What time do you server food on xmas day?

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Growing up we skipped breakfast and had a big Christmas lunch at around 12.30pm and then we would have left over meat in sandwiches for dinner. In laws don't eat anything all day and serve Christmas lunch/dinner at 4pm, they also don't allow you to make anything in their kitchen, so if you are staying at their house for Christmas/ Christmas eve you need to take your own snacks otherwise you are starving by the time food is served.
Is it more common to serve the Christmas lunch later in the day or around lunctime around 12ish?

Late breakfast, usually bagels/smoked salmon/cream cheese, followed by lots of Buck's Fizz and nibbles with present opening, bigger canapés around 3, Chr. dinner around 5. Far less of a rush for the cook, and plenty of time for a walk in daylight.

We always leave some presents until after dinner.

Haven't had Chr. dinner at lunchtime for years. Whoever's cooking has to be up the crack of dawn to stuff the turkey and shove it in the oven - no thanks.

Bacon and sausage butties about 9am (after present opening) and the feast normally starts around 3pm

Porridge/toast at 7am

brunch after mass at 11.30/12 (so salmon/bagels/scrambled eggs) - we walk there and back so need something reasonably filling.
DH might have a light seafood starter/nibble around 3pm with a glass of bubbles

Christmas dinner at 4.30/5 ish. Pudding around 7

Christmas dinner sandwich at 10.30!

But DC are all 5 and under. This way we stick roughly to their normal schedule/timings to reduce grumpiness and they will flake for an hour in front of the TV before dinner allowing me time to finish everything off before serving.

It’s just us so not stepping on anyone’s toes.

6pm here. We have a big breakfast at 8am to see us till then

About 3:30pm. Even if I skipped breakfast there's no way I could eat a roast before 2pm - just seems way too much food for so early in the day.

We then have the odd pack of party food about 9pm

Champagne and canapés at 1 pm with leisurely helping in kitchen, followed by the main event at 3 pm.

I do think anyone who's hosting needs to remember that, just because they find some kind of intense moral virtue in not eating much, other people are not the same. If you are planning to serve the main meal after what most of us consider lunchtime, you are a pretty shit host if you actively prevent others from having something to eat earlier in the day. If you are really, really skint, you shouldn't host unless you are happy to agree with your guests to share the food costs and/or bring contributions or snacks for themselvees, and you should never, ever criticize other people for wanting to eat more often than you do. it's none of your fucking business.

Between 2-4

But we have food available all day, and do a big cooked brekkie

2pm for us - we would still have breakfast regardless of the time, have to have a special breakfast on Xmas day too!

@Arrowfanatic why not put out real food for your guests to eat before lunch? People shouldn’t have to survive on sweets, fast carbs and alcohol for four hours just because you feel they should.

@ReanimatedSGB here here. It’s some kind of weird food control.

I grew up on a farm and my Dad worked every Christmas Day, so we always ate at night. Starting about 6 or 7, table cleared for post-dinner board games and then dessert at about 11!

DHs family eat at 12, so we compromise with a late lunch at around 2/3pm. I HATE it. Haven’t enjoyed a single one since we started having Christmas at home.

some time after 3 generally.

1pm. Washed up read for the Queen's speech. Then walk afterwards.

About 2pm, any earlier and you have to get up at the crack of dawn to put the turkey in the oven, but its nice to get it out of the way by mid afternoon. We have breakfast about 9, then in the evening there are puddings and crackers and cheese for anyone who wants them (usually no one really bothers though, too full from dinner).

Usually around 1/2pm. Kids have section boxes and grown ups alcohol/coffee ans croissants for breakfast.
For the very first time as an adult I'm not cooking we are going to db and sir for Christmas lunch at 2 and I'm really struggling with the idea of relinquishing control 😂.

*sil

Probably around 1pm so that the rest of the day can be spent with my feet up.
I dont want to be cooking all day or late into the day. We have young children so we are up early.
Big Christmas dinner then i wash up with help from the teens, then i like to veg in front of the tv, buffet style tea.
Plenty of food available if guests come.

No later than 2 so we have time for a walk afterwards before it gets dark. I agree that an evening dinner means no leftover/buffet bits or space for chocolate in the evening.

We always had it around 3pm when I was a kid - precisely to avoid the Queen's speech I was told :-) In my family, we now do it somewhere between 1.30 and 3, depending on how many we're feeding, the age of the kids, etc.

ReanimatedSGB
intense moral virtue in not eating much think this applies to inlaws.
I have to end up hiding in the bedroom eating a pack of doritoes and dip because if they see you they will say "why are you eating, dinner is soon". They also arn't skint at all.

Before I had my DC, we'd have a really nice breakfast, snack all day then have Christmas Dinner as our evening meal. Since DC came along we eat dinner at about 1pm. They will stuff themselves with chocolate and then not want any proper food if we leave it any later. Then we have a buffet style meal in the evening.

Between 4-5pm.
We have a big breakfast, snacks in the afternoon (I make sausage rolls and feta and spinach triangles on Christmas Eve), chocolate or whatever if the kids need something else to keep them going.
Because we always host for a large amount of people but also have 3dc, getting dinner on the go early doors isn’t high on our agenda.
Stocking presents in bed at 8-9, dressed and showered, down for breakfast, then tree presents while dp starts to faff.
People don’t seem to mind eating then, no one goes hungry!

Somewhere between four and five, whenever it’s ready.

We do scrambled eggs and smoked salmon for breakfast with Pandoro and Buck’s Fizz.

Pâté, cheeses, Christmas ham for lunch.

Trifle sometime after dinner.

People can pick at whatever leftovers they like later on in the evening, if they wish, plus chocolates, biscuits, nuts, sweets, mince pies etc.

We usually do breakfast at about 8 ( DC's are up EARLY) and lunch at 1. This year will be different though. We are having brunch at 10:30 and lunch at 3:30.