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Breakfast on Christmas Day.

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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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ByThePowerOfRa · 08/12/2017 07:45

Bearing in mind I feel a bit sick all the time anyway as 32 weeks pregnant, it’s definitely the meat, followed by more meat at dinner which would see off my stomach! I’d be gluggling gaviscon the rest of the day. So a hangover, plus Buck’s Fizz, plus double meat doesn’t sound nice at all Envy!

cherrycola2004 · 08/12/2017 07:49

Bowl of Rice Krispies here Smile

BlueWhales · 08/12/2017 08:01

Growing up we used to have a chocolate bar and a mini can of fizzy pop for breakfast on Christmas morning as a treat as these weren't things we were normally allowed to have 😂

Peachypie83 · 08/12/2017 08:02

Christmas tree crumpets here too. I've already got two packs from Asda in my freezer because they sell out every year and my DD really looks forward to them.

My DP is a creature of habit and will have his normal porridge but I will have bacon in for butties if he fancies it. Bucks fizz also

FrustratedTeddyLamp · 08/12/2017 08:02

We've always just had biscuits I dunnò why them particularly. I'm guessing it started with my parents not wanting to fuss around and enjoy the day also without the need to get up and cook whilst we were enjoying our stockings as we'd generally hang out for an hour or more playing with the stockings on their bed. Come down have tea and biscuits get washed and dressed and then present opening.

upperlimit · 08/12/2017 08:09

Bacon sandwich, orange juice for the kids and coffer for the grown-ups.

I think these North Pole Breakfasts look cute but it's a bar too high for me.

ShatnersWig · 08/12/2017 08:13

I never have breakfast on Xmas Day. Mind you, I almost never have breakfast anyway. Unless I'm on holiday and I've paid for it and then I'll damn well have it

RaindropsAndSparkles · 08/12/2017 08:18

Tea for the adults, possibly a biscuit. The children used to have chocolate. No time for breakfast before 9.30 mass when I had to be at church by 9 to sides and someone in the family would be reading or singing.

Smoked salmon and champagne at 11.30 with presents. "Lunch" at about 3.30/4.00.

palmfronds · 08/12/2017 08:18

I normally make Nigella's Christmas muffins - really delicious and super easy to make. We have those hot from the oven and buttered, along with whatever was in stockings.

Mind you we don't normally have a big roast on Xmas day, last year we just had loads of canapés instead and a couple of years ago we had moussaka.

LunasSpectreSpecs · 08/12/2017 08:25

We always have breakfast. But we're eating Christmas dinner at 5pm, not 1pm. Croissants or bacon rolls around 9am, light lunch and then dinner.

ChristmasAddict · 08/12/2017 08:31

I can't face chocolate first thing and DS is a strange one and has rejected all his advent chocolate so far so will do some crumpets and croissants. Then mince pies late morning with mulled wine and then Christmas lunch around 2:30.

ClementineWardrobe · 08/12/2017 08:35

We have bacon chopped into scrambled eggs with parmesan cheese, on toast. Very decadent recipe from Rachel Allen. We eat it early, then do a bit of driving in the cold to family and run the dogs. I try to eat a hot breakfast on a cold day as I feel the cold.
We eat Christmas dinner in the evening, and I tend to avoid snacking so I'm really hungry - we have prawn cocktail then a good roast dinner, which I couldn't eat if I'd had lunch too. Most snacky things at Christmas are too bready/pastry based for me.

JustAnIdiot · 08/12/2017 08:37

We have pork pie & pickles for breakfast at about 11am, then the main event early evening.

It's what we always did at home when I was a child & it's great!

DenPerry · 08/12/2017 08:40

I have a HUGE appetite (I can easily put a stone on in weeks if I have a binge and have been 19 stone) but I couldn't have breakfast on christmas day! We eat dinner at 2pm and want to fit it all in..

Frogletmamma · 08/12/2017 08:45

mainly champagne with foray into smoked salmon about 11

Deathraystare · 08/12/2017 08:50

Spangles - yeah I read that in the Co-op mag and thought, "Really?"

I know my friend always has scrambled egg and smoked salmon.

My breakfast used to be quality street! Every Christmas- oh and a satsuma!

Strawberrythief87 · 08/12/2017 08:52

Quite a fan of xmas day breakfasts here.
Its just me and DH atm and last year he had to work from 1pm till late evening on xmas day so we ditched having lunch and had a massive breakfast instead. I went slightly overboard but it was fantastic and saw us through till some cheese and crackers once he got back that night

Strawberrythief87 · 08/12/2017 08:53

I should also say we had the full 'proper' xmas lunch a couple of days later when we had the time

TrinitySquirrel · 08/12/2017 08:58

"Dench toast" Grin

I imagine the poshest looking eggy bread with gold leaf, cranberries and the air of a cool, crisp British winter morning.

TrinitySquirrel · 08/12/2017 09:00

Actually f*ck it... I'm now going to make Dench toast this year 😂

Sarahh2014 · 08/12/2017 09:22

Bacon butties around 7am then nothing (apart from fizz) til lunch at 1

Sarahh2014 · 08/12/2017 09:25

Oh and orange juice in fizz is sacrilege

PatchworkGirl · 08/12/2017 09:38

Chocolate coins and a tangerine/orange.

ladybug92 · 08/12/2017 10:17

Ooo there sound SO amazing. How is wish we lived somewhere where it was cold at Christmas...we are in Brisbane.

We do fruit salad for breakfast with cold cuts of meat and cheese. Dinner will be cheese platter entree, cordon bleu and roast veg/potato for main plus salad. Trifle and fruit salad for dessert. Way too hot for chocolates...anything not in the fridge melts!

Ecureuil · 08/12/2017 10:28

The thing is, I don’t really eat any more at Christmas dinner than any other dinner. I can only eat as much as my stomach fits in, and hate feeling uncomfortably full. So I couldn’t imagine not eating breakfast to ‘save room’ for dinner... I’d just be starving all morning then still only be able to eat a normal dinner. I’m a ‘little and often’ kind of eater!