Christmas Day breakfast - what do you have?

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Just that really, if you have anything at all in the morning / before the dinner, what is it?

Egg sarnie for myself and bacon sarnie for everyone else!

That was always cooked when I was growing up, so it's just stuck with me!

We have Christmas dinner in the evening so have porridge/croissants for breakfast and smoked salmon sandwiches for lunch.

My ideal would be smoked salmon on thin toast, with a dollop of beetroot horseradish stead. I actually have bacon sandwiches because oh insists that traditional

Chocolate

Toasted panettone and chocolates - with lashings of champagne

Smoked salmon, sausage rolls and gin!

Can't be dealing with cooking on Christmas morning but I'm doing the kids a christmas morning tea party this year. I'm hoping it wil become a tradition and one that we can adapt as they get older.

So, I will probably get myself a nice chrisrmas sandwhich and mini stollen and will do the same for dp. I just hate cooked breakfasts knowing a huge feast is coming later in the day!

Pastries and a glass of Buck's Fizz

I do my enormous ham joint from midnight ish on low Christmas Eve and we have fresh bread and ham sandwiches at about ten ish Christmas morning. Main meal is whenever it's done, usually about half two or three but like to just take our time.

Croissants with ham or bacon and cheese, or cheese & chutney.
Cinnamon buns or nutella pastry whirls.

Bucks fizz for the adults, OJ with lemonade for the smalls.

If we are having the main meal with DP's mum we will be eating at 12 noon on the dot so breakfast must be light. I have chocolate granola. As a special extra I sometimes get some gold-top Jersey milk to go with it, and proper orange juice with bits in.

If anyone else is catering (including me) then the main meal won't be till mid-afternoon or early evening so breakfast must be more substantial. But also can't make too much mess. I sometimes do eggy bread or pancakes, or make something like huevos rancheros, or avocado and poached eggs on toast.

Oh I love the idea of toasted pannatone. The meat eaters in our house love fruit toast with bacon and maple syrup so this would be a nice festive alternative.

Croissants, chocolate and champagne

Usually Buck’s Fizz and croissants.

Usually have Christmas at my parents house and they do bacon, egg and black pudding sandwiches. This year I think we're going to be at home so was planning bake-at-home croissants and pain au Chocolat

Buck’s Fizz and pancakes.

The upside of divorce was being able to reset the Christmas dynamics, so we're now at home for the day and we have time for breakfast. We don't do anything fancy or anything that creates loss of dirty dishes. DD likes those cinnamon rolls in a can you cut and bake or I get Panettone and we have it toasted with Nutella. Nigellas Christmas morning muffins also go down well and can be part prepared the night before.

Half a tub of celebrations and a bottle of prosecco

Crack open the biscuits when opening presents first thing and then have cereal late morning. Xmas dinner is usually 3/4pm.

Pork pie, bread and butter and champagne.

Some combination of:
Croissants and apricot jam
Croissants with ham and cheese
Pain au chocolat
Smoked salmon blinis
Smoked trout pate and blinis
Scrambled egg
Eggs royale
Bucks fizz

Oh and panettone!

Pork pie sliced really thinly on toast....with English mustard.

Smoked salmon variations on a bagel for me, fry up for the parter and bucks fizz

Our Christmas Eve dinner is always a seafood selection - bits of prawn/crab/salmon/squid etc from M&S - so it’s usually leftovers from that. Plus obviously Bucks Fizz (I was pregnant last Christmas and I so missed it, can’t wait for a glass this year!)