Too much food on Christmas day

[SpacePug]

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?

I do think that what your time of life is, is determining.

When our children were babies/toddlers, we'd have an early breakfast ( croissants etc..) and the children would open their stockings... 6.30 ish.

Now our children are 20 somethings so we get up much later , which shifted mealtimes.

As we're all older, we don't need the evening buffet anymore.

To coin a phrase on MN ... you do you.

I’m sorry, but all of you astounded at a Christmas dinner followed by a buffet, have you missed 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 this?!

Christmas Eve, we have home made cheese straws and hot sausage rolls with some nibbly bits.
Christmas Day I have cereal and DH just has a cup of tea, a massive turkey dinner around 3pm and then a turkey sandwich and/or pudding around 8pm.
Boxing Day DH likes to find a new recipe to try. Last year was a Turkey pie. The year before that he had a turkey & gammon curry. I do not like to try new recipes. I have cold turkey, left over pigs and stuffing and bubble and squeak with crusty bread. In between, there are always sweets, chocolate and savoury bits to nibble on.

This year, we’ll be with the in laws. Takeaway Christmas Eve, turkey dinner during the day and a full buffet in the evening, when half of South Wales descend on the house and a big party is had. Boxing Day is cold turkey and home made chips.

We have our "main" Christmas Dinner on Christmas Eve - a Danish tradition via my granny. So we have family (SIL and her family, close friends, my dad) over in normal year , three course meal with turkey and a boiled and glazed ham and all the trimmings, and then the traditional Danish Christmas dessert (a sort of sweet risotto with chopped blanched almonds, one whole almond and whipped cream folded through it; whoever gets the whole almond gets the "almond prize").

On Christmas Day we have croissants, Nigella's Christmas muffins and bubbly for a late breakfast while we open presents and then in the evening we have a "light" Christmas Dinner (a roast pheasant which is quick and easy for me to prepare as I've done it for years), just the family and we might have the traditional UK Christmas pudding but often we're too full to bother. I prepare enough roast potatoes and veg the day before so that there's very little for me to do.

Boxing Day and thereafter we have left overs/buffet style grazing especially ds with the ham, which he loves