What are you making for starter and dessert on Christmas Day?

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Having beef for Christmas lunch. Not sure about starter and dessert yet.

What is everyone making?

Probably lentil soup to start, and sticky toffee pudding.

We normally do a stuffed chestnut mushroom with sun ripened tomatoes, pinenuts and goats cheese and sometimes wrapped in Parma ham.

Then dessert is usually a cheesecake

King scallops, smoked salmon, prawns, blinis and sour cream and chive. Maybe some crab 🦀 too not decided yet.

Yule log and Christmas pudding.

We don't do starters but pudding is always a trifle and a Christmas pudding.

We usually do seafood for a starter - gravlax, prawns, oysters. Obviously appreciate it isn’t the cheapest option, we do it for a treat.
Usually too stuffed for a dessert, but there’s usually something like profiteroles on offer, and a Christmas cake.

We don't have a starter. I've tried it in the past and it just means everyone is too full for their christmas dinner.

Only dh and his dad like christmas pudding so me and dd will have soething else like a bakewell pudding, treacle pudding or similar and ds will have ice cream, ususally a nice one like Ben & Jerry's cookie dough.

No starter.
Christmas pudding (home-made, Delia Smith recipe), wth thick cream and/or good vanilla ice cream.
For my son, poor soul, who doesn't like CP, something from Ocado. He often goes for cheesecake.

No starter, just nibbles/canapés. However, I’m making goats cheese tartlets for the dinner for neighbours on the 23rd.
Pudding is Christmas pudding and chocolate orange mousse.

We will have smoked salmon for a starter and Christmas pudding or trifle a few hours later. Nobody ever wants dessert directly after the main course.

No starter. Pavlova for pud.

We don't bother with starters. I need more room for the main event!

We don't do a proper starter anymore. We just have some M&S canapés circulating as people are opening gifts and quaffing some champagne.

Dessert is always a trifle and a plum pudding.

Canapés and nibbles instead of a starter and lemon tart and individual chocolate mousses for dessert.

Smoked salmon and salad for starter. A couple of choices for desert but they will be shop-bought as I really can't be bothered with home made and far prefer shop-bought anyway.

I'm another one who is saying no starter. My stomach has limited capacity and there isn't a starter in this world the makes me want to eat less Christmas Dinner!!! Also, for the cooks it eases fridge space, cuts preparation, and limits oven space problems.

We are a pudding family, so we have three each year and try to hit different things with each. Something chocolate, something served hot, and something fruity. They can overlap in these categories - Delias chocolate bread and butter pudding is a household favourite which covers both hot and chocolate, but we do mix it up each year. Previous hits have been this sticky apple caramel cake which is a version sticky toffee pudding and salted chocolate tart which was delightfully rich. We also once made a passion fruit tart which was declared as "the best lemon tart I've ever tasted" by a guest, sadly we lost the recipe.

We don't have starters either. This year - as with the last couple of years - will be Simon Hopkinson's sticky toffee pudding with home-made vanilla ice-cream.

I'd happily make something new (although the STP is fabulous!) but the rest of the family always want this.

No starters - there’s enough to do.

I’m making a Christmas pudding but it’s often not eaten until Boxing Day as everyone is full.

No starter here either. We have a long break before pudding. Always have Christmas pudding with home made brandy sauce. Some of the family don't like it and always ask for sticky toffee pudding. Cheat with shop bought custard. Good shop bought vanilla ice cream also available. I sometimes poach pears in mulled wine, goes surprisingly well with both puddings.

We also don’t do starters, but we do do something at 12/1 pm, so this year melted Brie’s with different toppings, ie cranberry, garlic etc and crudities, garlic bread, we used to do markies canopies.but fancy something different this year, so about 3 or 4 hours before Xmas dinner.

my mil used to do a heavy soup, like lentil, like the poster up thread and I can eat , but I find soup really filling and to follow it with a Xmas main is too much. They used to eat it with bread too.

for dessert it’s sticky toffee pudding. But that’s also a couple of hours after the main. So we pretty much eat the three courses over several hours.

No starter, Pavlova, Pandoro and vienetta for pud

We are also having beef. SIL is bringing dessert so I'm not sure. I think I might skip a proper starter - it's going to be very crowded in our house and I think the kids wouldn't cope so I'm toying with a selection of really lovely nibbles. Probably some pates - chicken, salmon and mushroom, crackers, bread etc. Possibly a whole baked camembert.

No starter, ww would be far too full
Dinner - Roast beef and all the trimmings
Dessert - Usually apple pie/crumble and cream but we might change it up this year.

Yule log & trifle

No starter as will have cheese/chocolate all day too!

Prawn cocktail and cheeseboard. Tis the Law.