Breakfast in bed, yes or no?

Occasionally a cuppa in bed…. Breakfast or a midnight snack very very occasionally. The Grandchildren come for a sleepover… both boys get drinks and breakfast in bed courtesy of Grandad 😂🤣😂

No breakfast in bed, not even a biscuit, but for every day for over 40 years my dh brought me a cuppa in bed every morning. When he could no longer manage to carry the tray with cups and saucers on it up the stairs, we resorted to mugs which he could hold in one hand whilst using the other hand on the stair rail! Then, gradually, dementia took over and our morning roles were reversed! Never fancied breakfast in bed as I like to be up for at least an hour before eating!

It’s a no from me. I might have a cup of tea very occasionally.
I was bedridden during Covid for over two weeks, although I hardly ate at all, I still cannot abide the idea of crumbs (or drips! I’m messy) getting in my sheets.

Yes, what a lovely treat 🥞

Never mind the grease and crumbs if the house is full of servants. By bedtime the sheets will be spotless

Breakfast in bed, only if I am ill.

My husband used to bring me a mug of tea every morning, but then I went off tea so that was that! He's not a cook though he could make me boiled eggs I suppose, but unless it was something nicer than that I don't think I'd really be interested. He's happy with instant coffee (which I don't like) so has never found out how to work the coffee machine.
I think I'd enjoy a proper full English in bed, followed by a lovely croisant if there was anybody here who could make it for me, together with a nice fresh coffee.

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Only one day a year when we all have breakfast in bed - sometimes all of us in the master and sometimes in our own rooms -

Good Friday Hot Cross Buns (with a cup of tea).

A tradition followed on from parents and grandparents and a lovely start to the Easter weekend.

(Hubby brings me up a glass of orange juice and a couple of biccies all other mornings throughout the year. Lucky me!)

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Don’t think I’ve ever had breakfast in bed. A cup of tea is ok, but I couldn’t eat in bed.

Too right i do. Only a bowl cereal cup tea before i up every day as DH up before me every dayand as i am a very bad person to be around mornings it suits us ..

Like BlueBelle I associated any meal in bed with being ill. I spent an entire month in bed, aged 7, quite seriously ill, repeated the experience at the same time the following year, and to cap it all, my sister and I caught an ordinary childhood ailment the year after that and spent six weeks in bed.

So, I never eat in bed, unless I am too ill to get out of it, nor do I ever eat breakfast in nightie and dressing gown, which reminds me all to clearly of the first fortnight of being allowed out of bed as a child.

I am washed, fully dressed with brushed teeth and hair before sitting down to breakfast, irrespective of whether I am going out or staying at home all day.

Baroness G was very much a person of the out-dated upper echelons! For most of that class life didn’t ( doesn’t) start til about 4pm anyway…. Huge trays with side panels accommodated the foods, etc.
However I agree that a full breakfast in bed is reminiscent of being ill, and tho I am a night owl and stay in bed in the mornings a LOT, ( due to a form of insomnia ) I still enjoy a breakfast downstairs after dressing.
Also living on my own I’d have to get up to make my breakfast anyway…so what’s the point of staying in bed 😏

My DH used to bring me porridge, orange juice, coffee and the paper and my phone every Saturday, until he had his severe stroke in February. Now as soon as he is awake he wants to get up, which can take me up to an hour and a half if he wants a shower and to sit on the loo! Babs Primrose and FGT thinking of you.

no breakfast in bed but sometimes at night me and my OH take some biscuits to bed to munch while we read. Bed often needs a sweep out before going to sleep!

I used to and loved it when grandson brought it and knocked the door calling “room service”! I don’t anymore but might if I was poorly.

I am obviously the princess and the pea type!! Enjoy having breakfast in bed, served by someone who can set the room up as I like etc. Whilst my lovely husband was alive, he usually brought me my most important coffee of the day. Beautifully made fresh coffee served in , of course, my china mug - mug as I need more than you would get in a cup - . Breakfast would vary from weetabix, to fruit salad to porridge depending on time of year etc. Since he died , unless I am staying away with family or friends it is down to me to be the server and the eater both! But these days my mornings vary. While I am waking at horrible o clock with pain, I usually just have water until at the earliest 6am, as I do not want my body to get used to coffee at 4am and then when (if ever!!) I feel better and do not wake early my body insists on the 4am coffee. So these days I restart my morning with my precious coffee. On a horrible day I struggle to do anything but have a goal to have my lovely coffee, which I love the smell of too , ready so that I can then either sit in bed and enjoy my J S Bach music just before 7am and mentally decide that the day has just started and ignore the previous painfilled hours, or more often these days, am sat reading gransnet and chatting and commenting on the morning post.Then I have to judge when it is safe and sensible to get into the shower and begin my day. Oh yes if I won the lottery, I would have a bed with beautiful freshly ironed linen sheets every night, a brilliant service of wonderful coffee in good time for the Bach and in the summer curtains opened to allow me to look at the morning, and on horrible days in winter , curtains firmly shut, room heated to pleasant level and lots of lovely fluffy towels ready for my shower as and when. Ah a nice thought, quoth she , thinking of shutting out the night and planning on cooking something for dinner!!

Breakfast in bed could be very romatic in the right circumstances.

Just imagine: Eggs Benedict with smoked salmon or French toast with fresh strawberries and a gorgeous cup of café ?

Everyone has their viewpoints !!

Have a nice evening.

Interesting that it was only the married women who got this treat! Lady G clearly understood the value of a bit of time to ‘herself’ in the morning.

I have never had much appetite for breakfast, but just occasionally love tea and toast in bed, on a tray (plus Buck’s Fizz if the occasion warrants the extravagance!). Good bread, butter and marmalade. And a paper preferably. Even if I have to make it!

As long as it’s not too early I like a room service breakfast too - I don’t really like hotel/B&B breakfast rooms. Not a natural morning person.

long time habit of breakfast in bed, only warm place on a cold morning.... just tea and toast.

My husband will bring me breakfast in bed quite often and why not? It’s rather nice to be spoilt every now and again.

My wonderful husband has offered me breakfast in bed on numerous occasions but I don’t want it, I wouldn’t be able to get comfortable when eating it and I would get crumbs in the bed
A cup of tea then a latte is enough for me in the morning, when I get up hubby has my tea ready I know I’m very lucky

Breakfast in bed? No thanks. Breadfast in dressing gown? yes please.

I love breakfast n bed! I get it myself though…and take it back to bed. I’ve done this for years and years, even when I was working. It feels like a gentler way of starting the day!

I was born and bred in South Africa. My dad always brought all 6 of us a cup of coffee and a rusk in bed. A tradition that we still honour, the only difference being herbal tea instead of coffee. A tin of home baked buttermilk rusks is beside the bed. Whoever is awake first, brings the tea to the bed.

I have Meniere's Disease and after a period of 48 hours or so of vomiting I would occasionally have a round of toast in bed to help settle my stomach. Otherwise, no thanks, up and at 'em.