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?

We have pancakes with fruit and bucks fizz for breakfast! I love it. Definitely couldnt manage a full english when christmas dinner (usually around 1/2) is a 3 course affair!

We'll probably have some kind of pastry (raisin danish or pain au chocolat type things) or bacon butties or similar, along with fruit juice and coffee, and possibly some actual fruit. But that will be early, about 8 or so, we will get some nibbles at a family members' house at around 12ish (literally a couple of tiny, naice canapes - not loads of sausage rolls type of food), and back to some nibbles (one pack of M&S party things cooked while we get the turkey in the oven and other things sorted before sitting down to open presents and RELAX!!!!) at home around 4 while the turkey cooks for 6ish. So it's a long enough day to need something filling enough but not too much. (And we are planning on fitting in a Christmas Day Swim in the middle there too!).

DM used to do a full Irish for after we got home from 9.30am mass, but then there would be visitors in for hours, and we would get some small nibbles in the very late afternoon before turkey anytime from 8pm onwards (the record is sitting down to starters at 9.45!!). So that was a very long day and needed something substantial.

Maybe pain au chocolate or cinnamon whirl at 9, then we have some nibbly bits about 12 and eat "lunch" about 3.30. Maybe have pudding about 7pm.

We just have our favourite breakfast. So I have a croissant and an orange juice, DP has beans on toast.

DD was only 5 months last year but I expect she would be happy with some fruit toast.

Big no to a full english, have enough washing up to do on the day as it is.

Full Scottish breakfast here again no dinner till 5pm and breakfast is usually 7am on xmas morning. So don't get the big deal here plenty of time to get hungry

every year I think about doing Caitlin Moran's "Christmas breakfast" which is Cornflakes with Baileys instead of milk but so far sense has prevailed.

This year I'm going to make some cinnamon buns for breakfast - well make them the day before and warm through before eating.

We don't eat till 6ish and will have nibbles about lunchtime. Nothing heavy though.

Definitely no full English though - I'd feel uncomfortably full all day long.

Almond croissant and coffee here. We’ll eat around 4. Probably snaffle chocolate in between.

I am a weirdo. I invite people to mine for Christmas breakfast. This year my parents,sister and BIL are coming at 10, we are having bacon rolls and pastries then my PIL are coming around 4 for dinner.

Ragwort I don't know about the Tesco cinnamon buns, it'll be the first time I have tried them!
I love the Ikea ones but they don't seem to do the frozen part baked ones anymore. And it's a total faff to get them!

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

If it helps, Superlandlady we usually eat pretty normal amounts (admittedly of slightly nicer things than usual) on the birth of Christ, and save our massive first-world orgy of overeating until early January, when I've been able to buy all that lovely Christmas food at half-price.

My usual healthy breakfast so I can gorge myself during the day :D

Sausage sandwiches for us this year. A bit of chocolate during the morning too. Dinner is usually mid afternoon. Then something light in the evening for the little ones.

A couple of mince pies as I'm running around getting stressed (unnecessarily).

I cant help laughing at all these people earnestly claiming that a cooked breakfast would mean they weren't hungry for any food for the rest of the day

Not interested, or can't be arsed is fair enough (shame so many posters seem to be doing all cooking and washing up by themselves though), but all the 'my delicate tummy can't possibly have two meals in a single 24 hr period, dear me how gluttonous' bollocks.

Perfectly possible to have a hot breakfast and a roast in a single day without going over you recommended level of calories, and even if you do, it's only one day of the year!

We have a 'fancy' breakfast on Christmas Day - eggs Benedict, croissants, melon and berries, bucks fizz.
Chocolate and nibbles eg smoked salmon blinis.
Big dinner about 2pm.
Continue grazing all day.
Full English on Boxing Day.

Breakfast here is, for the adults, a coffee immediately followed by a giant tube of smarties and a glass of Buck's Fizz. For the kids it's either chocolate coins or selection boxes.

Custard creams! Then we have our roast at 12/1 ish.

We have scrambled eggs on muffins with smoked salmon and bucks fizz for breakfast before opening presents. We do have a late Christmas dinner at about 5pm or so.

We have warm sausage rolls for breakfast for the whole Christmas week. It's our annual treat, and we wouldn't want a cooked breakfast - who has the time to cook when there are presents for an 8 year old to open :-)

Smoked trout on pumpernickel with sour cream. Coffee. Church. Christmas lunch whenever it turns up.

Presents in our house were left to late afternoon - DCs had a small present from the tree on Christmas Eve and small stocking (tangerine, gold coins, pack of cards etc).

Happy Christmas and celebrations to you all

Bucks fizz, crumpets, blueberry muffins and pain au chocolate.

Me and DH will be having bacon sandwiches, then kids will most probably have crumpets or croissants, I'd rather save the room for the xmas dinner

Just tea and toast here, it's just the two of us for breakfast. Family arrive about midday, then it's canapes and fizz, open presents, Christmas dinner about 4ish.

Goldfish I can't stop laughing too . Who I would not like to see the size of the cooked breakfast they eat if it fills them up for 24 hours 😂