What do you eat and drink on Christmas Day?

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From start to finish?

Breakfast:
cup of tea
Fried mashed potato buttie

Christmas lunch/dinner:

Roast potatoes
Honey roast carrots
Honey roast parsnips
Marrowfat peas
Broccoli
Stuffing
Yorkshire puddings
Cranberry sauce
Cauliflower
Glass of rosé wine maybe or juice/water

Later on:
Chocolate Yule log or homemade gingerbread cake/whatever cake I've made
Cup of tea or Baileys

Outside of meals:

Quality street
Matchmakers
Chocolates my mum buys me
After 8 mints
Christmas sweets
Mince pie or two
Possibly a glass of wine once the children go to bed but unlikely.

Me: Scrambled eggs and smoked salmon, fresh orange juice or possibly a bucks fizz. Coffee
DS: warm pain au raisin and fresh pineapple

Lunch: roast, potatoes, PIBs, assorted veg, gravy, followed by xmas pud or mince pies & cream, or perhaps tiramisu.

Evening: cold home cooked ham, salads, pickles, nice bread, cheese etc Maybe zabaglione or similar.

DS will also eat his chocolate santa.

Cup of tea in bed

Stocking chocolate with DDs

Coffee, champagne, croissant while we Skype DM in Australia

Hot canapes, poinsettias about midday

Xmas dinner (no starter) and wine about 2

Pudding after the Kings speech and tree presents

Cheese & port after the DDs are in bed

we don’t have breakfast as such, just put out crisps, chocolates, olives and snacks and graze on those in the morning.

for lunch we have chicken (not turkey as I don’t like it!), roasties, stuffing, parsnips, sprouts and Yorkshire puddings.

then again just scoff our faces in the evening when the kids are in bed - cheese board, oven canapés that sort of thing.

I might have a glass of fizz but mainly just Diet Coke, which I love but usually try not to drink too much.

No breakfast (kids can eat stocking chocolates) but we'll have smoked salmon and cream cheese bellinis with prosecco around 10/11am. Maybe a mince pie a bit later if feeling peckish.

Then dinner around 3pm which will be turkey, two types of stuffing, yorkshire pud, roast potatoes, mash potatoes, sprout gratin, cauliflower cheese, red cabbage, peas & carrots, pigs in blankets, parsnips...with a nice bottle of red.

After that it's mainly chocolate, crisps, nuts, maybe cheese and crackers later and dessert is always eaten much later - either a trifle or Christmas pud. Drinks would be red wine and maybe finish the evening with a Baileys.

Nothing usually for breakfast except tea..

Lunch is your typical roast, nothing too fancy as the kids are fussy. One child will have chicken dippers and yorkshires for lunch.

Dessert is trifle, chocolate cake, any other cake we have.

Lots of wine, champagne, prosecco etc (probably requiring an afternoon nap)

Snack wise, we have a bowl of heroes chocolates out but we dont go too heavy on the snacks outside of the usual. DH and the Kidd are obsessed with Pringles so I reckon they'll get through a tube or 10.

We dont overeat, but probably drink too much alcohol but dont drink excessively any other time.

What's a fried mash potato buttie? I've never heard of it!

Do you just have veg for Christmas lunch? No protein of any sort as a centrepiece for all those side dishes?

Last year we had
Coffee in bed but that’s everyday
sausage bacon and egg sandwich late morning
mince pies afternoon while opening presents
homemade curry and chapati in the evening along with a few drinks 🍹

Strong coffee with oat milk x 2
Sourdough toast with butter and marmalade - this year might do something different like French toast with yoghurt and blueberries
Ice water

Roast turkey, gravy, bread sauce, cranberry sauce, roast potatoes, pigs in blankets, Brussel sprouts, carrots, parsnips, maybe peas or green beans.
Champagne

Dessert - don't know what yet. Last year pear and almond tart with cream. This year maybe similar or cheesecake or pumpkin pie or bakewell tart.

