Pancakes for tea - AIBU or DH?!

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It's Pancake Day on Tuesday! Bloody love Pancake Day.
Although, who's BU?
I think stacks of pancakes for tea on Pancake Day (dinner to the Southerner lot) with loads of different toppings, fruit and fillings is perfectly adequate.
DH thinks that's not a substantial tea, and they're perfectly good as a starter but it's not a main meal for the kids.
Am I unreasonable to think "Shurrup, it's Pancake Day!" and continue to fill us all with pancakes or do you do something else as well?

I think pancakes for dinner is perfectly adequate!

May I humbly suggest the cheese and marmite pancake?

Discovered it 2 years ago - so delicious. Also really quick for those of us who feel pancake- guilt about them/ their offspring only consuming sweet pancakes but don't have the time or inclination to create a big fancy pants savoury pancake dish involving sauces and the oven.

Here we have a quick cheese and 'mite one, then on to the ( giant pile of) sweet ones. Wouldn't want to fill up on a boring normal savoury course first. It is indeed only once a year.

No need for angst about serving a proper tea - can't people just componsate by making sure breakfast and lunch are healthy/ filling options?

we shall be having them alllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll day

fat drop scone-ish ones with maple syrup and bacon for breakfast
some sort of rolled up savoury ham cheesey effort for supper, closely followed by something crepe suzette-a-like for afters

yummmmmer

Yanbu, it's exactly what we do. I love pancakes and it's once a year so who cares? If your DH wants something else he can make it surely?

Zampa its Pancake Day if people don't want to do penance and fast but just want to eat pancakes :o Carnival Tuesday in other Christian countries, not everyone wants to be shriven.

Pancakes were DH's forte, he used to wrap all the foods DC were faddy with in a pancake, sometimes with ketchup and all would be eaten. Especially effective with visiting children with food fads. worked every time. Then finish off with the sugar/syrup/Nutella etc.

We make pancakes for lunch quite often. Roll some up with grated cheese and ham inside, put in the oven for 6-7 mins - delicious!! We all have at least one like that, and then some pancakes with any sweet topping for 'pudding'. Perfectly acceptable dinner, especially for Pancake Day

YANBU to have pancakes for dinner but YABU to go straight into the sweet ones. There are so many main courses you can have by swapping a usual ingredient for pancakes - pancake fajitas/burrito/quesadillas, pancake pizza, pancake hotdogs, pancake lasagne/cannelloni, blinis, or just standard savoury crepes or galetes.

THEN get the Nutella involved!

Normal meal for dinner for us and then pancakes for dessert.

I can't stand pancakes,so my DH makes them for our 5DC and himself,they can all have as many as they want with what ever they want on them.

No pinkhorse - I don't like pancakes either!

The DCs love them, but they are firmly a pudding. So we'll have our normal dinner first, and then I'll make some for the DCs for pudding. They either have them with sugar & lemon juice or some sort of syrup.

I make soup with bread rolls & we have pancakes for pudding.

I'd be frying the bloody things all evening to fill up bottomless pit DS & DH otherwise.

Pinkhorse - I hate them. Crepes too.

One kid is out at a friends who has said they will do them so it's just DD here who will eat them, for pudding - I don't think she could eat enough sweet ones to actually constitute a meal.

Acceptable - it's once a year not every week.

Though we're having a normal tea tomorrow (spaghetti) and pancakes for dessert. I may even crack open my huge tub of Nutella 😁

We have pancakes every week! We even have a special shallow pan and flipper, I cannot toss them despite the practice!

Hot pan is key to successful pancakes.

Am I the only person that hates pancakes?

That be crazy talk.

I just had to laugh at the "just a tiny sprinkle of sugar"! So very mumsnet. Sorry blush whoever posted that!

Ha! So MN. Tiny sprinkle of sugar - I have to practically wrestle the sugar bowl away from mine so they don't tip the entire lot over theirs...

Neither of you are wrong, it depends on taste and appetite.

For small children I think pancakes with fruit available is fine for a one off meal. They can always have toast later.

I don't particularly love sweet food and wouldn't find it a satisfying meal. I'm not even keen on only sweet American style pancakes for breakfast. I prefer a savoury meal followed by one sweet pancake.

I can't imagine my 6 foot teen or husband surviving on only sweet pancakes, an hour later they would be starving with the lack of protein. As someone else said we would be frying all night

We've done a variety of savoury pancakes and salad in the past. I often make this kind of thing
naturalkitchenadventures.com/buckwheat-galette/
I may do wraps tomorrow followed by sweet pancakes.

We always have ham and cheese pancakes followed by fruit/choc etc ones for pud.

The first year I introduced dp to my pancakes only meal he was horrified. Now he'd be horrified if we didn't do it

I have this discussion with DH every year. He is a main course then pancake weirdo.
One year I relinquished and made pansagne (lasagne but with pancakes instead of pasta ) which was lovely and I make it often for dinner but nobody fancied anything else afterwards except DH. So on Shrove Tuesday I just make sweet pancakes and DH buys a macdonalds or something on the way home from work.
Nobody needs any extra food or wakes up at night hungry from a lack of 'proper' dinner either. I often do the kids pancakes for breakfast, they last til lunch.

Ooh bacon and scrambelled eggs and golden syrup on a Pancake... yum yum

We just have pancakes with a variety of fillings (all sweet though). DP just has lemon and sugar on his, I go all out with banana, Nutella, jam, syrup, etc. Which reminds me, I must buy some eggs!

...an hour later they would be starving with the lack of protein.

Milk and egg is protein though.

April if they aren't cooking well the oil probably isn't hot enough. Get it very hot before you pour them in.

We have them for breakfast.