To think a full English breakfast is too much on Christmas morning?

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I like my food, honestly I do, but I don't know how people eat a full English on Christmas morning.

You are having a big roast dinner for lunch which is unusual in itself.

How on earth are you supposed to put that away too?

Am I missing something here?

These pigs in blankets... I much prefer the sausages and bacon rolls separately. Bacon cooks more quickly than sausage, the sausage needs to be brown all over, not pale under the bacon. It’s a compromise all round to combine them.

On the subject of Lindt Choc Reindeer, I would generally have considered it quite greedy to eat a whole one, and in the run up, when from mid Nov I am ‘getting ahead’ by buying them for the kids stockings, then eating them, then buying more, etc I usually make one last 2 days, but now I know they are all hollow fresh air and only 210 Cals I might eat more!

They are all volume and no substance!

Same with the Santas.

Yes they should be called dogs’ willies in bacon really as you can’t brown them till they’re a bit crispy!

My mum rarely made a cooked breakfast, but suddenly on Christmas Day, there she'd be lighting the gas under the pan and slinging bacon and eggs in the pan. The smell of bacon frying will always remind me of Christmas. And of course, I could never resist that smell and ate my fill, so I could barely touch the turkey later on.

It was an Ulster fry with soda bread (the heaviest substance known to man), potato farls and, in my dad's case, vegetable roll, which has no evidence of vegetables in it whatsoever. My stomach used to churn for hours. Now I have cereal.

@SoftDay bet you are Irish

Where are all these people quaffing CHAMPAGNE on Christmas morning?!

Guilty, dustarr73! Soft batch bread dripping in Kerrygold. White puddin' and tae. Yum!

Moral of the story - different people like different things. The end.

I'm like you OP, I like to make the main meal Christmas dinner - so light breakfast only then dinner around 2-3pm.

There's so much snacky food out, huge dinner, desserts and evening cheese boards. Breakfast is usually just chocolate and other naughty stuff, couldn't face a full English :)

I have French toast with crispy bacon and maple syrup [santa]

I'd never heard of this or realised it's a thing! Don't think it's a tradition I'll be starring any time soon, I love food but get sick of eating over Christmas

I agree op I can't eat breakfast any more either at all. Certainly nothing too bready, no croissants... Very light snacks... And one huge meal.

However I used to be super slim and wouldn't think twice about tucking all that away, probably why I can't now

I'd never heard of this or realised it's a thing!

I don’t think it’s ‘a thing’ any more than having toast for breakfast on Christmas Day is ‘a thing’, or having porridge for breakfast on Christmas Day is ‘a thing’. Some people have it, some people don’t. People choose different things for breakfast on different days.

Its okay AmI I'm sure Santa will make sure there's plenty of coal dust for you to snack on over Christmas wouldn't want to upset you with actual food