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.

Coffee/hot chocolate while we open presents.
Then Danish pastries and croissants.
Then we go out for a curry
Later we eat the leftover curry we brought home with us

Breakfast: Tea & Toast

Mid morning: chocolate baileys or two (yum!)

Choice of starters: Prawn Cocktail or Melon Boat or Foie Gras
Choice of soup: Broth or Tomato, with bread & croissants
Main: Turkey, Capon or Chicken, Roast & Mashed Potatoes, Brussel Sprouts, Carrots, Parsnips, Cauliflower Cheese, Mealie (in Scotland), Pigs in Blankets, Yorkshire Puddings, Gravy
Selection of Puddings to pick and choose: Cheesecake, Trifle, Profiteroles, Fruit Gateaux, Chocolate Sponge. Along with ice creams, cream, custard and jelly.

Tea & Coffee a time afterwards with selection of chocolate seashells, Ferraro Roche, matchsticks, Brazil nuts, after eights etc.

Evening: selection box, leftovers, coca-cola, baileys or ginger wine

in comparison to others…..we eat much more courses….and perhaps a retro menu!?

Breakfast:
Fresh coffee with frothed milk
smoked salmon and cream cheese bagel thin
Freshly squeezed OJ

Mid morning mimosa cocktail while opening presents

Lunch:
Homemade artichoke soup
water biscuits with stilton
clementines
Another mimosa
Sparkling water

Dinner:
Glass of Red wine
Sparkling water
Turkey
pigs in blankets
pork and apricot stuffing balls
roast potatoes
parsnips
carrots
sprouts
gravy

Christmas pudding with custard or cream or greek yoghurt

Evening:
Chocolates & maybe a brandy
Black coffee
A pint of iced tap water

@Gobimanchurian Triple sec, cranberry juice and sparkling wine

We'll a newborn and a toddler this year so who knows how the day will span out but our plan is:

Breakfast:
Mimosas, hot pastries, smoke salmon and cream cheese bagels

Tree presents with a top up of the mimosas

Main event 3 or 4ish:
Pate, chutney and toasted sourdough starter.
Beef roast, yorkshires, PIBs, full veg sides.
Dessert of some kind (haven't decided what yet)
Wine & champagne

7ish cheese board, mince pies, port and more wine

Various chocolate boxes, tubs etc throughout the day.

Breakfast/brunch: French toast, bacon, tea

Christmas meal: turkey etc, red wine, Christmas cake and one other dessert TBA

Later: pickings from the turkey meal

Outside of that? Maybe some cheese and crackers?

I found I was spending a lot of time Christmas eve prepping the roast and still spending loads of Christmas day nipping in am.nd out of thenkitchen clock watching. So 3 years ago I said fuck it. We're having the dinner tonight (Christmas eve). So that's what we do.
Christmas day is then dedicated to all the picky bits and leftovers amd treat stuff we usually bought but were top stuffed to open. Part baked breads, cold cut meats, cheese board, chutneys, oven canapés, food gifts weve received.
Makes the day much more laid back

Mug of coffee in bed while (adult) DCs (at least one of them, the other doesn’t always have enough time off to come home) sit on our bed opening stockings.

Pastries or croissants with champagne or Buck’s Fizz for breakfast.

Christmas chocolate and nibbly bits (leftover from our Christmas Eve Eve party) for lunch.

Evening meal - roast duck, roast potatoes, roast vegetables, stir fried Brussels with pancetta, Yorkshire puddings, pigs in blankets, stuffing balls, cherry sauce, gravy. No room for the Christmas pudding so we’ll have that Boxing Day after leftovers and bubble & squeak.

Through the day we will drink champagne and occasional cups of tea. Red wine with dinner. Port at the end of the day. Plenty of water before bed 😉

Breakfast : Some sort of hot sandwich, bacon, sausage, egg whatever. If I was feeling posh in the shop maybe scrambled eggs and smoked salmon. If I wasn't so posh, Christmas tree crumpets.

Snacks : Nuts, crisps, fruit, chocolate / sweets.

Lunch/Dinner : Cold meats, pickles, cheese, crackers, bread, more cheese, celery & grapes, more cheese, maybe a couple of pigs & blankets, more cold meats, more cheese, our body weight in red wine. Grazing from about 3pm until we can no longer graze.

