What do you give your 10/11 year old for breakfast?

My 8 year old loves a breakfast smoothie in the morning. He likes a banana and blueberry one but I also sneak in a handful of spinach. I then add some chia seeds, porridge oats, natural yogurt, whole milk and honey so it’s quite filling.

Pancakes
cheese, egg or beans on a slice of toast.
eggy bread and a rasher
potato cake with beans
cereal with a banana

I had trouble getting my child to eat anything for breakfast, there was just little or no appetite early in the morning. At any other time it was fine.

I was the same, wouldn't eat anything. Later on, at school, I was starving! A breakfast club would have been ideal for me.

I've no idea what to suggest in your daughter's case so am not much help. Maybe let her feed herself, have cereal, bread/toast and fruit available, maybe an egg sometimes.

Leftovers from the night before? Sounds odd, but I'm not a cereal/ toast/ porridge fan. Leftover soup/ lasagne/ chicken/ stir fry etc- Fills me up and I enjoy it.

My ds2 adores leftover fruit bread and butter pudding for breakfast (homemade with lots of fruit, egg and teacake.) He's also allowed Nutella for breakfast on a Sunday.

I give my daughter (admittedly, very active) pancake for breakfast every day. I make the batter though - it’s made with basically as much Greek yoghurt as flour plus eggs (I separate them first so that the batter is really fluffy), so it’s pretty decent in terms of protein. She has a squeeze of lemon and a sprinkling of sugar, but that’s still less than most cereals. And then she will have a glass of milk and a piece of fruit. She doesn’t have crisps, but will sometimes have a biscuit or something small with fruit after school pick up.

Usually weetabix on school days.

Weekends I make banana pancakes -
1 mashed banana mixed with 1 beaten egg and 2 spoons of flour. You say your daughter doesn't like egg, but this doesn't taste anything like egg.

I agree with PP, overnight oats would be great and helped me lose a lot of weight. Google for recipe ideas, particularly Sugar Pink Food

Instead of crisps for lunch try the small packets of fridge raiders, protein chicken pieces. Dippy eggs with toasted wholemeal soldiers for breakfast, kids love the yolky eggs

Cereal, then boiled egg and soldiers.

Cornflakes is all refined sugar and barely any fibre. So many better options.

Protein is a better way to break-fast than carbs which cause a massive insulin spike. Eggs, full fat yoghurt (not added sugar or sweetners), meat.

Mine is slightly older but currently attempting to lose a bit of weight (around 5-10kg) due to a period of time when he couldn’t do his normal exercise due to health reasons.

Typical days food is:

breakfast - large portion of natural Greek yogurt with either berries or mango - small amount of granola in it - about 2 heaped tablespoons. Glass of fresh juice

lunch - has a school dinner but tries to choose something reasonably nutritious- chicken salad, pasta, jacket potato.

snack - 2 x boiled eggs when gets home from school, a homemade flapjack if doing 2 evening activities as hungry in between

dinner (usually has late - 8- 9pmish due to clubs) - grilled steak, fish, chicken or lamb chops (usually with some sort of spicy seasoning), large portion of various veg, small portion of carbs (usually rice or potatoes)

At the weekend he will have some more junk food type snacks, crisps, sweets etc, and probably a takeaway or McDonald’s one of the days

He’s losing weight slowly with this diet and exercise

It sounds like she enjoys sweet things for breakfast. So if you're going to make this work you need to accommodate that. Also to keep her feeling full until lunch, try to make sure she's getting something with a good amount of protein and fibre.

As a halfway house between healthy and where she is currently, what about reducing the portion of pastry, crêpe, pancake, or toast by half and serving it with a homemade smoothie (eg frozen strawberries, frozen blueberries, banana, spoon of Greek yoghurt and milk. Or instead of the berries, asda do a tropical frozen fruit bag which tastes like a solaro!)

Or make a smoothie bowl which basically the same, just make it with less milk so it's a thick, ice cream like consistency. Then you add oats/nuts/fresh chopped fruit and a drizzle of honey on top

Or look at medjool date recipes. They're all over my tiktok at the moment. People blending them up and using them as a sweetener in breakfast puddings and overnight oats, or just making date caramel and pouring over yoghurt and nuts.

If she likes oats you could try homemade oat bars. It's quite easy and quick to make a big batch, and you can control the amount of sugar you put in them (personally I use bananas to sweeten them, with a little bit of agave sirup if needed). You can also add seeds and fruits like blueberries or cherries for flavour.

Overnight oats is also a good option. I didn't like them until I tried a bircher muesli recipe where the oats are mixed with grated apple and yogurt, and dried apricots. There are a lot of recipes online using different fruits or types of yogurts (coconut yogurt works really well too), so hopefully you can find a couple that she likes.

For lunch, I try to alternate sandwiches/wraps with something else every other day (mainly because my kids only eat cheese and ham in their sandwiches so it's not super healthy).
They love pasta and rice salads (I use leftover pasta or rice, cut up whatever veggies in have in the fridge or freezer, and add a some canned tuna or shop-bought roast chicken, with a yogurt/lemon/olive oil dressing).
We also have thermos flasks for hot food like pasta dishes, noodles, soup etc. Generally we make bigger portions at dinner, and send them with leftovers the day after.

Overnight oats
Weetabix
Greek yoghurt with fruit and honey
Fried egg sandwich (once a week)
Jammy toast
Frozen pastries done in the airfryer
The last two are occasional breakfasts usually on a weekend but not every weekend.

On school mornings my 11 year old has been having Porridge with a small spoon of Nutella, some raspberries and blueberries.
Friday mornings he often just takes a breakfast biscuit (like a go-ahead bar or belvita bar) as by Fridays he’s usually done in and doesn’t want to eat.
Saturdays and Sundays he can choose between pain au chocolat, cheese and ham croissant, chocolate/“fun” cereal like marshmallow Maties or Oreos cereal. Sometimes he doesn’t have anything.
He is autistic and that makes food very difficult in our house. If he could have chocolate cereal every day he would, but porridge with a bit of Nutella and berries seems better than nothing at all, which is his current favourite thing - where he leaves for school without anything to eat.
It’s very tricky if they’re stuck in their ways to make them eat better/healthier choices. I try to have specific safe healthy foods he can have; and this morning we had half a bowl of porridge and he ate a banana on the walk to his friends house, so progress this week!

Weetabix is a whole lot healthier than the crap you are giving her.

Stop the chocolate and pastries.

Are you using wholemeal bread at least? Any fruit?

What snacks do you have?

Mine has things like: overnight oats, chia pudding, homemade muesli, toast and butter / peanut butter (bread made at home with a bread machine), bran flakes, weetabix, egg fried rice (if we've any leftover rice, we usually have brown rice), greek yoghurt with blueberries, a smoothie, fruit, eggs. Generally they make their own breakfast, I just have to remind them sometimes that they need to eat.

My kids actually really like leftovers for breakfast so they might have pasta, or rice, or dal is quite a favourite. Otherwise bagel and cream cheese or peanut butter.

Proper whole meal bread (UPF free is available at supermarkets), and UPF free peanut butter and jam is fine.

When DS was 10 he'd have fruit, Ususally a different one every day and a slice of buttered toast. Yogurt with fruit and a bit of honey on Saturdays and toast. Boiled egg on Sundays if he fancied it. Neither he nor I like cereal. He has much the same if he's home from uni

Porridge or scrambled egg and toast. She makes it herself.

My 10yo dd has cereal (cornflakes/ricecrispies/weetabix/multigrain hoops) or she makes herself scrambled eggs on wholemeal toast. We’re a foodie family and she knows how to cook and enjoy good healthy food