The other meal on Christmas Day

[Blankiefan]

We're doing turkey and trimmings for "lunch" but fancy doing something nice for our other meal. Lunch is at 2ish so we want to eat again about 6. Usually just M&S party food or charceuterie. Any ideas for something different? Should be something people can graze on in front of the telly.

We do smoked salmon and cream cheese blinis and a mince pie at 1.30 ish and Xmas dinner at 5.30 - much prefer it

that's what we do. chocolate while opening stockings then breakfast - this year we will have pancakes, smoked salmon, bacon, soda bread and fruit salad. Then dinner at 6. We hardly ever manage dessert - usually have it for breakfast the next day.

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This is what am wondering!

After the meal it's pud I can't usually have mine right away.

Then all the drinks

We have a traditional Christmas lunch around 1pm and then we don't have a set sit down evening meal. We tend to graze throughout the evening.

I always get a few packs of M&S party food (the sort you just bung in the oven) and we have this on the table for people to just help themselves to as they fancy as mostly they're as nice cold as it is hot. I also, when we want it, put out a cheeseboard and crackers, leftover cold meat from lunch, salad, dips, crisps and some of those nice M&S fresh sausage rolls (the hog roast and pulled pork ones are tasty!) and their little pork pies are good too.

It's no wonder none of us can move come Boxing Day!

It's always turkey mayo sarnies with tidbits here!

The evening buffet is our favourite thing. Dinner about 2 and then picky food around 7. Cheeses, crackers, rolls, chutney, meat stuff for those who eat it, quiche maybe, dips and crisps.

Cheese and chocolate and cheese and chocolate

Crisps. Then some chocolate because the crisps were too salty. Then some more crisps because the chocolate was too sweet. Then a glass of Bailey's or sherry.

Just want to add my old person's Yorkshire tuppence worth..
It's Christmas dinner not lunch.. to be eaten about 2pm...
Then the King's speech when finished at 3..@ 7pm maybe a sandwich of turkey and stuffing or ham and mustard.. or cheese and crackers.

Quality Street/Roses/Heros/Celebrations and anything from the fridge in this house 🍬🍫

3 meals in our house....

Frozen pastries, posh orange juice & coffee about 8.30 once the kids have opened their presents.

Lunch at 12.30 - beef & all the trimmings.

Walk on the beach, then home for pudding.

Supper about 5pm - leftovers, part baked rolls, prawn cocktail, crisps, salad, frozen party food, sausage rolls, pickles and chutneys.

Quite young kids, 9 & 11, so up earlish & there would be a riot if we skipped a meal! 😅

This is the correct answer. Except I think you meant to say AND cheese and crackers not OR.
Oh, and you forgot the Christmas cake course at 4 pm.

Smoked salmon and scrambled eggs (with bucks fizz if appropriate) for brunch. Main meal starts at 3, finishes around 9pm

Cheeses, chutney and biscuits. Maybe some fresh fruit. Maybe a mince pie.

Peak MN!

I make Christmas dinner and that is literally all we eat for lunch and dinner for the next week Its great as I don't have to cook for a week but we all get pretty fed up of it by the end.

My family have always done it this way but timings are more 1pm then 7pm

@Blankiefan we just do sandwiches at 7pm with a light buffet to pick from ie cheeses etc.

seeing as nobody here seems to eat anything other than a roast lunch at Christmas it amazes me where all the special festive supermarket food goes. I suspect some posters are being economical with the truth 🤔

@StiffyByngsDogBartholomewsChristmasBone Christ are we supposed to eat it all in one day??? We were going to have festive food tonight with visiting family, and probably again tomorrow, might have everyday food on Monday but they'll certainly be festive fayre on offer again Christmas Eve and Boxing Day; not to mention New Years....

Mmmmm 😋

Can I come over?

Yes the food just keeps coming at Christmas and you can always find room for a tangerine or chocolate or even a lovely turkey and stuffing sandwich. Its Christmas ffs, cover every thing with double cream too. MERRY CHRISTMAS.🎅🎄.

Its christmas so cant understand all the shocked exclamations at the thought if eating a second meal a few hours later. If im not stuffed to the gills I've failed at christmas

For us dinner is usually at 4PM so by the time we have dessert its probably between 5:30/6PM. All anyone wants later to eat is usually a turkey and ham sandwich or myself and DH will hit the cheese and crackers. We also usually snack on nuts and crisps and copious amounts of chocolate

I don't do anything after Christmas dinner, particularly when it's me who cooked it. It's just a help yourself to a mince pie/cheese/whatever situation.

Normal breakfast at 8
Pastries and fruit at 11ish
Christmas dinner at 2
Cheese & crackers for the kids at 6ish before they go to bed at 7.30
Cheese, crackers, nibbles, wine, port at 8ish for me & DH
Roll to bed at 11.

We go for a big walk on boxing day.

Its the endless battle of finishing on something sweet or something salty 😂