What are your family traditions surrounding Christmas dinner or Christmas food?

My uncle and his family always have steak for breakfast on Christmas day, you know something substantial to set them up for a day of eating! I also have a friend who has a tradition has sausage rolls and port around midday and then the family sit down to the big dinner around four.

We never have a traditional pudding, well not since my Granny stopped posting them over from Ireland, my Mum's lovely trifle is now the end to a great gut-busting meal.

It's these little traditions that every family has that I love hearing about!

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Nora x

We don't have many traditions as such, my daughter is pesky (Piscatarian, but I call her pesky and glad she doesn't read this site)

We tend to have scrambled eggs and toast, as a late breakfast, I like a little smolked salmon she prefers mushrooms, and champagne or bucks fizz.

Then we just nibble on light snacks, dips and canapés for a few hours finishing off the champers as we go.

Dinner is never traditional, even before she went pesky we both hated roasts, and I haven't yet decided what we will have this year.

Christmas pudding and mince pies are favourites - as long as they are veggie ones. I like them with sylabub rather than cream.

My Mother will probably have made us a small Dundee Cake, and we will most likely make some marzipan fruits, florentines and chocolate truffles.

We are normally too full for supper, so will only snack again if peckish.

Boxing day is normally lots of cheeses with loads of pickles, chutneys and preserves, good bread and wine.

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