How many donuts for people coming over the day after Thanksgiving?

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I'd get 2 dozen.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm surprised by how many people think as long as their kids are not overweight it means they're healthy and can eat any junk food their hearts desire.

It’s a single meal, relax

This is the attitude for every meal. Coming off of the huge Thanksgiving meal. Rolling into the holiday season. It’s no surprise Americans are so overweight. It’s never “just this once”. OP even says donuts are offered all the time. It’s not a treat at that point.

Welp, since you decided that this imaginary scenario happened, then yes…”Americans overweight”.

Well, it’s actually a fact. Not an imaginary scenario. In the future, people with means won’t be fat gorging on donuts.

A) Thank you for responding f-ing immediately 😂 B) It’s one meal. Only someone with an eating disorder would freak out about donuts being served once

It’s never once. Read the responses. I mean, how many donuts do you eat that this is a big deal to you that you need 3 more on a morning like this?

I rarely eat sugary breakfasts, but I’m still not understanding the absolute freak-out about OP having donuts for her guests on a single morning?

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Anonymous wrote:I'm surprised by how many people think as long as their kids are not overweight it means they're healthy and can eat any junk food their hearts desire.

It’s a single meal, relax

This is the attitude for every meal. Coming off of the huge Thanksgiving meal. Rolling into the holiday season. It’s no surprise Americans are so overweight. It’s never “just this once”. OP even says donuts are offered all the time. It’s not a treat at that point.

Welp, since you decided that this imaginary scenario happened, then yes…”Americans overweight”.

Well, it’s actually a fact. Not an imaginary scenario. In the future, people with means won’t be fat gorging on donuts.

A) Thank you for responding f-ing immediately 😂 B) It’s one meal. Only someone with an eating disorder would freak out about donuts being served once

It’s never once. Read the responses. I mean, how many donuts do you eat that this is a big deal to you that you need 3 more on a morning like this?

I rarely eat sugary breakfasts, but I’m still not understanding the absolute freak-out about OP having donuts for her guests on a single morning?

Because a lot of people don’t want that and OP is not going to bother offer anything else. It’s hardly a freak out and more of a head scratcher. Do you typically offer guests 1 option only?

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Anonymous wrote:OP it sounds like you don’t want to cook which is fine but I would not be thrilled if my family was only served coffee and a donut for breakfast, I don’t really eat donuts and I would feel awful with only that in my system. My car would discreetly be stopping for a breakfast sandwich on the way.

I would really try to at least have some fruit and yogurt available. I don’t understand the thinking of being unable to cook eggs without meat so I am guessing you just don’t want to even cook eggs which is ok but otherwise I think eggs are fast and easy (and cheap) to serve along with donuts and fruit.

Great, feed yourself. Don’t complain. And no, eggs are not “fast and easy.” Some people want scrambled, others want poached, etc.

what about the gluten free guests? Nothing for them?

[Anonymous]

Cake donuts, I hope. Not those mooshy raised ones.

[Anonymous]

Can you get a dozen bagels instead?

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Anonymous wrote:I'm surprised by how many people think as long as their kids are not overweight it means they're healthy and can eat any junk food their hearts desire.

It’s a single meal, relax

This is the attitude for every meal. Coming off of the huge Thanksgiving meal. Rolling into the holiday season. It’s no surprise Americans are so overweight. It’s never “just this once”. OP even says donuts are offered all the time. It’s not a treat at that point.

Welp, since you decided that this imaginary scenario happened, then yes…”Americans overweight”.

Well, it’s actually a fact. Not an imaginary scenario. In the future, people with means won’t be fat gorging on donuts.

A) Thank you for responding f-ing immediately 😂 B) It’s one meal. Only someone with an eating disorder would freak out about donuts being served once

It’s never once. Read the responses. I mean, how many donuts do you eat that this is a big deal to you that you need 3 more on a morning like this?

I rarely eat sugary breakfasts, but I’m still not understanding the absolute freak-out about OP having donuts for her guests on a single morning?

Because a lot of people don’t want that and OP is not going to bother offer anything else. It’s hardly a freak out and more of a head scratcher. Do you typically offer guests 1 option only?

