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

We have a routine for cooked breakfasts that started when my DH had to go low carb due to a stomach issue :-

Mon - sausage muffin ( brown toast for DH)
Tues - scrambled eggs
Weds - sausage muffin
Thurs - eggs scrambled or otherwise
Fri - kedgeree ( made in bulk and frozen )

Completely agree Barbara.

I agree Barbara.

Eating a decent cooked breakfast for a lot of people is probably the best way to keep their weight down and better/healthier food consumption for the rest of the day because it fills them up and reduces the chance of them eating sugary rubbish mid-morning because they are starving hungry and can't leave a desk to get proper food.

If people want to worry about what DCs are eating, hang around any supermarket near a secondary school before school or lunchtime and see the mountains of sugary carby junk that some kids are buying and eating. It's that which is causing the obesity crisis amongst teens, not those who are given a bacon sandwich by their DM at home in the morning.

Cooked breakfast everyday imo is OTT, we have it every other week as it's too much.

There is an assumption that a cooked breakfast has to be unhealthy. I try to do something different most days. Recently we have had

Eggs Benedict ( not amazingly healthy but ok as part of a balanced diet)
Poached eggs with a chunky guacamole
Yogurt, fruit, honey and granola ( I make my own granola we shop bought ones can be packed with sugar
Kippers
Muffins
Scrambled eggs and salmon
Mushrooms and gets on toast
Cherry tomatoes on toast
Overnight oatmeal
Pancakes, oranges and cardamom and yogurt

Seafood- -what do you consider a healthy breakfast?

I haven't read the whole thread because 8 pages and I need to go on the school run as of 5 minutes ago but, is this on the back of the report on bbc news this morning on the cancer risks? Cooked breakfast everyday imo is OTT, we have it every other week as it's too much. Love and food/feeding is something you'd hope people would be moving away from, it's how we get overeating and other related issues.

I grew up having a cooked breakfast every day of my childhood apart from Sundays. My mother made one every morning, and she worked, at a time when it was very unusual for wives, let alone mothers, to work.

I don't work at all, and cooked breakfast was always the one meal my children loved when they were small fussy eaters, and is still one of our favourite meals now they are all teens. We have it very occasionally, but in the evening, as a holiday treat maybe, not for breakfast.

Would I get up early to cook one for them every morning? Not on your nelly! Too expensive, apart from anything else. But I do take issue with the idea that you will be fat or unhealthy if you eat a cooked breakfast every day. My siblings and I are all slim (ish, in my case) and well. My parents are in their 80s and reasonably well.

What a lovely thread! I recently said to DH that when my two are teens (in a couple of years) I want them to feel that they can always bring friends back and the fridge will always be full and they will always feel warm and loved and well-fed here. This from an earlier poster summed it up nicely:

"I think we should coddle them all while we can, life is short and I want mine to think of home as a place of unconditional love, safety, chats and belly laughs, dry towels and a full fridge."

DH is not so sure though. He was chucked out at 16 so is constantly accusing me of "mollycoddling" the DCs. Pfft.

And eggs for breakfast is definitely the way forward, in any format.

Smoked fish is good for brains

Thanks Wind!

I also make bread which he fills in the gaps with

Eggy bread is another favourite.

Not right here I'm afraid, I will have to dig it out, Walter. I will post it this evening.

Do you have a recipe for the muffins, Wind?

I've been making cooked breakfasts for ds for over a year now. Cereal just doesn't cut it when he's training every day. He has, eggs which are boiled, fried, scrambled, poached,bacon sometimes, pancakes, toasties, porridge, sausages occasionally, omelettes, waffles, left over for from the night before. Basically anything but cereal!

Too much processed meat is not good OP. How about eggs (in loads of different ways!) and maybe beans and toast.

One of the things I will always remember my mother for with fondness when she is gone is the way she did look after us (daughters), especially at times of stress like exam week. She would do a lot like make us nice breakfast and a dozen other thoughtful little things (as would my father) despite the fact they worked full-time.

Just having someone take responsibility for some mundane things like breakfast prep, so you don't have to think abut it, is a really kind thing. I was grateful for it, and it meant a lot more to me than what some friends got, which was no support beforehand, and even dire warnings about what failure would mean, and then a flashy present afterwards.

Cook away, I say. You need to ring the changes so it isn't a fat-fest every day, as others have said.

I do oaty muffins you mix and refrigerate the night before then bake in the morning, porridge, omelettes with herbs (or curry spices), pancakes (Nigella does a recipe for pancake mix so you just take what you need and add wet ingredients in the right proportion-it's in Nigella Express). My two will eat almost anything if I add frozen raspberries to it!

I think we should coddle them all while we can, life is short and I want mine to think of home as a place of unconditional love, safety, chats and belly laughs, dry towels and a full fridge.

i spend so much time advocating the - make your sons independent, teach them to clean the house and cook etc - that I forget this is just as important.

Also I've never fried an egg or rasher of bacon in my life. Bacon is grilled & eggs are boiled, poached or scrambled using no extra fat.

Sprink - re sausage oatcakes.

They are Staffordshire oatcakes with sausages on ( I like them with bacon & tomatoes but dd doesn't lie bacon)

You roll them up with the filling inside.

My dad would take me to little chef for pancakes the night before exams started.
A cooked brekkie sounds lovely, a little extra kindness during the stress.