DH is Scandinavian so we have the big Christmas meal with his family on the 24th, and I've never been mad keen for a Turkey dinner aside from the pigs in blankets so we don't bother just for us.

Last year I bought sliced Turkey, cranberry sauce, ready made stuffing and nice bread and had myself a big 'left overs' sandwich on Boxing Day though, that was nice

Bacon roll and coffee
Bucks fizz or a mimosa

Chocolate

Chicken,baked ham, roasties, duchess potatoes, stuffing, wee sausages, Brussels sprouts, red cabbage, roasted carrots, gravy. Wine/fizz

Pavlova/trifle/ pandora with brandy cream.

Gin and tonics

Cheese and crackers

@TheOnlyLivingBoyInNewCross just the veg. The plates are piled high and even if we ate it there'd be no room for any meat. Dd will happily eat 5 Yorkshire puddings! They have gravy with theirs but I can't bear it so I don't. My mum isn't veggie but she no longer brings any turkey with her as she's not bothered.

Last year I tried red cabbage after reading about it on here but I didn't like it at all. Might get some festive sprouts to add to all the veg.

Breakfast: pork pie and pick

Lunch: roast meat (2 types) plus potatoes, parsnips, PIB, devils on horseback, carrots, Yorkies, red cabbage, sprouts and gravy. Followed by Xmas pud or sticky toffee pud.

Tea time: gammon batches, pickles, pork pie, salad. Xmas cake, , mince pies and copious amounts of chocolate.

Lots of wine throughout the day too.

Boxing day: nil by mouth!!!!

10am ish
Bacon / sausage sandwiches, tea / coffee

graze on quality street

3pm ish - Xmas dinner

starter - prawn cocktail (retro but delicious)

main - turkey, ham, roast potatoes, pigs in blankets, cauliflower cheese, sprouts, carrots, stuffing.

pudding - normally chocolate log with fancy cream

8pm ish

ham sandwich and pickles

graze on quality street all evening

Scrambled eggs, smoked salmon, bake your own pain au chocolat. Plus coffee, Irish if I can be bothered.

Picnic on a picnic blanket in the living room. Meats, cheeses, fruits etc. I make sure there's everyone's favourites, and that I've got turkey and stuffing too.

Sweets and chocolate.

After the year when DH spent most of the day in the kitchen cooking a full traditional dinner that only he and I ate, and he missed all the exciting fun stuff, we don't bother. We'll have lunch out sometime the week before to get a turkey dinner cooked by someone else.

Start the day usually around 4 / 5 when we get woken with
"He's been"!!!
Baring in mind probably just gone to bed around 2 after last min wrapping. Quietly bring down presents trying not to wake anyone up with wrapping paper rusltling! Jump at every noise thinking the kids are up and Ive been rumbled !!
Eat Santa's mince pie, drink his milk, nibble the reindeers carrots 😀 then make sure everything looks perfect
Blurry eyed have at least two strong coffees to wake up
Watching kids opening presents I'll them have a bucks fizz while kids and hubby start with their Christmas chocolates
Mid morning we'll then have

Smoked salmon caviar
Creme fresh on billings
Followed by a bucks fizz

After lots of toy assembling I'll then prepare Christmas lunch for around 3 oclock
Might have a cheeky glass of wine while I do so with lots of Christmas music and dancing 😂

Goose / duck
Roast potatoes
Brussels sprouts ( never touched but have to include don't know why!!!!) Personally I love them
Gravy
Carrots
Cauliflower cheese
Yorkshire puddings
Pigs in blankets
Chestnuts
Stuffing
Cranberry sauce
Bread sauce
A bottle of champagne for the table and orange juice

Pudding later on as everyone is full from lunch
We have a choice of
Homemade lemon cheese cake
Homemade trifle
Chocolate log with cream
Or
Christmas pudding
All prepared in advance

Once all settled down we watch Christmas specials play games and relax with a baileys or hot choc and Christmas treats usually a white Terry's choc orange for me
Absolute bliss 🥰

Do you eat the poinsettias? Isn't it a house plant?

Creme fresh on billings

😆

@mangoontoast I thought (and asked) the same ☝️. Apparently it's a cocktail!

Depends on where we are and who we are with.