Chocolate, crisps, cold cuts, pate, cheese and crackers, chutneys, more pigs in blankets, nice bread, pickles etc
More Champagne and maybe some port

Tea in bed opening the stockings

Coffee and or Buck's Fizz & scrambled eggs with salmon for breakfast

Champagne whilst opening the presents this may or may not be the next event depending on time

Go to the pub for a mulled cider or cider, with some friends. Followed by a dog walk

2pm ish More champagne. If anyone needs a light bite then cheese bread and ham are available. Some can wait out till Christmas dinner . From now on peanuts and crisps are also available

4:30-5pm. Top up of bubbly g&t whatever floats your boat. And canapés

6pm Christmas dinner. Traditional Turkey, sprouts, roast spuds carrots. For pudding it's an light pavlova. Christmas pudding is for the following week. Wine white red and rose are all available

7pm 10pm lounge round in a food coma, top up with wine. If it's a more energetic Christmas then charades will be played

10pm coffee, baileys, port, whiskey or brandy. Coffee, grapes, and cheese etc

Tea, coffee, Croissants 9am ish
Buck's Fizz mid morning
11.30 veggie sausage sarnies
Crisps and chocs out for nibbling on
3ish starter (changes year to year)
4ish Christmas dinner, usually a mix of veggie options (nut roast, quorn, pastry dish) as well as Turkey crown for In laws. Roasties, sprouts, roast carrots, broccoli, cauliflower cheese, stuffing, gravy. Wine with dinner
5.30ish Christmas pudding with custard or white sauce. DD usually makes a carrot cake or biscoff cheesecake.
8ish.. nibbly buffet, cheese & crackers, pork pies, chips & dips MIL usually does a ham. Watch a film, baileys and bed!

Thus year, I fancy doing our big roast on Christmas Eve, so we will have, on Christmas eve:

Breakfast: Pastries, tea, coffee, sourdough toast and raspberries/blueberries. Around 8/9? After kids eat loads of choc and sweets too, of course.

Dinner: then we spread the dinner over a few hours. Starters around 1, maybe melon and prosciutto or garlic/cheese portobellos. Break for an hour. Main: M&S roast beef joint, all the trimmings. Break for an hour or 2. Then a relaxed pudding, may do knickerbocker glories in tall glasses, and yule log, they went down a storm last year!

Supper: small canapés, crisps, cheese, crackers, fruit, chocolate, around 6 or 7,if anyones hungry.

Christmas Day will be more restful.

Brekky: bacon rolls.

Lunch: buffet spread. Help yourselves. Walk the dog, watch films, relax.

Tea: as lunch! Cheese and crackers,may make nice soup for this, to be nourishing after so much rich food.

I feel like trying it this way round for a change, to make Christmas Day more relaxed. We'll see if it works,or just feels odd.

Tea, chocolates, warm pastries, bacon sandwiches, fresh orange juice, cereal

Champagne, white or red wine.

Roast (stuffed chicken this year, but it varies.
Roasties, Yorkshire puddings, honey carrots and parsnips, green beans, cauliflower cheese, pigs in blankets, gravy
Dessert (probably profiteroles this year), coffee and baileys.
Chocolates and biscuits

Cheese, crackers, chutney, cured meats

Amaretto, blackberry whisky, gingerbread gin with ginger ale

More chocolate/snacks

Poinsettia's?

This year it's going to be scrambled eggs with smoked tuna and chives on soda bread for breakfast (only discovered smoked tuna this year - it's even more tender and tastier than smoked salmon). Coffee.

Lunch - well, I'm hoping to get my hands on a goose (I have a history of poultry issues at Christmas - after Tesco subbed three frozen ducks for a goose, and then helpful friends - 2 of them - each managed to get me a goose, and I'd already got a turkey crown for St Stephen's Day. I'm a little wary of making definite bird plans) - and we'll be having it (or whatever I end up with) with:

Roast potatoes
Honey roast parsnips
Carrots
Brussels
Broccoli (for my sprout-hating DH)
Bread sauce
Cranberry sauce
Stuffing (sage and onion if it's a turkey, potato and apple if it's a goose)
Pigs in blankets
Gravy

There will be ice cream ('nilla) afterwards, if anyone wants it - we never have room for pudding.

Later on I'll get the cheese and the port out, with grapes and apples, also the Christmas cake.

Dinner wines are going to be a Gewurztraminer and a chianti (my and DH's preference, respectively). I'll probably have a dry sherry or two whilst cooking, and a snowball with the cake in the evening.

Coffee, champagne or wine, smoked salmon are definites..... the rest may vary; probably cheese, at some point.

