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?

"Nothing to add other than to roffle at the usual sanctimonious 'eww bacon and sausage...I'd only ever feed Tarquin the finest hide of a virginal mountain goat washed down with the piss of a thousand nuns' type posts 😂"

Except that most people who don't eat a fry up have said it is because of the mountainous amounts of chocolate, mince pies, chipolatas , and assorted dinners they will eat throughout the day, and want to leave room for .

I googled a Full English - apparently they run from 850 - 1000 cals!

(That isn't why I don't eat one though)

(ooh, a whole choc orange has 925 calories)

Christmas Day is the one day I refuse to even consider calories.

Wow! Only 210 calories in a Lindt Choc Reindeer! That's good news, I usually eat one of those before even getting out of bed on Christmas morning!

snort you made me laugh Pillow

Oh how I love talking and thinking about food, especially Christmas food! I still go home to my parents for Christmas and we never have a cooked breakfast because the huge dinner is served at 2 p.m. However, if we had dinner much later in the day, as lots of people do, I could certainly manage a fry-up in the morning!

On the fascinating subject of what constitutes a cooked breakfast, my perfect fry-up would comprise the following:
Two small sausages or one fat butcher's sausages;
One or two rashers of maple-cured bacon;
Two or three pieces of well spiced white pudding;
Two fried or poached eggs;
One tablespoon of baked beans (which must not come into contact with the eggs);
Onions and mushrooms fried in butter;
Two slices of toasted soft white batch smothered in Kerrygold
A mug of Bewleys tea with milk and two sugars

I'm actually drooling a bit now.

It’s a full Scottish breakfast in our house (square sausage, oatmeal black pudding, tattie scone instead of link sausage or hash browns and a wee bit fruit pudding) but we don’t have dinner until 5pm so that’s it.

"Fall asleep to the traditional Xmas movie of The Omen or Life of Brian before midnight." Ha, limitedperiodonly, I love your traditional Christmas film choices!

Its whatever you would want to do! When I lived at home, my mum would always do salmon and scrambled egg on toast sometimes with a side of mushrooms and tomatoes.
Me my dp and our 2dc we just have cereal or or toast like any other day!

I also don't like to drink anything alcoholic before 2 p.m. in case it interferes with the dinner eating. My delight in this thread and the amount of deep thought it is inspiring in me are a clear indicator of why I am so fat, if it wasn't clear before!

We don't have full english on xmas morning, because otherwise no one would eat their lunch. We have lunch about 1-2pm. I might start a new tradition of full english on xmas eve though.

Christmas morning breakfast is crumpets / croissants / pastries and fruit on a platter on the coffee table and we all help ourselves as wanted / needed while opening presents. Although we usually end up eating chocolate.

My ideal fry up:
2 sausage
2 bacon - not crispy
fried egg with runny yolk to dip sausage in
hash brown (controversial)
toast dripping in butter
massive mug of strong tea

I was in hospital last Christmas morning.
I can confirm you do not get a full English there. Just cold toast and possibly cornflakes. Not even a Christmas napkin
Bahhh humbug

We usually have pigs in blankets and various chocolate items to see us through until Christmas dinner.

I don’t really see the problem though. I eat a cooked breakfast and dinner every day.

We have Buck’s Fizz and French toast. Yummy

Then the works at about 4pm. Only two meals. Lots of snacking

They are not pigs in blankets FFS. They are sausages wrapped in bacon. Resist the Twee

In our house we have procceco and chocolates for breakfast while opening gifts lol

It's christmas, eat everything.

Dinner evening for us

I have never heard of anyone having a full English on Christmas morning! I thought most people were up and snacking on treats and champagne from early on plus prepping Christmas dinner? Turkey takes a long time to cook and the last thing I’d want to do is create a greasy mess in the kitchen just before I need to start prepping Christmas dinner. Some people are off their rocker!

So in our house it’s get up, cuppa (tea/coffee for us, hot chocolate for kids) then present opening then the kids basically eat chocolate (and toast/pain au chocolat if they want), I may eat a croissant or something then we all get showered/dressed.

After that we get the turkey in the oven and crack open the champagne about 10.30-11 while preparing the rest of dinner. We eat some smoked salmon on lovely buttered bread with loads of black pepper at about 11.30/12 and does us till about 2.30 when we sit down for our dinner.

I like the kitchen well cleaned up by the evening and then we just pick at naice ham/turkey/cheese and biscuits around 8pm.

I like to hear how others “do” Christmas Day although of course if you’re doing it very differently to me then you’re doing it wrong

Turkey takes a long time to cook

Not everyone has turkey!

Turkey takes a long time to cook and the last thing I’d want to do is create a greasy mess in the kitchen just before I need to start prepping Christmas dinner.

We prep it all the night before, ready to go in the oven/pots of veg/tatties, then do the fry up and clean up the kitchen ready for round 2

Trying to work out what "preparing dinner entails". All the veg peeling etc gets done night before here and then bunged in the oven at appropriate intervals on the day.

Ah, we like to do a special dinner just the 4 of us on Christmas Eve. Usually put something rich and tasty and wintry in the slow cooker, nice starter, crackers, dessert etc. because Christmas Day is a mad blur of activity with extended family so it’s nice to just be the 4 of us. Probably why I couldn’t stomach a fry up next morning or prep too much for Christmas Day.

By the way who was it said this “Lunch is around 3 after a refreshing walk on the moors. Simple.”

Do your staff cook your Christmas dinner?!

I could easily eat it but I couldn't be bothered with even more cooking! Plus clearing up.

We have scrambled eggs and smoked salmon and crack open the champagne - plenty of room for Christmas lunch!!

Dora: no not everyone has turkey but usually if people have guests over it’s a big joint of meat which needs more cooking than a small chicken which you might do for a normal roast dinner. Or people do something fancier which just takes more faffing over.

You know what IS wrong, even though I’m sure we all agree we all have our own ways to “do Christmas Day right”? and has been said on MN before? Cooking turkey onChristmas Eve (for hours), reheating it next day for lunch (thus drying it out even further) MIL does this. And she does her roast potatoes on a very low heat in pools of fat so they don’t go crispy at all (once I actually thought they were boiled spuds but she asked how many roast potatoes I wanted.)