Hosting this year with one relative from overseas staying with us and in laws coming for lunch, plus a neighbour coming just for desert and a drink (her choice not to come for full meal!)

So -
Early morning - tea, maybe either a ‘danish’ shortbread biscuit from the tin as per my childhood tradition, or a bit of chocolate from the stocking

Breakfast - more tea, fresh orange juice, croissants - used to do with smoked salmon and scrambled egg but will probably just do with butter and jam this year, some fruit maybe - Buck’s Fizz once I’ve had the above

Christmas Lunch
Wont do a sit down starter probably, but will do some smoked salmon blinis and maybe some other little canapé type things once everyone has arrived
Main - Camembert, leek and sage filo parcel (turkey and pigs in blankets for everyone else), roast potatoes, sprouts, honey roast carrots and parsnips, vegetarian stuffing and gravy, bread sauce and cranberry sauce
Desert - mother in law bringing something, will do a Christmas pudding (that we got in a gift hamper last year!) for those that want it and probably taste a bit but only a taste as it’s not my favourite.
Cava or champagne to drink

Evening - Cheese and biscuits, pickles, crisps and nuts, mince pie and/ or Christmas cake, more tea or might have a baileys coffee.

I'm intrigued by the fried mash butties!

We have

Buck's Fizz and pastries, we get the frozen ones and hung them in the oven, kids have orange juice with sparkling water

Some kind of canapés courtesy of M&S with champagne Around midday

Lunch is at 3-4ish,

Roast rib of beef, fillet or we've had beef wellington a couple of times, none of us like turkey
Roast potatoes
Yorkshire
Cauliflower cheese
Something green - beans or broccoli
Savoy cabbage
Red cabbages - only DH eats it
Roast parsnips
Wine

Desert is something bought, chocolatey

In the evening Cheese and biscuits, charcuterie etc, more wine

Chocolates, more wine

Boxing Day is my fave though bubble and squeak for breakfast, trip to the pub to see the Morris dancing and home for home roast ham egg and chips

Breakfast - usually a bagel with smoked salmon & Philadelphia. When I was a kid we had pork pie & a glass of milk. Prosecco or Cava.
Lunch - sometimes turkey with all the trimmings but this year probably spiced beef, Yorkies, roast potatoes/carrots/ parsnips, cauliflower cheese, peas, maybe red cabbage, sprouts followed by Christmas pudding & custard.
Red wines
Tea - Leftovers in sandwiches
Chocolates in between.
Mince pies if we have room!
Various alcoholic drinks throughout the day! I do like a Baileys at Christmas

Breakfast: Eggs Royale with fresh juices and Prosecco
Lunch: Roast Beef, Roast ham, salmon en route, roast potatoes, red cabbage, pigs in blankets, sprouts and chestnuts fried in garlic with pancetta, honey roast parsnips, mashed swede and carrot, Yorkshire puddings, stuffing, cauliflower cheese, gravy.

Pudding: Christmas pudding, cheese board.

I've been alone the last few christmases (has made me quite bitter about christmas tbh) so I don't really make anything special. Breakfast I will usually have what I have on a normal day- scrambled eggs and bacon

I will have a couple of snacks throught the afternoon

Dinner- lasagne

When I still lived with my parents it was always

Breakfast:
I can't remember having any kind of special Breakfast and most likely just had some of my edible gifts :'D

Lunch:
Prawn cocktail and French bread
Turkey, vegetables, pigs in blankets
Trifle

Tea: Left over turkey and left over buffet bits from the night before
Another Christmas dessert

Last year (the first with baby) we went to my parents for breakfast which was a sausage, bacon and egg sandwich and sweet pastries

Lunch was at my boyfriends mum's house where we had a prawn cocktail, turkey, beef, pigs in blankets, Yorkshire puddings, roast potatoes and stuffing and no dessert... :'(

For tea my mum made me a prawn cocktail and dessert to take home as boyfriend wasn't hungry and I was unhappy with the no dessert thing 😅

This year's plan is to go visit both sets of parents in the morning and probably have breakfast at my parents, have some kind of snacks for lunch and hope a decent takeaway is open for tea!! We're going to the cavery on Christmas eve so I don't have to think about it 🤷‍♀️🤣

I’m well impressed you’re still awake at 10 pm !!