Breakfast on Christmas Day.

[Spangles1963]

Am I the only person who doesn't get this obsession with huge breakfasts on Christmas Day? Nearly everyone I speak to,or read about (yes,on MN too!) say they're having a full English or similar. I was reading an article in the Co-op supermarket magazine yesterday and saw the comment along the lines of 'make sure you have a big breakfast to keep you going and make sure you have plenty of food to give your guests and family'. And this was assuming you were eating dinner at about 2pm. I have always had Christmas dinner at about 5pm,quite late by some peoples' standards,but I know for sure that if I ate a massive breakfast at about 10am and kept eating things like mince pies,sausage rolls and canapés all day,I would not be able to do justice to my dinner? Don't get me wrong,I'm NOT bragging about having a tiny appetite and neither am I slim. I am quite greedy by nature and overweight but I do like to sit down to Christmas dinner feeling hungry and able to eat it all! Or is it just me?

Warm croissants and fizz here! Although last year DP made little hot pastries with cheddar and bacon and Stilton and walnuts, they were lovely. Nothing bigger than that, given the inevitable stuffing of dinner and Christmas chocolates, surely??

Full English at the in laws at about 10.30.
Christmas dinner at my parents at about 3ish.
We manage.

I love it, each to their own I guess. We don't have a full English though, this year it's just roll items, fresh orange and coffee. Nothing spectacular, just a bit diff to our usual cereal or toast. Other years I've done continental breakfast but I CBA spending forever in the kitchen

Fluffyears - Dench toast?! As recommended by Dame Judi I presume?!

I'm amazed at the number of you having alcohol at breakfast time! If I started drinking in the morning I'd be asleep by 3pm! I've lost the ability to hold my drink as I've got older.

OP- you are not alone. We just have a normal breakfast of cereal and toast.

pancakes for some reason, with blueberry or some other fruity homemade compote. Not sure when we started doing this, but it is now expected and A Tradition. With Bucks Fizz.
This year we plan to nibble through the day, then have full Xmas dinner at tea time. Or dinner time!

I'm not much of a breakfast eater normally tbh,I can't face food until I've been awake for a couple of hours,so to eat a big breakfast on a day when I'm going to be eating a massive dinner early evening seems daft!

Actually thinking about it we sometimes have pancakes instead of a full English. I think pancakes are more work but if I'm short of money they are definitely cheaper. With three adult kids home for Christmas I might have to think about that, feeding them plus one partner for 10 days is going to play havoc with my budget, feeling poor due to £350 MOT.

We have toast / cereal / chocolate / sweets for breakfast on xmas day morning

We have a full fry up Boxing day morning

I get frozen pain a Chocolat, stick them in the oven. More time to open presents with the kids.

We have bacon butties but am usually up early with DD opening presents so need something to last until lunch which is at 1

Glass (or two) of fizz and chocolate fingers is the traditional Christmas breakfast in our family.

Buck's Fizz and pain au chocolate here!

We then do a brunch type at my nanny's which is usually bacon sandwiches, prosecco, chcocolate and random nibbles. Tea is about 5pm.

It’s just marketing. Rather sad really - diminishes the main meal so overall less fun. Sometimes I do a brunch and a later dinner which works well

How would anykne manage to fit in cooking a full English on Xmas morning???
My 4 kids havnt touched breakfast for the last 5-6 years on Xmas day. To busy with there presents. The only day of the year they would get away with it. And the only day I quite happily let them nibble away at whatever they want whenever they want. We are cooking Xmas dinner for 16. Sod cooking in the morning too. And if I had alcohol in the morning.. no guests would be getting fed at all

We've started having waffles or American pancakes with bacon and maple syrup...but definitely before 10am! It means we don't graze on mince pies, canapes and chocolates so we're then hungry again to eat the main Christmas meal.

How would anykne manage to fit in cooking a full English on Xmas morning???

Not everyone has young DC

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DM has published my comment woooo I’m famous.

Smoked salmon, scrambled eggs, toast, mushrooms, bacon, tomatoes, coffee.

(Used to have champagne but can't now as always have to drive at lunchtime now)

Dinner isn't until 7pm

We have buttery flakey croissants and Bucks Fizz. It is a lovely treat I look forward to instead of a bowl of All Bran.

I have some of a selection box. Isn't that what they are for?

The thought of Christmas lunch after a full English would make me feel ill! We've always had croissants and nice bread rolls with posh conserves. That's plenty till lunch, thanks especially taking into account the inevitable snacking on nuts, crisps, and chocolate cos I have zero food based will power at Christmas

I just have a banana or something. Anything more and I don't want my dinner.

We don't have any breakfast, or chocolate gifts. We eat so much on xmas day, the last thing we need is a cooked breakfast.