Cooked Breakfast - to deal with too many people

[Ratherbeaspoonthanafork]

We have been roped into hosting breakfast for a large family get together. I am not a natural hostess. I can do a buffet or a one pot meal. But its DH’s family and too many people for out house and kitchen. Our kitchen area is open plan (but isn’t massive/especially compared to their houses and top of the range really well equipped kitchens), some of his family are likely to gather in the kitchen area (and a couple of them are annoying and likely to really get in the way). I am also menopausal and get very hot, my glasses steam up and I get flustered with timings of cooking bacon and sausage etc.

Some of the group will want a large full English (I am not messing about with that), others like bits and bats, two kids one fussy but loves chocolate, two on diet/health kick will want fruit and yogurt although not sure which type of yogurt?!? Anything else easy that I can serve an prepare in advance?

Wondered if anyone can recommend anything similar (but less bulky) than a hostess trolley where I can get up early and do bacon and sausage (without being under pressure) and before they arrive and keep it warm? Was thinking maybe just do bacon and sausage in rolls, fruit, yogurt, croissants and jams, fruit juice, tea and coffee does that sound ok?

If DH is not well enough to help prep breakfast, his job is to keep MIL out of your hair and your kitchen. Any and all queries and comments from her should be dealt with him or redirected back to him.

Tesco frozen almond croissants are lush. Ditto choc croissants. You need to go to a bigger Tesco for them

DH does bacon,sausage,black pudding (and possibly eggs if there is a hot plate) on the bbq.
you do toast and beans.

I wouldnt be doing anything hot. If your guests don't appreciate the effort you've gone to tough. My menu would be.

Bagels, have with smoked salmon and cream cheese or ham and cheese. Just but the ready sliced cheese.

Pastries, a selection of 3 different maybe

Large fruit salad of Strawberries, blueberries, chopped peach or Nectarine, grapes all mixed together.
Have greek yogurt and add some jam and honey to the table along with maybe some granola and nuts or seeds.

Couple of nice loafs of bread sliced with good butter available. People can spread with jam, cream cheese, add ham etc.

Fruit juice
Coffee
Tea

I would do bacon baps, frittata (veggie), then have rolls, croissants, fruit platter, yogurt (Greek), musli, honey and jams/nutella for the kids to add. Have bread to toast if needed but gauge that at the time. I personally also would offer bagels with salmon, cream cheese and avocado but only because I like them, I also make cranberry and orange bagels using a recipe off the great British bake off. Depends on numbers how much choice

Big bowl of bircher muesli, bowls of blueberries and strawberries, big tray of ham and cheese croissants, tea, coffee and OJ. That is enough.

If no vegetarians ditch the frittata and do sausages.