Christmas day dinners- starters?

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What are your favorite starters? Or do you skip them?

I like broccoli and stilton soup but husband and children arent keen.

French onion soup

This is the only correct answer.

I never do a starter with 🎄dinner. We’ll have canapés, usually something fishy, ready made M&S, an hour or so before a late dinner (5 or 6 ish). Late breakfast, no lunch as such, except for any little ones who’ll have something simple at their usual lunchtime.

I'm skipping the starter, I'm saving space for all the Yorkshire puds and roast potatoes 😛

We don’t have a starter. Because cheese.

We have never had starters. Its already a huge meal who needs a 'pre-meal' right before it.

We do have 'buffet finger foods' for breakfast many hours before (thinks like bite-size pizza and spring rolls etc...) but nothing right before dinner.

We usually have desert (which is just ice cream) after a break too otherwise everything is just too much.

We skip it to have the most room for the main and all the sides. We enjoy a nice breakfast though.

We do homemade mini chicken meatballs with Asian salad and dressing.

We do a full 3 course lunch but have starter at 12, main at 4pm and dessert at 7pm.

Canapes and Fizz.

I go really retro - melon, or grapefruit, or a slice of pineapple, eaten with cutlery.

The prawn cocktail and other fishy delights star on Christmas eve, with some smoked salmon reserved to go in the Christmas day breakfast scrambled eggs.

We tend to have nibbles and canapés Christmas morning and eat lunch at about 2pm.
I do always make mini prawn cocktails in shot glasses tho and everyone loves them!! It wouldn’t be Christmas without a prawn cocktails.

Retro prawn cocktail always, tradition!

We used to do homemade soup, but it’s a pain in the arse timings wise and a lot of people preferred going straight to main and that’s a pain for seating (we usually have 19-26 for dinner).

so we have the soup made and people can heat some in the evening if they wish. Usually have lentil and carrot & coriander.

My other half is pescatarian so we normally have prawn cocktails like the m&s or Tesco finest kind

We normally do some kind of smoked fish plate. All of us are savory people though. Most skip dessert in favor of cheese.

No starter for us (grandparents eat like birds). Just a main and dessert, plus coffee and chocolates after if have room.

Canapé and Champagne in our house

No starter here either, and while I'd like to claim we do canapes and champagne, it's more like a beige buffet and buck's fizz, kicked off mid-morning and snacked on until they're gone. Full Christmas Dinner usually on the table between 4-5pm.

We don’t do starters, our main course is large and we want to be hungry and prepared for it plus the choice of 4 puddings 😂
We host for a minimum of 18, often up to 26 with an additional 12 in the evening, not sure we’d have any more fridge space to store a starter anyway.
We have our traditional breakfast (as in the same thing every year not that it’s a traditional Christmas breakfast!) and then ask guests to arrive from 2, we have nibbles on offer and booze to go with it so by the time we sit down for 5 everyone is ready to eat.
Covid Christmas though we didn’t have any guests (my favourite Christmas!!) and we didn’t have a starter - it was the classic prawn cocktail. Very nice it was too.

No starters here and nobody wants to eat pudding after the main dinner either .I do pizza for Boxing Day ( Tradition - there would be a riot if the dough wasn't proving by 10am ) it goes in the bread maker and sits there happily till it's shaped.
I do a soup with the remains of the vegetables too, that would be way too heavy on Christmas day

We don’t have starters. We have bacon and egg butties once we’re all up and then eat dinner mid afternoon, so don’t need a starter.
if I was going to make one, it wouldn’t be soup as I find that too filling personally.
Prawn cocktail or melon and Parma ham or smoked salmon would be my choice if I was to make one.
You could serve those ingredients in canapé form with drinks. However canapés are more work than plating as a starter when there is already enough to do.

another vote for prawn cocktail, as its not too heavy. I too have this ready for as guests arrive with fresh white bread then dinner isn't served for a few hours later.

I've never had a starter at Christmas dinner!

I would never have a starter with Christmas dinner as it would take the edge of my appetite for the main event.

Love a starter, usually go for something like baked scallops or a lobster soufflé