What do you have for breakfast Christmas morning?

[bytheMoonlight]

I know its very early to be talking about this, but I am 40+3 wks pg and VERY bored!

DH loves a bacon sandwhich but I would prefer something lighter and less fatty what with all the rich food that will be consumed over the next 24hrs.

Also means one of us is stuck in the kitchen in the morning when I'd prefer us to be in the living room with the presents and dd

I know some people have croissants but how do you mke sure they are fresh, do you buy them Christmas Eve?

Would love suggestions

smoked salmon & scrambly eggs. Lots of coffee, fizz and a fistful of chocolate coins.

Thanks Nickel

What do you do with Pannettone? I can buy one from Lidl but have no idea if I should heat it up, leave it as it is, what to serve with it?

We generally have croissants, pain au chocolate, pain au raisin and bucks fizz/champagne. This year I think I might add bacon rolls to the list as well...

Brioche and/or cook-from-frozen croissants/pains-au-choc

Baileys on CocoPops

(Not really, but one day I WILL try this as it sounds amazing )

Hot cross buns. To remind us that in the midst of life there is death. Or possibly because it's ridiculous that they are already being sold at Christmas. But at some point in the late 1990s it became a family tradition.

Ooooh pancakes - big fluffy American ones, might do those actually...

I like it toasted with butter.

Usually mini quiche lorraines in puff pastry and champagne and OJ. Plus christmas chocolate. Obviously.

Chocolate orange!!

I was so looking forward to Christmas breakfast this year and a nice glass of bubbly. No DH has declared I have to drive as we are going to my parents' house for lunch. Fine he's having cornflakes now.

not sure if they're considered naff, but for those of you wanting croissants, how about the unbaked pilsbury ones?

We normally do american pancakes with maple syrup and crispy bacon. Yum yum.

Home-made muffins and coffee, or scrambled eggs and smoked salmon. The muffins are sometimes eaten while my brother the DC get stuck into opening presents.

Depends where we're having Christmas and who we are with.

Nothing particularly fancy. I spend an awful lot of time in the kitchen over Christmas and eat a ton of food. I don't need to be adding to the workload or my waistline by eating a cooked breakfast on Christmas day.

No booze before 11.30am either .

When we were kids we used to always have sugar puffs for brekkie on Christmas morning which was a big treat. I have to admit that I have kept the tradition going now that I am an adult - sad or what?!

Yes we always had coco pops or crumpets as kids as we weren't allowed them the rest of the year. And orange juice, poor deprived buggers we were :)

Toasted muffins with lots of thick butter generally, followed by Christmas chocolates and washed down with champagne

DH helpfully just suggested I should just buy a jar of nutella as we never buy it

Does he really think we need more chocolate?!

Turkey bacon sandwiches on posh bread with real coffee. We don't normally get breakfast till about 11 so by then we're starving!

I do like croissants though, but Dh's tradition is now firmly entrenched!

Pannetone
and a Lindt chocolate reindeer or two.

Last year I did bacon and egg bagels. Make up a cheese omlette in a smallish pan and fry bacon, toast bagels then sandwich with a slice of the omlette and bacon and a bit of grated cheese. Lush!

So just slice the Pannetone and butter?

I meant slice, toast and butter?

As children we used to have tongue or ham sandwiches eaten around the tree on Christmas day for breakfast. I'm not sure but I suspect it was based on Mum wanting us to have something "solid" on board before we attacked the chocs, and us being too impatient for presents to sit and eat cereal nicely at the table. Cereal in the living room while opening presents was bound to end in spilages while sandwiches are much more friendly for eating on the go.

On various Christmas mornings with just DH (and now DD) we have had bacon sarnies, home made stollen, bagels and scrambled eggs, or home made drop scones. And disappointingly I have found my parents now go for trad cereal and toast for Christmas breakfast :(

Like the idea of pannetone though :)