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'll be having my advent calendar chocolate alongside my usual breakfast of toast and as much tea as I can consume to make me feel alive.

Nothing special

Have 2 kids and never in my life heard of a North Pole or advent breakfast. But then we never did that stupid elf either.

But it's not a Christmas Day. It's a normal day !

I did not realised this was a thing
i got an advent calendar ready - that’s pretty much the extent of it
i love Christmas and the build up to it - but this is a step too far….
she gets to eat a chocolate before breakfast, that’s excitement enough!

Completly agree! All the hype leading up to Christmas dilutes any meaning or specialness the day itself used to have.

I didn't know it was a special day? Why make more hard work for yourself? All these things in the lead up to Xmas just make it more of a letdown when it does arrive!

We do quite a lot of Christmassy things including a Christmas eve box, visit to a Christmas market etc but no, we won't be doing a north pole breakfast or elf on the shelf.

I'm not a big fan of chocolate advent calendars but my in-laws gave one to the kids so I can't take it away from them. They like it (unsurprisingly!)

We do do a 1st of Dec box rather than a Xmas eve one to get more out of it, but ive never heard of a North Pole breakfast. I’m at work tho so it’ll be DH doing breakfast, if I was off I might have done pancakes with xmas napkins and plates but it’ll have to be beans on toast or omelette and a chocolate out of her advent calendar.

What???

Toast or Cornflakes. Plus the sweet from their advent calendar.

This surely isn’t a “thing”?

Mine used to nest in my hair to watch the telly with me (true story). He'd never eat toast crumbs, though.

Eh... North Pole breakfast??

Why, what happens on 1st December? (Are you in the UK?)

We don't even do advent calendar's in the morning - they get opened after tea here.

Since when?

WTF?

Pretty much the same as usual.

The same breakfast I have every weekday morning!

Look, you do whatever makes you happy but does it feel as “special” when you realise that the North Pole Breakfast is a trade marked brand owned by a company out to shill more money from you? It’s like having a Coca Cola day on 14th August or something. Or a Warburtons day on 3rd October. The whole concept was thought up in a soulless marketing room by a bunch of soulless marketing people, whose only purpose that day was to invent a completely new “tradition” that they could use to sell more things to people a whole month before they usually would. It’s a completely modern, fabricated, cynical, awful emblem of everything that is going wrong with the Christmas season. (And Valentines, and Easter, and Halloween…)

Theres is absolutely nothing special about the 1st Dec. Or 11th Dec. Or 14th August or any other day. So many “special” things massively dilute the one or two days that are traditionally meant to be special.

ho hum.

You might be right, it looks so unappealing to me I haven't really registered. Finnish DIL insists on rice porridge Christmas day.

I agree, ours sounded similar when I was a child. I don’t think Christmas was any less exciting or magical for kids then than now

I can’t tell wether this is a joke thread? I was laughing at OPs post thinking it was a joke? But now I don’t know?!

We take our 7 under 5s to a fake Weatherspoons for an all day drinking bender.

At 9am I should add.

Snowball to drink,
Penguin to eat - oh no that's the wrong pole, inuit ?

Never heard of it and I don't intend on starting it any time soon. On par with Christmas Eve boxes. Totally unnecessary when they are getting presents the next day. They don't need more stuff!!!

I used to serve up champagne and orange juice with fresh croissants, french unsalted butter, french jam and then a type of continental breakfast with different meats, cereals, fruit and yoghurt. Then we open the first day of our advent calendar.