What do you have for Christmas breakfast and Boxing Day meal?

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Looking for ideas we usually have full English on Christmas morning but I want to change things up this year and want to know what others have?

Also I’ve never had to make a dinner on Boxing Day and I can’t think what to have... I’ll have the cold meats but what do you usually have with it ? Or do you have something else completely ?

Pannatone and Bucks fizz for breakfast. Not to heavy and leaves leaves plenty of room for christmas dinner(4 courses) . Usually have a buffet Boxing day with people visiting. However, on the 27th we have a big Bubble and Squeak type fry up with all the leftovers from xmas dinner. I look forward to it every year

I buy the frozen bake own pastries for Xmas morning and pancakes if they want them.
Boxing day is generally buffet food and Xmas left overs alllll day lol

Bacon, cheesy scrambled eggs, croissants, cinnamon swirls and panne au chocolate, a help yourself thing with Buck’s Fizz.

Boxing Day,,left overs, maybe a turkey curry.

Eggs benedict this year with something nice to drink. And normally a curry out of the turkey.

Premade croissants to bake in the oven, orange juice, scrambled eggs. I don't like anything too heavy.

St Stephens Day I'd just have leftovers tbh. It's nice to have a day off after all the prep work for Christmas day!

Xmas breakfast croissants and smoked salmon. Boxing dah we normally go to my grandparents for the worst ever buffet then come home and have a cheese board 🙌🏽

On Christmas morning we’re up about 7am and we have our normal breakfast of cereal, fruit and coffee. Around 10 we’ll have pastries - croissants and pain au chocolat. I buy them frozen ready to bake from Sainsbury’s and they take 15-20mins in the oven. DP and I will start drinking champagne, DC will have juice. We sit down to a full roast dinner at 1.

On Boxing Day we have a bacon and egg butty for breakfast, lunch is usually picnic food - sausage rolls, pork pies, quiche, bread rolls and salad, followed by left over Christmas cake, trifle, Yuletide log. Dinner is always shop bought steak pie, chips, peas and gravy. Pudding is either finishing off the earlier puddings or if we fancy a change I always have woodland strudel in the freezer and custard/ice cream.

Christmas day and boxing day is just two days of constant snacking with one massive lunch/dinner in between.

Not a big breakfast. Pain au chocolate or toast and peanut butter is likely. Dh likes a smoked salmon and cream cheese bagel.

Boxing day if I was cooking it would be ham, egg and chips but were seeing PIL so I think a buffet spread is more likely.

Christmas breakfast we usually have something fairly light given how much we will eat later, so maybe muffins with scrambled egg and smoked salmon or poached eggs on "posh" toast.

Boxing Day we usually have ham that I'll have cooked on Christmas Eve, so all I have to do is glaze it and pop in the oven with some jacket potatoes and serve with red cabbage (also made Christmas Eve). Basically after all the cooking on Christmas Day I like to make Boxing Day as stress free as possible.

Other things I've done is salmon Wellington and lamb shanks (again pre-made so I can just put it in the oven).

Christmas breakfast is always bagels topped with scrambled egg and smoked salmon (me) / bacon (DH).

Boxing day dinner is turkey curry. To be specific it's a massively bastardised curry recipe from weight-watchers in the 1980s which involves mixing ground almonds with low fat fromage frais and then stirring that though spiced meat and stock, but mum always made it on boxing day with the turkey leftovers and now, I can't fathom the christmas period without it.

Christmas morning we have chocolate in bed opening stockings then bacon sandwiches on sourdough (local bakery) with cranberry gin fizz around 11am.

Boxing Day is a pyjama day here with games etc and we eat toasted sandwiches with ham, turkey, pigs in blankets, two types of stuffing and Cornish cruncher cheese followed by leftover trifle.

Quality street and bucks fizz 😉

Christmas breakfast is something light like pastries 🥮 Boxing Day we always used to do a roast beef dinner but in recent years I've started to do a curry to change things up.

