What do you do for breakfast on 1st Dec

[Myleakycauldron]

I know some people will go all out with the North Pole breakfast but wondering if there is a toned down version I can do on a Thursday before work?!

I may end up flinging their advent calendars at them in a rush to make it to school on time!

The elf is a relatively new thing and that's very much driven by social media

I first saw TEOTS over 15 yeas ago on QVC USA
The Elf on the Shelf-a Holiday Tradition there was a book to fill in (diary typ) and your Creepy Wee Fecker Elf .
So not that new .
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One of my friends mentioned this had started on instagram, a woman who shows everyone what she has bought from B&M apparently talks about it.

Our DS will get his advent calender and his normal brekkie.

Gosh sounds awful bet they hate it poor kids eh?

Just wondering - if people do all these things and build up Christmas to a huge crescendo - is January even more depressing as a consequence? (presuming there's not a 7 January event I missed the memo for)

"build up Christmas to a huge crescendo"

Genuine question. How is eating fruit in the shape of a candy cane or a crumpet in the shape of a reindeer and swapping normal milk for strawberry milk for one breakfast, building up Christmas into a "huge crescendo"?

To be honest, to me the kids who got the presents after mass were so lucky! 😅

For us Christmas goes through to Candlemas, so no, not dreary at all.

The Epiphany is a lovely feast. Very crown and gold/myrrh/frankincense focussed. In truth getting hold of frankincense can be a challenge now Waitrose has stopped selling it but we’ve Myrrh from Osborne in the garden.

Delaying until Saturday! I’m going all out! I can’t wait, kids can’t wait!
biscoff will star!

It’s funny to see so many people scoffing and looking down on people who choose to buy a box of Christmas shaped cereal or crumpets instead of the regular shaped ones. Hardly putting a ridiculous amount of time or effort or even cost into it.
Sure people feel pressure from social media. we all know that but I don’t see anyone scoffing and making comments about people going to a pantomime, or to the polar express or whatever other stuff that there will be photos of on social media over the coming month. The effort and cost of a festive themed breakfast is dwarfed by those things.

I don't mind January but I do feel a bit sad when Christmas is over because I usually take 2 weeks off and have a massive relax. January is somewhat pants so maybe all the more reason to have a lovely December doing whatever little bits makes you or your family happy.

@TomTraubertsBlues so true less is definitely more, Christmas so much more special and magical in days gone by.

I should hope these people do NOT post those pictures on social media considering the fuss made over a few pancakes.

We always do ours at a weekend as it is sugar filled with the stuff I don’t usually allow for breakfast.

We do have the Asda reindeer crumpets and North Pole toast which is just the warburtons festive packaged bread with a Christmas biscuit cutter pushed into the bread just enough so it doesn’t cut but toasts the shape onto the bread.

Asda have Christmas elf cereal which is another easy option.

I don't mean just the breakfast @PeeJayDay - it's all the other bits people have mentioned

Oh god I hate January, I get huge Christmas comedown but luckily will be spending two weeks of the worst month of the year somewhere blisteringly hot!

Well that's going to help a lot! Lovely

North Pole breakfast!

Our first North Pole breakfast was in 2012 so not new at all.

Weetabix

Well I won't head I've never heard of it!
Where did this tradition come from and when did it start?

I actually think the reason January is so flat for many is precisely because they try and cram so much "joy" into December.

Same as any other day!
1 dc has toast
1 has weetabix
Toddler refuses breakfast full stop until hes been up about 3 hours! By then its lunch. Tried everything!

It's a new thing, like Christmas Eve boxes, fecking hot chocolate stations, etc.....another thing for the gram......I get my coffee, she gets her cereal, and we get on with the day. Possible opening the advent calendar if I actually remember the date......

I can honestly say I have never heard of a North Pole breakfast before opening this thread. 45 1st of December's I have been alive and never had a North Pole breakfast. It'll be 46 on 1st Dec. Maybe we'll do a nice breakfast at the weekend.

WTF is a North Pole breakfast?

Elf on the fucking shelf, decorations going up on November the 6th, panic buying on Black Friday, every National Trust/English Heritage place throwing up a load of garish baubles and lasers and putting "Enchanted" at the start of the place name and charging you a small fortune for the pleasure of sliding around in wet leaves to see them. Large corporations falling over themselves to create the most tear jerking advert with the help of yet another shitty "nouvelle vague" version of a perfectly good song.

I used to love the run up to Xmas - now I am fucking sick of it and it's still November!

I used to love Christmas -