to just give my DC pancakes with sugar & lemon juice for tea?

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In my defence - they are having a couscous salad for pack lunch at school today with loads of veggies and roast chicken mixed in with it so they will have had one proper meal already.

I had planned to make savoury pancakes with a chicken alfredo filling and then just some sweet ones for after, but I had forgotten that DS has swimming today and I have to go out and pick him up at 5.30pm which is a PITA and means that dinner ends up being rushed rather than leisurely.

They will complain if I make them eat savoury pancakes - not because they are fussy eaters, but because they LOVE sugar & lemon juice crepes and don't get them very often so it's a real treat.

Please tell me IANBU to effectively feed my children dessert for dinner one night of the year.

were doing protein pancakes too...with all the yummy crap sweet stuff on top!!

Protein pancakes?!

They are yummy- take like cake

Well, after reading this thread earlier, I stopped at shop to buy every topping known to man. Thought the kids would be overjoyed to have free reign with chocolate sauce, cream, maple syrup, strawberries, lemon and sugar, and they were!

Then they ate ONE! one fucking pancake each!! I doubled up the recipe, so have a good couple of pints of bloody batter!

What's actually WRONG with them?!

They'll be asking me what's for tea in a minute

Mine had pancakes with sugar, lemon, chocolate spread and ice-cream.

Im now eating mine, just lemon and sugar for me. DH made a huge amount. With 7 of us with big appetites that was a lot of pancakes.

Bastard What's your address? I'm on my way round to save from you all that leftover batter and toppings...

I started Couch to 5k today - that means I can eat even more than usual right?

Well, that's the maple syrup just had it's annual outing!

God yes absolutely laz tuck in!

Dh is on his way home, so no doubt he'll pile into the batter.

I'm on a diet, so ate veggie stir fry while I was cooking pancakes.

I'm not bothering next year, bollocks to it!

I don't like pancakes.

Have cooked them for breakfast and tea for everyone else though! Fruit for breakfast, sugar/jam/syrup for tea. yuk

Ours all had dinner and then sweet pancakes for pudding.I can't stand pancakes(I liked them when I was little)DH makes them for the 5DC.
Ours went for nutella,banana and cream,nutella and strawberries,nutella,lemon and sugar.

I'd bought about 10 different toppings as well.But at least they enjoyed them.

Well between the 4 of them they managed to consume 38 pancakes, a large punnet of strawberries. A large punnet of raspberries. Half a jar of Nutella, a jif lemon thingy and I have no idea how much sugar! Twas a successful dinner all round!

To whoever was asking for the Alfredo pancake recipe I don't have one! I was just planning on making regular crepes (I don't add any sugar to mine so they are savoury anyway), chicken Alfredo (which I don't use a recipe for - just wing it all in and adjust to taste) and then wrap them up like enchiladas with more Parmesan on top. I'm sure it would have been lovely - perhaps I'll do it next week when the desire for sugar and lemon juice is a little less!

We've just had pancakes with lemon and sugar, but we're also following them with burgers that were left over from weekend bbq. The idea is to eat everything that's leftover in the fridge, right? Including the prosecco

38 pancakes for 4 people??

Were they bite sized?

Bastard Toad in the hole for dinner tomorrow then!

On behalf of mumsnet we have risked insulin overload and carried out a survey of the following fillings:
Cheese egg and ham
Cheese and egg
Cheese and ham
Sugar and lemon
Jam and sugar
Nutella
Vanilla haagen daaz and maple syrup
Vanilla haagen daaz nutella and maple syrup

And cab quite categoe state that the last one won.

Umm - nope - definitely not bite sized - all made in an 8inch frying pan I do make them super thin, but yes, my DC are complete gannets!

Have always given them a proper dinner first.
tonight was moussaka followed by I think 4/5 pancakes each. The popular flavour combination tonight was Nutella, squirty cream and strawberries.
They would never be full up unless they had maybe 10-15 pancakes (which would equate to maybe an egg each but a whole shit load more toppings) and even then I imagine it would be a gluttenous sick feeling rather than actually full.

I was going to make crepes today, but my darling generous children have blessed me with a Frankenflu.

So... I am making a curry unless DH wants to make something when he gets home from work.

Don't worry... I am on the other side of the pond, not starving the DCs.

Mine can usually eat infinite pancakes, with no toppings at all (weirdos) but today I gave them tea first, then we all had a couple each - as instructed by Ds. He is an oddball...
Big stack of pancakes is a regular weekend lunch here though, with me cooking them for about an hour

38! Respect. We had 20 between three teenage boys and me and we were full. My boys aren't thin, either. Maybe mine are thicker or something?

It's Pancake Day, of course it's perfectly acceptable to give pancakes for tea, isn't it the law or something?! :-) Mine have had pancakes with jam, chocolate spread and lemon and sugar. (Not all in the same pancake lol). I refuse to feel guilty about this fact. It won't kill them for one single time of the year! They loved it.

YANBU!

I gave mine pancakes for breakfast yesterday.

At school they were given Chinese for lunch (Chinese New Year) and pancakes for pudding.

Two out of four of my children requested pancakes for tea. So those two actually had pancakes 3 times yesterday. I wouldn't generally allow it but it was pancake day! I even put mini marshmallows on the tea-time pancakes and served them with strawberry milkshake.

Does that make you feel better OP?!

I do this - give them a big lunch and then pancakes for dinner, works really well :)