Alternative to Christmas Dinner/Buffet

[Rosio]

We always spend Christmas day together with my family 6 adults and 2 young kids. Usually, we have starter, Christmas dinner and pudding around 2/3pm
On the evening we do a party-food buffet at 7pm (sausage rolls, crisps, cheese, crusty bread, m&s party food like spring rolls etc) there's always too much food and we're usually still too full to eat much al it feels like a waste.

Last year we did things differently and we didn't have a Christmas dinner, we just had starter and pudding but with buffet style food (which then continued through to the evening)

Im now trying to help my mum decide what we should do this year; we could do either of those but I think I want to try something different. Does anyone have any ideas how they do things differently to this? My mum suggested doing the buffet again but do roasties, stuffing balls, pigs in blankets, turkey etc on the buffet.

I was thinking maybe we should do something completely different like Chinese food or pizzas on the evening. (No Christmas dinner just small buffet in afternoon maybe)

Or do Christmas dinner with no starter, and make it a lot smaller. And the buffet could be smaller too? Or do a grazing platter instead? Or make It cheese and cracker style nibbles with no party food items...

Help!

Last year we changed it. We had a fry up in the morning for breakfast, but with Bucks fizz etc. Went to the village pub at lunchtime a few hours later, which was great fun. They had a few nibbles on the bar. Then had our Christmas dinner in the evening about 7pm. It was perfect that way for us.

We do an afternoon tea type thing around 1ish then have our Christmas dinner around 6:30-7.
I couldn't eat a full Xmas dinner at lunch time, I'd just want to sleep for the rest of the day. 😅

We always swerve the starter and the pudding for Christmas dinner. It's just too much food.

We might have a pudding for the evening meal and cheese and crackers + general grazing on jollies throughout the day.

Growing up we would sometimes save the Christmas dinner for Boxing Day so we could all just relax on Christmas Day and enjoy all the delicious picky bits and canapés and chocolate.

We do a light breakfast, then have full on Christmas Dinner for lunch with no starter. Eat when it's still light, about 1pm. Then in the evening it's grazing food, leftovers, cheese, chocolate.

Love all these different ways of doing things. I think we are going to do Christmas dinner on Christmas Day this year but skip the starter, the evening will do cold cheese board rather than the usual full party food selection that everyone is too full to eat 😂

For breakfast we'll all be at our own homes, so at my house me and DH and kids will do croissants with chocolate spread and strawberries and open a tin of biscuits 😋

For several years we've done a big brunch mid morning and then dinner from about 4.30/5pm. It takes a while!
No one ever wants more but there could be cheese etc if required.

Christmas Dinner with no starter.

For evening buffet:

Turkey sandwiches
Cocktail sausages
Wedhges
Chicken goujons