What do you eat on Boxing Day?

[BarryKentPoet]

Love hearing what others have!

Breakfast is usually sourdough toast and scrambled egg

Lunch is leftover cheeseboard with bake-at-home bread rolls and butter

Dinner is ALL the leftovers from Christmas dinner (turkey/gammon/kilted sausages/stuffing/veg/roasties/bread sauce/gravy/cranberry sauce) with added double cream, in a pie dish & topped with puff pastry - makes the most delicious leftovers pie!

Breakfast will be home made sausage and egg ‘mc’muffins, hash browns, & orange juice.

We go to MILs for Boxing Day. Huge buffet, lots of booze… can’t wait!

Family tradition over 3 or 4 generations: Cold turkey or whatever meat was had on Christmas Day, plus cold ham or gammon baked previously, with a large array of lovely salads - green salad with lots of different mixed leaves, tomato salad, festive variant on a slaw, with added walnuts and slices of clementine or orange, a beautiful potato salad with mayonnaise, spring onion and herbs, all followed by a magnificent cheeseboard with white seedless grapes. Then chocolates and brandy, etc.😀

Ham, left over turkey
Jacket potatoes
Salads

Trifle

Hot roast turkey, stuffing and gravy baguettes here - it’s become our tradition!

Lunch is Ham (veggie sausage rolls for me), jackets, salad. trifle for pudding.

Dinner is a repeat of Xmas day buffet (cheese, pate, pork pie, cook at home bread, crisps, dips)

Usually lunch is leftovers- a hash or hot meat sandwiches.

This year we've got extended family coming for lunch so putting on a buffet.

Hash/hot sandwiches will be the 27th. They're one of my favourite things about Christmas! 😄

I prefer our boxing day menu to xmas day I think.
It's our big family day with drinks, films, music and games, so my mum and I put out a massive buffet at about 11am and everyone can help themselves all day. This year we're doing things like hot peanut satay skewers, vol-au-vents, glazed belly pork bites, mini cheese scones, salads, pretzels, dips with breadsticks and tyrells, pringles, twiglets, mini Yorkshire puddings with the leftover beef and some horseradish, smoked salmon, loads of salamis, duck rolls, sausage rolls, mini cheese and onion tarts, fresh bread, huge cheese board, olives, pickles, crackers, king prawns, a couple of pizzas, nuts, more pigs in blankets.
it actually lasts a couple of days but I bet the kids will still say we've got nothing to eat lol.

Scrambled eggs and smoked salmon for breakfast- ham joint with salads and baguette - cheese board, fruit salad, Yule log for lunch.

We have beef for Christmas Day so we will have a big brunch with leftover beef fried up with little cubed potatoes (sort of like beef hash really) and some fresh greens, a bit spicy with a load of Tabasco and Worcester sauce etc and a fried egg. Dinner will most likely be cheeseboard and jerk ham and homemade sausage rolls all leftover from the day before.

I prefer Boxing Day to Christmas Day! We have left over meat and stuffing with home made chips, salads, boiled eggs, pickles and fresh baked baguette.

We have family round on the 25th but there's just the two of us (me and DH) on Boxing Day this year and so far I've not planned anything.

The house will be full of food. We'll manage. 😂

After Christmas dinner DH usually removes all the meat off the turkey so I can use the carcass the next day. Hence, Boxing Day lunch will be a turkey soup.

Evening meal will be cold cuts of home cooked ham and the family size pork pie I have ordered together with piccalilli, pickled onions and bread. Also the cheese board.

Oh and I always do the trifle on Boxing Day.

Pampered Chef Turkey wreath. Delicious. We lived in the U.S. for a couple of years, 25 years ago. It has been a Boxing Day tradition ever since.
Followed by trifle and lots of left over puds.

We pick at leftovers from the fridge and snacky bits etc with no set meal times.
i also always have a couple of oven pizzas in the freezer incase we want them/need a ‘proper’ meal instead of just grazing.

Bubble and squeak for breakfast.
Another freshly prepared and cooked full Christmas dinner with all the trimmings (but with a lamb joint rather than turkey) for dinner.

I am so surprised my family is in the minority!

On boxing day we have something overtly non Christmassy. SIL and BIL bring it, normally veggie and something like diy pizzas, veg fajitas, veg chilli. A nice pudding, apple pie and custard or similar.

We go hard on Xmas eve and Xmas day so need a day off before all the extended family festivities fire up on 27th, 28th etc.

I normally freeze leftover meat in chunks for a big pie mid Jan. I don't think I'd want it on boxing day

Lunch: pub lunch
Dinner: leftover turkey, homemade rolls and cheese!

Oh god I forgot Christmas eve dinner! Usually it's hot beef rolls but we're having beef instead of turkey this year.
Maybe hot pork rolls with crackling and apple sauce. I need something easy to throw in the oven as I do loads of food prep for the following days on Xmas eve and I get sick of the sight of food when it gets to dinner time.

Always used to have cold meats, mash and pickle but then I went vegan and it didn't really work anymore!
Last year I had a second Christmas dinner as I was cooking for one and it was easier to make two portions.

This year I'm just going to work my way through all junk I've bought, no cooking required!

There is no structure to our Boxing Day food, at some point there will be a sausage roll wreath dipped in Camembert, various turkey sandwiches and a toastie made with every cheese from the cheese board. A day long graze. Heaven!

Such a lovely thread

do people really eat Yule log or cake for breakfast?! Like actually that’s all you have? I think I’d love it in the moment but would feel really sick and lightheaded afterwards.

We’re having visitors on boxing day. I’ve got a huge lightly smoked salmon in the freezer so I’ll serve that for lunch with crusty white french bread, Patè, different cheeses and a baked Camembert with figs and walnuts (Sainsbury’s 😋).
We usually have curry on boxing day made with left over turkey but not sure there’ll be enough left overs for so many people so we’re going to get an Indian takeout delivered.

I always have a Panettone on the go that people can help themselves to with tea/coffee.

I’ll have a normal breakfast (coffee++++ and toast or porridge), picky lunch and then Greek flatbreads with salad and fixings for dinner.