We have a small cooked breakfast rather than a full English as we have canapes at lunchtime and an early dinner at 6pm eg eggs benedict, pancakes, French toast, scrambled eggs and smoked salmon, whatever we feel like that year, with a fresh fruit salad.

We entertain on Boxing Day and our tradition is roast beef and Yorkshire puddings. Christmas Eve is a baked ham and raclette.

We then have a buffet of the cold meats, canapes (I make extra and freeze), the leftovers from the cheese board, puddings (trifle, Yule log, mince pies, Christmas pudding, cookies and cake) with salad and fresh fruit for lunch every day until New Year. Dinner on those days are things that I have made ahead and frozen eg bouef bourguignon, shepherds pie, coq au vin. I don't do any cooking other than taking things out of the fridge or freezer and putting them in the oven or on a plate for the rest of the year!

It might seem a bit much but our office is closed for that period and it is the only time of the year everyone is home together for a whole week and not working/studying. In normal years, we have guests and family popping in most days but in a relaxed informal way, not like Christmas itself.

We have croissants and buy an allredy prepped fruit salad.

Doesn't take long to prepare and is light ish ready for the day of food ahead

The frozen cook your own danishes for Xmas day breakfast this year, we often have the Xmas shaped couplets but for some reason they are stodgier that normal crumpets so we're swapping for danishes.

Boxing Day is leftovers and buffet type food (pork pie, sausage rolls, quiche).

Sometimes we do a baked Camembert with fresh crusty bread using the part baked baguettes that you finish off at home.

Crumpets with ham and cheese or toasted scones for breakfast. I always over estimate veg for Xmas day so Boxing Day is always Xmas dinner part 2. Everything reheated, gravy from the day before and fresh stuffing . Literally put everything in the oven! It's delicious and far more relaxed than. Xmas day! Plus we're sometimes out all afternoon watching our football team so quick to do when home

Usually we have pastries or toast, nothing huge as I can only eat one big meal a day so save myself for the Turkey, though I’m liking the sound of smoked salmon and scrambled eggs.

Boxing Day is usually cold meats and finger buffet type food.

For breakfast we have pigs in blankets sandwiches - nice bread, nice sausages wrapped in bacon. We also have Buck’s Fizz

For Boxing Day - we have leftovers and visit family but I always make sure I have nice pizzas in the freezer that I can cook up if needed when we get home (and if we don’t have them on Boxing Day they’re there for another day)

Christmas morning it's bagels smoked salmon and cream cheese or Christmas brioche. There's bacon etc if someone wants it but I'm usually busy at the time people get up (late). Boxing Day is cold turkey, baked ham, mash potatoes, bubble and squeak, pickles etc

We have Bucks Fizz, pigs in blankets as kids love so much, bacon, soda bread, pastries. It’s a help yourself to as little or much as you like. The children have already started on chocolate by the time we get to breakfast.
Boxing Day, usually a curry to use up the Turkey.

Breakfast is usually a roll and bacon or a roll and square sausage with proper Glasgow rolls (which I miss so much living up in the Highlands).

Boxing day is usually just snacking and leftovers. I genuinely don't think my mum ever made anything on boxing Day. More of a case of there's the kitchen help yourself.

We like to try different things for breakfast. For years it was dippy eggs, then homemade Kringle, then toasted panettone and this year it'll be homemade cinnamon rolls as I made them a few weeks ago and they were a roaring success. You can make them ready to bake the day before and keep in the fridge.

We eat breakfast about 10 (have teens) and lunch about 3.

Boxing Day is ready to bake bread, cold ham (which is cook on Xmas Eve ) pate, cheeses, sausage rolls, pigs in blankets, salads etc plus mince pies and a fresh pineapple passion fruit and mint fruit salad.

I like making the sausage rolls, mince pies and ham whilst listening to Christmas toons on Christmas Eve.

Christmas breakfast is always pastries, nice fruits and fruit juice (which we never normally buy).

Boxing Day, we always do a big cooked brunch (veggie full English), and supper is normally the left over cheese board, sausage rolls, mince pies and whatever other trays we have laying a round.