Pancake day - what's the normal amount of pancakes to eat??

[waitingforautumn]

Having a bit of a debate. Family think 6-8 is normal. I have friends who are done after two.

How many do you typically put away??? (hint: make me feel better about the fifth one I'm about to have...!)

Am talking about crepes btw.

I agree with @SmidgenofaPigeon. Eating pancakes is not in the spirit of lockdown.

I had 2 Dutch style pancakes (with crispy bacon and syrup)

They are like crepes really (but a bit nicer)

We had 6 each as our dinner. I wasn’t overly bothered about the last one tbh but ate it rather than throw away. We made the thin crepes this time. We didn’t fancy savoury so just had sweet toppings - lemon and sugar, fruit etc.

I think it also depends wheat you’re putting on them as to how many you can eat. I couldn’t have that many stuffed with Nutella or savoury ones with lots of cheese.

Kids had 2 American ones at breakfast with Nutella and fruit then 2 Delia savoury ones for dinner.Husband had the dinner too.I didn't want any so I'm making more this morning and eating as many as I like.

We had one filled one with cheese bacon and mushroom sauce for main and a syrup and lemon one for pudding. Think we are not big eaters.

I have been lambasted on here for never moving to dinner plates for my kids so my young teens (and me) use breakfast plates so small appetites as a result. Think portion sizes these days are mental no wonder so many are overweight.

Do you use a dolls tea set to curtail liquid intake,keep the cups so very tiny
How very contrived and joyless.
Gives you something to feel smug about though...oh my children only eat from a my little pony dinner set. Keeps them thin you know

Do you need to give them prior warning when attending a restaurant? Careful in there, the plates are the size of satellite dishes

@MsTSwift

We had one filled one with cheese bacon and mushroom sauce for main and a syrup and lemon one for pudding. Think we are not big eaters.

I have been lambasted on here for never moving to dinner plates for my kids so my young teens (and me) use breakfast plates so small appetites as a result. Think portion sizes these days are mental no wonder so many are overweight.

This is probably child abuse. Feed your kids properly ffs. Eating off a side plate is eating disorder territory.

I had one but I'm dieting. Hubby had 8.

Child abuse 😁 too funny!

@waitingforautumn the banana and oat milk recipe I used was this one..
frogmom.com/banana-and-oat-milk-vegan-pancake-recipe/
I halved the recipe as only making for myself.

It’s sad & contrived that you make them eat from small plates.Controlling
And yet you manage to get a brag out of it. They only eat off teeny plates

4 crepe style ones - 2 savoury as a main, and 2 sweet as pudding!

spicy ... ..., god love your ds
luna ...
tatiana ... the more you say, the more stupid you sound. It’s pancake day once a year fgs ... just leave the thread.

We have:

4 each for breakfast.

A giant savoury crepe for dinner.

4 each for pudding.

DDs also wanted pancakes for lunch, but I drew the line

Honestly - the pancake police posts are just so silly. With all the processed mass produced high sugar/salt/trans fat shit that abounds homemade pancakes are really not the problem - even if slathered with cream and sugar.

When I was a child I shocked a friends mum by eating 12 pancakes on pancake day. I wasn't overweight, and I'm not now - BMI is 19.

I make pancakes about once a fortnight as a weekend breakfast. It is perfectly possible to include pancakes as part of a healthy diet. They are actually fairly balanced with protein from the eggs and milk, and carbs (can be more so if made with some or all wholemeal flour).

@Sapho47

"I have a good non-stick frying pan; I didn't use it, used a really ancient one which was my grandmother's and (apparently) made out of an aeroplane propeller. I was talked into using it and what a mess it/I made."

What part of the propeller and how old?

A lot of older aircraft are made from duralium and other copper alloys of aluminium they may not safe for cooking over the long term

I have no idea about the propellor-part, Sapho47. It was WW2 era, that's as much as I know. I don't really use that frying pan although it does sear meat really well. No edible pancakes were produced from it, that I do know. No animals or children were harmed.

I have been lambasted on here for never moving to dinner plates for my kids so my young teens (and me) use breakfast plates so small appetites as a result. Think portion sizes these days are mental no wonder so many are overweight.

Wow, my skinny as rakes, primary aged dc would be STARVING being served side plate sized portions. I'd feel faint. I'm 5'8 and a size 8-10 so definitely not on the overweight camp either. Your teens are likely to become unwell. We have about 5 pancakes each. Usually 3 savoury and 2 sweet. (Actually DD7 probably 2 savoury and 3 sweet)

@midnightstar66 you know children and teens have to grow right? Like, they have to eat so they grow their muscles and bones etc etc? Did you miss that memo?

@midnightstar66 apologies! I was referring to the poster who posted that quote, not your comment and @ the wrong name.

Oh my goodness our 9 year old eats off a dinner plate not a side plate ffs why would you make them eat off a side plate? That really is eating disorder territory.

Back to the original question, 9 year old and I had 4 (2 cheese, 2 jam or nutella), DH had 6 - I think he had 1 cheese, 4 peanut butter and 1 nutella. These were the crepe style in a small frying pan - maybe 15 cm? Anyway, can't have too many pancakes on pancake day

It’s so odd to make your DC eat off a side plate!! What do they do when they go to other people’s houses? Or a restaurant? Turn their noses up and ask for a dinky plate

"It’s sad & contrived that you make them eat from small plates.Controlling
And yet you manage to get a brag out of it. They only eat off teeny plates"

But her daughters (because of course it's daughters) are beautifully slim, and that's all that matters.

Going against the grain, I think eating off small plates is a great idea. We used to be given huge portions as children and, although I wasn't particularly overweight as very active, it was probably much more than we needed. We were also expected to finish everything on our plates. I'm still conditioned never to waste food so I'll eat even if not hungry rather than bin food. I don't see eating from small plates with small portions and then having seconds if hungry as being any more disordered than that.

Piklets with jam and cream

Our dinner plates are enormous I was throwing food away so started using the smaller plates and it stuck. We are all perfectly normal sized ! Definitely think portions have got bigger over the years