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Breakfast on Christmas Day.

357 replies

Spangles1963 · 07/12/2017 19:49

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?

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Sallystyle · 07/12/2017 20:20

I don't like breakfast, unless I have done a night shift.

If I ate a big breakfast I wouldn't want my Xmas dinner, so breakfast for us in chocolates!

Ecureuil · 07/12/2017 20:21

I'm buggered if I'm cooking 2 meals in a day..........!!

DH cooks breakfast and lunch so I just eat what I’m given!

InvisibleKittenAttack · 07/12/2017 20:21

I think the 'big breakfast' types are suggesting a breakfast at brunch time then the Christmas dinner at tea time.

We'll have the big meal around 1pm (because it's just a fucking roast dinner with a few extra sides, no I don't need an extra 4 hours to cook it compared to every other Sunday dinner), so will have bacon sarnies at around half an hour after whatever ungodly hour the DCs get us up (usually around 6am), and in the evening we've got a birthday cake to eat (christmas day birthday in our family!), and will have sarnies and snacks in the evening.

user21 · 07/12/2017 20:21

Has anyone actually posted that they have a full English?

Creatureofthenight · 07/12/2017 20:22

Bacon sarnies and Buck's Fizz here too. @Strokethefurrywall please tell me more about Baileys French toast! 🤤

Ecureuil · 07/12/2017 20:22

because it's just a fucking roast dinner with a few extra sides, no I don't need an extra 4 hours to cook it compared to every other Sunday dinner

We have every other Sunday dinner at around 5pm too! No different in Christmas Day.

TieGrr · 07/12/2017 20:23

Full Irish here as well about 11 or 12 and then dinner about 5 or 6.

IncyWincyGrownUp · 07/12/2017 20:24

Bacon/sausage sandwiches for those who want them here. Croissants for those that don’t. Dinner is launched at plates around 5-6. Were usually all asleep in our pits by 9 :o

ElephantsandTigers · 07/12/2017 20:24

One year the kids ate their cereal with chocolate spoons but I'm thinking of doing bacon sandwiches after reading this thread. We usually get croissants or pain au chocolate. Or the Christmas tree crumpets.

SlothMama · 07/12/2017 20:24

We have bucks fizz and smoked salmon and philadelphia on bagels, I couldn't be arsed with cooking a full english!

buttwingsham · 07/12/2017 20:24

We usually have panettone and bacon sanwiches.
This year bil is staying over on Xmas eve and is vegan so we are having jus roll pan au chocolate, croissants and cinnamon whirls (which I've discovered are all vegan) a posh fruit salad with soy/dairy yogurt with granola.
If I had a full English I wouldn't be hungry later.

MozzchopsThirty · 07/12/2017 20:24

I eat salmon & poached eggs every day so quite fancy xmas tree crumpets for a change

Where do you find these beauties????

Oh and Buck's Fizz starts as soon as we get up Grin

AlonsosLeftPinky · 07/12/2017 20:24

I have a bowl of cereal, or fruit and yogurt.

I couldn't cope with having a heavy breakfast and a big Xmas lunch too.

CherriesInTheSnow · 07/12/2017 20:24

Surely Prosecco or Buck's Fizz is a sufficient breakfast for Christmas day! We have chocolates and nibbles until Christmas dinner which is served at around lunch time. Couldn't imagine cooking a big hot breakfast and then moving on to cooking a Christmas dinner, nor could I imagine eating a cooked breakfast and then eating a huge lunch - isn't being slightly smashed by 11am and then knocking yourself out with an enormous festive feast the whole point of Christmas anyway? Confused

ArbitraryName · 07/12/2017 20:25

We tend to go for breakfast pastry items: croissants, pain au chocolat, cinnamon rolls or the like. Maybe with some fruit.

Sallystyle · 07/12/2017 20:25

Actually, i'm doing the Xmas eve night shift so come Xmas morning I will fancy eating.

Nothing cooked though. Will add panettone to my shopping basket.

cathyclown · 07/12/2017 20:27

Porridge for me, but as it's Christmas Day I'll add a dram of whiskey and a few raspberries and cream. Keeps me going till dinner at four ish. Yum.

DP makes himself poached eggs and crispy bacon and toast. I don't like anything like that so it's each to their own.

Kentnurse2015 · 07/12/2017 20:27

Bacon butties here usually but I work the nights so I don't actually get Christmas dinner! My DH doesn't seem to struggle though by all accounts

Morphene · 07/12/2017 20:28

We do a brunch of fruit salad and maybe some croissants and cheeses...but then we do xmas dinner not lunch....

IncyWincyGrownUp · 07/12/2017 20:29

Mozzchops I think they’re a Coop thing.

grannytomine · 07/12/2017 20:29

I have a full English but we don't eat at lunchtime, probably eat about 3 or 4. Basically we sort of miss a meal, breakfast, then main meal at 3 or 4 so not sure if you would say we miss lunch or miss dinner or just combine the two. Then have left overs and bits in the evening maybe 8 or 9. We don't do much chocolate or mince pies or anything.

ReanimatedSGB · 07/12/2017 20:29

Generally it's along the lines of cereal or toast, and not much, because the roast dinner is usually lunchtime-ish. I never host Christmas, so it will always be down to whoever's house DS and I are in. Though one year, before he was born, I was working a 6am shift and got my breakfast from the open-all-hours corner shop: bagels, smoked salmon, cream cheese and Bucks Fizz.

Last year was different, admittedly - we were all on holiday so cooked breakfast, then a trip up a mountain, and a festive dinner in the evening.

fruityb · 07/12/2017 20:30

Always bacon butties

grannytomine · 07/12/2017 20:30

Just thought we don't do alcohol, both of us tee total.

perfectstorm · 07/12/2017 20:31

Another one keen to know where you locate Xmas tree crumpets, please!

I make smoked salmon and scrambled eggs for my mum, as she leaves at 10 or so after watching the kids open their presents/stockings. The kids don't eat that, though DD may this year. It's actually relatively cheap if you get the salmon trimmings, but looks/sounds luxurious.

My kids would be so excited by shaped crumpets, though.