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?

Terrys chocolate orange and Bucks Fizz for us. Lunch is about 2:30pm.

Maybe some pate on toast for early evening if hungry.

This thread has made me hungry.

I’m all for a big breakfast on the big day, but a full English on Christmas Day is WRONG. It’s not special. Just big. Smoked salmon forever!

Nope you're not the only one OP. We have Christmas lunch at 3.

We have breakfast and stocking presents at 8am - it's the only day in the whole year that I have an English breakfast - although tbf it's generally mainly mushrooms because I don't want to spoil my Christmas lunch - everyone else has the works though.

We have pastries and tea/coffee. I really can't face cooking breakfast as well as Xmas lunch! I'd much rather spend time with my family than the whole day in the kitchen!

Kids: selection boxes

Me and DH: Bacon butties

Can’t be doing with a full English and a roast in one day.

Nope you're not the only one OP

Pressed the wrong button: Yes you're the only one.

Surely everyone has a traditional breakfast??

A selection box is just enough to see one through until lunch time.

Cup of tea - then out to see relatives. Then home to smoked salmon and scrambled eggs for brunch. We always eat around 5 p.m. Christmas Day. (Goes back to horse ownership when it had to be diy on Christmas Day so there was no way you could have early lunch and a glass of wine as you had to be able to drive)!

I have something like eggs florentine, and it’s a sizeable portion, but I have it at around 9am and we don’t have dinner until 3:30. I don’t eat in between, other than a slice of Christmas cake at the top of the hill when we go for a walk (10-1), or after dinner, so it’s not really a problem.

Agree.

Croissants & tea/juice for kids first thing while opening pressies.

I crack put some nuts, crisps and olives about an hour before dinner (at 3pm) to —soak up the booze— stave off hunger.

I couldn’t eat bacon, sausages etc for breakfast before all that meat, stuffing, pigs in blankets etc.

I made these lovely Nigella muffins a couple of years, quite light too:

www.nigella.com/recipes/christmas-morning-muffins

I'll be having the same as I have for virtually every day of the year, Greek yogurt, blueberries or banana and a little honey.
It would be weird if I didn't have that for breakfast.

Dench toast Fluffyears, is that what Judy has?

We don’t have one but we do a traditional Polish Christmas Eve (12 dishes) no one really wants to eat in the morning! (I don’t really partake but enjoy the tradition) I will have a decaf whilst opening presents though.

A lot of people seem to just put on a selection of pastries and fruit and just pick at them.

I did a cooked breakfast one year when DP was at work, so we weren't eating dinner until after 5pm to wait for him to join us. Our usual is part baked bread fresh from the oven with butter, and a bucks fizz for those who drink.

Pain au chocolat is tradition here!

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It depends when you have Christmas dinner really, I'm not cooking this year the kids are going to their dads at lunchtime, but when I do we have it late afternoon, maybe 3,4? So a full English breakfast at 10 wouldn't mean I'm full 7 hours later!

Bucks fizz then smoked salmon and scambled eggs and coffee. I don't eat canopes all day though. If with young nephews it's usually a ridiculously early start then breakfast 9ish and the canapes start noonish.

Coffee and croissants and crumpets here while opening presents. We do eat very early though about 12:30pm and then the rest of the day is snoozing and scoffing chocolate and cheese lmao

I also can't understand it - Xmas lunch with all the trimmings, and people need a huge breakfast. It's a croissant for me!

I'm getting Danish pastries from Costco. Bob's your uncle, no cooking And they are amazing. Bit of chocolate and a nice coffee and that'll do me till feast time.

We have our dinner around 3/4

I haven’t read all replies. I just have my usual breakfast Christmas morn. So do the children. But my dh has an obsession with “must get a cooked ham joint for breakfast” then he has a ham sandwich. I think it’s quite strange! Then for days after we eat cold turkey and ham for lunch (eve meal too sometimes)

I used to do smoked salmon and scrambled eggs with soda bread but it just seemed too rich . (This was pre kids when we often had a Christmas eve hangover and then a 1pm Christmas dinner at one of our parents.)
So it's now a tradition that we have smoked salmon and scrambled eggs for supper Christmas eve - nice and quick!
I pre make cranberry and orange muffin mix and bake those for breakfast first thing with bucks fizz (orange and lemonade for kids).
We aim to have Christmas dinner at 2pm but it's often later. We have a prawn cocktail "starter" but this is often eaten casually about 12 midday to keep us going! We gobble ours in the kitchen with some champers. Kids have theirs in front of the telly. The turkey dinner is all of us at the table though with crackers, paper hats etc.

We're often too full after dinner to eat pudding so we tend to have that (and some cheese) in the evening.