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?

Smoked salmon pretentious on Christmas morning?! It’s supposed to be indulgent, things that are a real treat. As I said above I’m one of the ASDA Christmas tree crumpet crew, that’s only cos my kids are so little that they’re up at dawn with excitement. For brunch we do have smoked salmon, and quails eggs, and Buck’s Fizz. We work so hard and do so much all year, Christmas for us is all about spending time together, relaxing, and mostly indulging. There’s loads of stuff we don’t normally do/eat that’s reserved solely for Christmas. Hardly pretentious to do something once a year?!

Pretentious, moi?

If you can’t have eggs benedict on a Christmas morning without some —Scrooge— judging you, when can you have it??

Laughing at smoked salmon being pretentious.

I sometimes buy a pack for myself on a weekday at home and scoff it for lunch, hiding the wrapper.

Gravadlax is pure heaven.

IKEA serves smoked salmon so it can’t be pretentious

We do have a full English but we are up early and we don't snack all day will be Christmas meal about 4ish

chocolate orange and a glass of fizz for me!

I love eggs benedict, but couldn't be chewed making them Christmas morning.

Smoked salmon & cream cheese bagel and Buck’s Fizz ( although I’m due baby 3 on the 28th so no fizz for me this year) nice coffee and pastries for anyone that would prefer them.

Then dinner at 5pm

I’m also amazed that people consider smoked salmon pretentious. It’s not 1976, people!
I also agree that salmon + eggs is fairly gross. Smoked salmon or gravadlax, on blinis, with dill mustard or cream cheese (or both) and lots of black pepper, dill and lemon. It’s fresh and light, feels a bit special (although to be honest I eat this sort of thing fairly frequently) and different enough from Christmas dinner for it not to feel repetitive later in the day!

Smoked salmon isn't pretentious, I have it for breakfast most days, bought fromAldi obviously.

In our house we have a full Jamaican breakfast, ackee, saltfish, hard dough bread, and plantain. I cannot wait.

I also have smoked salmon and scrambled eggs, or a smoked salmon and cream cheese omelette regularly throughout the year.

I like a big breakfast, I'm not one of those people who can go all day eating hardly anything in anticipation of a large evening meal.

I buy the salmon from Aldi and a pack does at least 5 breakfasts so not particularly expensive.

I don't always have bucks fizz for breakfast on Christmas day, but most Spanish hotels put cava on the breakfast buffet and I have a glass every morning with my breakfast on holiday.

Normal breakfast in this house cereal or toast with a bit of chocolate thrown in.

We always have breakfast juice (orange and grapefruit mix), with croissants and pains aux chocolats around 9am, followed by chocs/nibbles if hungry, until Christmas dinner at around 2pm. We'll have a late buffet tea at around 6/7pm, with cold meats/pickles etc and pudding.

Some people I know go all out for christmas dinner - aperitifs, hors d'oeuvres, starters and then main course, followed by dessert and sorbet. I couldn't ever eat that much in one sitting!!

I thought that’s why Father Christmas brings me a chocolate orange every year? So I can have that for breakfast.

What, so everyone else in the country must eat exactly what you eat?? What a strange way to think. I didn’t realise there are people in the world with such a limited understanding of the fact that not everyone will be just like you.

And LOL at smoked salmon being pretentious. We’re not in the seventies.

Chocolate orange 😀. Possibly pastries but nothing fancy, tummy space saved for the main event!

I prefer gravadlax as it happens. We usually have that for lunch once over the holiday period.

Also, alcohol for breakfast isn’t some totally outlandish thing. Have you not heard of a champagne breakfast?

I don't have a full English, but I do tend to put on a lot of nibble type things for breakfast. Fruit, pancakes, pastry etc, and lay it out similar to a buffet as I know the kids won't settle to eat breakfast properly until gifts are open, we tend to eat quite a lot at breakfast as we then don't get a chance to eat again until around 4pm when we have xmas dinner.
We have a huge family and tend to then sit at the dinner table from 4pm until 8-9pm then some of us are still around the table playing cards/bingo/monopoly until v late while others disappear to watch TV or relax on the sofa.

going we have pork pie & pickles - chutney, onions & gherkins - it's what my father had as a child.

DH thought it was really odd when I produced it soon after we married, but thinks it totally normal now

We used to have bacon rolls with nice bacon instead of the horrible cheap stuff, usually as we were up so early we had some selection box stuff or chocolate coins then lunch 1/2pm stuffed ourselves silly then sleep it off until tea, my grandma used to do the most amazing spread with leftovers and made curry puffs which my sister still talks about 25 years on. Great memories of some lovely food and happy times.

My kids are not so interested in Christmas dinner, the older 2 don’t like turkey much and the wee ones don’t really get it and hardly eat anything due to excitement so I made sure they have a decent breakfast

We have toast and tea/coffee.

it's just another day like any other

Tea on waking, then by 10am I am getting stuck into the champagne and selection boxes

It's what Jesus would have wanted.

We usually do croissants and coffee in the morning. Very yummy.