To think no mum wants 3 iced cakes, 2 slices of bread with eggs, a butter crossant, a smoothie half a kilo of thorntons tomorrow morning

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Lidl marketing have spend all their money on mn sponsorship so skimp on the creative.

The photo shows the portions used in the YouTube video so hardly excessive

I think its a fuck load of food. Just the croissant is 300 cal apparently www.weightlossresources.co.uk/calories-in-food/bakery-products/tesco-croissants.htm

bread is 80 cals a slice. what would the total be of that platter on two plates? close to 1000?

Are you normally obsessed with calories?

It's Mother's Day and I will choose what I eat and don't need food police thank you very much. I will probably have a light breakfast but I am going out for champagne afternoon tea and I imagine I will put away a fair few calories

I would imagine the cakes are for the 2 little girls so they'll give Mum 10 minutes to eat her breakfast maybe?

What really fucks me off is that ad where the little boy (8-ish) is giving orders to his (obviously stupid) dad, and little (5-ish) sister, about how mother's day is going to go.

And they end up buying booze, jammies, slippers, chocolates, a book, some smellies, and a partridge in a pear tree. Totalling around £45!. Fuck that. I would be steaming if that much was spent on me for mother's day. A box of Dairy Box is just fine thanks. (And a card!)

I would vom though if I had all that stuff to eat for breakfast. (That the OP mentioned.)

A bowl of muesli is fine...

So this is going to be a calorie, food police thread? That's what you want

I will eat whatever the hell I want tomorrow as I do everyday without being obsessed with calories thank you. And yes I might have some cake, chocolates, 3 course lunch out but I certainly do not do that every day.

Nobody is making you eat what's in the Lidl advert

I'd be happy with anything as long as my kids quit with their tradition of injuring me on Mothers Day.

My mum is getting the traditional champers and flower stapled to a card.

I love getting breakfast made for me so would be happy with eggs. Food gifts always go down well with me so I'd be happy with chocolates.

I'm getting a very commercial Mother's Day this year, we've never really bothered with it but this is the first year DS (7) has bought into all the advertising and is very excited to nag his dad to go get me buy me flowers, chocolates and prosecco so I'll be very greatful and thankful to him tomorrow.

Well the advert is giving the impression that the children chose the items and tbh that's the sort of thing my youngest would pick for me and I'd be delighted. He sometimes brings me a tray just because he loves me and gives me a drink of juice, a banana, some haribo or whatever sweets he may have (he saves them up in a drawer for when he fancies) and a biscuit because he's 6 and it's what he can reach and what he would like. I hate bananas and haribo but I always make a lovely fuss because he's trying to do something nice.

Oh please... go back to bed OP. You're boring everyone now. Pretend to be asleep and you won't have to eat it, maybe?

Of course it's a calorie / food police thread

Perhaps the OP should eat what she wants and mind her own business about what others do on the day.

I wouldn't thank anyone for prosecco. Awful, overly-sweet, fizzy shite.

Chardonnay is more my cup of tea. (Or should I say 'more my glass of wine?!')

I'll settle for a card and a bottle of gin. But I'm working anyway and my kids will probably forget, despite every single advert on TV being about Mother's Day

It's highly likely that I'll be getting nothing from my sons (because teenagers are at times bloody thoughtless) so I've just bought myself a box of Bakewell tarts and a pack of Eccles cakes.

Well the advert is giving the impression that the children chose the items and tbh that's the sort of thing my youngest would pick for me and I'd be delighted. He sometimes brings me a tray just because he loves me and gives me a drink of juice, a banana, some haribo or whatever sweets he may have (he saves them up in a drawer for when he fancies) and a biscuit because he's 6 and it's what he can reach and what he would like. I hate bananas and haribo but I always make a lovely fuss because he's trying to do something nice.

Wah! Look that is just the loveliest thing .

I'm being taken to the cinema to see beauty and th beast and am hoping for a bottle of Tesco's Salted Caramel Bailey's!

After last years breakfast in bed fail (plain buttered toast) I have put an order in for fresh baked pain au chocolate and I can't wait.

I'd prefer a beef steak. Worrying about calories on one special day is a bit obsessive.

Never give up, Madison.

My teenage sons have "hidden" a bunch of flowers in their bathroom which means they probably have a card somewhere too. (I know this because I have been told not to go in there, plus I saw DS2 arrive home from the library with said flowers 😄).

I have said at least three times this week "it's Mother's Day on Sunday" though. That's my top tip. 😄

Aw! I thought it was sweet. They are proud of themselves for doing something nice for their mum (and they'll probably eat a cake each while snuggled up to her in bed!) I am sure mum will treasure the Lidl watch (even if it might not have been quite what she had in mind!) Plus she got to spend the morning in bed with her laptop while they went shopping and made breakfast - I wouldn't complain!

My best mother's day ever was the year when DH managed to sneak all three dc out of the house without waking me - they went to McDonalds and bought me a bacon and egg muffin. I loved it (the lie in was the best bit!)

Given the last 3 years I've received feck all, I'd be over the moon if I received this! Or a squiggled drawing, or a card or a single daffodil picked from the garden.

Paxillin, steak is the birthday celebratory breakfast in this house.

George I mentioned to my youngest that it was Mother's Day on Sunday, half hint and half in conversation about what I was going to buy for my mother, and he groaned and said "Oh God, when is it?". His brother was going shopping after work, arranged for my husband to pick him up an hour after he was due to finish so he could go and buy me something and then realised he'd left his wallet at home so we picked him up straight from work instead. He's now lying on his bed waiting for me to cook dinner before we take him back to uni.

I'm getting a homemade afternoon tea.

The kids will enjoy hemsrlves making it and I will
Enjoy clearing up afterwards

We made gifts with our children in school. My class made brooches with large safety pins and beads then said why they choose each bead e.g the blue bead is for your beautiful blue eyes. My class thought of better reasons. We laminated the poems and put the brooches on. We also made cards and bunches of flowers so think we got it covered!

Whats wrong with that? The bread and eggs will be scrambled eggs on toast, a butter croissant ( yum, with marmalade and butter just to up the calorie overload) and the 3 cakes you wouldnt have to eat for breakfast, but Id love them with a cup of tea for teatime. A sure way to give your kid a food hangup is for them to buy you something as a treat and then you dont eat it because of the calorie intake and chuck it in the bin. It turns food into good and bad instead of showing them that its fine to eat whatever you like in moderation. A bit of cake and chocolate on Mothers day for example.