Alternatives to Breakfast Cereals for Children

narabanekeater

Tesc o have there own brand cereals on 342 at the moment

Lilyplonk

Was going to suggest 'Eggy Bread' - but others have already beaten me to it!

As MrsLurcherwalker said - you can make one egg do 2 servings when skint - just add a little extra milk. Serve them sweet or savoury - depending on what the child prefers :drool:.

Steve059

Meadows wrote: »

Steve059 wrote: »

Porridge? However, it isn't really quick

How long you cooking your porridge for? Normally you bring to the boil & simmer for a few minutes.

True, but it still takes more time than opening a box of cereal, pouring it into a bowl and then pouring on the milk.

Ilona

Some good ideas here. I suggest that the op does most of the preparation the night before, lay things out on the table, and gets up ten minutes earlier. Cooking porridge is so simple, even the way I do it. Water in the pan, on the gas stove, add a spoon of Coffee Mate (dried milk), add three desert spoons of oats. Chuck in a few sultanas, bring to boil, simmer for 1 minute, job done. Add tinned fruit if you like.
Ilona

quintwins

You can soak porridge overnight to plump it out then just bring to the boil and serve, saying that even tho they all used to eat it one of my kids has went off porridge so theres no point making different breakfasts.

Egg baps, (sliced egg in a bap)
Toasted muffins with butter are very popular here aswell i usually grab them reduced or you can make your own.
Ofcourse the usual fruit and yogurt

Gigervamp

If you have a slow cooker, you could do porridge in that and let it cook overnight. Then it's just a case of serving it up.

Tinks32

Peaches & Cream (or Greek Yoghurt) I buy mine from Asda 29p a tin.
I'm a low carber so don't do cereals, but I do muffin in a minute. (mim for short) 40g ground Flaxseed, 1/2 teaspoon baking powder and 1 egg. Mix dry ingredients together, then add the egg, place in little mini latex muffin cases nuke (cook) in the microwave for 1 minute then leave to cool. top with what ever you fancy, cream cheese, butter and Vegemite, melted cheese. Or cook in a little dish (rectangular) and then you have a toast shape with can be grilled, served with ham and cheese or just eaten plain. (they keep for about 3 days in the fridge).
Another good option is dried fruit and nuts. (Pecan's and Walnuts are the best ones)

mrsd

How about flapjacks, oats are cheap as others have said, and they can be made in advance and kept in a tin, always go down well in our house. I cut down on the amount of sugar and add vanilla and dried fruit, sometimes even mashed banana, chopped apple or blueberries if they are on offer. cheaper than breakfast bars too.
I also make dough in my bread maker and make fruit teacake style buns, if I am baking will do HM muffins. All sweet but I cut back on sugar etc where possible add as much fruit as I can.

Wornoutmom

Thanks everyone My lot do love eggs, we do have them for weekend breakfasts. Pancakes they love too and waffles but never very organised on school mornings not a morning person ;-) will have to do some big batches of things and freeze. Really need to get myself some motivation in a morning.

Not sure I could swing them onto porridge, they wont touch weetabix apart from the youngest. They would love fruit and yoghurt, they are mad on strawberries etc but not sure I could afford that very often with the prices of the fruit. Some fruits have become a real treat recently

Wornoutmom

Barbeduk wrote: »

Baked beans with a poached egg on top, yum.

This is one of my favourite lunches loved it since I was a child