December 1st breakfast

[ChristmasHasCome]

IF you do a special breakfast for today, what do you have? My kids are teens but we have our friends children staying with us at the moment who are younger, due to a family emergency, and they cheered up when we mentioned we could do this.

We are having,

🎄 Pancakes shaped like snowmen, Xmas trees and Rudolf with smarties, chocolate chips, strawberries and blueberries for decoration

🎄 Snowman crumpets

🎄 Grapes and blueberries made into a Christmas tree

🎄 Banana and strawberries made into candy canes

🎄 Milk in bottles decorated to look like snowmen

🎄 Hot chocolate and marshmallows

🎄 Chocolate coins

🎄 Advent calendars (chocolate and Lego)

I decorated the dining table late last night so it looks very festive for them and our friends children’s elves are with us!

Just wondering what you’re doing because I’m nosy and maybe I can steal some ideas.

No it's not a great occasion to show this. Not at all. The occasion was to show them some love and kindness. The breakfast wasn't about nutrition it was about comforting them and creating a positive memory at a very difficult time. Sometimes these things mean more than the perfectly nutritionally balanced meal.

Just looking at the title I knew this would bring out the MN fun-sponges.

It's a lovely thing to do OP!

😱😱😱 But the sugar! How dare you post this and be such a bad influence…now I need to pop to the cafe and get myself a piece of cake 😁

What in the merry hell is this nonsense? A Christmas breakfast three and a half weeks before the actual day? Put the idea in the bin, along with that fucking elf and Christmas eve boxes.

There’s a different between finding it a “bit weird” and being downright rude, unkind and unpleasant to someone who was just trying to do something nice.

Didn’t any of you watch Bambi growing up?! If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything.

Stop pissing on people’s chips.

I’m not wholly convinced that The Christmas Board is the place for you.

I’ll join you in being pissed off on OPs behalf - the number of, frankly, miserable gobshites who seem to be enjoying taking a pop at someone doing something festive!

As I posted before, I spent an extra 3 minutes on my sons breakfast this morning as I wanted to kick off advent with a fun breakfast - if you don’t, fine, but people can do what they want. I didn’t feel pressured by societal expectations, that this was another thing I ‘had’ to do…I just wanted to. Same as I don’t want to do the whole elf thing, so we’re not - my friend does it in an objectively fabulous fashion for her children, but it doesn’t make me feel I need to.

If something isn’t for you, fine, just move on. I’m not sure why people have gone to the trouble of opening, reading (or not, as is evident in lots of cases) the OP, then formulating a response that shits on other people’s choice - why?!? Would these same people be as caustic to others in real life??

I also don’t understand ‘Christmas begins on December 24th’ - for us, the Christmas period is the whole of advent, when we see friends and family, do Christmassy activities/events/crafts etc. - but that’s fine, people do what is right for them. 🤷🏻‍♀️

For a child a special meal is hardly likely to be a sensible one. On Christmas Day DT’s were on wall to wall sugar and junk. They were happy, I was happy. Once Christmas was over we were back to regular meals with loads of fruit and veggies. Christmas wasn’t the time to teach sensible eating habits.

Give over

Well if you read the thread you'd see that the reason the OP was doing something today is that she wanted to do something nice for some children she is looking after whilst they go through a particularly traumatic time.

This poster and so many moaning Myrtle others!!

lol what? @TheSnowiestQueen
"'Christmas' for most people starts on 24th Dec"

er... have you seen this thing called an advent calendar in the shops? they're really popular! it has all these numbers on it that start with 1 and go up to 25. these correspond with the period of 'Advent', the preparation time for Christmas. The idea comes from Christianity (and probably pre-christian religions/beliefs before then) but it is most definitely a part of mainstream British celebrations of Christmas, and by mainstream, I mean largely secular.

Charles Dickens (heard of him?) wrote a story called a Christmas Carol, it was about being kind and showing love to others, and using the Christmas season to remind ourselves to do so. OP's post epitomises the spirit of that book. I can only imagine your version of 'Christmas' is very far from the spirit of kindness and generosity OP has shown.

Love reading and seeing the 1st December breakfasts. Unfortunately my Dc are older and one has ASD with ARFID so only eats certain foods. I wish I could join in. Thanks for sharing.

Quite. Advent Sunday was yesterday (in November, shock horror). Our Church is starting its Christmas prayer groups this week with the first charity carol concert next weekend along with the children's Christmas party (and Christingle). Looking at the newsletter in the service sheet four different organisations have a carol concert this week. Seems like quite a few people aren't waiting till the 24th!

Ahhh. I desperately wanted the strawberry to be twisted around the banana like a pencil shaving!

Ooh bang to rights. Especially the unhinged bit
preens

Anyway I guess OP is gone but my contribution is sourdough discard Christmas cookie-cutter crumpets.

My images are under review?! They’re crumpets ffs.

All images need to be checked first. I think disturbing images were being posted by a troll once so now all images are reviewed

Pancakes can be on the table in 10 minutes or so... Quicker if you make them the day before and blast in microwave.

We have all sorts for breakfast, it doesn't have to take hours.

You know this is the Christmas board right... and you can block the entire board.

Fuck off back to Misery Town

What would you give kids for a special Christmas breakfast?

smoked salmon and scrambled eggs on sourdough of course.

They're sexy sexy crumpets!