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 grew up with new pyjamas on Christmas Eve. Not Christmas themed ones. I’ve done the same with my kids.

It’s more a ‘and now it’s time to bloody sleep child’ cue than anything else. And the pyjamas are just pyjamas. They’d have got them at some point anyway.

Turns out my kids really like it. Some sort of Christmassy activity (ideally outside - even if it’s a walk in the woods) then home to dinner and new pyjamas. Then the kids go to bed and I drink some mulled wine and set up for Christmas morning. I’m too lazy to have it become more elaborate.

The first day of Advent was 2 days ago, on Sunday. Not much of a religious thing if you don't even know what day its on, is it?

And THIS is yet another reason I’m so glad I’m not on FB or Instagram. My kids have the same breakfast they have every day and open their (chocolate free) paper picture advent calendar just like the ones I had as a child. They light an advent candle at the dinner table every night of December (bought at their request) to count down to Christmas. We also don’t do Christmas Eve boxes and spend quite conservatively on Christmas gifts. They also don’t ask for much. I am feeling like we are very much in the minority…our Christmas is about spending time together not fuelling consumerism/waste.

Your absolutely right, the church candle was lit this past Sunday, it’s just something we’ve always done on the 1st, I suspect it was my grandmothers way of bringing back the meaning of advent away from chocolate calendars (which we were never allowed… Holy picture calendars only!) I must admit once I had my own children I bought in crackers and they do have chocolate calendars, granny would be mortified!

Oh, I fully understand that. I'm not religious and I don't celebrate either. But if you're going to celebrate "the start of advent" it would make sense to me to do it on the traditional day.

"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."

Yes, but you don't have to buy the stuff to have a "North Pole breakfast". The only thing in my weekly shop that isn't usually in there is 1 tube of smarties and 2 advent calendars. I'm old, my mum back in the 80s also bought us smarties and advent calendars.

FWIW I don't have Instagram. I make breakfast for my kids, not for social media 🙄. Maybe try lightening up and having a bit of fun. Or at least recognise other people can. All this "I eat toast over the sink whilst screaming at children" bullshit is also a social media fad of the "slummy mummy" ilk. I know which one I'd rather be.

That's us too.

Even more so that I leave the house long before them, so no danger it happens on a school day here. Doubt they would be impressed at getting up mega early just to have a so called special breakfast.

You could give them their calendars on Dec 1 and do the breakfast thing on Saturday ( 🎄🎶 it's the 1st Saturday in December! 🎶 🎅🏼) giving you more time to devote to creating/constructing something more elaborate together with music and in your jammies or whatever floats your boat.

Whatever DS can find in the kitchen and makes himself? Why would it be different on Thursday than any other day this week?

You miss the point. You don't have to buy the stuff, but you've bought the concep. You're having your family occasions designed and named by PR people in a boardroom.

If you find if fun, great, have at it, you are fully entitled to your take. I find it pathetic commercialised overconsumption, and I'm fully entitled to my take.

FML - its really a thing! superbusymum.net/north-pole-breakfast-ideas/
We do Christmas Eve boxes - but they just include Xmas Pjs, some hot choc and a toy or book. We didn't start the Elf on the Shelf, who can really remember to move it EVERY night and to do whacky and creative things!

So NOT doing a North Pole breakfast - and I absolutely LOVE Christmas. But... this is getting ridiculous and I agree with a
PPs - its Instagram influencers - trying to look amazing and their lives are so fun and awesome!

That is my point though, it is not celebrating the start of advent for many. It is nothing to do with advent. It is simply the countdown to Christmas because it is the first day of the month Christmas is in, the day that advent calendars start and the day the elves come. My DC will have no concept of advent until/unless they cover it in RE. He was 4 when he asked what a church was. December 1st is elf day and one of his favourite days of the year.

I have never heard of this

Well Father Christmas doesn't live at the North Pole. He lives in Lapland.

A traditional breakfast in Lapland would be porridge so that's nice and easy!

Usually the same as every other day but this year I am going to do a festive breakfast. Only because my kids asked me to do our usual activity advent this year and i’ve found it hard to think of 24 activities now they’re older so a Christmassy breakfast is going to go in the advent calendar.

So I have some festive cereal, will get some of the shaped crumpets from Asda and will make Santa hat strawberries. So nothing with much effort but still nice and festive.

Bleurgh: North Pole Breakfast™

Anything trademarked is NOT a tradition!

The only hope of one here is if Breakfast Club break out the elves. Unlikely.

Blended elf omelette with raw reindeer.

1 December marks the day that the kids can put on Christmas music without my shouting "TURN THAT OFF, IT'S NOVEMBER!" at them[#] and they can start on their Advent calendars. This is more than enough joy for them to handle as it is.

[#] For the avoidance of doubt, not just because I shout "IT'S DECEMBER" instead. They can play Christmas music once it hits December.

Trad finnish christmas breakfast is rice porridge apparently. Perhaps they would prefer Mämmi.

It’s also clearly not a tradition when it’s recently been invented and most people’s response is ‘what kind of socially-mediated influencer nonsense is this?’

Tbh, special breakfasts are not in any way part of my version of Christmas at any point. Not even Christmas Day. Because there’s so much other food involved that no one here even wants a special breakfast.

unless not making breakfast but letting the kids consume whatever stocking chocolate they like counts as a ‘special breakfast’. That feels like a spin-doctor redefinition though.

95% of the responses I've read so far are predictably naff all (which I do have sympathy with on a school day!)

This is the Christmas thread though so not sure the bah humbug is necessary!

My research suggests oat or rice porridge would be traditional.

Isn't Mämmi for Easter? Don't want to be mixing up our traditions, Santa wouldn't approve and then he might not bring presents.

Usually pain au chocolat, toasted panettone or pancakes.
I lay the table with a Christmas table cloth and get the Christmas mugs and plates out. I've done it every year for about 21 years, long before the annoying elf and social media.

What is a North Pole breakfast?