thinking I should do a cooked breakfast most days for my sons

We have a friend who is a colo-rectal surgeon at the Royal Free.

He's quite the sybarite and very non-preachy, but he won't have bacon - any bacon - in the house - he thinks it's that bad for your health.

We get through loads of bacon

Fuck me this is a lame thread. Why is it in classics????

Because it's a lovely thread about how important our children are to us, how we love to nourish them and care for them, and how short a period of time they actually end up living with us. The sense of loss once they leave home can be quite devastating.

There's been so many 'look at bacon and you will get bowel cancer posts on here, that I decided to look it up, as I'm quite partial to bacon, sausage chorizo myself but have being trying to cut down.

According to the cancer research site:

WCRF’s analysis suggests that, among 1000 people who eat the most processed meat, you’d expect 66 to develop bowel cancer at some point in their lives – 10 more than the group who eat the least processed meat

So, whether you eat very little processed meat or practically live on the bloody stuff, either way you have a 90%+ chance of not getting bowel cancer, so it's not as bad as some people make out.

From my family history, its more likely to be a stroke or a heart attack that finishes me off anyway, so I think I'll worry a little less about the occasional bit of bacon from now on.

Am I totally missing something?

Why is this in classics? OK it's nice to chat about children and breakfasts but have the trolls affected everything so much that this is worthy of classics?

Things ain't what thye used to be

My son has poached eggs on toast everyday, before that bacon and egg sandwiches. Protein keeps you from getting hungry so quickly. happybee I couldn't have put it better myself.

I work four days a week but, on the 5th, I love turning into a housewife & making the DC something hot for breakfast. I tend to bake whilst they're at school on that day too. There is something so heart warming about it.

Just wondering why this is in classics? Though haven't read all

For me and DC, I tend to make something with eggs every day, or hot berries with Greek yoghurt ( microwave frozen berries... It's like a hot pudding for breakfast but v low carb).

happybee - it is true that regular consumption of processed meats including bacon and sausages have been directly linked to increased rates of bowel cancer. However, as always it is worth looking at the actual numbers - your chances of getting bowel cancer are increased but your absolute risk is still very low! There is no clear link between processed meats and any other type of cancer.

However, there is no link between saturated fats and heart disease. There is also no reason whatsoever to limit eggs - that advice went out years ago. Eggs are pretty much a perfect food and no one should worry about the number of eggs they eat.

I agree it can be very confusing. However increasingly evidence is suggesting that much of what we have been taught about 'health foods' is wrong, and that much of what we think of as unhealthy is actually very good for us!

Did anyone watch the programme "How Healthy so Your Diet?" The other day?
They did loads of tests and came to the conclusion that the best breakfast was bacon and eggs - beat fruit and yoghurt and cereal. Fried eggs, not scrambled, as the egg doesn't absorb the fat, as scrambled egg. Apparently eating bacon has such a tiny chance of causing cancer that it was negligible. Bacon and egg kept them fuller for longer, caused less of a sugar spike, basically was better all round.
Anyway, I go through phases with breakfast, we will have a could PE months of me getting up and cooking breakfast every morning, and then ages where the kids are lucky to get cereal - as they'd prefer to have an extra 10 minutes in bed. Whatever suits you.

Why do you think they have to add the vitamins and iron, jannier?

Well it does depend on the cereal you offer, we have porridge most mornings, but you can add milk full of vitamins to most cereal. and milk is full of things needed by all of us not just unders 5's

My real worry is the proven link to processed meats like bacon (even Turley bacon) causing cancer with the increase in cancer rates meaning now 1 in 4 get breast cancer and almost 50% of us will have some sort of cancer I think that's really scary, maybe having just finished chemo Im more worried than others but there is a proven link.
My husband also had a heart attack so food with a high salt content is best not eaten to excess few cereals have the salt content of a rasher of Bacon or sausage per portion (it is possible to get low salt low sugar cereal there isn't any ham based meat at under 13%...the red warning in food....Bread is about 7% at its lowest. )
I just wouldn't feel comfortable setting my children up in a habit that could lead to ill health in years to come or the temptation of making a regular stop at a greasy spoon which gives a cheap breakfast for a £5 anymore than encouraging a bar of chocolate a day followed by crisps.

I also though baked beans were full of sugar and salt but I know the beans are good for you.

Reminds me of just how much my son ate when he was a teenager. Starting the day with 5 Weetabix and finishing with more Weetabix before bedtime. Healthy, slim, sporty but always eating. Glad he's someone else's responsibility these days though I miss being the nurturer

Also toast but only buy brown bread.

Wow, I am really confused by this thread.
I thought that sausages and bacon should be a treat and normally only consumed once a week. Red meat, high in sat fat and processed with nitrates etc. I also thought eggs normally should be eaten a couple of times a week.
We only have French toast or bacon occasionally at weekends. My kids all like different things, one loves sausages, the other doesn't like them. One likes bacon the others don't. Only one likes boiled eggs.
Breakfast for us is the dreaded cereal, weetabix, shreddies, muesli, Special K etc no chocolate ones and then fruit. I had no idea we are so unhealthy!

ROFL.

Tired all the time take to doctors

Otherwise a kid doing a levels should be preparing all meals them self and shopping for ingredients tbh also contributing to food expenses through part time job

Or Ocado.

Where do you buy turkey bacon in the UK, I've looked everywhere

tesco.

So, I've already taken this thread on board, bought a load of breakfast foods which aren't the usual cereal and toast they do themselves, and managed to coax both of mine to the breakfast table today.
I think it's going to stick OP (poached eggs on toast tomorrow). Thanks for the suggestion, even breakfast refusing GCSE taking 16YO is up for family breakfast!.

I used to do a full cooked breakfast on a Sunday morning when kids were younger, but stopped that a while ago. I now tell them there is cereal and/or toast on a morning, take it or leave it ... they usually take it.