what does your child have for breakfast

yummymummy79

Me and DS always have to have breakfast as soon as we come downstairs, he's definitely got that from me! Generally it'll be porridge with honey and strwaberries/blackberries/raspberries and a glass of juice, pretty much 2 of his 5 a day straight off. He'll occasionally have shreddies or rice krispie multigrain shapes instead. Whatever he has will be followed with a yoghurt, mullerice etc so he's definitely set up for the day.

hightara

pancakes, cereal or toast

they all take something different but usually just one of the above.

anniemf2508

FarmersWife wrote: »

Ohhh I like this idea....

C x

out of a mixture of 2 eggs, 150g of flour and a slug of milk (you can add sugar if you wish to) i get about 60 middle size pancakes.

Also going down well in my house at the moment are sultana and apricot buns...they are kind of like a chelsea bun but smaller, you can freeze them too. I make the same dough also into savoury buns too for lunches instead of sandwiches. I make a batch of these once a fortnight.

mysk_girl

DD aged 4 doesn't eat much, a bit of Weetabix and half a slice of toast. DS aged 20 months has 2 weetabix, banana, 2 slices of toast and a yogurt. And he would have more if I let him and had time! That lot takes about half an hour, I have to leave for work at 7am with both kids in the car... I suspect the childminder feeds him as well, to be honest, but he is skinny and tall for his age, never stops running around from 5am to 6pm (when he literally falls into bed!), so I'm just going with the flow. Nice to see some others have a big breakfast, I was getting a bit worried about how much he eats. He doesn't do lunch, but teatime can be a good sized meal as well, sometimes as much as I eat (although that much is rare...). He polished off a massive portion of thai green chicken curry last night..

Lotus-eater

In the summer it's cereal with soft fruit from the garden, now we've just changed to porridge.

At the weekends they are allowed hagelslag (chocolate sprinkles) in the porridge.

They both wake up starving and begging us to go down for breakfast.

skylight

We are quite boring here and its cereal with full fat milk (anything from choco flakes to museli - I buy a varied selection each week so they have to have different ones) and a yoghurt followed by a juice or squash depending on what stage of the month it is (that week before payday leaves them with squash!)

Weekends can be cooked breakfast, toast, bacon sarnies etc. Or perhaps just cereal if we get up late!

Becles

Cereal or toast on a school morning as it's a bit of a rush, as my eldest two leave at 7.50am.

They like making omlettes, bacon sarnies, pancakes etc., on a weekend when we've got more time.

peachyprice

One DS has nothing and hasn't for years, but neither do I, the other has just started to have cereal again, DD has chocolate pancakes or cereal.

No-one is a big breakfaster, they certainly would never expect anyting cooked, probably because they'd have to do it themselves cos I'm certainly not going to do it for them, I can think of nothing more nauseating than cooking first thing in the morning _pale_

tom9980

My partner is a primary school teacher as well, during her training 2 years ago on placement they did a healthy eating topic and about half of the 28 children had nothing or just a drink for breakfast. She and the teacher were shocked!

My guess is you will get lots of nice answers here with lots of good choices and options simply because most people on this forum are a lot more savvy than the average parents.

fannyadams

DS#1 (10 - secondary school) would sneak out the house without anything then have a breakfast barm at school. but luckily his Daddy (HWTHMBO) gets him up to eat toast or cereal. DS#1 takes after me - I can't eat breakfast first thing and usually have toast or bacon and egg sarnie around 10:30.

DS#2 (7 - primary school) would stay home and eat all the cereal we have (!) before going to school. takes after his Dad (HWTHMBO) and has tow bowls of different cereal, and then when I finall make it downstairs (not a morning person) he asks if he can have toast.

mind you, all the boys in my house have racing snake physiques despite the amouts they all eat.

On the weekend we usually have a brunch around 11, but I usually find that they've (all of them) eaten something from the breakfast cupboard (Belvita breakfast biscuits/cereal) before I make it downstairs.

I've just read that back and it makes me sound like a really lazy mare...