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When do you eat your pancakes on pancake day?

110 replies

MyBigFatGreekSalad · 03/03/2025 18:13

Do you have them for breakfast or desert?

We usually have them for breakfast before school but DP suggested we eat them for dinner this year which seems wrong to me 😂

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Onelifeonly · 03/03/2025 21:35

Mulledjuice · 03/03/2025 18:18

We always had them for dinner (not as dessert, as the meal).

Same here

Wallabyone · 03/03/2025 21:39

Make the kids the fluffy American type for breakfast before work/school, with fruit and golden syrup. In the evening, we have them after our dinner as pudding. They will be crepes with a host of toppings-we have melted chocolate or Nutella, lemon and sugar, bananas, thick double cream, toasted hazelnuts and strawberries.

I don't think I would ever get full with pancakes, not sweet ones anyway, so for that reason, we have dinner first.

CarpetKnees · 03/03/2025 21:41

We have them for tea.

No time in the morning.

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Rantypanties · 03/03/2025 21:41

I’m a pancake/crepe piggy for dinner! We have tomato, mozzarella and basil to start, garlic mushrooms, cheddar and naice ham for mains then the classic lemon and sugar for dessert. I’m sure I could eat more than 3 but I try to show some self control!!

RabbitsRock · 03/03/2025 21:48

Teatime although we didn’t bother last year for some reason & we’re not having them tomorrow. DD16’s eating is disordered to say the least & she hasn’t even mentioned Pancake Day. DH is making his famous sausage pasta!

Wigtopia · 03/03/2025 21:49

We have them as dessert after dinner!

PurpleThistle7 · 03/03/2025 21:58

We actually did pancake dinner last night as Tuesdays are the day where my kids both have clubs and no one eats at the same time. I'll do them for breakfast tomorrow and enough for leftovers for a snack in their lunch boxes. Can never have enough pancakes :)

I make plain ones and put out loads of toppings - everyone has to have a round of savoury before the sugary craziness.

reluctantbrit · 04/03/2025 07:56

Elpheba · 03/03/2025 19:48

Breakfast and dinner! Sometimes if I’m home I’d have them for lunch too but office day tomorrow so twice will have to suffice.

My office building (5 companies on 8 floors) are giving out free pancakes at lunchtime today.

I wfh thanks to early meetings so I will miss.

WeeklyNameChangeTime · 04/03/2025 08:59

I thought you had to have them for all 3 meals 😂

Picklepower · 04/03/2025 09:31

DD has had them for breakfast and we'll be having them for dinner again later

Damnloginpopup · 04/03/2025 10:03

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When do you eat your pancakes on pancake day?
blackheartsgirl · 04/03/2025 10:29

Main meal around six. We don’t eat them as dessert, none of us eat pudding anyway so having them after a meal means than none of us fancy pancakes. But we have them with the traditional lemon and sugar, strawberries, blue berries, bananas, chocolate spread as well.

Printedword · 04/03/2025 10:32

When we used to bother, it was a teatime snack after school. DH not into puddings, so just for me and DC worked better as a post school treat with a cuppa.

TabbyM · 04/03/2025 10:49

Annual reminder that like many things* "American" pancakes are the normal sort in Scotland and eaten by Scottish people....

Just had a blueberry one for morning tea break

*Hallowe'en, High Schools...

BeyondMyWits · 04/03/2025 11:11

TabbyM · 04/03/2025 10:49

Annual reminder that like many things* "American" pancakes are the normal sort in Scotland and eaten by Scottish people....

Just had a blueberry one for morning tea break

*Hallowe'en, High Schools...

Edited

"Eaten by" some "Scottish people"

For us, pancake day itself was proper big pancakes, lemon (from a lemon shaped plastic thing) and sugar. The rest of the time drop scones were OK.

RaraRachael · 04/03/2025 11:15

TabbyM · 04/03/2025 10:49

Annual reminder that like many things* "American" pancakes are the normal sort in Scotland and eaten by Scottish people....

Just had a blueberry one for morning tea break

*Hallowe'en, High Schools...

Edited

What are "American" pancakes.
I'm Scottish so not sure what kind I make.

Definitely nof with lemon juice 🤮

BrennieGirl · 04/03/2025 11:22

We have them at dinner time around 6 pm. We have them as the main meal with various toppings ie bacon and maple syrup, butter, lemon juice and sugar, and cream, bananas and chocolate.

Talipesmum · 04/03/2025 11:25

AllProperTeaIsTheft · 03/03/2025 19:27

Really? Most people are probably going to work and/or dropping kids off at school. No time for morning pancakes unless they are ready-made ones!

Same! No time for us in the morning. Breakfast happens individually for each person as they whirl through the kitchen, maybe 5 mins having toast or a bowl of cereal, everyone gets their own. Evening time can be fully dedicated to pancakes in all their glory. If shrove Tuesday was Shrove Sunday, we might do for breakfast or lunch. But not on a school / work day.

Nottogetapenny · 04/03/2025 11:26

Dinner, after a light meal.

AnotherHappyCamper · 04/03/2025 11:51

Breakfast didn't happen! So we might have them after dinner.

I make pancakes here and there throughout the year anyway so it's not as if we have to have them today.

BruFord · 04/03/2025 11:53

We’ll have them this evening, the Brufords aren’t morning people, we’re all shuffling around communicating by grunts first thing. 😂.

steelingmyself · 04/03/2025 11:54

We got up slightly earlier to have them for breakfast but then DC complained they'd eaten too many and felt sick on the way to school!

Bbq1 · 04/03/2025 12:20

After tea.

ODFOx · 04/03/2025 12:50

When we had DC at home I started making a stack the night before, separated with baking paper, then stacking them with bolognese sauce and lots of grated cheese. Cover with foil and heat through in the oven until it's hot and all the cheese if melted. Serve in wedges with salad on the side. It's a bit like a 'lasagne cake', and means that you have plenty of time on the big night to make the ones for rolling with lemon and sugar.
Alas there will be no pancakes here tonight as DH isn't keen and it's his turn to cook.

ODFOx · 04/03/2025 12:52

Ignore me! Completely misread the question!