what does your child have for breakfast

tw1nklestar

just a question because i work in early years in a primary school and i am very nosey - what does your little one (or big one) have for breakfast before heading off for school. Sometimes my children wouldnt eat anything but sometimes they would have eggy bread and bacon, cereal or toast - personally i dont eat breakfast until break time and i think my habits have rubbed off on the children - my grandson is so different from me and my children as his main meal seems to be a breakfast where he will eat cereal, toast, a yoghurt followed by melon, strawberries and blueberries but will then eat very little throughout the day

steph7163

hi
my 4yr old has cereal or porridge followed by toast or waffles then a yoghurt and fruit sometimes a biscuit aswell . my 2yr old isnt a morning baby and prefers to graze bits of all of the above throughout the day
be interesting to see what others have
stephx

GlasweJen

I've never been a breakfast eater, even in here they're hard pushed to make me take anything before lunch time.

Darlyd

DD1 has nothing, she ends up having a bacon cob in school in breakfast club, not like I don't have bacon here. argh.

DD2 has a breakfast bar and a banana. OR a piece of toast OR THL biscuits (the pack of 3).

Sometimes on a weekend when I am having a lay in, I come down to empty crisp/maltesers packets and a bowl which looks like ice cream .. What the hell, I have had ice cream for breakfast before now.... lol

I don't eat within the first hr or 2 or sometimes 3 of waking up. lol

merlot123

My children (13 and 15) don't eat breakfast, can't face it they say, then again I have not eaten breakfast for years myself.

I can't stand the smell of food in a morning. My OH has porridge and I'm heaving at the smell and the fact he is eating 10 mins after getting out of bed.

On a weekend the children will eat brunch at 11.00, after they have been up for several hours.

I tend to pack them off to school with packed lunch and a snack for morning break.

*Louise*

My lot have cereal during the week cos it's quick to make - DS1 will sneak out having had nothing if I don't keep an eye on him. He is like me, doesn't like eating first thing but lunch at high school is so late that he would be all out of energy by the time he got to eat

I usually do the school run, come home and clean then sit down with porridge or weetabix and a cuppa at 10.30 for breakfast......that gives me 40 mins before I have to pick DD up from nursery, the only meal of the day that's uninterrupted...bliss :rotfl:

Kaz2904

Haha, I do the same as you Louise!
Mine have either toast, porridge, bran flakes or muesli (weird huh?). Sometimes they're still hungry so can have more or fruit or nothing depending on how close we are to walking out of the front door!

anniemf2508

Both mine don't really like cereal or toast so on a sunday i try to batch cook a load of scotch pancakes, then portion them off into single portions (about 5), they can then be frozen and bunged in the microwave for a couple of minutes when needed

FarmersWife_2

DD1 (5) usually has cereal or a cereal bar and then on a weekend we all sit down together to a cooked breakfast.

FarmersWife_2

anniemf2508 wrote: »

Both mine don't really like cereal or toast so on a sunday i try to batch cook a load of scotch pancakes, then portion them off into single portions (about 5), they can then be frozen and bunged in the microwave for a couple of minutes when needed

Ohhh I like this idea....

C x

ciderwithrosie_2

I don't think mine have ever gone without breakfast - they're always starving when they get up - usually cereal or toast in the week, on a weekend I'll do something like bacon sarnies, american pancakes, eggy bread or omelettes (sp). For years, the only breakfast DS3 would have was Ready Brek, even in the height of summer! Still, all that calcium and he's the tallest of the 3.