To wonder why on earth people buy ready mixed pancake batter

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When it only takes a minute to mix an egg with some flour and milk?

Pancake Day in England gives me a really good laugh every year.

I am so enjoyed my lunchtime trip to M&S to view their pancake day display selling lemons, eggs, premixed pancake batter, ready made pancakes. :)

The "just add egg & milk" mix is super hilarious - so its flour then! And people buy it at a premium.

Consumer society gone mad mad mad. And it's meant to be all about Lent which is so very ironic.

Takes 15secs to mix up in one bowl and we're ready to go.
You are describing making pancakes with flour, milk & egg too!

Shit. I forgot about pancake day.
Im ill. Can i ask dh to get pancake mix for the dcs?

Amanda if you have a cup of flour, a cup of milk, and an egg you are good to go

I love to bake but even i can see why anyone would buy a ready mix.

No idea whats in the kitchen becool
I havent been downstairs for two days.

But maybe actual ready made pancakes would be easier.

but if you have to add milk and egg then the ready mix is just flour with perhaps some preservative crap thrown in! How is this easier than flour?

Hope you are feeling MUCH better soon.

Don't worry - you can eat pancakes any damn day you want to.

No idea. I am assuming you dont have to add egg, just milk or water.
And dh cooks most of our meals but i am in charge of puddings, snacks, sandwiches and batter based foods (pancakes and yorkshires)

I bought some this lunchtime and i am a bit ashamed. I bought a jif lemon too (again, also a bit ashamed).

To be fair though, the mix I got is just add water!

Well you'd think so. But i bet they've all been banging on about pancakes at toddler group with the (Godsend) childminder.
Thanks

Jif lemon is a glorious product. Real lemons are good for looking pretty in a bowl, for G&T and for when a recipe calls for zest.

I am a very good cook mostly, I make awesome cakes and yummy lasagnes, sauces and curries. But I have reached the age of 45 without cracking how to cook YP batter (it tastes good, especially as I rather like mine to be soggy, but looks vile and often sticks). Nor can I cook pancakes, we just end up with scrambled pancake mix in a pan. I can do lovely drop scones though.
I use frozen onion, because chopping onions hurts my eyes so badly probably because of a lupus-related syndrome.

And if one more judgemental MNer says I am lazy because I use preprepared products to cook dishes that my family would not otherwise get a chance to eat - they can fuck right off.

And if one more judgemental MNer says I am lazy because I use preprepared products to cook dishes that my family would not otherwise get a chance to eat - they can fuck right off.
Hear, hear!

I don't think anyone on this thread is saying using pancake mix is lazy.

Well I think the OP was wasn't she?

I consider myself to be ingenious by opting for ready made pancakes.

No mess, no measuring, no additional washing up, no pans setting off fire alarm, no pancakes on the ceiling, no work at all involved.

Well worth the £1 I paid for 6 pancakes in Sainsbury's (and I got a jif lemon too!)

In my defense I do have a newborn and a toddler and no flour in the cupboard

I can't comprehend people not having the basics of flour and eggs at homeboy general. I mean even without baking often flour is used as a thickener in casseroles/ to make breaded chicken/ fish, as well as the odd birthday cake, Xmas biscuits and pancake day of course. Surely that's min 1kg flour?

We get through about 20 eggs a week through basic boiled eggs breakfast, pancakes, biscuits/ muffins made, frittata for dinner. More if actually baking for an event

Oh I've got flour and eggs at home. I don't use the flour much though, only when baking (which I basically rarely do).

I still bought the ready mix stuff just so I can do it quickly/easily in the 1 hour I have post getting home from work with 2 year old DS round my heels in the kitchen before he needs to be in the bath!

That depends if people cook that sort of stuff though Art The only breaded chicken I have is from Birds Eye and fish is better in batter than bread again from the frozen isle in the supermarket.

Eggs dont get eaten that much in this house. Its just cereal or toast for breakfast here.

I do have that sort of thing in the house though as I do enjoy baking cakes. Still bought ready made pancakes that just needed to go in the microwave though.

Oh and Yorkshire puds are made from scratch, just not pancakes.

I don't use flour to bread my chicken?