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?

Not huge but special, we have smoked salmon with scrambled eggs and bucks fizz then dinner around 4

Duckbilled I can't stand that, really hate that, when people do that. What would happen if you just ate what you wanted? Would she burst into flame?

(I am a Woman Of Size but happily so is my ex-MIL, and when we see each other - like yesterday - she only watches what I eat so that when the plate is empty she can ask if I want any more samosas...)

Ugh what a horrid person she must be.

Ha Ha Archery Annie, no but she would start conversational set pieces number 5, 6 or 7. Lol. I'm not that slim so I make sure I'm not starving when I turn up, then I can turn things down and no comments or disapproving looks can be made. Heh Heh. or rather Ho Ho HO. Dishonest really but my way of managing it.

I think it's a case of 'Hey writer person...we've got to say some bunny about Christmas to fill some pages with Christmas adverts...what you got?'
'How about reminding them to eat a full English breakfast to keep them going as clearly eating nothing or little would completely destroy Christmas and all it stands for.'...It probably went something like that.

I don't have a big breakfast either. In a similar vein I really don't enjoy having a starter before my Christmas dinner either. It's too much and detracts from one of my fave meals of year. I'm no daintily appetited person but I'd much rather have a good portion of every constituent of Christmas dinner - and enjoy it - than a starter.