AIBU to Serve Pancakes as Dinner Tonight?

I did cheese and bacon pancakes and lemon and sugar ones

We only have pancakes for tea on Pancake day. Savoury ones followed by sweet ones. This how we did it as kids. My husband thought it was weird 1st pancake day together though as they only had one sweet one for dessert. He loves it now though 😋

A local café here does big crepes filled with brie, bacon and cranberry sauce - they are omg delicious! I'd definitely just do pancakes, when my now-adult sons were younger, they could eat their bodyweight in pancakes!

Pancakes with lemon and sugar for dinner when we were children. If you were hungry afterwards there was toast!

This takes me back to a fab restaurant in San Francisco years ago called The Magic Pan. Crepes were pretty much all they sold with every sort of filling, savoury or sweet, you could imagine. The perfect combination for me was a brocolli soufflé pancake to start then a banana chantilly pancake for dessert.

We just finished dinner. Pancakes with creamy spinach and Boursin filling, followed by pancakes with ice-cream and hot chocolate sauce. 😋😋😋😋😋

Pancakes, cheese and bacon followed by pancakes and dessert bits here

I was starting to think I am a complete glutton as I’ve just had chilli and rice, and am about to have pancakes with lemon and sugar! But then I thought about it, I’ll have maybe 3-4 crepes and there’s no way that would fill me up on their own so I’ll stick with them as dessert 😋

See, DH reckons you have pancakes for pudding on pancake day. AND still have a normal dinner.

I was brought up just having pancakes for dinner. Some with nutella and some with lemon and sugar.

So that's what me and DS have done tonight. Just pancakes! And DH had a normal dinner and 1 pancake for pudding!

I had pale, soggy, lumps as a pud after dinner when I was a child.
Never wanted them since !

Double pancakes for us.

American style fluffy ones with maple syrup bacon and mushrooms first then good old fashioned crepe style with lemon and sugar or Nutella/strawberries/meringue for puds.

Its what pancake day is for.

The only “healthy bit” on my pancakes will be stewed apple.

But that’s only because I love stewed apple, caramel sauce, caramel/fudge pieces and squirty cream!

Its definitely not an attempt at being healthy - rather a coincidence really 🤣

I don't really understand the question tbh, is this not what you are supposed to do on shrove Tuesday? I guess some people have them for breakfast but most people wouldn't have the time

Isn’t that the whole point of pancake day? To have pancakes as dinner?

Same.

My DC are spoilt though as have chocolate spreads, fruit and savory toppings over the years as well as traditional one above.

Today we started with mushrooms and bacon on pancakes then had syrup chocolate spread bannana kiwi fruit and blueberries and some cream.

That’s what we always do on pancake day!

We always did this as kids growing up, I assumed everyone did until I went to uni and my housemates cooked their dinner and THEN made pancakes. We always had a load with lemon and sugar and our final one with ice cream and chocolate sauce!
Now my boyfriend has just lemon and sugar, but I have a couple with blue cheese and salad, and then a couple with M&S blonde spread. Yum! No “proper” meal needed!

Never heard of anyone having pancakes and dinner. Seems like having two dinners to me. I think we just had orange/lemon juice and sugar as children but when my own were growing up I did bacon and maple syrup as well, plus fruit and ice cream for those with staying power. There are lots of less healthy dinners you could have, though probably no one here will admit to serving them.

We did/do this. It’s one meal, and it’s fun! Pancakes are really filling!

People of my era will remember the 'Little Black Sambo' book when after the tigers had chased each other around a tree & turned themselves into butter his mother gave him a huge plate of pancakes. I always wanted a huge plate of pancakes like that & every Shrove Tuesday that's exactly what my DCs had. I'd make a pile of them, kept warm over a pan of boiling water. We'd have them with cheese & tomato to start with & then lemon & honey - YUM. 😍

We normally do that! This year we’re having chicken burgers too, as I can’t be arsed to make enough pancakes to be filling as the only thing. So we’ll have a burger then a pancake or two with fillings.

I don’t think the copious quantities of sugar/nutella that always got eaten in my house could be described as healthy! They had free access to the fruit bowl too though - and we usually combined it all with a glass of milk or a milky hot chocolate.

Yep. Pancakes for dinner, hold the healthy stuff. It’s one day a year. No fun day started with a salad.

If anyone is hungry later, they can have cereal.

More than fine! It’s what my mum always did when we were growing up. Not everyone in this house likes pancakes (I know) so I usually do a small meal for tea and the pancakes as dessert. Tea tonight was a bowl of pasta pomodoro but sometimes I’ll do eg hot dogs or jacket potato.