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?

Buck's Fizz, coco pops (DD not usually allowed sugary cereal) and chocolate coins. Xmas breakfast of champions

I still can't decide what we're having this year...

You've all convinced me it needs to involve Buck's Fizz though! Has been a few years since I've had any!

Normal breakfast for us. Cereal toats. We do have Xmas dinner at about 2

Bacon butties and champagne. I'm not wasting alcohol space on orange juice.

It's just another marketing ploy to get us to spend more at Christmas. We like to have something nice Christmas morning, but nothing huge. Usually have fruit and a croissant or similar.

Croissants are my preference. The rest of my family like smoked salmon and scrambled eggs. DH's side like pork pie and beer (tbf that one is ideally consumed after a bracing walk).

I don't understand it myself. I never have breakfast, dh and ds have what they always have. That's it.
I have some fizz late morning, that's it til dinner.
Also I don't get why people stuff themselves silly. We eat the same amount as usual.

Fizz with bagels, cream cheese & smoked salmon, bloody love Christmas day brekkie

As I said I think we only have breakfast because I have to before bed. Otherwise they wouldn't bother!

Cranberry Wensleydale on toast! (And quality street usually)

We have croissants, toast or bagels with tea/coffee when DD wakes us up at whatever ungodly hour of the morning. Then graze on Christmas chocolate until we have turkey with all the trimmings at about 1pm.

I could easily eat a full English and still manage my roast dinner to be honest but couldn't be arsed with the cooking and clearing up of it as I'd rather put my feet up and watch DD open her presents before we head over to my DP's for lunch.

We have smoked salmon and scrambled eggs or pancakes at about 8 usually as the kids still get up early. Dinner at about 2...tea at about 6...

We normally go to my mums for lunch, but this year we're eating out. She says she's too old to cook. The tragedy is, me and DH will both have to drive, so bang goes my champagne breakfast. Fucking gutted.

Christmas meal about 2/3 and a normal breakfast - as pp said sometimes a bacon sandwich but I have some Christmas Tree shaped crumpets in the freezer ready (which I will probably have).

We just have our meal then and then something snacky later to soak up the alcohol.

Also I don't get why people stuff themselves silly. We eat the same amount as usual.

Same with us although maybe a few more indulgent foods and more alcohol than usual.

I can’t believe how stingy most of your Christmas efforts are! It’s a time for feasting not fasting!

I always start with a sneaky selection box and a glass of buzz-fizz before breakfast... Just the usual croissants & pain-au-chocolate before the fullest of full English’s (sausages, bacon, black pudding, scrambled/fried/poached eggs (chicken and quail), mushrooms, hash browns, toast etc) all washed down with a couple of glasses of prosecco.... all followed up by a couple of slices of fresh delectable stollen. Christmas simply wouldn’t be Christmas without it!

A cup of char with some Christmas biccies while I prepare lunch then by mid-morning we have our Christmas elevenses of sausage rolls, mince pies, nuts, gingerbread (from the obligatory gingerbread Christmas house) etc. with a couple of glasses of sherry.

Then it’s the main event... Lunch! We must have canapés beforehand with a glass or champers. We don’t go mad, just a half dozen each - we wouldn’t want to spoil the dinner itself. Then it’s the starter... nothing much, just smoked salmon creation. Then it’s piece de resistance - the turkey.... always a big one!... and of course a ham. Three different types of spuds and 12 other veg, cranberry, bread sauce - the works! All washed down with plenty of vino! Then it’s for the pudding.... just the one dessert as by this time we’re quite full. All done in time for the Queen’s speech where we might indulge in a sneaky mince pie or two. Then around 5pm we have our Christmas tea. Cooked meats and some lamb koftas from Christmas Eve’s leg of lamb with auntie’s special Christmas cake and my DPs Yule log!

Some charades and capers (and more wine), we wind down for our Christmas dinner... normally a topside of beef with Yorkshire pud and the trimmings. Onto red wine by the time and all followed up with the mandatory Chirstmas trifle.

Then it’s a Christmas film with the obligatory cheese board full of exotic varieties and the port passed round with the Christmas choccies!

By midnight we’re done in so it’s a wee dram of whisky before we start again on Boxing Day..... When we’ll see if we have room for my sister’s goose!

Jesus Christ coconut!! That is one special Christmas day. Sounds bloody perfect 😂 I could do that no problem 😉

Jesus Christ coconut!!

Apt ‘expletive’... Well it is Christmas!

Turkey, ham, lamb and beef Coco? I have to say, that is some impressive feasting. Are you working your way through the entire livestock at the manger?

we just have something small, toast and tea or whatever, saving ourselves for the big lunch

Scrambled egg and smoked salmon. No booze until later! And definitely no chocolates for breakfast - ugh! The dc are allowed a few chocolate coins, but I wouldn't. Not on healthiness grounds, just because chocolate doesn't appeal to me at breakfast time.

We normally have scrambled egg, sometimes with salmon or bacon, and toast.

But if it was just toast that would be fine.

I would need something savoury to start the day though! Alcohol isn't normally til lunch time and I'm not a chocolate in the morning person myself.

cornflakes washed down with sherry works!

We always have boiled eggs with soldiers, washed down with Buck’s Fizz and followed by chocolate!