To think if you don't give your kids pancakes

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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.

We have savoury pancakes for tea and sweet ones for pudding. I am at work till late and they are easy for my DD to make for everyone (she is 15) we love pancake day as an excuse to double up our pancake!!

I can’t understand why not doing pancakes tomorrow means going without something sweet. We do pancakes very rarely but when we do them we love them with grated cheese.
DD would have tomorrow usual breakfast with porridge, fruit and yogurt, sandwich and salad for lunch, juice and cupcake before club and then normal tea with yogurt for a pudding, so enough sweet things imo.
I never bother with pancakes on a week day.

For really good American ones the trick is to separate your eggs. Whip the white to meringue consistency and fold into the rest of the mix at the very last minute. If you are feeling very fussy split the mix in 2 and do the folding across two bowls as you do tend to lose oomph in the last lot of pancakes. Super doopy fluffy American stack!

I won’t feel mean for not making pancakes. DS has an egg allergy, so they’d make him ill.

YABU

Shop bought pancakes are minging and making them is a pain in the arse. We will make some but I hardly think it would be mean if I couldn’t be arsed.

At our primary school the kids all tall aboit whose had/having pancakes. Never used to bother pre kids but def do it now! Theyre ao excited even though we often do it saturdays. Will probably do for pudding with fruit too...!

Why? We are not a religious household

So no Easter eggs either then?

Dd will be eating at breakfast club and after school club (snack then dinner)

I am not a mean mum, just a single full time working one. Thanks though

Pancake day is huge here. Events at school and in the town too. We will be having them at home. No way could I get away with not doing them, even though I am out at a class tomorrow night and could really do without it. It is part of parenting and a non-negotiable in our family.

We're not religious but happily do easter eggs and christmas presents. And pancakes! Maybe kids in different schools are different but they'd feel they missed out in ours.

We are making pancakes but YABU for saying that people are mean if they don't. It's technically a religious thing not an excuse to fill your kids with sugar.

Another great way is Dutch style pancakes- peel and core and slice apple rings. Fry in butter in one side. Turn over the rings and pour a thickish but more eggy than normal batter over the top - cooked apple side is now inside the pancake uncooked on the pan. So apple ends up cooked both sides. I serve with apples stewed in maple syrup - yumb!

Can’t stand American pancakes. Too doughy. Give me a lovely thin crepe anyway!

Even if it was a day my kids had after school club and had already eaten I would still do pancakes before bed for them. Or before breakfast club or that really is a hassle.

"I didn’t realise English people did shrove Tuesday"
Shrove Tuesday is an event in the Christian calendar and England is a Christian Country.

"I didn’t realise English people did pancake day" would be a better phrasing. Pancake day is a non religious name commonly used as an alternative to the religious.

Dds having them at school, and doing pancakes races! We’ll have some in the evening too! Love pancake day. It’s always been a tradition in our house, since I was a child.

No different to marmalade on toast or syrup on porridge really? And once a year hardly shocking.

I should add that shrove Tuesday isn't really a thing up here in Scotland, so neither of my kids have suffered .

Ha ha, we aren't making pancakes, we all think pancakes are 🤮

I dont need too, dd school is having pancake day

Why should we observe a feast day which has its origins in religion?
We have no religious ties either, we just like the pancakes, truth be told i didnt even know it was a thing till dd started school, much less a religious thing.
Same for easter and christmas, no religious ties. We have santa day and bunny day, i dont think dd even knows there a religious element to them.

It’s a nice thing to do and cheaper than Valentines, Halloween and all the other nonsense we do the rest of the year.
They are also a simple thing for kids to make so why wouldn’t you teach them. Hardly a faff - you don’t even need to weigh or measure.

Any excuse to make pancakes! But absolutely no reason to judge those who don’t make them.

It's the highlight of the year in our house 😂

My kids don't even really like pancakes but I still insist on making them and putting them in front of the kids. It's like flogging a dead horse though tbh...

I also killed off the Easter bunny last year when the kids - aged 10 and 8 - suddenly went all American on me and started going on about where the bunny might possibly hide the numerous eggs that were magically going to appear overnight.

Me: it's me. I'm the Easter Bunny. I go to Lidl and buy the Easter eggs. That's it. That's all it is. We don't even believe in God!

They have survived.