What time do you have your main Christmas meal?
Poll: What time do you have your main Christmas meal?
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This came up in another thread with someone saying they aim for 2 but normally sit down at 3.30. By that stage of the day I'd be starving and possibly pissed and the kids would be tearing the place apart. Unless I/they'd had a decent snack at, say, 12 that we could call lunch!
And then it'd be dark by the time we'd finished so too late for a walk.
So, what do you do?
I don't get the 2/3pm Sunday lunch either.
And then it'd be dark by the time we'd finished so too late for a walk.
So, what do you do?
I don't get the 2/3pm Sunday lunch either.
Bill said:
I don't get the 2/3pm Sunday lunch either.
The tradition used to be pub at midday; Top of the Pops at 2pm; Queen’s Speech at 3pm followed by lunch. Dragged out until about 7pm ready for a repeat of the 1974 Christmas edition of Morecambe and Wise.Much of the stuff has changed - like visiting elderly father in hospital, but the basics remain.
Bill said:
This came up in another thread with someone saying they aim for 2 but normally sit down at 3.30. By that stage of the day I'd be starving and possibly pissed and the kids would be tearing the place apart. Unless I/they'd had a decent snack at, say, 12 that we could call lunch!
And then it'd be dark by the time we'd finished so too late for a walk.
So, what do you do?
I don't get the 2/3pm Sunday lunch either.
Think I would cancel the walk And then it'd be dark by the time we'd finished so too late for a walk.
So, what do you do?
I don't get the 2/3pm Sunday lunch either.
About 3pm. Christmas Eve is very messy . So wake up late and have scallops, black pudding , avocado , poached eggs and a cuppa etc . Open some presents. Prep up lunch (stock made the day before etc ) . Out for a walk Regent’s Park and a coffee if somewhere open .Then home . First drink of the day , Champagne start cooking bit of fun, music etc .Then some more champagne. Stop eating about 5pm. Melt on sofa. Then onto mince pies (see separate thread !) double cream and more champagne . More champagne and then a little more . Then stuff the Mrs .
loggo said:
Think I would cancel the walk
My brother's dog needs to go out and it's a good excuse to get away from the kids and mayhem. Or get them to burn off some energy.It used to be that I'd cook in the morning with one brother while wife/kids/t'other brother took my mum and the in-laws to church. But since my mum died that's not necessary, and my MiL died this year so FiL isn't here either as BiL lives closer. IYSWIM?? We'll probably decide more or less in the day what the plan is based on the weather.
Might have a picnic on the beach.
We have our main Christmas meal on Christmas Eve, usually around 5pm. This is because the children and their partners go to their outlaws on Christmas Day and our granddaughter goes to bed at 7pm. Consequently, we have a lovely, quiet Christmas Day, opening presents and doing minimal cooking. Bliss!
Normally somewhere between 12 and 1.No Kids - No visitors. No relatives, just us two and the dogs.
What relatives the other half has are in Australia or Glasgow. No relatives left on my side.
Get woken up by the dogs about 8, get breakfast, open presents, watch the dogs go mental running round the house with the wrapping paper.
Food on ( she's pescatarian, so it only takes an hour to cook single portions).
Out straight afterwards to walk the dogs, let the food drop, and expel any noxious fumes, back in for pudding and start tucking in to the drinks cabinet, with cold, salted, leftover roast spuds for snacks.
What relatives the other half has are in Australia or Glasgow. No relatives left on my side.
Get woken up by the dogs about 8, get breakfast, open presents, watch the dogs go mental running round the house with the wrapping paper.
Food on ( she's pescatarian, so it only takes an hour to cook single portions).
Out straight afterwards to walk the dogs, let the food drop, and expel any noxious fumes, back in for pudding and start tucking in to the drinks cabinet, with cold, salted, leftover roast spuds for snacks.
Xmas eve.
This is because, traditionally, my Father wanted a roast with all the trimmings but it was just too hot in South Africa to have that on Xmas day at noon, so we did it on the eve before and had a braai on the day itself in the mid-afternoon.
When I moved to the UK and met my wife, she adopted the Eve timing as she just preferred it.
This is because, traditionally, my Father wanted a roast with all the trimmings but it was just too hot in South Africa to have that on Xmas day at noon, so we did it on the eve before and had a braai on the day itself in the mid-afternoon.
When I moved to the UK and met my wife, she adopted the Eve timing as she just preferred it.
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