Breakfast before school

I don't either but crumpets are no better than cereal is my point while you seem to consider them superior.

It’s shocking how much crap is pumped into cereals and white bread. Did you know the added vitamins “folic acid” is not suitable for those with adhd as they can’t absorb this synthetic version (folate is the natural substance).

I have read every packed going. Now buy oats, shredded wheat/bitesize or the new M&S cereals with the ingredients listed on the packed ie. 100% corn or 5 ingredient hoops. Even the assumed healthy weetabix are awful.

if you don’t have milk, oat milk is great on cereal or to make lovely creamy porridge, or coconut milk is lovely to make porridge too with raspberries, so no sugar, loads of seeds too.

They were absolutely fine for my GD in moderation, no different to bread which I could have once a day and I managed mine with diet alone. So paired with the right fats I could have them. But your comment was that they are “sugary” which is not the same thing at all.

I don’t five a rats arse about eating some UPF though. Life is too short for that nonsense. Balanced diets are what are needed, no hysteria over carbs and my DD will have them once or twice a week.

They have a really high glycaemic index, when I had gestational diabetes crumpets spiked my blood sugar over 13, similar to rice crispies and orange juice. They're upf. They definitely are not good breakfast items for kids unless also served with eggs or other protein. It's not just the sugar it's the simple carbs

Eh?
Crumpets are no more sugary than bread. They aren’t especially sweet although shop bought will have sugar in then. The ones I have are 2% sugars.

Arent crumpets sugary shit? I love a crumpet, especially with a poached egg on but think of them as a junky food. Going to buy some today now I think of it

Weetabix, seeded bread toast or porridge is what my 7 yr old has in the morning. Occasionally a more sugary cereal like rice crispies.

Youngest is 4 and used to also do Weetabix or Cheerios but doesn't like toast, recently will.onlybeat cereal dry like a snack with a cup of milk on the side and not at breakfast time. She normally has a pancake or brioche roll and a yoghurt. Sometimes she asks for crackers and she's such a bad eater right now that I will let her have crackers and cheese. I offer scrambled eggs every morning and a couple of mornings a week she'll eat a scrambled egg instead of a yoghurt.

I then chop up a couple of pieces of fruit for them on the side, few strawberries and a pear maybe.

Eldest used to hate milk so always had oat milk but now happily has either.

Weekends porridge or homemade pancakes or french toast

Do you know these kids?

What a great opportunity for a stealth post.

What is the point of your question, OP?
Any food that you can think of would have been consumed at one point as breakfast.

A boiled egg, slice of toast with butter and a glass of milk almost everyday. That's what my 8 year old likes, and I like to give some protein at breakfast.

Another smug Mumsnet post, congratulations on winning at the parenting. I'm sure there probably are some kids who are given a chocolate bar for breakfast but seriously who is going to put that on here?
" Oh yes it's me! I feed my children a mars bar for breakfast!'

We have healthy cereal, bread, crumpets, pittas in the cupboard. Neither will eat eggs. My year 10 DS often takes a thermos food flask of porridge oats and skimmed milk powder to add hot water to at morning break because, like me, he cannot stomach food before 10am. My year 7 DD eats generally eats cereal or toast before school, but both sort themselves out. I just deal with the carnage left in the kitchen as proof they've eaten, or are going to.

Usually porridge,, Wheetabix or shreddies.
We have to leave by 7.30 and sometimes we’re running so late it’s a car breakfast of banana, cheese sandwich, toasted tea cake or something else portable. There’s food at breakfast club if he wants something else.

Thank you.

I worry because he’s tiny. He’s the smallest in his year and has been since reception (he’s now year 5), so I really don’t like him skipping meals.

My strapping DGS(20) used not to eat breakfast before school because he just didn't like to eat first thing - he had a very healthy appetite for other meals.

If your son is otherwise healthy and doing well at school I wouldn't worry.

For those people saying healthy eating information is out there for people to find if theyneed, there are families in this country where none of the adults can even read. I have met a fair few through my job. Some are open about it others are embarrassed.

There are many barriers to why children have poor diets.

Sugary cereal is not the reason childhood obesity is increasing. Coco pops have been sold since before I was a child.

There’s more sugar in a muller light yoghurt than in a serving of coco-pops. Cereal isn’t evil, it would be bad if it was all a child ate but actually a serving of coco pops with milk delivers quite a lot of the recommended nutrition per day.

Awful isn't it, I've seen kids having sweets for breakfast. Epic parenting fail.

Seriously, we are going round in circles here, people are telling you why this happens, that it doesn’t mean parents don’t love their kids, they just don’t know how to care for them, because they weren’t cared for. Are you really in so much of a bubble you don’t know how poverty works?

Food neglect and neglect at home aren’t mutually exclusive. The kids with chaotic home lives, with no proper food in the house, are often also the ones given 50p to buy something on the way to school and they pick a chocolate bar. They might not have a parent who can even get out of bed to think about feeding them, let alone feeding them something nutritious.

Uh huh, if you say so.

In my experience, it's difficult enough getting one for your child when your child actually has a medical issue. I find it hard to believe that there's all these children out there under one just because of poor parenting.

Anyway, it's irrelevant since my child does have a medical issue and the advice from the dietitian who actually knows my child and his medical issue is eat the coco pops.

I eat cereal for breakfast. Might be anything from weetabix to frosties. I have done all my 40 years on this earth. I have made it to 40 unscathed whilst eating cereal nearly every day. I work for the nhs and i've seen neglect in children and eating cereal really isn't neglect.

Believe it. I’d sooner send a child to school on a bowl of coco pops than on nothing.

Food poverty is real in this country. Some people feed their kids what they have.

Dietary restrictions and food avoidance mean some of us can’t feed our children freshly baked home made bread, and free range eggs, because they will not eat it. And fed… is best.

Actual child neglect exists. There are parents who actually do neglect their children, in the real sense. The kind social services actually care about.

Feeding your children cereal, is not neglect. It may not be the “ideal,” but it’s not neglect. It might be neglect in whatever leafy suburb you live in with children who eat whatever organic food you give them, but out here in the real world.. it isn’t.

Cannot believe in this age with all the information you have at your fingertips, literally you would think giving your child coco pops for a meal is ok.