It's Pancake Day!

I'll be doing the same as you. Just some lemon and sugar. I think i will have a smaller lunch to make sure i don't go over on my calories.


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Alex James (ex Blur) recommends lettuce and marmite as a filling! I might give that a go ;-)

Really?!

I love mine rolled up with ice cream in the middle and lemon and sugar on top. Yum! There are lots of ice creams out there that aren't that high in cals, and it doesn't need much to fill a pancake anyway.
I think I'm just going to do lots of exercise today, smaller lunch and dinner and hopefully with all that I'll stay under my calories, if not it's only once a year I'm not that fussed.

Does anyone know if it will be healthier to make my own or go for the pancake mix?

lemon and sugar is the way to go.

I'm having mine FOR dinner rather than dinner. I tend to eat a biggish lunch so having 'pudding' for one meal one day isn't going to hurt. Works out about 350 calories for about 4 pancakes. I haven't done anything low-cal to them (semi-skimmed milk, rapeseed oil)

I moved to the UK 3 years ago from the US but I've totally taken pancake day on board! I always make fluffy American pancakes instead though.

This morning's recipe was a lot healthier than most:

135g wholewheat flour
2 tsp baking powder
2tbsp caster sugar
130ml skimmed milk
1 egg
2 tbsp low-fat vegetable spread, melted

Mix together dry. Whisk together wet. Blend both together, cook over med-high heat. I spray the pan with olive oil spray to avoid using anymore fat.

We had ours this morning with Bernard Matthews turkey bacon rashers and agave nectar, which is lower GI than syrup.

Check out Sophia Dahl's recipe for buckwheat blinis too. She tops her with scrambled egg and smoked salmon. The whole recipe would be about 400 cals and tons of protein with NO refined/simple carbs. Excellent brunch idea. Her recipe is on the BBC website.

Alex James (ex Blur) recommends lettuce and marmite as a filling! I might give that a go ;-)

sounds yummy, i love marmite and it is fat free )

I am in the states but found this recipe for a friend in the UK from the Hungry Girl website..looks delish


Ingredients:
Filling
Half a 60-calorie sugar-free vanilla pudding snack (like the kind by Jell-O)
2 tbsp. sugar-free pancake syrup
1/4 tsp. cinnamon

Icing
2 tbsp. fat-free cream cheese
1 no-calorie sweetener packet (like Splenda or Truvia)
1/4 tsp. vanilla extract

Pancakes and Topping
1/2 cup whole-wheat flour

1/2 tsp. baking powder

2 no-calorie sweetener packets (like Splenda or Truvia)
Dash salt

1/4 cup fat-free liquid egg substitute 
(like Egg Beaters Original)
2 tbsp. fat-free or low-fat buttermilk
2 tbsp. Fat Free Reddi-wip

Directions:
To make the filling, spoon half of the pudding snack -- about 3 tbsp. -- into a small microwave-safe bowl. (Save the rest for another time.) Add syrup and cinnamon and mix well. Set aside.

In another small microwave-safe bowl, combine icing ingredients and gently stir. Microwave for 15 seconds, and then mix until smooth. Set aside.

To make the pancake batter, combine flour, baking powder, sweetener, and salt in a medium bowl. Add egg substitute, buttermilk, and 1/3 cup water. Mix until smooth and set aside.

Bring a skillet sprayed with nonstick spray to medium-high heat on the stove. Add 1/3rd of the batter to form a pancake. Cook for 2 - 3 minutes, until pancake begins to bubble and is solid enough to flip. Gently flip and cook for 1 - 2 minutes, until lightly browned and cooked through. Plate your pancake and set aside.

Repeat with remaining batter to make a 2nd and 3rd pancake, removing skillet from heat and re-spraying between repetitions. Plate and set aside.

Microwave filling until warm, about 25 seconds. Evenly spread filling onto the top of each pancake, and then layer pancakes into a stack.

Microwave icing until hot, about 25 seconds. Mix well and drizzle over the stack. Top with Reddi-wip and enjoy!

MAKES 1 SERVING

Serving Size: 1 stack (entire recipe)
Calories: 345
Fat: 2.5g
Sodium: 823mg
Carbs: 63g
Fiber: 7.5g
Sugars: 5g
Protein: 20.5g

Im making mine with brown flour and making them as thin as possible!!! Then having them with plain old lemon juice and some sweetner!

Last year was a different story with bananas, icecream and covered sauce.. but theres no way i have the energy today to work that many calories off!!!

I usually have mine with lemon juice and sugar... I think I may have some Worthenshaws chocolate frozen dessert (like ice cream but low cal low fat) this year though, yum!

I've worked hard for the pancakes I'll be having tonight. I got up a couple of hours early and went to the gym before work. The original point of shove Tuesday/ mardi gras meaning fat Tuesday is to gorge yourself before lent which is a 40 day fast. I'll be giving up chocolate for lent like I used to do back in catholic school (apart from march 17th, St Patrick's day is a day off!) Wish me luck!