Xmas breakfast??

[Nicos]

Having just read Flum's traditional breakfast of scrambled egg, smoked salmon and fizz ( yum)....I just wondered if other peeps have a traditional breakfast??
We always have croissant,pain au chocolat ,pain au raisin and mincepies with coffee and tea, followed by champagne whilst opening the pressies- they were hard to find 25 yrs ago ( well not the mince pies obviously!) .
Maybe now we are in France, we should have tea and real toast or a bacon and sausage buttie??
(We eat the main meal at 4pm so it's served by candlelight)

[zazen999]

Yup.

Pancakes.

I will sometimes sneak a vege bacon buttie in...and we have a late pancake feast when the little one turns up about midday [which is the correct time for brekkie on xmas day].

Main meal is vege chilli and the trimmings [nachos, sour cream, jalapenos, guac etc] around 5-6pm. Lashings of tea and coffee throughout - plus my special choccie bikkies. I'll post the recipe as its the easiest thing to make ever.

[smallblueplanet]

Champagne.

[lynda66]

bacon butties ...... on warbies bread ...... with real butter and a cuppa tea.

[jackie j]

Breakfast !!!! I dont have time for breakfast. Lunch served at 1 ish then after lunch we open prezzies kids only open their stockings on waking but not before 7am.

[lynda66]

we don't have a set time for lunch ...... we just eat crap all day lol

[nelliegemini]

we don't have a set time for lunch ...... we just eat crap all day lol

Years ago when my parents were staying with us, we had such an alcohol fuelled brekkie (always smoked salmon and scrambles with bucks fizz) and present opening that mum fell asleep. When she woke up at about 2pm we told her it had been a lovely day and it was time for bed. She got halfway upstairs before she realised:

a) it was still daylight, and
b) she hadn't had lunch yet (well I was finally about ready to serve).

Happy days ..

[FionaH]

I used to start the day with champagne, these days its orange juice and toast

[shirlthegirl43]

Bacon and egg butties here. I like the idea of fizzy for brekkies so might just try that this year if I can find some cheap enough!

[janeyo]

I have to have a baileys while opening the pressies, OH has a whisky in his coffee (helps with the madness of the children being on the ceiling with excitment), I also drink mulled wine til the guests come (are you sensing an alcohol theme here lol), last year there was none left when my dad got here and he was most miffed lol.

Normally have a normal brekkie of toast and boiled eggs or something eay, but as we are not having our dinner til the eveing this year I may get stuff for a cooked brekkie or some pain au chocolats or something like that.

Remind me or I will forget!

janeyo - OH normally starts on the liqueur chocs as soon as he opens them (if he gets any)

[T-lady]

We're with Flum on this one and go the scrambled eggs / salmon route. This year'll be extra special as it's the first one where we'll be using eggs from our own chickens. And of course the only thing to go with it is champagne - apart from more champagne!

The other thing set out from brekkie time is a big 'party susan' thing with different crisps, nuts, twiglets etc. This drove the Mother-in-Law crazy first time she saw it - "it's so unhealthy" - yeah, like that's something you're worrying about on Christmas Day!

[rustylady]

Buck's Fizz to start the day, probably toast, cereal or something light to line the stomach. Then get on with preparing Xmas Dinner (server around 5 pm) with nibbles (sausage rolls etc in between). Worst year ever was when we couldn't get the stopper out of the fizz, and I had to drill it out!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[HeyWayne]

LadyWayne likes to tuck into the selection box first thing. I'll probably tuck into some toast, most likely with Marmite on it.

[bluemoon]

We do the huge English fry-up. It's the only day of the year that we do it and was a necessity when the kids were little, up at 5am and unlikely to see Christmas dinner much before 5pm due to my mum feeding most of a large extended family on the day and needing a turkey the size of an ostrich. We'd have been starving if we hadn't, well either that or they'd have been forced to eat the entire contents of their selection boxes. Now it's traditional, even though we don't go to Mum's and lunch is ready much earlier.

[Lizzy]

We always like smoked salmon and scrambled egg as well, must try with bubbly this year, sound good.