Late Gifts And Breakfasts
By Kandase
@Kandae11 (53679)
December 13, 2022 1:28pm CST
Have you ever been really late with Christmas shopping and -gift buying in particular?.
Over the years l can recall a number of times when l have hurried out on Christmas morning to grab last minute gifts.
I'll try my best not to let it happen this year. I want to be home Christmas morning enjoying a traditional breakfast of pepperpot, homemade bread and hot chocolate.
Do you have a traditional breakfast for Christmas morning?
Image :pepperpot and homemade bread
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@Vikingswest1 (6305)
• United States
13 Dec 22
I'm doing really well this year. I have almost started shopping.
In past years, I was always done with shopping by now but the past few years have been different.
Once the kids moved out, it just hasn't been the same. Then Covid robbed away two years. I will be a late shopper again this year :(
The only thing that's the same is the food.
Your pepperpot and bread has made me hungry :)
We don't really have a traditional breakfast but the afternoon dinner has all the trimmings.
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@Vikingswest1 (6305)
• United States
13 Dec 22
@Kandae11
I'm up by 5am Christmas Day to start preparing. Honest?
I usually have toast, coffee and a couple of the hard boiled eggs that I make for deviled eggs.
Sometimes gifts aren't opened until after noon. It depends on when my wife gets rolling :)
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@Kandae11 (53679)
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13 Dec 22
@Vikingswest1. When l was a teenager l recall getting up soon after midnight Christmas Eve to peek at my gifts.
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@jobelbojel (34729)
• Philippines
13 Dec 22
I hope you get that done. I have not started mine. I don't know when but planning to do it today after work.
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@jobelbojel (34729)
• Philippines
15 Dec 22
@Kandae11 I realized the days are becoming shorter and shorter. I was out to the mall yesterday but the registers are full of customers lining up
@jobelbojel (34729)
• Philippines
21 Dec 22
@Kandae11 update: tap on my back. I was able to buy gifts for my 2 godchildren. The nephews and niece will be tomorrow. But I am thinking if I am going to give them money so they can buy what they want..
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@RubyHawk (99425)
• Atlanta, Georgia
14 Dec 22
No, I don’t. We have traditional Christmas dinners. Turkey, cornbread dressing, potato salad, green bean casserole, pecan pie, cocoanut cake, caramel sweet potatoes. Cranberry Sauce and more. We used to have dinners at my house but my daughter in law does the dinners at their house now. My other daughter in law helps with the food. They won’t let me do anything.
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@RubyHawk (99425)
• Atlanta, Georgia
14 Dec 22
@Kandae11 Not at all. I’m appreciative that they have taken over. I live in a small apartment now and my son has a large house. My apartment is hardly large enough for everyone to squeeze in and they have plenty of room. It works perfectly.
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@YrNemo (20261)
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31 Dec 22
@Kandae11 My mother is getting older, so all the siblings and children's of the siblings and whoever else, turn up at those family gatherings. Some years, my mother's younger siblings also come with their children and their children... (I often avoid those gatherings, I can't breath with too many tall people around 
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@snowy22315 (170008)
• United States
13 Dec 22
That pepperpot looks good. No traditional breakfast. I might make some kind of breakfast casserole for Christmas morning.
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@snowy22315 (170008)
• United States
13 Dec 22
@Kandae11 It has been a while since I have made one.
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@kaylachan (57710)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
13 Dec 22
No, not really. I eat the same things usually every morning.
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@kaylachan (57710)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
13 Dec 22
@Kandae11 Sometimes that's not such a bad thing.
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@Juliaacv (48446)
• Canada
13 Dec 22
I can remember going out on the 24th in years gone by to pick up stocking stuffers, mittens for our son and things like that. But this year I should be all set.
Christmas morning we will have our son and his family in here.
We will enjoy a nice big brunch together and exchange gifts, it will be alot of fun watching the babies open their gifts.
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@Marilynda1225 (79769)
• United States
14 Dec 22
I don't have a traditional Christmas breakfast mostly because the whole family gathers at my house by noon. Usually the morning flies by with preparations but I always look forward to having the whole family together.
I'm glad you have a breakfast you look forward to on Christmas morning
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@Marilynda1225 (79769)
• United States
15 Dec 22
@Kandae11 we do a small Christmas Eve but a big day on Christmas filled with all sorts of food and desserts we don't have at other times during the year
@Kandae11 (53679)
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13 Dec 22
I wish l were in that position. Usually pharmacys are open - those have very nice gift sections. Then every main town has what is called GrandMarket. It starts Christmas eve night and goes until mid morning Christmas Day. Certain streets are blocked off and vendors are out selling all kinds of stuff including cooked food, fruits and vegetables.
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@Deepizzaguy (94568)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
13 Dec 22
As of now my relatives have finished their Christmas shopping since money is tight at this time to buy more items.
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@oahuwriter (26780)
• United States
14 Dec 22
No not at Christmas, but we Japanese have lots of traditions for New Years, like rice cake soup, ozoni on New Years Day.
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@oahuwriter (26780)
• United States
14 Dec 22
@Kandae11
Basically, soy sauce soup with rice cakes and people add their favorite fixings into soup. I like to add shiitake mushrooms, seaweed, mizuna if I can find a small bunch.
@arunima25 (85328)
• Bangalore, India
14 Dec 22
Better to get all things done in time, so that you don't have last minute rush on the festival day. Your Christmas breakfast sounds delicious and you need to relish it with a peaceful mind.
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@ptrikha_2 (45501)
• India
15 Dec 22
Christmas is not a very main festival here.
However due to our strong and unique cultural ethos and effects of globalisation, Christmas is a major shopping and glitz festival.
A lot of events take place in schools and in Residential societies. Retailers offer huge discounts sometimes, although the genuineness is debatable.
So no traditional breakfast as such.
Yet, we do bring some Plum cakes or Pastries and Sandwiches/Chips and have them with Tea or as a Dinner.
I hope that you have an enjoyable and relaxed Christmas this time and not in a hurry.
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@RebeccasFarm (86764)
• United States
13 Dec 22
Yes usually we used to have (not now) the tasty cookies for breakfast that my Nana made. Sicilian and not too sweet.
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@RebeccasFarm (86764)
• United States
13 Dec 22
@Kandae11 They were very nice. Each year looked forward to them.
@DaddyEvil (137142)
• United States
13 Dec 22
No. Our traditional meal is supposed to be lunch or supper. Since it is just Pretty and I again this year, I'll cook the turkey and veggies early in the morning and we'll snack on them, take a nap, snack again, take a nap... etc.
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@andriaperry (116860)
• Anniston, Alabama
14 Dec 22
I'm not shopping this year. I don't want gifts either.
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@sathviksouvik (17949)
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16 Dec 22
the food is too good. It is even brilliant because you made it. Merry christmas happy new year
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@Beestring (13322)
• Hong Kong
14 Dec 22
No, no special breakfast for Christmas morning. We do have traditional breakfast for Chinese New Year.
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