Bread alternatives

Tink_04

My kids love bread!

It's just a lot daily for then I think, so I'm trying to swap out things for them but I'm getting stuck, especially when I'm trying to make good choices for them health wise too.

They want toast for breakfast, sandwiches or toasties for lunch - anything on toast or muffins, crumpets! It's just all bread based.

They do eat quite healthy & have a lot of eggs, fruit, veg etc but think as its warmer they are wanting light quick meals & with the 6 weeks approaching I'm looking for something other than sandwiches to eat this summer.

Thanks

SailorSam

Let them eat cake.
Who said that ? Mr Kipling ?

Tink_04

They would love that haha!

Nicki

Is it that they want snack food which is easily portable, or that they want quick food.

For snack food, onion Bhajis, mini quiches, chicken satay,

For quick and easy, dips and crudit!s, salads, slices of quiche or pie, soup?

Tiddlywinks

Tink_04 wrote: »

My kids love bread!

It's just a lot daily for then I think, so I'm trying to swap out things for them but I'm getting stuck, especially when I'm trying to make good choices for them health wise too.

They want toast for breakfast, sandwiches or toasties for lunch - anything on toast or muffins, crumpets! It's just all bread based.

They do eat quite healthy & have a lot of eggs, fruit, veg etc but think as its warmer they are wanting light quick meals & with the 6 weeks approaching I'm looking for something other than sandwiches to eat this summer.

Thanks

Bread can be healthy you know - it's what you put on it that can be the problem.

If you make it yourself then it's low salt and sugar and will be additive free.

Beans on toast is one of the most nutritious and filling snacks you can have.

Unless the kids have said they are fed up with bread I don't really see a problem.

As an alternative there is couscous, crudites with humous, crispbreads with cream cheese, home made soup with crackers - the list is endless.

BUT I personally wouldn't ditch the bread unless the kids are asking to scale back on it.

Butterfly_Brain

Wraps are a good alternative and they do wholemeal ones as well. If you want snacky food, you can't go wrong with lots of fruit, raw carrots, celery with cream cheese and a sprinkling of sultanas, or make a plate of raw veggies and supply a nice dip for them.
My two loved Chicken drumsticks, I used to make cheese straws as well.

In the war children were given the "Oslo" meal which comprised of :

• 2 slices of wholewheat bread spread with a little margarine or butter
• small block of cheese grated and placed over salad if wished
• fresh lettuce leaves
• other salad items like carrot, cucumber or tomato
• glass of cold milk

It was originally given as an experiment to school children during WWII. It was a nutritious, that improved the development and health of the children.

Tink_04

Thanks for the ideas

Just alternative ideas really and to mix it up a bit for them - I think a variety of food is important.

There 6 and 2 and have lot of energy to burn - we are going through a loaf of bread a day and as I don't eat bread (DH does) this can't be good for them! We use 50/50 bread but I still can't see it being that healthy in that amount.

Today we had cereal & toast for breakfast - tuna sandwiches for lunch - then I made BBQ chicken, sweet corn with sweet potatoes chips for tea. They have also eaten cheese, a little yoghurt, packet of crisps, strawberrys & pear. They have now asked for toast for supper. This is me scaling it back as I said they couldn't have bread and butter with lunch.

It makes 7 slices of bread each today!

Think the toast & supply of bread and butter or bread and jam is what needs switched over.

Mrs_Soup

How are they getting to 7 slices on that? If breakfast is cereals as well as toast then 1 slice should be enough surely. Then 2 for a sandwich at lunch and one for supper if you can't convince them to have something else. That's 4 slices per day not 7. I am not in a position to criticise as I have a child with a very weird diet but would they eat more veg perhaps with their dinner. Put beans or an egg on one slice of toast instead of giving two slices of toast and jam?

Tiddlywinks

Tink_04 wrote: »

Thanks for the ideas

Just alternative ideas really and to mix it up a bit for them - I think a variety of food is important.

There 6 and 2 and have lot of energy to burn - we are going through a loaf of bread a day and as I don't eat bread (DH does) this can't be good for them! We use 50/50 bread but I still can't see it being that healthy in that amount.

Today we had cereal & toast for breakfast - tuna sandwiches for lunch - then I made BBQ chicken, sweet corn with sweet potatoes chips for tea. They have also eaten cheese, a little yoghurt, packet of crisps, strawberrys & pear. They have now asked for toast for supper. This is me scaling it back as I said they couldn't have bread and butter with lunch.

It makes 7 slices of bread each today!

Think the toast & supply of bread and butter or bread and jam is what needs switched over.

What exactly have you got against bread - you're not really explaining it.

The kids like it, they ask for it... so, what's the problem.

Why do you think it's unhealthy?

Like I wrote earlier, you could make your own everyday (even if in a bread machine). It would then be cheaper, have less additives and you can make it low salt too.

If you're happy to give them chips (even though made from sweet potato) and crisps (full of fat) then I don't get it.

milasavesmoney

Perhaps you could replace the toast when you make them cereal with fruit they like?

Tink_04

I just think everything in moderation.

I can't manage to make my own bread and I don't have a bread maker - chips are literally sliced sweet potatoes and a bag of crisps in a packed lunch today on a Saturday is hardly an issue at all.

What I'm looking for is some alternatives to bread if anyone has some good ideas or is in the same situation with bread obsessed kids?

Thanks