Breakfast before school

My eldest doesn't have breakfast, doesn’t like eating early but will have toast or cereal at school if they want it. At weekends they will have something around 9/10 and it could be anything, likes noodles.

My youngest likes cereal, crumpets, toast, but will sometimes have an ice cream like a rowntrees fruit stack, or a couple of biscuits or a small chocolate bar.

I occasionally like a mars bar for breakfast in the car if we've got up and out busy early

I also think it’s not very professional of a teacher to make comments like this. If she’s concerned about the welfare of her students she should report her concerns. You’d have to be living under a rock to not realise that some children are sent off with a Kit Kat and an energy drink, there will be other children who wake up to bare cupboards, not okay obviously but of course they exist.
I’ve just been reading Kathy Burkes autobiography, her mum died when she was a baby and her dad was an alcoholic. As you can imagine she didn’t have the best start and there is a lot of talk about the lack of food but also how kind some of her teachers/neighbours/friends mums were, they would stop her some mornings and give her a bowl of cornflakes or half a bacon sandwich, little acts of kindness that made a world of difference.

Cereal, toast, bagels, sandwiches. I do allow them sugary cereal one or twice a week and things like Nutella now and again but most of the time it's either weetabix or toast with either butter, honey or cheese spread.

Exactly! I'm a teacher but not primary so it tended to be kids buying their own snacks on the way to school. But have seen multiple kids eating Doritos, fizzy sweets, energy drinks first thing in the morning.

And one parent - obv completely in the minority - who we had to wait for before leaving on an afternoon trip during summer school. Her DS was autistic and would not eat the school lunch (totally fair enough). The lunch was a giant pack of jelly babies. I understand there can be ARFID and all kinds of sensory issues around food - I have autistic family members, obv it's not a monolith - but was still pretty shocked at that one.

Since primary ds had a huge bowl of porridge oats with a large sliced banana mixed in and a large glass of milk.

22 years old and still has the same, but with protein powder mixed in 🤦🏻‍♀️ (except weekends where it can vary)

My son doesn’t like milk so no cereal here either. He’ll have pancakes (just little Aldi ones I pop in the toaster), or he’ll have a cereal bar (blueberry nutrigrain) and some fruit (watermelon and apple.) On cold days he’ll have a bowl of Wee Willie Winkie sausages (were in Scotland I’m not sure if you get them anywhere else)

We have very limited time and my daughter is a slow eater so we tend to do toast/croissant/pancakes plus fruit which can be finished in the car if needed.

She loves cereal but I easily takes 40 minutes to eat it!

My 11 year old sometimes has cereal, sometimes a yoghurt

My 8 year old has toaster waffles with Jam and cream - Not at all healthy but he wont eat cereal and doesn't like bread. He has a salad for his lunch every day and would always choose fruit or veg over sweets so im lenient with this for him

Chocolate bar (SENd) mum 👋🏻

Well. Sort of.

He has porridge or toast.

He also demands a chocolate bar usually just before we leave the house.

Depending how horrendous our day has started/last nights sleep was, if he’s eaten his breakfast I have been known to give in. If he’s not had breakfast, he doesn’t get that as a replacement.

Today was 2x bowls of porridge, and essentially forced into the car with 2x small kinder bar things, because we’d been up since 1:30am and I just wanted to leave for school 😂.

Any of the following in a school day: Wheetabix, granary toast, egg on toast, shreddies, porridge, bowl of mixed fruit, salami or ham sandwich on granary.
Weekends might be a cooked breakfast, pan au chocolate for a treat, occassional pancakes or any of the same as the weekday breakfast.

Can do scrambled egg in microwave. Put in bowl, beat up with splash of milk. Cook for one minute, stir up partly cooked egg and put on for another minute. Ta da scrambled egg!!! Any 8 year old should be capable of that surely

Youngest 2 almost always an egg sandwich - eaten in the road in the way to the bus stop. Dc2 (left home now) either nothing or yoghurt and granola - she likes a breakfast wrap of hash browns and sausage but rarely gets up in time to make it. Dc1 (also left home) liked porridge but was also a big fan of last nights dinner microwaved.

Mine are in a bagel phase, mainly just buttered or cream cheese, sometimes I make a big skillet of folded scrambled egg and put that with some cheese in it. Porridge with berries and peanut butter for when they have busy days ahead, and if we're really running late then toast or a pastry. We don't do chocolate or sugary cereal for breakfast

Your 8 year old is frying bacon and eggs for themselves every morning?

Following with interest and hopefully some suggestions and we've become very lazy with breakfast - no excuse either as we have plenty of time.

DD6 would happily have a chocolate crepe or pain au chocolate everyday so we do that a couple of days with some fruit and yoghurt, then rice crispies some days and 1-2 days she'll have a sausage, beans and a baked hashbrown.

After seeing people have porridge though Im going to give that a go as I love porridge.

toast or coco pops usually.

Oh my. I can’t believe this.

I have fresh farm eggs and milk delivered, and almond milk for the lactose intolerant. Then I make them a spinach quiche for energy to get through the day with a side of sourdough and homemade strawberry rhubarb spread (low sugar). One apple in season or else 14 raisins next to a Brazil nut for their brain. A bowl of miso soup, steamed white fish, rice and kimchi. Then a milky coffee and biscotti. I think if you don’t incorporate at least 3 blue zones you might as well just buy American chocolate and coke.

(white bread and jam or honey, or rusk, or porridge. There was a nice yogurt ohase that looks like it’s done and it isn’t unusual for them to read or play until 2 min before we leave and go hungry). Sometimes a tea biscuit or granola bar en route.

Mine had eggs in some form most days - scrambled, poached or boiled with toast or muffin. Sometimes smoothies with frozen berries, mango, banana and yoghurt.

Porridge with plenty of toppings now it’s colder. Over summer every single day it was toast or bagels (I miss it, the clean up is easier!)

Porridge with berries and 1/4 banana for one DC, something on toast for another DC (avocado / beans / scrambled egg / banana) and cereal (Weetabix or Shredded Wheat) for the other DC. Middle DC gets bored easily but other 2 eat the same thing every weekday.

None of them make it themselves though - was the whole point of the thread a stealth boast that your 8yo cooks their own breakfast? 😜

Usually just Greek yoghurt with honey and a fruit coulis made at the beginning of the week from frozen berries. I find mine don’t have appetite in the morning for solid food. In the summer when it’s very hot (not UK) we make smoothies from frozen fruit and it’s alike a breakfast ice-cream.

I've started doing Jamie Olivers banana overnight oats. DS1 has it as it is, DS2 warms it up in the microwave and adds fruit. I bought all the pots etc and layered it all up nicely in different flavours. They proceeded to empty it all out into a bowl. so now I just leave it in a big bowl in the fridge for them to add toppings to!

My sons autistic so is quite fussy with food(barely hungry in the morning). I make the both of them a bowl of cereal (Weetabix, Cheerios or Krave, depends what else is in the cupboard lol). Failing that, they have a breakfast bar (usually a pain au Chocolat, croissant, crepe). They sometimes choose cereal and a breakfast bar. This morning my daughter had Weetabix and some watermelon, son had a baby cucumber and Weetabix.

Weetabix or shreddies
pancakes with fruit
yogurt & toast

My DD eats breakfast every morning but she’s been know to eat her mid morning snack in the playground before school starts, usually a chocolate biscuit or freddo type bar. I sincerely hope the teacher supervising the playground isn’t assuming that’s what I’ve given her for breakfast, much less gossiping to other parents about it.