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!

@BarryKentPoet , what is a kilted sausage?

We used to have visitors on Boxing day and it was fabulous. We liked it anyway.

Cold sliced Turkey, cold sliced gammon (from Xmas Eve), continental meats, a shedload of more pigs. Pork pie. Cheeses.

Salad, coleslaw, pickles, antipasti. A VAT of sliced potatoes, tossed in oil, oregano, salt and pepper and parmesan and bunged in the oven until golden.

Christmas cake, trifle, satsumas and grapes.

Breakfast (mine), Boxing day treat. A slice of toasted white bread with turkey dripping, including some of the jelly.

Porridge with berries for breakfast or leftover croissants as usually get for christmas day.

Lunch is christmas dinner leftovers.

Then we go to my grandmas and my auntie goes too and makes a boxing day buffet. I usually take youngest a little packed tea tho

Pork pie, game pie
Cold turkey etc
Pickles

Bubble and squeak made from leftover veg.

Does everyone do the same thing every year? I'm not really one for traditions so it just depends what is happening at the time (that goes for Xmas Day/Boxing Day/NYE etc). This year we've decided to drive into London and go to Winter Wonderland while it is quiet then go for lunch at a restaurant nearby. That evening me and DD will probably have a cheeseboard plus a hot spinach and artichoke dip (a very American thing which we made last year and loved).

Leftovers and Buffet/party food type stuff.. along with my famous homemade sausage rolls… also prawn vol au vents

Left over turkey and ham with homemade chips and pickles

Prawn & Avocado Cocktail
followed by:
Cold Turkey
Stuffing
Homemade Chips
Coleslaw
Salad
Pickles
Chutney
Gammon
Cheeseboard may make an appearance too

Normal food, no to leftovers, don't want to eat the same food two days in a row, we freeze any we have but try not to end up with too much.

So perhaps toast and peanut butter for breakfast, sandwiches and salad for lunch, something easy like chilli for dinner.

Normal breakfast (toast, cereal, porridge, fruit).
Lunch is cheese & crackers plus picky bits and random festive crisps. Dinner is leftover roast dinner - I usually end up making more roasties and Yorkshire's though as we're big fans.

We try to get out for a walk so I put loads of chocolate coins in my pockets and dish then out as an incentive to keep the DC moving.

Chips by the beach and then I cook something in the evening I call ‘Christmas in the Hole’ (basically like toad in the hole but I throw leftover turkey, sausage, veggies etc in).

Soup & leftover sandwiches for lunch.

Dinner this year is chilli, fajita pasta or a sausage traybake. With sides.

We have even more coming for Boxing Day dinner (28) than Christmas Day (21) so leftovers don't stretch enough.

Thankfully this year it's not my turn to do any Christmas Day or Boxing Day cooking, and I'm not on washing up 😁 Two days off.

We are having a bunch of people over for Boxing Day evening and I'm doing a buffet with leftovers, a bunch of French sticks so people can make Gobbler sandwiches (I discovered these over Thanksgiving. Late to the party but OMG! They are divine), sausage rolls, salads and homemade coleslaw, smoked salmon and king prawns, just stuff like that. Then people can eat as heavily or lightly as they feel like.

Tbh, Boxing Day here is less about the food and more about the games.

If at my mums we have a buffet. At home I usually make a second roast but not 100% this year.

We usually have a late breakfast (toast/cereal/maybe a bacon sandwich) then an earlier dinner, with the left overs, salad and chips, cheese etc. Choclate and sweets are usually eaten in between, or left over cakes and desserts. This year we have 8 guest coming for boxing day, so I'm going to make a chilli and chicken curry.

Depends who and how many we are catering for. I've usually got at least a couple of people left over from Christmas Day, so we have bagels, cream cheese and smoked salmon or bacon, plus any left over pastries from CD. Don't usually bother with lunch because everyone is picking at crisps and snacks that have been hanging around in bowls from the day before, and dinner is a buffet consisting of everyone helping themselves to all the Big Dinner leftovers. They can heat it up or not, as they like.

I usually can't wait by this point for them all to go so I can snaffle up anything remaining!

Boxing Day is Christmas Day Mk2 for us. So Christmas dinner at lunchtime and cheese/Crackers/nibbles etc in the evening.

Leftovers, cheese and crackers, mince pies, chocolates, crisps, salami - whatever we fancy, really.

@EconomyClassRockstar what kind of games? We play scrabble sometimes and the kids really like cards against humanity. What else would you suggest?

We do trivial pursuit (we have the old and newer one, charity shop £4!), Domino's, cards- Rummy and Whist, pub quiz cards you can get in Marks &Spencer's, Matalan ect, we also have a music and food one of those, only a few pounds.
My aunt had a countdown boardgame one year and it was actually really fun, I thought it would be too hard.

you can get so many tv ones now! Catchphrase, golden balls, the Chase. I want wheel of fortune!

Have you played Boggle? It's great and you can play it over and over.

I've never played cards against humanity but I've heard it's great. Maybe one to play with my cousins when our parents have gone to bed? 😂

@AlwaysTheRenegade thank you! I think I might get some up to date trivial pursuit questions... Our one from the 1990s might just flummox the kids!

We have the 90s one, they're so hard! 😂 wouldn't be Christmas without someone having a wobble though haha

Bacon bagels for breakfast, left over Christmas dinner for lunch and buffet for dinner.