Talk me through food timings on Xmas day

[BumbleyBum]

What time do you have breakfast, lunch and dinner? What do you have to eat?

Breakfast early, depends on when everyone's wakes. Usually just tea and toast.
Christmas meal late afternoonish, round 4 or 5.
Nothing else, as too stuffed from lunch so just pick at left overs throughout the evening.

I used to prepare breakfast on Christmas Day but there never feels like enough time during the day to eat it! We'll have champagne when opening stockings and then at around 9am I'll have a fortifying Bloody Mary, the children will have Coco Pops (Christmas only! Poor things).

At around midday our friends and family will arrive and I am serving smoked salmon on soda bread and drunken devils on horseback to have with more champagne. We'll eat rib of beef at around 3pm, with goose fat roast potatoes, spiced red cabbage, cauliflower cheese and sprouts with pancetta. Pudding is a Baileys tiramisu trifle which has the potential to be the most sickly thing in the world.

And then I sleep.

The kids will get up early so will have coco pops at 8 ish. Then croissants, fruit toast etc at 11 ish. Christmas dinner at 4-4.30. Supper at 8.30-9.

Are we the only family to have our Xmas dinner in the evenings?

More relaxed cooking schedule, big meal after dark, more romantic and grown up?

Day for presents, games, socialising, maybe even a walk, or chance for ‘outdoor’ pressies to get a quick try?

Light breakfast, light lunch (smoked salmon, game pie or whatever), canapés at tea time, with champagne, dinner at 7.30, drink slobbed out and relaxed til bedtime.

Suits us so much better than a lunchtime or late lunch turkey.

@BeanBagLady absolutely has to be evening but my MIL has always thrown a spanner in the works by wanting to pop in right when I want to do it. Long leisurely day cooking rather than frantic kitchen chaos. Sipping a glass of bubbly as the kids stuff their faces with chocolate.

Thankfully she's going on holiday this year so I can do it whenever the hell I want to now. Haha!

We have breakfast at about 8 or whenever we are up. Kids usually have chocolate and we have scrambled eggs and salmon, but small portions.

We have lunch at about 1.30. At about 12 we have crisps, olives etc as a kind of starter. Then we have the main dinner, this year we are having roast pork, then Christmas pudding. Cheese board if we have room, if not we get it out later and have cheese, ham and crackers and pickles etc at about 6.

Adult breakfast/brunch, usually smoked salmon/cream cheese/bagels (nice and easy) probably not before about 10.

Followed by lots of Buck's Fizz with present opening, and plenty of nibbles, with more substantial canapés (usually fishy ones from M&S) around 3 ish.

Dinner (I don't do starters) usually around 5, but might make it 4.30 this year since will have very little Gdcs staying - they'll need breakfast and (simple) lunch at normal times.

There will be plenty of gammon, turkey, salad, cheese, etc.later in the evening but people are usually too full of dinner/Chr. pudding/chocolates, except for a bit of picking.

Breakfast is usually rushed toast/porridge before church.

Lunch is at 1.30/2pm and we have smoked salmon, smoked salmon bites (filled with cream cheese), nice breads and cheese.

Dinner is at 7 or 8pm- this is when we have the full works (i.e turkey, pigs in blankets, roast potatoes, vegetables)

Dessert of trifle/chocolate christmas pudding at 9.30 or 10pm!

Oh and chocolates throughout the day!

breakfast about 7-8am depending on what times kids wake us up!
We then have starters about 1 pm and then christmas dinner (turkey roast etc) about 2pm. pudding is then whenever anyone wants it and then people just pick at chocolate and cheese for the rest of the day.

Boxing day i put out a buffet at about noon and then people just help themselves for the rest of the day!

bucks fizz/coffee/juice and present opening around 7ish

breakfast will be lucky charms as a treat for the kids or if they want bacon butties etc around 9am
xmas lunch around 1pm
going to my mums for xmas party and supper xx