I think donuts are a blue collar baby boomer thing. I don't know anyone who eats donuts in 2025.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm surprised by how many people think as long as their kids are not overweight it means they're healthy and can eat any junk food their hearts desire.

It’s a single meal, relax

This is the attitude for every meal. Coming off of the huge Thanksgiving meal. Rolling into the holiday season. It’s no surprise Americans are so overweight. It’s never “just this once”. OP even says donuts are offered all the time. It’s not a treat at that point.

Welp, since you decided that this imaginary scenario happened, then yes…”Americans overweight”.

Well, it’s actually a fact. Not an imaginary scenario. In the future, people with means won’t be fat gorging on donuts.

A) Thank you for responding f-ing immediately 😂 B) It’s one meal. Only someone with an eating disorder would freak out about donuts being served once

It’s never once. Read the responses. I mean, how many donuts do you eat that this is a big deal to you that you need 3 more on a morning like this?

I rarely eat sugary breakfasts, but I’m still not understanding the absolute freak-out about OP having donuts for her guests on a single morning?

Because a lot of people don’t want that and OP is not going to bother offer anything else. It’s hardly a freak out and more of a head scratcher. Do you typically offer guests 1 option only?

The OP makes it sound like they are all headed out to another family member’s house. So OP simply wanted something quick and easy with no cooking or clean up.

People freaking out over literally one morning are something else. Lots of people eat differently over the holidays and if the super high maintenance adults are such perfect clean eaters, they’ll survive until lunch if they pass on the donuts.

[Anonymous]

Maybe you could serve banana or pumpkin bread instead.

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Anonymous wrote:Op here. Thanks PPs!


I decided donuts and coffee since that’s what they serve at my kids schools for years for grab and go breakfasts. It seems to be a common option. I’ve seen bagels less often for whatever reason, they just aren’t served? Maybe due to cream cheese options needed and knives to cut bagels?

With scrambled eggs, it would seem there would need to be a meat and then some people don’t like sausage, others don’t like bacon, some don’t like crispy bacon, etc… I also considered porridge but Oatmeal vs. Grits vs. Cream of Wheat, is more of a sit down meal and my children don’t all like the same one so I figure their children may be the same and that’s far too much time spent cooking multiple options ahead of a somewhat long drive. Especially if we are running behind which they tend to be.

There is lunch being served at the relatives home everyone is headed to.

OP, you know your crowd. If you think they'll be fine with donuts, get 2 dozen and call it a day.

If you think there is someone in the crowd who will freak out at the thought of donuts for breakfast, add a few ready-to-eat yogurt cups or muffins.

Hard boiled eggs could also work, or a few boxes of instant grits and instant oatmeal that could just be made in a mug with hot water!

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Anonymous wrote:Can you get a dozen bagels instead?

This high maintenance group would then have a whole debate about what kind of bagels, toasted or untoasted, and find issue with whatever cream cheese OP chose. It wouldn’t be sufficient either.

[Anonymous]

Get two dozen doughnuts. Only if you decide to add something else…

I need to watch my carbs for health reasons, so adding bananas and sweetened yogurt wouldn’t really help me. I’d love it if you had options like Starbucks has in their little grab and go containers. If I could grab a hard boiled egg, some hunks of cheese, a handful of nuts, maybe a little fruit, that would be great.

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As a sole breakfast offering? That's so bad for all the people with elevated H1C. The worst is that most adults in the US have abnormal levels of H1C and they don't even know it. It leads to diabetes.

I know you're worried about being exhausted from your Thanksgiving efforts, but please do something else for the adults (hard boiled eggs? yogurt?). We can't expect to have European or Japanese longevities if we think multiple doughuts for breakfast is a normal thing.

[Anonymous]

I have not read all 8 pages on this topic but just noting that often the cost of 12 is not much ore than 6 donuts so it makes sense to buy in dozens. Get 2 dozen, Toss some f they do not get eaten...or freeze them.

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Anonymous wrote:Please don’t put one dozen out for a group of 9, regardless of the age breakdown of the group.

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