Christmas breakast

[Gemini]

Do you have any breakfast traditions on Christmas Day?
Growing up we never did, we just had cereal, porridge or toast as on any other day.

When I had my own children and they grew older we started to always have scrambled eggs with smoked salmon on bagels, with Bucks Fizz (orange juice for the children!) Very nice it was too, but it did make me slightly tired (the Bucks Fizz I mean!)
I introduced this to my present OH, who liked it too. However, we have ditched the bagels for toast, and just have orange juice. I have to drive over to my mums a couple of hours later, so no alcohol apart from small glass of wine with dinner, until the evening when I have driven mum home.
We enjoy our breakfast. It feels bit special but is light, so doesn't fill us up for the main event!

I do kind of miss the Bucks Fizz though. Perhaps I will allow myself a very small one this year!

[Daisy]

Gem - I always used to do Bucks Fizz for breakfast on Christmas Morning, but it would knock OH out for the day, so I reluctantly stopped!

These days, some friends always come round for a drink and exchange of presents after church on Christmas morning, and then we have Bucks Fizz or/and Kir Royale and I think of that as my start to Christmas Day!

[Nanto2girls]

No special breakfast for us on Christmas day. just the usual cereal and toast.Coffee for me,tea for hubby.

[Mimi]

When I was a child it was bacon, sausage etc and when I was married with children ( and dad) , Christmas breakfast was basically the same except there was fresh orange juice along with tea or coffee.
The past few years since there has only been the two of us at breakfast we would just have cereal or toast before going to DS and DIL's for the rest of the day. This year will be completely different as we are going to stay with them Christmas eve , coming home Christmas night. I have no idea what DIL does for breakfast but knowing her it will be a huge spread !

[Oma]

We always had a cooked breakfast on Christmas day and until the grandchildren came along Christmas day the family would come early for breakfast and gift opening
Now we just have our usual breakfast ,well for me, B doesn't often do Breakfast .

[Glammanana]

Since we have been on our own these past few years we have had a breakfast of scrambled eggs and poached salmon for breakfast without the bucks fizz just coffee or tea as OH drives us to DDs at about mid-day for me to start lunch prep he will go to local pub with 2 x eldest DGSs for a pint whilst DD and I get on with lunch for 8 people at 3pm.

[Gemini]

Glamma, do these men who are in the pub while you and DD do the cooking do the washing up afterwards?!

[ZIZI]

Because husband is usually working an early on Christmas Day we don’t have a special breakfast but when the boys were younger I realised that they wanted to be with the girlfriends for Christmas Day and girlfriends prefer to be with their parents so I used to make a special breakfast around 9am which they all. Ame to and then opened presents leaving us around 11to go to girlfriends parents. I used to do things like bread in teeny terracotta pots a d home made preserves, pate etc. One year I made a big fruit salad which I turned into a big fizzing pot with icing sugar and champagne.

When husband is working Christmas Day I usually go to one of the boys where they have open house for breakfast but rarely eat Nything and of course do not partake of Buck’s Fizz as driving.

This year we are going away to a posh hotel so expect to have a big impressive breakfastt on Christmas Day. Then we plan to wrap up and walk to the village church and come back for lunch at 2pm. We were given the choice of noon or 2pm and as we don’t usually eat a big breakfast opted for 2pm so we can do the walk which is about fifteen minutes each way and then relax before stuffing our faces again.

I was upset about not being with the family at Christmas but now I am looking forward to spending some time with husband over Christmas without him having to dash off to a shift or me having to drive to pick him up due to no bus services.

[ZIZI]

Gem one year when I lived in Bath with my son before I met husband and just after I divorced the other thing, I was the nominated cook for Christmas Day. This would have been around 1980/81. I got everything ready for the time agreed. Nobody came. I phoned everybody, no answer. Two hours yes TWO HOURS later they all turned up. All pretty much drunk, all having been to the village pub. There were twelve of us altogether. They ate, got up and left, leaving me to clear up. To make things worse my brother, the heathen, insisted on smothering his lunch with tomato ketchup and I am not talking a little bit, I am talking half a Bruddy bottle. I have never invited any of them since. Yes I know, I do bear a grudge......

[Daisy]

Zizi - this year will be very special, and I'm sure you and OH will enjoy it.

I definitely wouldn't invite those thoughtless selfish people again, and I might have been tempted to empty what was left of the tomato ketchup over your brother's head!! I wonder if they ever realised that they were mean to you.

[Plantaholic]

What a selfish lot Zizi. I think you will enjoy your Christmas in the hotel, everyone will be in party mood and no stress for you.

[Nanto2girls]

Some folk are mean and thoughtless ZIZI. I wonder if they thought about how they are carried on when they came to their senses.

[ZIZI]

Unfortunately ladies it was all my family and I don’t think for a minute they considered what they did was mean. I moved back to London shortly afterwards. I should never have left in the first place if I am honest! Since then I have not spent a Christmas with my family, visited a couple of times around Christmas but not stayed and had lunch or anything. Both parents are gone, two sisters from whom I was estranged (courtesy of my mother) for some years live in Wales and I am now in regular contact and I see them from time to time, brother in Bath who is not that interested in family and one estranged brother who I frankly wouldn’t care if I never saw again sadly.

[Avo]

We go to our next door neighbours house for bacon butties (along with several other neighbours), at about 9 am and then we all get on with our own celebrations.