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?

A cup of tea, a slice of toast then it's onto the Buck's Fizz and choccies! Choccies and fruit keep us going until dinner around 5 o'clock.

On the days that I do have a big breakfast I generally can't manage lunch and only a light evening meal so I rarely have more than a slice of toast or a banana.

Bacon or egg rolls after the presents have been opened and before the clearing up. Dishes and pans go straight into the dishwasher so it's a minimal fuss.

Are you Lethal Bizzle?

My family would have eggs and salmon, with choice of bucks fizz or champagne. Horrible. I just wanted my cornflakes!
Croissants is usually what we eat here, nice plain croissants with coffee or juice.

Mozzchops - or Asda.

I actually googled Dench toast incase it was a 'thing'.

Totally agree, no way would I want to cook or eat a huge breakfast on Christmas day ........... would much rather enjoy a 'special' breakfast on another day when I am not eating a huge Christmas dinner.

Not because I have a small appetite quite the opposite

Fancy pants homemade German biscuits here, and Innocent smoothies to make it healthy (*snort!)

Dinner around 3pm, but it's not a massive one so we have tea at 9 as usual.

We have German grain bread with scrambled eggs and smoked salmon, washed down with Buck’s Fizz. Not a particularly huge breakfast, to my mind.

Then we have crackers, cheeses, pâté and chutney a bit later in the day, with ales. Again, not a big meal, just a few nibbles, really.

Perhaps a mince pie or two throughout the day for those who like them.

Christmas dinner is usually had somewhere between five and six, but again it’s not a huge three course meal. Just the bird and whatever accompaniments we’re having. A feast, to be sure, but not an absolute riot of gluttony. Pudding isn’t had straight after, instead we have it a bit later on in the evening.

Doesn’t seem all that much over the course of a whole day...

I couldn't be bothered to cook a big breakfast, clean up, then cook a big lunch. You'd never leave the kitchen. It would be a non stop round of loading/unloading the dishwasher, tidying up, cleaning the surfaces, cooking, cooking and more cooking!

Just eat a selection box!

Croissant and a Bucks Fizz. Boom. Sets the day up nicely.

Aren't some McDonald's open Christmas day?

I don't get the fuss either. I do bacon butties wrapped in tinfoil and take them to my sisters!

Eggs Benedict then nothing until about 4pm.

Salmon & scrambled eggs - but with crème fraiche and blinis sounds better :)

Is dench toast what Dame Judy has?

Cup of tea, Bucks fizz, crumpets. So many crisps, nibbles and chocs will be eaten after that there is no need for a big breakfast.

Grapefruit or fruit salad and proper coffee (till I crack the whiskey when I start cooking)
My mum was always shocked that the kids had a selection box for Christmas.

Croissants, pain au chocolat and Buck’s Fizz here. And chocolate!

We were thinking of going to a hotel for a three-day Xmas break.

Reading the itinerary, it was an obscene orgy of food from start to finish. Gigantic breakfast, then mulled wine and mince pies at elevenses, then a four course sit down banquet, then a slap up afternoon tea, then another four-course meal, then toddies and pies and cake at 9pm.

Where do normal people find the space for all this food?

Does anyone really go to these things and eat all that?

What has the birth of Christ got to do with a massive first-world orgy of overeating?

Don't people feel ashamed?

Bacon rolls here. I don't care for breakfast, tbh.

Added Xmas tree crumpets and smoothies to my Xmas list. Thanks ladies

We tried the massive cooked breakfast once of a fry up but all those breads and all that meat was just too much. We’ve simplified it now. It’s either soda bread with bacon and melted cheese, bacon bagels or bacon eggs and potato bread. This is usually before 10 am. Then we have dinner any time between 3 and 6. This year we are aiming for earlier so between 3 and 4. There is no chocolate before dinner. We tend to go visiting in the evening which consists of four/five different houses with loads of sweets and treats. And in typical Irish ways, you have to eat something as the mummy’s/granny’s take offence if you don’t!

Toasted bagels with scrambled egg and choice of smoked salmon or parma ham accompanied by Bucks Fizz, champagne or cuppa tea. We then have Christmas Dinner around 4pm.

We have pancakes in the morning and then Christmas lunch at about 3pm

I've let the kids choose this year. Request for buttermilk pancake with maple syrup, blueberries and smokey bacon. Though I don't think we will be eating a huge portion, it will be one pancake & two bacon slices each.