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?

Bacon sandwiches here around 9, dinner about 4ish

Full English here. I would prefer something else but DH and DS like it. Might suggest a change this year. Breakfast is usually around 10.

We have our Christmas dinner around 5. We have some snacks etc with champagne while dinner is cooking.

I used to do a full english christmaa morning for me and dh (kids wont eat one) but felt like i was in the kitchen the whole day cooking and cleaning. We now have bacon rolls, the kids have chocolate pancakes and strawberries or whatever which we have at about 8am and then lunch anytime between 1-3.
I do do a full english boxing day now though as I only do cold meat, mash and pickles for dinner so not in the kitchen too long doing that.

It's doable if you get up early enough but nobody here surfaces till at least 11 so we just settle for tea and a big sharing plate of hot buttered toast.

Also depends what time you eat Christmas Dinner. You aren't going to fit in a full English and Christmas Dinner if you eat Dinner at 12 0'clock. Some people like to eat early and others prefer to sit down after the Queen's speech or maybe even later that as an evening meal. If there is a big enough gap between the 2 meals then it is very doable

For those of you who have the full English, do YOU have to cook both the breakfast AND the lunch?

It seems daunting to have to do all that and two lots of washing-up etc.

As I don't normally cook much, I think doing a cooked breakfast seems a lot of work, never mind the lunch

Here it's bacon butties, generally eaten on the floor while building a Lego monstrosity of some sort. Of course this is second breakfast, as first breakfast is chocolate based.

We do scrambled eggs withsmoked salmon and bucks fizz for breakfast, late lunch (main course) around 2, then walk the dogs before coming back home for Christmas pudding as it gets dark. Nibbles/left overs in the evening

Scrambled eggs on toast with smoked salmon.easy,not much washing up and enough to soak up the champagne.
Christmas dinner around 3pm.By the time you've eaten ,all that's needed in the evening is cheese and biscuits with coffee,alcohol and chocolate.Mince pies and sausage rolls if you just.

We have eggs Benedict because it's a treat.

We have Bucks Fizz and croissants/freshly baked Danish pastries. Waitrose do a bag of frozen ones that are amazing! But then we eat at around 1pm - 2pm. And the kids all just have chocolate

I agree with others this is all about timing. We do a decadent brunch around 10ish...but then christmas dinner doesn't happen till about 5pm, with nothing but chocolate in between

user232398291 no, why would I cook both when there’s another adult in the house?! I do breakfast, DH does dinner usually.

We don't eat dinner til about 6 or 7 so need some kind of sustenance...

Yes, breakfast at 9 (choice based here - smoked salmon, scrambled eggs, poached eggs, full English, continental or bacon sarnie) then full 3 course Christmas dinner starting around 3pm but more often 4. Then turkey sandwiches and a few nibbles around 9pm as everyone is getting merry.

I don't celebrate Christmas any more but back when I did we'd never have breakfast on Christmas day. We'd pick at chocolates and crisps and things or if at my parents house there'd be mince pies and sausage rolls to eat whilst opening the presents too.
At either house we'd still have a beer/vodka/Baileys on the go from the moment we started the presents though [santa]

DH does full English/ bacon sarnies and I do smoked salmon, croissants, cinnamon rolls, poached and scrambled eggs.

For Christmas dinner I do starter and pud and DH does the turkey and trimmings. We all chip in for washing up.

Scrambled eggs and smoked salmon is the order of the day here, around 10am. Dinner about 5pm.

Neither brekkie or lunch needs to be huge portions though, right? You can do both if you don't pig at either.

We don't though, we usually do smoked salmon, scrambled eggs, croissants, champagne/Buck's Fizz about ten ish,

Then canopies about 1

Christmas lunch about 4.

Dessert late evening.

This year we are at a family members house so I think I will suggest bacon butties and champagne.

I didn't know that selection box eating was a thing on Christmas morning! For kids maybe...? I like chocolate but not so much first thing.

Depending whether it's my family Christmas or in-laws family christmas we have a big breakfast or croisannts. Big breakfast on my family christmas because we eat later and go for a long walk during the day. Christmas walk across the moors needs a full english to get you started!

I didn't know a Full English on Christmas Day was a thing!

I couldn't be bothered with all the faff when there's present-opening to be done tbh! We tend to pick at nibbles on Christmas morning - apart from anything else if I had a Full English breakfast I would be too bloated for all the other yummy Christmas food.

I'm with you OP, the only thing I have for breakfast is a Bucks Fizz.

I agree that xmas dinner and pudding is very filling. We just nibble on any chocolate we have been given before lunch. Also although we both cook, I want to enjoy the day and not spend the whole day cooking.

We don't have a big cooked breakfast on Christmas day, I don't think it's ever occurred to us to do so.

We all go to my mums and if we are all there early we might have bacon baguettes but now she cooks a bacon joint on Xmas eve and the leftovers of that is put on the table with bread and butter and piccalilli for people to help themselves to. Along with the tubs of celebrations/roses/quality street etc.

When I moved in with my then BF, we started a tradition of pig in blanket sandwiches for Christmas Day breakfast. You can't beat it