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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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JaceLancs · 07/12/2017 21:32

Coffee here - toast or croissants if anyone wants them
Nibble a few chocolates whilst opening presents
I usually have a gin n tonic at 1 ish when finishing off dinner
Christmas dinner anywhere between 1.30 and 2.30 - we only ever manage 2 courses
Head over to see rest of local family in evening - usually take desserts with us and have them later on with a few drinks
Don’t really eat any more than on any other day - lots more drink though!

MrsJBaptiste · 07/12/2017 21:37

Columbine I reckon so, washed down with whisky on the rocks (in my head) 😁

zukiecat · 07/12/2017 21:42

Probably just have our normal breakfast of juice and a boiled egg here, if that

Just DD2 and me on our own this year, I can't afford fancy breakfasts as well as Christmas Dinner

I've never had or known anyone to have a Full Scottish on Christmas Day

YouTheCat · 07/12/2017 21:45

We, traditionally, have bacon butties. Christmas dinner is about 3 ish so it's just enough to keep us going and to soak up the sherry I drink whilst cooking .

MozzchopsThirty · 07/12/2017 21:59

Great thanks I'll stock up now

Apocalyptichorsewoman · 07/12/2017 22:07

I second some smoked salmon and cream cheese blinis for them as wants em - with the odd chocolate coin thrown in. Grin

Generally we tend to wait for Christmas Dinner at 2pm which is goose with a shit load of stuff. Then a late tea at around 7-8 like bread, ham, chicken wings, cheeses etc

PumpkinSquash · 07/12/2017 22:38

Smoked salmon on bagels here.
although dc prefer the contents of the selection boxes/chocolate coins/the satsuma out of their stockings but at least that's a piece of fruit in there too

MinesaPinot · 07/12/2017 22:42

Toasted cinnamon & sultana bagel with coffee. Then Bucks Fizz when opening pressies with, possibly probably some choccies. Lunch around 3, and then nibbles in the evening if we fancy it. As I said on another thread, it's only me and DH for Christmas Day, so we have what we want.

IToldYouIWasFreaky · 07/12/2017 22:53

Cinnamon rolls (frozen Tesco ones) and fancy granola with yoghurt here. A little bit special but not too much faff and not too heavy. Lunch will be mid-afternoon and for complicated family reasons, also a tea in early evening.

TheMadGardener · 07/12/2017 23:00

My family have always had a tradition of smoked salmon, scrambled eggs and Bucks Fizz for Christmas morning. My DH was appalled when he first encountered this, many years ago (mostly cos he thinks Bucks Fizz is sickly and disgusting). He likes a bacon sandwich. So in the years when we do Christmas with my family, he just makes himself a bacon sarnie in the background and everyone's happy and no offence taken!

Birdshitbridgegotme · 07/12/2017 23:05

I also think it's strange. I love a big Xmas dinner with all the trimmings but couldn't eat it if i had a huge breakfast. Honestly though I dont understand why people eat so much over xmas. I dont go crazy woth 3 or 4 different meats. I just have a nice big dinner and a pudding a little later. I'm also overweight and not tryingto say I have a tiny appetite as i really don't. But I dont eat anymore at Xmas as i do at any other time of the yr!

CheeseAndBeans · 07/12/2017 23:05

Pan au chocolat and croissants here with a cup of tea. Stick them in the oven while we open presents. Kids will probably have some chocolate too. We don't eat til 4/5pm so lots of grazing throughout the day - Pringles, sausage rolls and more chocolate!

treeofhearts · 07/12/2017 23:08

Breakfast? On Christmas day? What crazy fuckery is this? What do you all think selection packs are for?

thegreylady · 07/12/2017 23:09

Bucks Fizz, sliver of fillet steak for those who want it (not me) selection of usual full English ingredients all prepared by dh.
We have dinner about 5pm. I can’t eat loads at a sitting so may have a few chocs or some cheese during the evening.

yummumto3girls · 07/12/2017 23:10

Smoked salmon,scrambled eggs and Buck’s Fizz around 10/11 and full dinner around 5.

TheHolidayArmadillo · 07/12/2017 23:18

Dench toast is very disappointed in you, 007.

I couldn’t skip breakfast on Christmas Day. Even if it’s sonething like coffee and yoghurt/fruit. The DC are up at 6 (and DS keeps threatening to be up at 5 this year 😱), the main event isn’t until 3 and FILs portions aren’t the most generous.

In my Pinterest perfect world I’d be doing eggs Benedict or pastries for the grownups and pancakes for the kids/for all. But it’ll probably be a normal breakfast here to slightly counterbalance the chocolates.

Kintan · 07/12/2017 23:28

We have smoked salmon, croissants and champagne around 10am, and don't have christmas dinner until around 4pm. Don't know anyone who has a full english breakfast - who could be bothered with all the prep and washing up!

yumyumpoppycat · 07/12/2017 23:30

Christmas tree crumpets, and tesco cinnamon rolls added to my list too!

We often have chocolate panettone, dp usually has bucs fizz. Kids have chocolate, cereal, toast. Doorstop thick slices of toast with layers of butter melted in is also one of my favourite Christmas breakfasts. I do usually 'dress the table though', tartan (red and white) tablecloth, Christmas plates, crackers, cute chocolates etc, no one actually gives a monkeys, but I like it.

Frederickvonhefferneffer · 07/12/2017 23:35

Breakfast is always chocolate on Xmas day!

yumyumpoppycat · 07/12/2017 23:35

My mum usually does sausage and eggs now for grown ups having b/f at hers but didn't when we were kids. They bypass the chocolate breakfast (fools that they are!)

Hotheadwheresthecoldbath · 07/12/2017 23:45

Another smoked salmon and scrambled eggs here,with coffee.
Fizz for present opening and cooking.
We eat at 3pm, pudding later and cheese and biscuits in the evening.
DD has hollow legs and will probably eat lots of chocolate and snacks too.

TwoPoint · 08/12/2017 01:11

We have a fry and Christmas meal at around 3 but we don't really snack between the two.

Ragwort · 08/12/2017 07:27

Are those Tesco cinnamon rolls really good? I love the genuine American ones but have been disappointed by so many.

Worriedrose · 08/12/2017 07:41

What I said wrong with you people.
I am usually very hungover from Xmas eve and need bacon and sausages and Buck's Fizz and then I wouldn't really eat anything again till about 6. It's not that mad.
But I don't eat mince pies or cakes or anything else like that inbetween, I just continue to drink and nap
Who ever does brekkie doesn't do lunch.

Worriedrose · 08/12/2017 07:42

Um sorry first sentence doesn't actually make sense.