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!

I get them up early and they sit at the table while I give a 45 minute sermon the meaning of Advent. They share the same card advent calender that myself and my sisters shared in the 80s.
Then breakfast as normal and school.

Yes, but do you do delivery? 😉

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@PeeJayDay Only five extra minutes to set that up? Gosh.

That photograph someone posted was a random photo off the internet deliberately chosen to aid the mocking of people who like pancakes 🥱 of course that would take a lot longer.

I just swap the normal milk for flavoured milk, pancakes with a couple of smarties placed on them to look like a bauble, a chocolate coin and fruit in the shape of a Xmas tree. So yeah, 5 mins.

Glad the people who also had it in the 80s have found this thread. I knew it wouldn't be just my lovely Mum 😊

It's a lovely thing to do with your kids and costs nothing extra. The vitriol on this thread (on the Christmas boards) is uncalled for a quite sad.

Just told my 15yr old that apparently a North Pole breakfast is a thing.
"Is it also a thing to slap anyone who does that in the face?"
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@POTC wow your 15 year old is so witty

He's autistic and says things very bluntly 🤷‍♀️

I had one with just pictures but on the last day you had a REALLY BIG picture which was thrilling.

And I bet in the 80s you'd get loads of people moaning that they were the WRONG sort of calendar not like those nice old ones made of peat or whatever

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This! And Christmas was still exciting and magical.

For you. There is more projecting going on on this thread than in showcase cinema.

Can you not accept other people like different things or is that too much to wish for

All these things are just cynical ploys to make people spend more money. Totally worthless, all of it.

Asda Reindeer crumpets as mentioned on this thread - £1.25

Normal Asda crumpets - 45p

It's the underlying hint that If we don't do this for our kids we are rubbish parents.

I don't see that hint and seeing as everyone picks and choose their own things to do over Christmas I'm doubtful anyone thinks that way? I don't do loads of things other people do and do what if I don't? Who cares?

OP started this to share breakfast ideas and it's rammed full of snarky comments and dubious rationale for them

I have two older Primary aged dc and have never heard of a North Pole breakfast.

But then we never do Xmas Eve boxes, had the elf one year but it was a bitch of a thing to remember, and we cap our "activity" days out to one a year.

If both parents are working full time, I genuinely do not understand how this sort of thing can be fitted in to normal life

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

This 😂

@lollipoprainbow versus the not so underlying narrative that if you do then you're a pathetic, SM sheep, a marketers dream and have too much time and money and are completely ruining everyone's Christmas.

Something you in particular must feel very upset and insecure about since you stand out as having really enjoyed mocking others on this thread.

All over some fucking pancakes 🤪

@lollipoprainbow versus the not so underlying narrative that if you do then you're a pathetic, SM sheep, a marketers dream and have too much time and money

I sort of do think this part tbh.

"Asda Reindeer crumpets as mentioned on this thread - £1.25

Normal Asda crumpets - 45p"

Fucks sake 🤪

Asda pancakes - 55p
Asda pancakes cut into tree shapes - 55p

It's not a set menu @Janieread

@Janieread so how does that translate to myself and the several other pps who are just continuing what their own mums did over 40 years ago?

I think this was the mic drop moment of this thread.

It makes Christmas much less special if there are endless run-up events.

Do you not think all the Christmas branded stuff is a way of making more money for the supermarkets? I do.

Bowl of ice-cubes?

December 1st is a normal day here.

No idea. I'm oldish and grew up in the 70s and 80s and I've never heard of a December 1st breakfast. If it is your niche family tradition then go for it. The title and OP suggested it was a Thing that most people did.