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What do you do for your Xmas breakfast?

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Cordee · 08/10/2025 17:43

I am hosting for the first time. I am 29, in my newly gutted and decorated home so plan to push the boat out. No children will be in attendance. Only adults. I enjoy hosting and cooking/baking.

What do you do for Christmas brekkie? I want it to be posh but light and easy. I was thinking of doing cinnamon buns and fruit salad. Plus tea, coffee, juice and fizz.

But then I think most people who are coming don’t really have sweet tooth’s (myself included liked). Stuffed croissants? DIY style? There will be a couple of veggies. And then some mini sweet pastries? But then that seems like too much pastry. Parfait?

I wouldn’t mind doing waffles/crepes but I don’t think that will be fun as I don’t want to be stuck in the kitchen whilst everyone else eats.

Xmas lunch is at 2.

Sorry this is being asked in Oct!

there will be plenty of snacks/canapes/seeet treats throughout the day

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inamo · 08/10/2025 18:38

FurForksSake · 08/10/2025 18:21

@inamo well, you could blow me down with a feather, I’ve never heard of such a thing. But I’ll be making it!

I make it because it is easy and there's no time pressure since it stays warm for a good while, it's one big tray/dish so people can have seconds if they want (gotta get in quick lol!). I ahem, microwave the beans, more as needed. 😊It turns out different every time depending what I throw in there.

inamo · 08/10/2025 18:36

oncemoreuntothebeachdearfriends · 08/10/2025 18:21

Are all your guests staying overnight & expecting you to cook breakfast - as well as the full Xmas meal?

Sorry I replied to the wrong poster I think! Ooops.

MagicLoop · 08/10/2025 18:34

A sweet breakfast wouldn't appeal to me on Christmas morning for some reason. I'd normally have scrambled eggs with either ham or smoked salmon. But for vegetarians maybe scrambled eggs with fried mushrooms.

FunnyOrca · 08/10/2025 18:34

Bucks Fizz is the only mandatory part. My parents still host and everyone scrounges for themselves but get kicked out the kitchen by 9am, sometimes 8:30.

Selection includes:
bacon rolls (meat eaters)
porridge (usually with some Christmassy spice)
Avocado toast
Cinnamon swirl peanut butter toast
Pastries
yoghurt with toppings

If you miss the kitchen closing you’re stuck with clementines and chocolates

LindorDoubleChoc · 08/10/2025 18:34

You know there is a Christmas topic don't you?

Zov · 08/10/2025 18:33

Screamingabdabz · 08/10/2025 18:10

Jeez I’m a fatty big eater but how on earth do you all eat that rich breakfast AND a full Christmas dinner a few hours later? I just can’t reconcile the MN size 6 mentality and what is on this thread at all!!

This. ^ Smoked salmon, bagels, bucks fizz, sourdough, croissants with cheese and honey, and pork pies - for breakfast! 😖Do people really eat this stuff for breakfast?!

Christmas day or not, I still have a bowl of cereal, or a yogurt and a banana. And no, I'm not a bloody teeny tiny. I just don't have a big breakfast.

And yes, I would never be able to eat my Christmas turkey meal a few hours later if I ate all of that for breakfast!

Some of the 'Christmas breakfasts' on this thread are wild! Shock Who drinks bucks fizz for breakfast?! Batshit!

ImAPreMadonna · 08/10/2025 18:33

Rage and disappointment as my elderly dad has his 2 Weetabix as per any other day and views any ‘festive’ food as gluttony and greed.

It’s just me and him ans I dread it every year.

semideponent · 08/10/2025 18:33

I'm partial to a grapefruit, just because it feels like the perfect antidote to the rest of the day.

I'd be inclined to keep it simple and set up so ppl can help themselves. Yogurt, whole fruit bowl, loaf of bread, decent butter, marmalade, marmite, maybe a plate of smoked salmon and a couple of boxes of eggs on standby if anyone should volunteer to scramble them.

KawasakiBabe · 08/10/2025 18:33

KawasakiBabe · 08/10/2025 18:32

Cereal, lol

no udea his people eat so much in Christmas day. Anything else ruin my dinner and we est at about 3.

Typo galore!

Comedycook · 08/10/2025 18:33

I've never done a special breakfast...I really don't need another sodding meal to prep/cook/clean up after...

Just have something from a selection box

LadyRoughDiamond · 08/10/2025 18:32

LarryIsMyRomanEmpire · 08/10/2025 18:30

When Dd was at home I always made her smoked salmon and scrambled duck eggs with added cream on fancy bread.
Now it's just me I have my usual cup of tea.

Do duck eggs taste different @LarryIsMyRomanEmpire ? I’ve always been curious. This could be our Boxing Day breakfast.

KawasakiBabe · 08/10/2025 18:32

Cereal, lol

no udea his people eat so much in Christmas day. Anything else ruin my dinner and we est at about 3.

worcesterpear · 08/10/2025 18:31

yabu

LarryIsMyRomanEmpire · 08/10/2025 18:31

When Dd was at home I always made her smoked salmon and scrambled duck eggs with added cream on fancy bread.
Now it's just me I have my usual cup of tea.

LadyRoughDiamond · 08/10/2025 18:30

I have two children, and so it’s usually pastries (the frozen finish-in-the-oven type) with Buck’s Fizz/OJ/coffee whilst presents are opened.

We then have nibbles at about midday as a starter - smoked salmon blinis, maybe scallops or oysters, more fizz. Kids are knee-deep in selection box wrappers by this stage.

LarryIsMyRomanEmpire · 08/10/2025 18:30

When Dd was at home I always made her smoked salmon and scrambled duck eggs with added cream on fancy bread.
Now it's just me I have my usual cup of tea.

RaininSummer · 08/10/2025 18:29

I usually do croissants with yoghurt, preserves and fruit or bacon sandwiches for carnivores. Fruit juice, coffee and bucks fizz if liked.

AffIt · 08/10/2025 18:29

Smoked salmon, scrambled eggs, bagels, cream cheese, panettone and Bellinis!

We don't eat until around 4pm, so it's fairly substantial but minimal effort.

GiantTeddyIsTired · 08/10/2025 18:29

Smoked Salmon, pate, melba toasts - and yeah some fruit, and a lower -alcohol fizzy so I don't peak too soon :)

marginallyawake · 08/10/2025 18:29

BusySittingDown · 08/10/2025 18:25

What?! You mean it's not tradition to have selection box chocolates, washed down with Bucks Fizz for breakfast on Christmas Day? Oh.

It is over here!

BusySittingDown · 08/10/2025 18:28

Zempy · 08/10/2025 18:25

Selection Box is traditional around here 😊

X post! Thank goodness! 😂

Latenightreader · 08/10/2025 18:28

Smoked salmon, bagels and horseradish, unless I've been able to get to IKEA to buy their dill sauce. If that's the case, possibly pickled herrings too. Always a glass of bucks fizz. And chocolate money.

GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing · 08/10/2025 18:27

Scrambled egg and smoked salmon with toast.

Doesn’t have to have the smoked salmon, or you could do bacon for those who don’t like it.

I think it should be savoury esp if it’s going to be a long time til lunch.

NormasArse · 08/10/2025 18:26

We take a picnic of egg or bacon, with avocado, sandwiches, a flask of coffee, and some Buck’s Fizz on a sunrise walk up a local hill.

Tires the dogs out too!! (They don’t have the avocado).

Whatagooddog · 08/10/2025 18:26

Cordee · 08/10/2025 17:51

I’d do this if the veggies (my brother and sil) weren’t coming.

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