Breakfast before school

Egg & toast, porridge & fruit, bagel, rasin toast, wheatabix & banana, yoghurt & fruit. Pancakes at the weekend 😋

Please leave him alone. And for the love of god, don't resort to chocolate.That's an awful habit to set up.

I was that child. Write from reception age.I never ate breakfast and I didn't want it. My mum was obsessed with feeding me too.

Lo and behold I'm in my late thirties, and I have always struggled to eat breakfast. Leave him be. Some people just don't feel hungry in the morning.

Bacon is processed meat, and according to W.H.O is associated with an increased risk of cancer, In fact they class it as a group one carcinogen. I don’t buy any processed meat.

My DC goes through phases. We've had granola, yoghurt and prunes, Shreddies, bread or croissants with jam. Needs to be quick on a school day as we frequently get up, get ready and arrive at the school gates in 40mins!

On weekends I'll sometimes make pancakes or waffles.

I'd love them to eat eggs but they won't.

11 year old has 2 slices of toast with butter (has to be butter), a big pot fromage frais and fruit plus a drink of milk

Eldest with ASD has a peanut butter sandwich every day (must be correct type of bread and correct type of peanut butter). Youngest usually has porridge or yogurt granola and fruit. He’s quite adventurous so we mix up different flavours and toppings like seeds and dried fruit.

Mine was the same @FuckoffeeBeforeCoffee but I found a recipe for high protein muffins on bbc food and he loves them. I did add a few chocolate chips to encourage him to eat them but that feels like a small price to pay.

Many years ago, when I was a student, I house-shared with a vegan, who put fruit juice on her cereal. I tried it and thought it was really nice, but the cereal in question was muesli, (I don't know what rice krispies would be like splashed in orange juice) and it seemed expensive. But it made a change from toast and it's was certainly quicker than porridge.

My child doesn't really eat breakfast in the morning. He'll pick at some toast or cereal but never more than a couple of bites. He will drink a glass of whole milk though. It's a bit of a concern as he doesn't usually eat anything at school either at the moment, bar a few carrot sticks on some days. I try to load him up in the evening.

I think breakfast time, especially on a school and work week, can be very tricky for families. Everyone has to be up and ready early, lots of rushing around. Some children, as well as adults struggle to eat early in the mornings. Others may have all sorts of reasons why they don't manage breakfast. Many primary schools now are offering free breakfast each morning, usually comprised of toast, yogurt, fruit, cereal and milk. The children can choose to sit, relax, and eat breakfast with their friends in their own classrooms when they arrive at school. Breakfast time lasts for about half an hour after everyone has arrived. It's a good social time and encourages children to have breakfast and try new foods. I think this is a great idea and takes pressure off that early morning rush.

Sneering at cereal only to reveal your ‘healthy’ breakfast of cheese and bacon… a joke surely!?

Porridge. Every morning. She loves it… Although, she did sneak a small chocolate ball from her Halloween stash before we left for school today. So you could argue she had chocolate for breakfast 😆

We don't eat pork products so no

My kids vary.
Oldest i have to force a piece of toast or fruit
Youngest likes weetabix, omlette, banana, croissant. Usually 2 or 3 things as is most hungry in the morning.
Me nothing till lunch

Porridge, cereal, toast, sometimes beans on toast. I Have always had a real thing about it my kids going to school hungry so make sure they’ve had a good feed. However it definitely gets harder as they get older and I have less control!
I’m a secondary school teacher and so many kids (from all backgrounds!) come in having eaten nothing, or with bags of biscuits/sweets… they then fill themselves up at break time with bagels,toast etc that they could have got at home?

Toast here, but eldest has it smothered in chocolate spread, so probably not much better than a chocolate bar! She needs tempting to have any breakfast at all, she's never been hungry much in the morning and we leave early so anything that tempts her to eat..... Younger 3 not so picky.

Depends how much time we have.
Very sport 8 year old, he does some sort of organised sport 5 days per week.
Most days: small bowl of shreddies, blueberries or grapes, cucumber and a crumpet with butter. occasionally a boiled egg.
If i have time: 2 scrambled eggs on brown toast with cucumber, cherry tomatoes and fruit plus a brioche bun. milk in a cup.

As a teacher- yes it's very true!

Usually cereal or toast, plus I buy one pack of other breakfasty things per week (crumpets/scotch pancakes/waffles that you put in the toaster). I keep trying to encourage the kids (10 & 13) to have non-sugary cereals / Marmite instead of jam at least half the time. Sometimes eggs or croissants at the weekend but not always.

Yes, it does matter. A chocolate bar for breakfast every morning is harmful for a number of reasons. Do you really not know this?!

We have all sorts of things, my ds normally has porridge, fruit, maybe some nuts, I often make banana bread to use them up and he loves that- he'll have a few courses normally. My dd is fussier and tends to either have a yoghurt, fruit, sometimes some granola, sometimes some frosties, quite often a waffle from a packet which might not be much better than chocolate tbh, and she drinks nothing so I blitz her up fruit juice and frozen berries for a smoothie (probably full of sugar but it's vitamins and it fills her up so I don't care)
Honestly - everyone is in a different place, I personally don't believe many/any children I know are having a chocolate bar. Equally, lots of children/parents have nothing so somethings got to beat nothing. It's not really anyone's job to judge/discuss, safeguarding policies are in place if teachers are worried about neglect so they should follow those not gossip to other parents.

Cheese and bacon are hardly healthy foods! I don't think you should be quite so judgy about cereal!

Never cereal, I prefer healthy food.
Usually egg or cheese based, perhaps bacon once a week.

My son (age 11, Y7) has 3 weetabix and a drink of milk. Often followed by toast or cheese and apple.

He is very tall for his age and slim so has a big appetite 😂

I struggled with breakfast as a kid as I don't like milk really - have it in tea but not otherwise. Still don't have much now.

It's fucking awful for children to have a chocolate bar for breakfast. You can call that 'judgy' all you want. Because I am judging