Too much food on Christmas day

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Does anyone skip Christmas dinner on Christmas day? Maybe have it on Christmas Eve instead 🤔

Just discussing how we are never hungry enough for the buffet on the night, and end up serving it all and then only having a couple of nibbles each. There will be 6 adults and 2 kids.

I'm thinking maybe the buffet should be the star of the day, make it a little bit more special and ensure everyone will be hungry enough to enjoy it by not having a huge Christmas dinner the same day. Anyone else do something similar?

We have breakfast at about 9 then Christmas meal at about 4. No buffet!!

We haven't had the traditional dinner in years.

Have whatever food you like. There's no laws...

Salmon and nibbles from about 3
Beef with a fuckton of trimmings from 4
A bought posh pudding
Cheese

Friends of ours do Christmas dinner on Christmas eve - I think it's a German tradition that a lot of military families have. It makes total sense to me - spreads out the specialness so you have big dinner one day, then presents the next, and the leftover turkey forms part of the buffet on the big day. The main attraction to me is being able to enjoy Christmas day without the big meal taking over everything.

I haven't managed to persuade DP yet.

We have two meals .. breakfast and the traditional Turkey meal ... I do love a Christmas Buffet but I serve that on Boxing Day.

When we are at home, we have nice breakfast in the morning, a pack of M&S party food as a starter about 4pm while opening presents, and turkey dinner about 6pm. Possibly cheese/crackers and/or pudding later, but not always.

The years that we "go home" - we have tiny breakfast (coffee and pastry's only), full turkey dinner in the middle of the day and another full turkey dinner in the late evening 8pm ish). And waddle to bed.

If you eat middle of the day, could you postpone a later course to later in the day - like the pudding or a cheese board - for when you need a little something but are better able to enjoy it?

We always have the cheeseboard on boxing day too.
We have eggs Benedict for brunch then the traditional meal at about 4, dessert is usually left until the evening. We never have room for cheese.

Wait..you have christmas dinner AND a buffet?

We usually have breakfast when we wake up (depending what people want, I usually have bowl of cereal or some toast, my dad/sister/boyfriend might have a bacon sandwich or a fry up)

nibble through the morning if we want to (chocolates, biscuits ect)

2/3pm ish we'll have a full Christmas dinner.

7pm if we feel like we can move by that point we'll either reheat a bit of turkey or have a sandwich or something if we want...sometimes we have christmas dinner then just skip food for the evening entirely.

Do people really do a buffet on Christmas Day after a Christmas Dinner?

We have a special pancake breakfast at around 9/10 am, dinner at around 4, Christmas pud a few hours later, then leftover Turkey sandwiches/cheese board and fruit much later in the evening as we feel like it.

My family used to do a traditional Boxing Day buffet but I only do one on New Years Eve.

We have a fairly light breakfast - eg a croissant with Buck’s fizz, a light buffet lunch with salads and fruit, then go out for a long walk round the local loch while the turkey is cooking, and eat it for dinner in the evening, with roast potatoes and red cabbage, when we have whipped up a good appetite.
A buffet doesn’t have to be weighed down with pastries, cakes, etc, especially when it isn’t the main meal of the day.
We usually have more substantial buffets on Christmas Eve, (when evening dinner is light - smoked salmon and asparagus) and Boxing Day, (when dinner is leftover turkey served Indonesian style).

We tend to have a very light breakfast (one crumpet or a croissant and juice)

Also I don't make more than I would on an average Sunday. So if we have a starter maybe melon and usually turkey ham and veg and toasties etc. about 1pm

We’ve never had a buffet.

Usual routine is whatever breakfast people fancy, big Christmas dinner (a lamb roast last year), and leftovers from the Christmas dinner or cheese and crackers in the evening.

If we were to do a proper buffet separate to the main Christmas dinner I think we’d do them on separate days.

The buffet is for boxing day definitely!

Wake up, presents/breakfast. Graze on sugar based sh*t through the morning. Christmas dinner at 3ish. Pudding at 5/6 ish. Maybe some crisps/nuts when playing a board game from 8+

Boxing day christmas leftover sandwiches are the most epic part of dinner IMO.

Surely just skip the buffet?

We have never had a buffet.

Buffets are for Boxing Day! After Xmas dinner on Xmas day, we just nibble on leftovers and sweets

We usually have breakfast and then dinner about 4pm. The closest we come to a buffet is opening all of the selection boxes and leaving them on the kitchen table for the children to graze on at their leisure through the day.

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We usually have breakfast and then dinner about 4pm. The closest we come to a buffet is opening all of the selection boxes and leaving them on the kitchen table for the children to graze on at their leisure through the day.

That's my kind of buffet

I actually hate buffets.

Leftovers, yes.

We split the crazy eating over the entire festive period .

Sunday before Christmas open house with buffet. Really hoping we can do this again this year.

Christmas Eve we eat out with friends.

Christmas Day light breakfast of pastries and coffee. Antipasti style canapés for ‘starter’ with cranberry gin fizz to open gifts with family around 2pm. Full Christmas dinner and dessert around 5.30pm. Cheeseboard and Christmas cake/mince pies about 9pm.

Boxing day leftovers made into sourdough toasted sandwiches with cornish cruncher cheddar, crisps, dips etc then leftover desserts and a doze .

Lots of eating out between then and 30th.

Hogmanay full kitchen table buffet

New Year’s Day is mandatory steak pie dinner

Croissants & buck fizz
Chocolates, mince pies
Turkey around 2/3pm
Sandwich later if peckish

Buffet -Boxing Day.

I'd say either Christmas Dinner or buffet, not both on the same day.

We have a bacon and egg butty first thing; Christmas Dinner around 2; have a break of an hour or so before pudding. Then cheese and biscuits for anyone who wants some supper. With pate/pork pies/rolls for turkey sandwiches available for anyone who wants more but not put out as a buffet. Christmas cake and mince pies also but again, not put out to dry out but everyone knows they can help themselves.

We do an M&S buffet for Xmas Eve dinner.

Some sort of salmon/egg/pastry/bread/bucks fizz option as brunch at 10ish (bowl of cornflakes at 6.30am for whoever is up early with small people!)

Canapé type starter nibbles at 2pm

Full turkey dinner at 4pm

Pudding at 6ish

I couldn’t have a Christmas dinner and a buffet - that’s an insane amount of food.
We have Buck’s Fizz and croissants or pain au chocolat for breakfast, turkey snd the trimmings around 2, and nibbles in the evening - sandwiches, crisps, cheese board, Christmas cake, that sort of thing, in the evening if we can face it.

We have a buffet on Boxing Day. Christmas Day we have big roast about 1 and then pick at cheese, biscuits and cold-cuts in the evening, and chocolate of course.

We have seafood platter on Christmas eve with champagne.

Smoked salmon and scrambled eggs or eggs benedict or similar with bucks fizz for breakfast Christmas day.

Big roast dinner (not necessarily turkey) about 2-3pm on Christmas day.

Puddings and coffee around 5

Cheese board around 7/8

Buffet on Boxing Day and every subsequent day until all the buffet food and leftovers run out.