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

A hot cooked breakfast is different to an unhealthy breakfast.

Nah, cereals and/or toast is fine. cooked breakfast treat for the weekend, surely ?

Cooked breakfast doesn't have to be unhealthy or obesity inducing. Grilled lean bacon, low fat sausages, baked beans, poached eggs, mushrooms, wholemeal toast, tomatoes.

I know several people losing a lot of weight on Slimming World while having all that several times a week. It filled them up and allowed them to just have things like home made soup and fruit for lunch. White toast or cereal is junk food in comparision.

In terms of a cooked breakfast for sons vs daughters.

I have 7yo twins. Ds2 loves 'full English' (as he calls it). Treat on a Sat sometimes. He's incredibly skinny but eats loads. Dd doesn't like sausages or eggs, bacon roll at a push. She only likes yoghurt or smoothie. Ds1 tries to like a cooked breakfast, but doesn't like eggs much either. I think it depends on your metabolism. I love a cooked breakfast, fast metabolism.

I totally get you. I have teen daughters. One if which weekly boards at school and doing A levels. She can and happily cooks for us sometimes but I have recently felt the need to pamper her more. As she's on exam leave and only going on for her exams Ibe been doing a proper breakfast on exam days. Mind you I'm not working at all at the moment so have all the time in the world between hospital/Dr appointments.
I vary it. Fruit and yogurts and pastries one day. Bacon butty the next. Full cooked another day - mostly on the health grill or oven baked. Some days it's beans or egg on toast.
What I have started doing though is laying the table and sitting with the family and having a chat about our days ahead. It's lovely. I feel very much lie a 50''s housewife to be honest but I'm happy they're happy so I don't see the issue.

Pamper your boys whilst you can. They sound like they can fully manage to cook themselves. You're not going to ruin them with a few weeks of pampering.

*My dad always wanted to make me a cooked breakfast when I was a teenager but I was a horrible, hormonal, self-conscious ball of angry angst and used to scornfully refuse and sip my black coffee disdainfully instead. I was an idiot. I express profuse gratitude when he cooks for me nowadays and let him make a big fuss of my children. Feeding people is one of the main ways he expresses love. I wish I'd appreciated it as a young 'un. I hope when my boys are teenagers they let me make breakfast for them sometimes too...aargh, this thread is making me nostalgic for my children's childhoods even though they are still so small8

you and your dad sound happy together and its just beautiful.

I wish we saw more happy posts about people being allowed to be a grandparent.

My boys still say that having cooked breakfast on exam days was brilliant. I did it as a treat for them but also to make sure they had a breakfast that would fill them for the exam duration. DH and the non examined child were always particularly thrilled.

I do during exam weeks!! Or when dc are especially tired. or as a treat. Not a regular thing.

I was wondering about doing more with breakfast (It's toast or cereal here)

Two growing sporty boys, my oldest is growing at the rate of half an inch a month, and has been for a year, and is too thin so it might fatten him up a bit doing eggs and beans and bacon!

Or pancakes

obesity not a worry here, everyone is either slim or even skinny

Also slow cooker breakfast casserole recipes abound...

one example here

warning, a woman I knew when ours were toddlers/primary, would always make her lot a fry up,
years later they are All obese.
of course that could be related to other food stuffs, she meant well though

As it happens I am no slimmer of the year either, but my DC are

Cooked breakfast doesn't have to = fry up! I 'invented' a thing that's like a savoury bread and butter pudding but with cheese sandwiches instead. Nigella nicked my idea and calls her version Cheesy Strata wordy recipe here and you could easily add protein with good sausage, ham, mushrooms etc

I don't think I've ever made mine a cooked breakfast.

They don't like bacon so we don't have fry ups even though I love them.

They don't like porridge either.

They do eat boiled eggs but that is more a lunch/snack thing for us than a breakfast thing.

I have teenage boys. They normally get their own breakfast but at exam time I make it for them, they each have very different tastes but I make whatever they want - sometimes it's healthy and sometimes it isn't but if it's filled them up and they leave the house happy that's good enough for me. If you have the time and you want to then do it, I am sure it's appreciated!

My dh makes something for our daughter almost every day. I'm walking out the door as they are sitting down to breakfast. ( He is on nights, I'm days) It is a very sweet sight. She will be on her own soon enough. These are fleeting times.

I give my children porridge in the mornings its slow releasing energy.

My 2 year old's love is purely cupboard love. If family look after him for the day, he starts calling them mummy or daddy - he will go to anyone for food! I win his fickle affections with baking.

I love making mine breakfast. They'll all be gone soon and dh and I will end up like the old couple at the end of our road who just have a yogurt each for breakfast.

Aw I did this for DS this morning, but he's 5

We've all been bit cross this half-term because the weather's been rubbish and we've been stuck inside/doing crap activities. This morning I woke him up with a fried egg on toast, which is his favourite and glass of chocolate nesquik to cheer him up ready for school.

'staring wistfully at the frying pan' has my eyes leaking. I'm blaming the pregnancy hormones.

DS is starting A levels this week - he usually doesn't eat breakfast but has a snack mid-morning. Just no appetite first thing.

I have suggested a cooked breakfast though for exam days - likely a couple of grilled potato scones & a poached egg.

DH would love a cooked breakfast every day - his mum always made one

Yes, I think I definitely need to get on the baked beans/ omelette/ bacon train.

Currently I do make breakfast and it's the biggest meal ds1 eats. We have:

• Porridge and Granola (lots of nuts and dried fruit in it, home made)
• Yoghurt, berries (or kiwi for ds2 who doesn't like berries) and Granola
• Pancakes (rarely)
• Plate of fruit followed by Weetabix or toast

Sausage oatcakes has reminded me of one of my favourite ever breakfasts, that I had forgotten about, which is a lot nicer than it sounds and will definitely fill up hungry teens.

Biscuits and gravy - the biscuits are a bit like scones and the gravy is broken up sausages in white sauce, but it really is delicious - for the gravy, skin some sausages and fry the broken up bits in a pan. When cooked and the fat is released, mix in flour, milk and pepper to make a white sauce. Yum.