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To not cook pancakes for breakfast?

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user1474894224 · 05/03/2019 07:15

My 7 year old was nearly in tears that mum isn't doing pancakes for breakfast on pancake Day. Am I a selfish cow? (They can have them tomorrow night....tonight is parents evening, swimming, and fitness class). Unless Dad will cook them for the kids later on.....

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Pascha · 05/03/2019 08:12

Mine haven't mentioned it. I think we've all forgotten about pancake Day. They don't much like them anyway so hopefully we can skip it.

PlatypusPie · 05/03/2019 08:13

Pancake Day was a special evening meal for us when I was a child and then I made it the same for my DCs - it was an event, having ham or cheese as the savoury option then lemon, sugar or Nutella. Making far too many, eating far too many and then unable to look a pancake in the eye for a while. !

Having them for breakfast would have spoiled the fun of it, in the rush of morning getting ready and then there would not have been the fun of looking forward to it all day as a special occasion.

borntobequiet · 05/03/2019 08:14

I used only to make pancakes for my kids on the understanding they would give up sweets for Lent. But then I was a bit mean.
They soon learned to make their own.

SaucyJack · 05/03/2019 08:15

Agree with smallassassin.

Doing a big family batch of pancakes with loads of different toppings takes hours here. Certainly not quicker than a bowl of Weetabix before school anywhere in this universe.

We’ll be having ours tonight, but if it’s parents’ evening and you genuinely haven’t got time- then that’s that.

Nothing bad will happen if you wait until tomorrow to have a big sesh with the sugar and squeezy Jif.

Even if you’re Christian, it doesn’t begin to compare to getting birthday presents a day late.

LotsToThinkOf · 05/03/2019 08:15

Well according to Facebook I'm the only parent I know who hasn't made pancakes for breakfast. It didn't occur to me, pancakes are for the evening and we've never had them for breakfast before. YANBU, have them tomorrow night as planned 😊.

MaybeitsMaybelline · 05/03/2019 08:18

It's once a year, you could buy have bought one of those bottles of American pancake mix and just add milk and shake and they take like two minutes in a hot pan. Alternately you can buy them ready made and microwave for 10 seconds.

I can't make crepe pancakes but I can make amazing Yorkshire pudding so I never did, I made the American buttermilk ones or I bought them.

(and GM made them for mine every pancake Tuesday for pussing after their tea).

sailorsdelight · 05/03/2019 08:18

300 mls milk, 2 eggs, but of oil, 100g plain flour. Mix. How hard is that to do after school?? You’ll get 8 or so good pancakes from that. Sugar, lemon or strawberries, banana...

MaybeitsMaybelline · 05/03/2019 08:18

*pudding not pussing

JollyAndBright · 05/03/2019 08:19

DS (12) was upset and a bit stroppy not to have pancakes for breakfast, despite me saying for the last two days it would not be happening.
I never do them for breakfast, mornings are enough of a rush we don’t need the extra faff.

We will have them later after dinner like we always do.

GerryblewuptheER · 05/03/2019 08:19

Even if you’re Christian, it doesn’t begin to compare to getting birthday presents a day late

I dont even see the harm on that tbh.

I dont get the point of getting kids up stupidly early to open presents they have no time to play with , nor trying to squeeze in a cane after a rushed freezer dinner after swimming.

We have been known to do it the weekend before/ after so they can open their presents with us and play with them after and we dont have to rush

They'd rather do these things "properly " where its enjoyable. Not squeezed in and rushed

PiggyPlumPie · 05/03/2019 08:24

Batter takes seconds to make but cooking all the bloody pancakes takes ages!

I will cook them today while everyone is out and reheat later. At least then we get a chance of roughly eating them together. Otherwise the first one is eaten before the second one is cooked?

diddl · 05/03/2019 08:24

Jeez-let your husband do them tonight!

ErictheGuineaPig · 05/03/2019 08:24

I totally use pancake day to make life easier for myself, not harder. So definitely no pancakes for breakfast, I make them for dinner/tea instead to get out of proper cooking. Maybe grab a pack of homemade pancakes instead if you won't have time this evening op?

ErictheGuineaPig · 05/03/2019 08:24

Shop pancakes obvs not homemade!

dementedpixie · 05/03/2019 08:25

I made scotch pancakes. They are a breakfast item here. I don't make or eat the crepe style ones

To not cook pancakes for breakfast?
diddl · 05/03/2019 08:25

A 12yr old getting stroppy about pancakes??!!

Wishiwasincornwall · 05/03/2019 08:25

I've made the batter this morning and it will be chilling in the fridge until they have them tonight. For my two the fun isn't in eating the pancakes it's in watching me struggle to make a decent one, fail to flip them, and hoping the handle falls off the frying pan. My DD then usually takes over and they come out all smugly perfect. Angry

SmiledWithTheRisingSun · 05/03/2019 08:28

Just make them for dinner.

rose789 · 05/03/2019 08:29

I made them this morning for breakfast because dp wouldn’t stop harping on about them. He regretted it when dd ended up covered in maple syrup (including in her hair) which I had smugly said would happen. I took the baby back to bed for a feed and left him to get her ready for school.

mogtheexcellent · 05/03/2019 08:31

We have them for dinner usually. No time in the morning. Not sure if they are serving them at school breakfast club or after school club. DD may well be all pancaked out by dinner time.

Cloudtree · 05/03/2019 08:32

We have pancakes most Tuesday mornings. DH mixes up a double batch on Sunday, we have them for breakfast on Sunday and then the rest of the mixture is used on the Tuesday.

So mine had them this morning (but I didn't even realise it was pancake day! Blush)

SoundofSilence · 05/03/2019 08:33

No chance at all of pancakes for breakfast on a weekday morning, but then again, we don't 'do' pancake day so it isn't expected. I do pancakes for a weekend breakfast about once a fortnight and the kids look forward to it. The youngest will get pancakes with his school lunch today.

WhatHaveIFound · 05/03/2019 08:37

Ready made scotch pancakes here and they were well received. The only time i tried making real ones on Shrove Tuesday, the DC complained they were rubbish!

masktaster · 05/03/2019 08:37

We normally have them for dinner here, savoury then sweet (I rarely had sweet at home as a child as my mother doesn't like sweet pancakes. I survived.)

We weren't going to do them until tomorrow because my partner works 2-10, and is off tomorrow, so it'll be easier then, but I did get a reduced crispy duck pancake kit yesterday, so we will be having pancakes (of a sort!) for lunch today Grin

I'll probably also do DS a banana pancake (mash banana, mix in an egg to make a batter, fry) as part of his tea, but only because we've got an old banana kicking about and it's one of my go-tos!

limitedperiodonly · 05/03/2019 08:40

For the sake of a matter of moments you have scarred your child for a lifetime. My only hope is that your husband is a better parent than you and makes the children pancakes tonight Wink