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 and / or sausage butties and bucks fizz here for us , though DH being a greedy guts would usually.add an egg, extra sausage and black pudding to his bap!

I love a full English breakfast usually, but not on Christmas Day with a huge Christmas dinner to eat at around 3pm or 4pm .

I will scoff a few chocolates from the box through out the morning though to keep me going !

"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!"

I could eat for sport but that is a LOT of food.

We take it in turns to choose breakfast which is eaten before 9am. Sometimes it's a full English but usually not and then we have a lovely long walk. Then canapes and drinks at 1.30 and dinner at 3pm. Pudding at 4.30pm ish. Then presents. Then a buffet at 7.30pm with cold meat, breads, cheeses, crackers, hot mince pies and sausage rolls, nibbles etc. Different guests for different bits. I love it.

We don’t have Christmas dinner until the evening but I still wouldn’t want a full English before all that meat, chipolatas, bacon rolls, sausage meat stuffing later.

Revolting!

I've never had a full English on Christmas morning. It's usually something like pigs in blanket sandwiches or smoked salmon and cream cheese bagels, always with lots and lots of Bailey's coffee.. 😏

We have scrambled egg salmon and toast about 11 and Christmas Dinner about 5

Bit of toast, two rashers grilled bacon, black pudding and beans. It’s not huge, not unhealthy and we eat a full Christmas dinner at 3.

Loving that someone could be full all day from a sausage sandwich...

Chocolate for breakfast about 9am! Not big breakfasts here .. but then we have starters at 12pm, Xmas lunch at 2pm and pudding at 4pm.
Been doing the staggered food for years now and love it.

We all sit and play games and eat from 12pm till midnight. Love it !

We don’t have Christmas dinner until the evening but I still wouldn’t want a full English before all that meat, chipolatas, bacon rolls, sausage meat stuffing later

Revolting!

I don’t eat tons of meat, chipolatas, bacon rolls and sausage meat stuffing later though. That sounds revolting to me!

I have no issue with the volume of food if having a full English and Christmas dinner, it's just the duplication. If I had sausage and bacon then my pigs in blankets and sausage meat stuffing would be too samey.

I couldn't manage it any day. never mind December 25th.

If I had my way it would be a full English breakfast or a roast. Not both. I don’t like overeating because it’s a celebration (Christmas). That just encourages me to overeat the next day, and the day after that etc etc.

We don’t have pigs in blankets or sausage meat stuffing generally. Last year we had venison wellington, roast potatoes, braised red cabbage and a couple of other veg side dishes. Maybe if we had the traditional turkey/stuffing etc a full English breakfast would be lwas appealing.

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We have bacon sandwiches, but don’t eat the Christmas “lunch” until 5. Usually some crisps and canapé type things around 3.

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

Say what now? Roast and all associated trimmings for lunch every Sunday in my house, hardly unusual.

Christmas breakfast is usually croissants, cinnamon rolls, Buck’s Fizz. Christmas lunch is either crispy roast duck pancakes or barbecue with salads and coleslaw. Then we graze on leftovers for the rest of the day.

The first year we moved here I did the full roast turkey meal for lunch and it was too hot to eat! That said, we’ve acclimatised a bit and I do roasts every week throughout the summer, I might give it another go this year.

We have lunch about 2.30, we tend to just have a roll and square sausage in the morning. With Buck's Fizz obvs!

Early morning run enforced by my husband where I pant with my lungs on fire and people round here cheerily greet each other when on all the other days of the year they ignore each other.

Get home about 10am and eat caviar and blinis and foie gras with toasted brioche and vodka and/or champagne.

More drinking while chopping veg. Roast pork, chicken or beef around 4pm followed by my husband's special tarte tatin that he makes with full drama and serves with double cream.

Sandwiches at about 8pm whether we want them or not. Fall asleep to the traditional Xmas movie of The Omen or Life of Brian before midnight.

Next day is Boxing Day bubble and squeak with cold meat and HP sauce which is my favourite and would be my death row meal.

I hate the twee term 'pigs in blankets'. They are sausages wrapped in bacon.

Other than that I really like them

We never have Christmas dinner at lunch time ever. Same on a Sunday. It isn't really done where I'm from in Scotland.

So the kids are usually up about 7/8 and dh will do croissants or pancakes. Then about ten ish I will do a cooked breakfast then nothing until dinner at about 5/6. Th makes that.

I must be missing out because I don't think I've never had the massive Christmas dinner people on here seem to have. It's usually just a bit of turkey, some veg, potatoes and gravy. I don't think I've ever actually eaten a sausage in bacon. So I could quite easily eat a decent breakfast hours before that, especially as we always had our dinner quite late as well. (Never at lunchtime!)

...though I'm not sure how grazing on chocolate, crisps and alcohol all day before your dinner is any better than just eating a bloody breakfast!

Ha ha this was the subject of much debate after we got married - DH family always did the full fry followed by lunch at one... I couldn’t cope! So it’s light cereal breakfast now (and chocolate) and everyone starving by 3pm lunch/dinner

No, that's for Boxing Day here. We often drive 250 miles on Christmas Day so we do have breakfast, but bacon rolls for speed and portability (can be eaten whilst walking dog pre drive!)

We have Parma ham and poached eggs on focaccia with Buck's Fizz.

I am loving the Brie and bacon croissants though may have that, though not this year as I'm pregnant so no brie for me!

SoyDora: it is! (revolting).

I am now jealous of the venison wellington Christmas dinner.

But will still pass on a full English fry up. Not on a day when you are bound to eat mince pies, choc, some sort of dessert or pudding, more choc, and then a big dinner.

Slice of pannetone , clementines, good coffee.

Lunch: bit if smoked salmon / trout / salad / mince pies

Massive dinner.