up having smoked salmon and or prawns as a starter with my christmas dinner and DH said his family never had a starter.

We are having his parents round for christmas this year.

I LOVE my starters so am a bit disappointed. WWYD? I can hardly just make one for me can I?

Never had starters as a child but as we always do Christmas these days we have it our way and always have prawn cocktails.

Your house, your roolz!

I don’t mind a starter but never soup as it’s so filling!! We would normally have smoked salmon or duck rilette.

I’m envious of the people who are having 2 starters. Do you space your meal out over several hours or is it soup-fish-Turkey-pudding-coffee all in one sitting?

We have canapés, starter, fish course, main, pudding and cheese and biscuits later! But we have breaks in between each course so it takes a while to eat it all!

We have a starter but a few hours before the main event so that it doesn't spoil our appetites. We're big fans of savoury food though so we'd rather have a starter than a pudding. I always buy a Christmas pudding but it often doesn't get eaten until January!

@Jackshouse there's the mini cereal boxes in the stockings so you eat that before opening presents and then there's 2nd breakfast and that will be either a fry up or Belgian waffles or the chocolate in the stockings or more cereal because opening presents is hard work