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?

some of the "lighter" breakfast options here are pretty full on and calorific though! Eggs Benedict, Cream Cheese, Bacon, Croissants etc!

we do biggish breakfast of eggs and bacon with champagne then we eat a late meal at around 3.30.

Depends what time Christmas dinner is. Everyone eats it at different times. I have made it for 5-6pm some years and 1-2pm other years. If the latter, I agree I wouldn’t have space for a Full English but the former seems fine.

Barbayagar our breakfast is 2 rashers of bacon, 1 sausage, 3 small/2 large hash browns and beans.
Our Christmas dinner isn't over extravagant either - a chook or duck, a few roast potatoes & parsnips, broccoli, carrot, a couple of Yorkshire puddings if my husband can be bothered and gravy.
We also share all the cooking so it's not too hard.

For me a full English would be eggs (2 of, fried or poached), bacon, sausage, black pudding, tomato (grilled or fried). DH would add hash brown and/or fried slice and beans and we sometimes have mushrooms or bubble and squeak too. That would then be my big meal of the day. I honestly don’t have room for more than one big meal a day....

I couldn’t manage a full English and a Christmas dinner!!
We usually have croissants and Christmas chocs that see us through until dinner, which is usually around 2/3ish.

Christmas dinner is duck or three bird roast, roast potatoes, carrots, sprouts, cauliflower and brocolli cheese, stuffing, bacon wrapped chipolatas, Yorkshire pudding, gravy.

No room for Christmas pudding so we have that on St Stephens day.

Ooh poached eggs salmon and hollondaise on a muffin for our breakfast with some fizz! So good.

We have full English at about 9 then Christmas Dinner about 5ish. There is no problem despite a certain amount of chocolate consumption in between!

Bacon butties for breakfast at 8/9ish then Christmas dinner at 1:30pm. Buffet for tea. But now we've got DS (and we don't have extended family for Christmas anymore) it'll probably be bacon butties/sausages/cereal for brekkie. Cheese on toast at midday-ish and then Christmas dinner at about half five.

I agree, I couldn’t eat all that & then have Xmas dinner a few hours later.

We have smoked salmon & scrambled eggs for Xmas breakfast. It’s delicious & we always say we should have it more often.

We have our Christmas dinner around 6/7pm so could manage a full English. We are having our Christmas dinner on Christmas Eve this year though and just having party food and nice bread, cheese etc on the day itself

I agree, I couldn’t eat all that & then have Xmas dinner a few hours later

We don’t have Xmas dinner a few hours later. We have it around 8 hours after our breakfast.

Don't bother with breakfast really and Xmas Day is same as usual. If you're going to do one, why don't you do it on the morning of Boxing Day instead?

The satsuma from the toe of the stocking is normal here. I like to go for a run on Christmas morning when the streets are quiet so a large breakfast would be a bad idea.

This year we are planning to have a full English and then lunch with the IL's at 1.30pm. Some might consider this to be very greedy but they have never eaten my MIL's Christmas lunch, it is served on side plates and wine is poured into sherry glasses. Hopefully a proper fry up in the morning will tide DH and DC through until we get home. HO HO HO!

We have scrambled egg, with smoked salmon and bucks fizz , hoping Dc1 arrives on time so I don't have to skip the fizz!

Always chocolate for breakfast here and Christmas Dinner around 2.

My usual breakfast on Christmas Day is home made gingerbread biscuits and chocolates from the tree!

I’ve never had a full English on Christmas Day. Chocolate first thing, smoked salmon, scrambled eggs and croissants about 10 then champagne, grazing and more chocolate until the big lunch about 3 or 4.

Couldn’t manage a big fry up & a big lunch. I have quite a small appetite generally though. Christmas Day breakfast is something like smoked salmon bagels or pastries warmed in the oven. We aim for lunch at 1.30 then in the evening have a lovely feast of cold meat, stuffing, roasties, posh cheeses, pickle etc or make sarnies with the meat etc. Oh & cold bread sauce! All so yummy!

Too much for me but what's weird about having a roast?!

In which land is Christmas dinner your midday meal?

We have a fry up (or assorted pastries) and then Christmas dinner mid to late afternoon.

Obviously the goal is to eat every 45 minutes though

Couldn’t manage a big fry up & a big lunch. I have quite a small appetite generally though. Christmas Day breakfast is something like smoked salmon bagels or pastries warmed in the oven. We aim for lunch at 1.30 then in the evening have a lovely feast of cold meat, stuffing, roasties, posh cheeses, pickle etc or make sarnies with the meat etc. Oh & cold bread sauce! All so yummy!

That sounds like just as much food, if not more than I would eat with my full English breakfast and Christmas dinner

I love this thread! I’m getting all excited for my Christmas Day brekkie and lunch [santa] we have had a breakfast buffet around 9 at my house the last few years as we’ve had in laws round - nice sausages, bacon, hash browns, mushrooms, nice bread for sandwiches, croissants, pastries, fruit, bagels, Buck’s Fizz & OJ. If it’s just me, DP and DS we have bacon, Brie and cranberry sauce bagels.

Christmas roast at my parents at about 3 usually a small starter too.

Cheeseboard and Christmas cake or pudding about 7.

Whatever our drunken selves fancy at about midnight mid board game session - Turkey butties, leftover pigs in blankets, celebrations etc! Don’t eat too much at each ‘meal’ and you can fit in all the best bits of festive foody goodness.

Bacon and tomato sandwich on christmas morning. Then we start dinner about 4pm, or have a starter at 4pm, main about 5ish then pudding whenever.