Complete strangers staying overnight - suggestions for nice things to include in buffet breakfast

[Dorothyredboots]

Never met these people before and would like to make a nice buffet breakfast so they can help themselves. I'd prefer not to cook (we will all have been to a party the night before).
I'm thinking cereals(poss home made granola), OJ, yoghurts, croissants & jam, Make your own toast & marmalade.
I would like to add a few extras - tinned grapefruit? smoked salmon? Muffins (can never get my head round these for brekkie)
Entice me with yummy and inventive suggestions.

I think what you've got on the list sounds fab Don't think you need to add anything else, but if you were, a little fresh fruit maybe? Maybe a bowl of strawberries?

Muffins are yummy and the mix can be made up and kept in fridge to pop in oven in the morning so nice and hot you could do fruit or cheese and bacon which is v nice they cook in the time it takes to say good morning and make vats of coffee, What about cheese and cold meats with your salmon and cream cheese bagels we often have that for brekkie [yes we tend to eat strange foods at strange times] or my really lazy thing to do after a night out was cook a fry the day before put in fridge and reheat in oven [15 min] with baked egg next morning A fruit bowl, waffles pancakes [again made day before and reheated]
Have a great night and hopefully your guests will be nice and do the wash up for you

Found this muffin recipie which I used to make the night before and pop in oven to bake while I had a shower
150 gm flour, 1/2 tsp baking powder, 50 gm caster sugat, 150 ml milk, 2 oz melted butter, 1 egg . Mix all dry ing mix all wet ing combine bake 15 min 200 degree C
flavours 4 oz blueberries//1 tsp cinnamon, 1 chp cooking apple //2 banana's replacehalf white flour with wholemeal

4 crispy grilled rasher of bacom 50 gm corn
//110gm grated cheese, 1 tsp chpd chives
Leave sugar out of mix if savoury

It might look lumpy and curdeled but that is ok

Tinned grapefruit? Noooooooooooooooo. Loads of lovely fresh ones around at the mo. You could do a citrus salad - blood oranges, grapefruit, normal oranges etc. Put a couple of drops of rosewater in it if you like.

If you all have hangovers from the night before, salt is good. If you don't want to cook, I'd go all continental and get some sliced holey cheese and smoked ham, with some freshly ( part baked ) rolls on the side.

Freshly squeezed juice also takes some beating.

Tinned grapefruit? Noooooooooooooooo. Loads of lovely fresh ones around at the mo. You could do a citrus salad - blood oranges, grapefruit, normal oranges etc. Put a couple of drops of rosewater in it if you like.

If you all have hangovers from the night before, salt is good. If you don't want to cook, I'd go all continental and get some sliced holey cheese and smoked ham, with some freshly ( part baked ) rolls on the side.

Freshly squeezed juice also takes some beating.

Tinned grapefruit? Noooooooooooooooo. Loads of lovely fresh ones around at the mo. You could do a citrus salad - blood oranges, grapefruit, normal oranges etc. Put a couple of drops of rosewater in it if you like.

If you all have hangovers from the night before, salt is good. If you don't want to cook, I'd go all continental and get some sliced holey cheese and smoked ham, with some freshly ( part baked ) rolls on the side.

Freshly squeezed juice also takes some beating.

sorry oops malfunction on the old puter

TBH do you think youre going a bit OTT??

We stayed at a strangers house after a wedding, we stayed in their spare room, and we left pretty quick in the morning.
I hated sitting in someone elses kitchen who Id never met making small talk and eating breakfast with them.
We politely declined brekkie then ate on the way home.
I think Id be a bit if theyd made a buffet breakfast for us

Box of cornflakes
Bread and toaster

If I was going to push the boat out I would byt croissants and apricot jam.

Tea and coffee.

Nobody would get any more out of me the morning after a party.

I think GetOrfMoiLand has the right idea,the only thing I'd add is some sliced cheese and butter

I think it is all very nice, but if I stayed with complete strangers I would get up, say thanks etc and get the hell out and buy my own breakfast.

Tbh if the strangers cooked me a breakfast buffet to delight Michael Winner I would think that I had strayed into Stepford.

I think your breakfast sounds just right. And I would be delighted to get breakfast if I stayed the night with people I didn't know: might be the start of a new friendship.

Thanks for the suggestions - I like the bagels idea. To be honest I don't think I'm going OTT and if they decline breakfast there isn't anything in the list that will be wasted. I'm a bit Stepford anyway . Think you are right about the grapefruit so I'll scrap that. I'm going to be in touch with them before they come so I will sound them out in case they don't eat breakfast at all! Was really just thinking ahead/aloud. Oh and the party won't be a total piss up type do anyway so hopefully we won't be hungover. It's my friend's 50th and this person works with her, but lives near work whereas my friend travels. We are going for lunch with said friend on the day after the party and these folk might be staying for that so they might be at mine all morning... Sorry I'm blathering you don't need to know all this.
Thanks for the help.