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!

Anyone who posts this on Insta will get unfollowed

I plonk a tomato on some bacon so it looks like Rudolph's nose.

@PeeJayDay

It is an Instagram thing. Along with the ridiculous elf thing - before social media these weren't a thing. They are for taking photos of and posting

Reindeer crumpets from Asda. But only as they came as a substitute in my shop for usual crumpets.

I don't post on Instagram but I still do things j think are nice.

Same as every other day - eggs.

@MoggyMittens23 Thank you!

I'm going to be throwing North Pole breakfasts into the same cupboard as Christmas Eve boxes, those bloody elves and door bows.

Love Christmas, but I've got no time for this kind of inane Insta stuff. It's all about as magical as a gas bill.

@PeeJayDay

"It is an Instagram thing. Along with the ridiculous elf thing - before social media these weren't a thing. They are for taking photos of and posting"

@gogohmm as I've said a few times, I don't have Instagram nor do I post pictures of our breakfast on any social media. Further to this I've said more than once that I've been doing it for 12 years for my lot and my mum did it for us in the 1980s.

Not sure why you're telling me otherwise

First door of the advent calendar. Stop, please, stop with this OTT.

No one's making you do it guys, step down. All is well.

CorporateBull · Today 14:37

”Come on now
Maybe it’s people kicking back against the constant pressure to MAKE CHRISTMAS BETTER, by doing more things that take time and imagination, and start Christmas almost a month before Christmas Day”

Better? BETTER?
WTF is wrong with you? Don’t you know? where have you been? It has to be PERFECT. The best Christmas EVER!

Dd will do her usual of grabbing a cup of dry cereal and eating it in the car on the way to school. DH will be wondering for the 80milionth time where he put his keys / phone / wallet (not necessarily in that order) Ds will decline all sustenance saying he's feeling sick and does he have to go to school? while I bark orders at everyone to get out of the house for once on time, whilst simultaneously muttering under my breath "your keys/ wallet/ phone are wherever you last put them why the fuck don't you hang the keys up, keep your wallet in your bag, or have find my phone set up. Yes Ds you have to go to school because it's the law, and dd if for once you could get out of bed on time you wouldn't have to endure dry cereal in a cup"

I've done a North Pole Breakfast since DD was born and she's 6 now so it's been around a few years at least. We're going to LaplandUK on Thursday so the elf will arrive, she'll have her advent calendars, we'll have a lovely breakfast then head out. I'd search on Pinterest for a work/school day North Pole breakfast.

@TheSoddingCat have a wonderful time. Sounds like a lovely day

Thank you so much @PeeJayDay.

I'd only read the first post when I replied, now I've read the whole thing I'd just like to make it clear I don't do Instagram/Facebook and would never put my child/home on social media like that. I just do it for me, DH and DD as a nice little way to kick off December.

@PeeJayDay Only five extra minutes to set that up? Gosh.
As my daughter has to leave the house at 7.30 am for school and doesn't eat breakfast anyway it's a normal day. We'll do the advent calendar. But I will be getting the decs out from storage Dec 1 and starting to get things ready, we get the tree on Saturday from a farm so will make a day of it!

Love this !

Made me lol

😂

One at uni (although back this weekend. SO EXCITED 😊😊😊)

Other one 16 so will eat advent chocolate only, if that.

so no Santa fun here any more but on the plus side no advent or Elf shit either!

WTAF. Never heard of this, at all, ever.

Just googled 'north Pole breakfast' and up popped a load of tat - plates, cups, tablecloths - from the manufacturers who make elf on the shelf. It's a complete marketing gimmick.

Thank god I never got into the elf on the shelf bull shit.

So to answer your question, we will be having toast and cereal on 1st December.

DECEMBER THE FIRST IS NOT A THING. ANY POSTS RE DECEMBER THE FIRST ARE VERY YABU

My mum used to make pancakes shaped like Christmas trees, so a lot longer than 4 years.

This. I don't use insta etc either. I just like fun. My mum made pancakes on Dec 1st and I am 42. It is hardly groundbreaking and noone has to do it. I don:t care about the Grinches, I am getting as much fun as I can do out of Christmas, but out of life in general. Fun can happen on a Thursday morning. I am just swapping toast for Christmas tree muffins and cracking out some napkins/ cups etc FFS. People can sneer away, but between sneering and having fun is a no brainer of a choice for me.

Bollocks. My mum did this, just pancakes and an advent calendar and I am 42. We also do not call it north pole breakfast. We are not buying into any concept, we are doing the same as I did as a child. I don't care if someone trademarked it, or if Instagrammers do it, or who thinks it is commercialised, I am carrying on a fun tradition because we like it. L