When do you eat your main christmas meal?

CupOfChai

Christmas Day, lunchtime. But the turkey is cooked the night before, saves time, oven space and stress. Also on Christmas Eve everyone capable helps with laying the table and doing the Big Peel.

elsien

The only people I know who have Christmas dinner on Christmas eve are from Germany, so they tie it in with the opening presents on Xmas eve thing and get all the family together then. I think they do salmon for Christmas day.

Luckystar

Lunchtime xmas dinner here, usually about 1:30 then I can relax for the afternoon/evening. I usually buy a turkey crown, they don't take as long to cook as a whole bird, I try and just think of it as a roast dinner with extras and not stress over it too much.

themull1

I copy what i saw in a restaurant, i cook the turkey/beef in the morning, then when the rest of the christmas dinner is nearly ready, i slice the meat into large shallow dish, pour a bit of water on or stock, cover with foil and reheat in the bottom of the oven, it makes the turkey really moist.

hamsterfan1

w have ours Christmas day from around 3 -7pm as my husband's Jewidh heritage comes out & it takes ages to eat all the food, but I do a special meal on Christma Eve - posh fish pie, or a special lasagne made with tiny meatballs

PixieDust

What mandco said - Christmas Eve for us with family, big dinner, crackers, the works. Christmas day is then turned over to presents, kids, crap telly and a buffet that gets set out at 11.30. Give it a go!

tazzyb

Christmas Day here - any time between 2pm-4pm

pinknfluffy28

Christmas day at 1pm! Then we wrap up for a nice long walk, a pint in the local on the way home, and buffet style tea around 6pm.

pigpen

catkins wrote: »

I don't know anyone who eats their Christmas dinner on Christmas Eve and can't really imagine why anyone would - it's Christmas dinner

I do!!

On Christmas day I am NOT spending MY Christmas in the kitchen like the maid waiting on every one and watching them all waste their food because who wants to eat a huge meal when they have gorged themselves on fruit and sweets and other crap.. and let's face it, it's nothing special it's just a big Sunday dinner so you have more leftovers.. It's not that big a deal.

Anyway, I do Christmas dinner on Christmas eve.. we all go to bed full of good food and veggies and yumminess.. then Christmas day we eat whatever we like.. sweets, toast, sandwiches and fruit seem to be the usual.. if they want actual food they can have warmed up/cold meat from the day before or get a pizza..

Last year we did Christmas on Christmas eve and didn't have a Christmas dinner at all!

TBH I think the whole idea of gluttony and avarice is what Christmas has become and I am more than happy to move away from that.

mum2one

for us we do as much prep as we can on xmas eve, - last couple yrs taken DD to the cinema on xmas eve morning, then meet parents in pub for lunch, quick supermarket trip as theres usually something that gets forget.

home - cook turkey, prep veg and potatoes, pigs in blankets. make trifle

Xmas day..
Breakfast
open stockings
Lunch 1pm
afternoon presents
Tea 5pm, salad and cold meats followed by trifle
Drink or 3 for me xx