What time do you eat your Christmas dinner?

[ivykaty44]

We aim to eat about 3:30m
Breakfast is around 10:30
Never usually have a third meal, perhaps Chrismas pudding and nibbles in the evening

What time do others like to eat?

We have friends who eat on Christmas Eve evening and then snack on Xmas day. That way they say they can relax and have guests round on Christmas Eve that would otherwise be busy elsewhere

Xmas day evening 8 to 9pm - Never do sunday lunches and don't like large lunches

Usually around 5 or 6 pm.

My in laws don't really celebrate Christmas but my parents do. As far as we can remember we've always bought presents for neighbours,made a fancy dinner,left stockings up. On Christmas day my dad and brother are normally found in the kitchen making Christmas dinner. Brother 2 brings his family around 2ish and we exchange secret santa gifts and eat after the queen's speech (my dad is a royalist and we have to watch the speech!). Brother 2 will bring out all the cheesy jokes he's been saving for Xmas.
We celebrate Eid so the kids get all their big presents then as well as a chance to go mad with decorations. So it's the best of both cultures. My side of the family like exchanging gifts,the sillier the better.

I love these threads down to the - at 10.30 precisely the dc will jump onto the larger sofa in the drawing room for present opening from cousins, then at 10.45 we will move to the kitchen for a light midway snack

when its dark I like eating in flickering lights and candle lights/

Apart from anything else, if you eat at lunchtime you can’t have the essential rite of all dining room lights off, just before the pudding is brought to the table in all its flaming glory.

It’s not the same in daylight!