Definitely NOT turkey, beef, goose, roast potatoes, sprouts or any other accoutrements of a roast dinner. Also NOT Xmas pudding.

It's just another day, really (albeit not working) so never understand why we are supposed to eat specific foods. My only concession might be a warmed mince pie with Wensleydale cheese in the top - just because they taste nice!

Love a Christmas food thread.

Breakfast used to be DH choice of smoked bacon butties on nice fresh crusty bread, butter and coffee. . .past few years we've been having fruit salad, yoghurt, pastries and coffee. Nice and light but still feels like a treat.

Prosecco and cranberry juice while we open presents.

Dinner (which is ready when it's ready)

Chicken / capon depending how many are over.
Nigellas gingerbread stuffing 🤤🤤🤤🤤
Maple syrup roasted carrots and parsnips
Roast potatoes
Pigs in blankets
Braised red cabbage (Jamie Oliver recipe that uses bacon, apple, fennel)
Sprouts fried in bacon and garlic
Gravy
Lots of wine

Christmas pudding and custard that I've made weeks ago inevitably gets left till later in the week cos no one fancies it 🤣

In the evening tend to have leftover butties with Christmas chutney I get from some company in the lake District and half a tube of pringles 🤣

Breakfast

either

smoked salmon
bagels
cream cheese

or

fry up

lunch/dinner

ham
turkey
2 x stuffing
Brussels with bacon & chestnuts
roasted parsnips
carrots
gravy
pigs in blankets
mash
roasted potatoes
cranberry sauce

early evening

trifle

late evening
cheese, crackers, chutney & grapes

snack on crisps, nuts, choc throughout the day.

😋

Too much usually 😉

Porridge and berries for breakfast before a 6 mile walk.
Fizz in the pub at the end of the walk
Home...more fizz, crisps, dips while we open a couple of presents
Out for dinner about 4....Mediterranean food
Home about 7.....wine and pudding while we open main presents
Boxing day is a cheese/charcuterie board

drink wise I don't really drink alcohol but will have buck's fizz, coke & a tea with breakfast & a coffee after lunch.

B: Croissants with butter and jam and freshly squeezed OJ

S: Terrys chocolate orange

L: Pate to start, Turkey with mashed potatoes, roast potatoes, Yorkshire pudding, stuffing, pigs in blankets, carrots, peas, cabbage (other veggies on offer but I don’t like them), cranberry sauce and copious amounts of gravy. Christmas pudding and custard. After either mints.

S: Chocolates such as heroes, quality street, malteasers Christmas pudding

T: Turkey sandwiches with pickled red cabbage and mini sausages followed by Yule log or something similar

Wow! It’s a LOT, but I can’t wait!!

Cup of tea before we get up, then champagne or Buck’s Fizz while opening presents,. Full English for breakfast.

Maybe nibble a chocolate or two while dinners cooking.

Lunch. Turkey, or sometimes beef, roasties, garden peas, sprouts, stuffing, mash and gravy, followed by Christmas pud and cream, followed by chocolate trifle. Several glasses of wine.

Not really up for eating anything else after that, but might nibble on a bit of turkey or something in the evening with a film, and more wine.

Bacon and mushroom butties with mimosas for breakfast.
Late lunch/early tea is turkey, pigs in blankets, cauliflower cheese, sprouts with lardons, carrots, roast potatoes, roast parsnips, carrots, stuffing and gravy.
Pudding is usually some fancy Christmas themed thing which comes out in the evening.
We don't tend to eat anything else, maybe graze on crisps/Twiglets/Christmas savory snacks a little bit but we don't tend to be hungry. Every year I buy full cheese boards, camembert, chocolates and the like, but rarely do we eat these things on Christmas day.
Everything is washed down with champagne which I buy earlier in the year when I see it go on offer.

Breakfast is usually pain chocolat or bagels with scrambled egg and smoked salmon.

Lunch
Roast Turkey
Stuffing
Roast onion
Bacon
Sausages
Parmesan parsnips
Peas and carrots
Brussel sprouts
Roast potatoes
Gravy
Bread sauce
Cranberry sauce

Puddings:
Pavlova
Chocolate mousse
Something else.....

Later
Cheese and biscuits
Seafood platter