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!

Schools are off the rest of this week here so on Thursday I'll be enjoying a lie in and DC will eat whatever they make for themselves. Probably cereal or toast since that's usually what they have.

What? I have been on this earth nearly 60 years, most of them in the UK, and had a Christmas/December every one of those years, and I have never heard of this. Personally, I will have a cup of tea as always, DS will have a cup of coffee, and DS will have toast and peanut butter. Just like every other day.

DH will have a cup of coffee that should have said!

Christmas Eve boxes do my tree in. Why give your kid a box of presents less than 24 hours before they receive a bunch more presents?

Isn't the finding the presents thing on Christmas morning the most magical bit for most kids? Why dilute that with, among other crap, a shitty hot chocolate stick and a pair of Asda pjs that they'll never wear again?

North Pole Breakfast is “created” (and trademarked and merch-ed) by Lumistella, the company that owns a lot of Christmas trademarks including IP rights to Elf on the Shelf. There’s a lot of twee Christmas crap, but do whatever brings you joy.

Knew it.

We refuse the elf. My kids have no idea who it is.

Lol. Agreed. This world is going to implode with pricey advent calendars, multiple costly hen dos, Christmas Eve boxes, baby showers and now 1st December breakfast. When I was a kid, advent calendars were for children. The only thing behind the door was a Christmas scene.

No, it isn't.

Yes, commercialised, sugar laden, pose for your socials, live laugh love, joy.

Fuck me. These people need to go buy themselves a life.

Our elves arrive with the advent calendars. So a piece of chocolate is allowed. I heat up pre made Christmas shaped muffins and serve them buttered with sausages and some raspberries and strawberries. I buy Christmas napkins. My son is highly impressed, but it is pretty much normal breakfast with toast swapped for muffins and elves there!

Seriously ?

Even amongst parents of young children I extremely doubt that .

I'm so glad my DC now grown up .

Given cost of living crisis - plus environmental concerns - just why is there something additional added to put more pressure on families each year ?

Is it toast then? So what is this non event that no one in the UK has heard of🤷‍♀️

DD will probably have Shreddies (supermarket own-brand malted wheats to be precise) and I'll have muesli. Glass of finest tap water to wash it down and a coffee for me.

I've already explained to DD that different families have different traditions at Christmas and that we stick to the [insert family name] traditions.

No, we don't have naughty elves in our house, Christmas Eve boxes, 1st December special breakfast. matching Christmas pyjamas for the whole family, Advent calendars with a toy in every box, a projection of Santa Clause climbing up the house. We will never have these things because they are a materialistic, money-centred pile of shite.

😂 love it

A new one on me!

Advent was a season of fasting and penitence when I grew up in catholic household. I’m not religious now but it still seems weird to go OTT.

I’m not sure if it’s a catholic thing or maybe just a my family thing but we always had and have advent breakfast together and light the advent candle. Nothing particularly fancy (maybe a cooked breakfast if it falls on a weekend) but we do have Christmas crackers and it’s special really because we don’t usually all sit together for breakfast at any other time except on Ash Wednesday. This year a fruit salad has been requested, which I will attempt to accommodate… traffic on the way home tomorrow permitting!!

Only if people are dumb enough to get sucked in by it all.

I believe the idea for a North Pole breakfast is part of the elf on the shelf thing - a celebration of it arriving back for the season. So if you signed yourself up for that, maybe you’ve got to go the whole hog?

I saw photos on FB of one last year that consisted of pancakes, doughnuts, brownies, chocolate biscuits, chocolate milk, chocolate santas. I felt queasy just looking at it!

I totally agree with PPs pointing out that too many special days potentially spoils it. Advent calendar on Dec 1st is intended to count down to the big event, not be one itself!

We do however have a Christmas Eve box with pjs, hot chocolate, popcorn and Christmas movie because that’s always our family activity for the evening.

definitely no birthday Boxing Day for my girl - we switch to Christmas the day after her birthday-decorations don’t go up until after her birthday

Could you maybe, just for one year, serve up an authentic North Pole breakfast of roasted elf - and then be free of both of them for every year in the future?!

Except some people are, aren't they? Some people don't recognise it for the commercial money-spinning shite that it is.

😂😂

If it's about religion, the first day of advent was on Sunday 27th this year. December 1st doesn't hold any specific religious meaning that I'm aware of.

For lots of people, advent is an irrelevance. For lots of people 1st December is an irrelevance. The beauty of choices, is that people make different ones.