To think if you don't give your kids pancakes

[peettaleetta]

Tomorrow that is really mean!

Unless you never partake in pancake /shrove Tuesday,

If you do, and just 'can't be bothered' you're a mean mum/dad..

Have seen people who can perfectly afford it saying nah won't be bothered making kids any pancakes or giving them something sweet.

I made my DD pancakes today she’s only 18 months so she had a little hazelnut spread on one and honey on another.
She loved it. It’s easy to partake or even buy some. Kids love pancakes and hate to feel left out. She obviously had no idea but start as you mean to go on obviously I had some too of course. Yum!

I tried making dairy free pancakes for the first time this evening, they were a disaster, and stuck like glue to the pans with expectant children watching. Had to get husband to pick up some ready made ones from the supermarket on the way home. Covered in nutella they were a hit.

Parker231

Fair enough if you don’t usually drink milk. No way there would ever be no milk in this house (teenage boy plus a DH that can consume their own body weight in milk every day).

I think it's a wee bitty mean not to make them for primary aged kids

I always looked forward to them as a child

We had them today with vanilla ice cream and Baxter's Passionfruit and mango curd

Absolutely Delicious

I didn't realise it was pancake Day until it was my little boy's bedtime. We didn't tell him because he's only 3. I'm hoping no-one will mention it at nursery tomorrow. Haha. He did get a little biscuit and a chocolate earlier though and he gets regular pancakes anyway so I'm sure he'll be fine.

@Offendedofsurrey I plan and cook meals from scratch ahead in my free time, so that they can be heated up quickly and dinner time can be turned round in the very limited amount of time we have in the evening. That way I know my kids are being fed good food but I can keep all the plates spinning and keep to a very tight schedule.

If you (and others on this thread) can’t imagine a scenario where family life can be tough with more commitments, jobs and general adulting than there is hours in the day, then you lead a very privileged life and should count yourself lucky.

I would like to be organised enough to do that but Im not brilliant at thinking through all the steps. Do you cook and then freeze? What sort of meals? Do you then have the veg planned as well? Dont worrg if you dont have time but Id love to learn how to do this. We end up defaulting to breaded chicked, pitaties and salad or sausages chips and peas/carrots far too often.

My DC are toddlers they don’t know, I’m rubbish at the crepe ones and to be honest I couldn’t be faffed today after cleaning the kitchen. We’re waiting for Crepe queen Granny to get back from her holiday on Thurs and make them for us !

We eat a lot of salad because it’s so easy to throw together. Frozen veggies save a lot of time because I can do them in the microwave. I tend to cook meals with veg packed into them and we only really eat meat at the weekends.

I cook and then freeze or chill if we’re using the next day/day after. Shepherds pie, curries, chilli, lasagne, pasta sauces, fish pie, casseroles, that sort of thing. Microwave rice has been a total game changer for me and I’m always looking for new pulses and grains in pouches. I’ll boil potatoes but I try not to cook anything that takes longer than that as I’m usually doing at least 2 other things whilst I’m cooking!

I’m not an organised person and I find it really hard but I just have to be. It won’t be like this forever.

Thankyou. I need to really plan more. We end up eating badly, which I never wanted to do, due to lack of time and energy midweek. I need to get into this. Do you say do a weeks food at the weekend or a big batch of "something " each weekend. And freeze in family sized portions?

We always have pancakes on Shrove Tuesday. My DD (30) comes home specially for pancakes every year!

@peettaleetta the reason your being unreasonable is because regardless of your justification nothing another family does is any of your business, certainly not to judge and make comments about there parenting based on something so trivial

I made a small stack for DH and me from my 1972 GHK cookbook recipe of 1 egg, 4oz plain flour, pinch of salt and half a pint of 50:50 milk & water. Cooked in a 40yo French cast iron omelette pan that is cleaned with heat and oil and never sees soapy water.

I made savoury pancakes with egg and cheese for supper, so I can’t work out if I am a lovely kind mum for giving them pancakes or an evil child-hater for not giving them sweet things .

Please enlighten me, OP.

We didn't have pancakes. We always do but dh on nights, we've just moved house and had a commute home in the snow. So as the dc had pancakes at school and nursery we are having Shrove Saturday instead!

And yes, I am aware that Shrove Tuesday is a date in the Christian calendar but it sounds better than Pancake Saturday so I'm using it.

I wasn't home from work until 6.30 and I'd planned to make pancakes with dd when I got home but it had completely slipped my mind tbh. Luckily I found out that her dad had already made some with her and she'd eaten a big pancake before I got home.

I am not 100% sure that I would have done it tonight if he hadn't. Although I'd wanted to, I was exhausted when I got home. Though I probably would have done them another evening or on the weekend. And probably still will.

I don't think it's necessarily mean not to do it, but it's definitely something she will enjoy.

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I made savoury pancakes with egg and cheese for supper, so I can’t work out if I am a lovely kind mum for giving them pancakes or an evil child-hater for not giving them sweet things.'

Its once a year...

I just threw out uneaten pancakes from two weeks ago. Why make more and the ‘tradition’ is not mine

I only think it's mean if your dc want pancakes and you don't make them. I had a friend that would come to my house for my Mums' pancakes because hers refused to make them because 'she didn't like them '

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Pancakes galore.

I think what you are implying is wrong: mean? Or depressed?

It's a load of shit! Commercialised!

I break all the rules. Made them this morning. Only using a Sainsbury's bottle of pre made batter mix. They weren't that nice. Only the lashings of Nutella saved them. The Last 2 days before today, ds's have also eaten pancakes, but these were the Sainsbury's pre made ones. They announced this morning that they prefer those.
We eat those every few months.

OP?

Usually I make pancakes. A few days ago I lost a close family member, I’m not in the best of places, my Oh had to go to work and I was home alone with dc. I wasn’t in the mood. I bought them ready made scotch pancakes and normal pancakes from the supermarket and let them loose with syrup and strawberry sauce.

We plan to make our own at the weekend when my Oh is off work.

Apart from holiday breakfast we ONLY have pancakes on Pancake Day. I love them but they aren't the healthiest thing when you smother them with sugary treats (which is the only way I like them). I have always made them, the mix ones are horrible but I have never worked full time since I had children so certainly don't judge.

I'm not Christian so I have no interest in Shrove Tuesday or Lent so we just eat pancakes whenever we feel like it!

That could be everyday or not at all for a year or more.

Didn't have any yesterday.