AIBU to Serve Pancakes as Dinner Tonight?

[Amsylou]

It’s Shrove Tuesday, DS finishes at holiday club soon and I don’t think anyone is going to eat an entire dinner AND pancakes this evening so thinking of doing pancakes with a few healthy ‘bits’ on the side, possibly a few savoury pancakes. Lazy or justified?

More than fair and this is what my mum did every pancake day when we were kids. I loved it!

We always did this as kids and it’s exactly what I’m doing tonight!

My mum never bothers so I feel I missed out. I feel more justified now!

Definitely justified. We're having pancakes for dinner too, not even savoury ones. They will be topped with fruit and maple syrup.

I’ve always done this. I do savoury (possibly vaguely healthy) fillings followed by sweet ones.

We don’t even bother with healthy bits. It’s just pancakes. One day a year!

We are only having pancakes for tea.

Tradition.

My first pancake day with now DH I was horrified when he was wondering what we would have for dinner after our pancakes only ever had pancakes on pancake day

Very happy to hear that this is the standard. Never had it as a kid and my DS has only recently started liking them so didn’t know the done thing!

Why would this not be okay? This place boggles my mind.

I'm surprised you had to ask!

Of course it's fine. Its only once a year!

Definitely OK. I always do this.

I thought that was what pancake day was for - eating pancakes instead of dinner

YABU to bother with "healthy bits" 😆

Why does it matter if it's "a done thing" or not? You get to decide the rules in your own home.

Not everyone does it that way, to be fair.

As a kid, we didn't have pancakes at all. I have friends who had pancakes for breakfast but not for dinner. Some people do have dinner first.

I do think that pancakes for dinner is probably the most common, though! It's what we're planning but I do have tacos ready incase DS or DD wants something extra.

Thanks all! I appreciate it’s once per year but I always think of pancakes as breakfast food or dessert.

I thought that was the point, to have pancakes for dinner. We eat well at all others meals, it won't kill us to eat pancakes tonight. There won't be a veggie in sight, as it should be.

Sat at my desk drooling thinking of my pancakes tonight, with bacon and maple syrup topping, followed by a pancake with chocolate sauce and ice cream. I'm fully embracing Shrove Tuesday. 🤗

I think it's part of pancake Tuesday op!! Ds had his pancakes this morning as I'm working late otherwise that would have been his tea tonight! I think it's fine as a treat!

Cheese and bacon pancakes for dinner here, followed by sweet pancakes - lemon and sugar or maple syrup. Done it that way for years.
We never have pancakes for breakfast though.

I made veg pancakes with coleslaw and chippy chip chips for lunch and another pancake for tea; jam for him, cheese for me

We have pancakes for very meal on Pancake Day! Today we’re had fluffy ones with bacon and maple syrup for breakfast, ham/cheese/spinach for lunch and we’ll have them with potato curry for savoury dinner then crepe suzette or chocolate and cream for pudding. DH and I will then eat extra healthily for the rest of the week to make up for it, DSs are teenagers so can eat a monumental amount of food everyday 😂

I loved Shrove Tuesday as a child. Dinner was always just pancakes with lemon juice and sugar or golden syrup.

We survived and the sky didn't fall in. 😃