What do your kids have for breakfast?

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DS4 is currently devouring a bowl of porridge.

He sometimes has yoghurt and a cereal bar. Or weetabix.

He has been known to ask for pizza....

My DS (4) has breakfast at nursery Mon- Thu but he usually wants a 'first breakfast' when we get up! This is usually either toast with jam or marmite, bowl of weetabix/corn flakes/bran flakes, or a yoghurt. If we're really running late he grabs an apple/banana/grapes for in the car. Fri - Sun we usually fall back on dippy eggs, bacon sarnies, scrambled eggs or pancakes if lucky. I occasionally get out the cookbooks and try something new for breakfast, but usually don't have the energy that early on!

Cereal, porridge, toast, crumpets, croissants, mostly with Nutella or jam, eggs and sometimes bacon. Juice to drink allowed if they're having milk with cereal otherwise milk.

DS isn't really a breakfast person, on weekdays he'll have a pain au chocolate or piece of toast but weekends will usually have weetabix with banana or scrambled egg on toast as brunch. He's only 3 so I don't try to make him eat too much too early on weekdays because I can't eat anything until at least dinner otherwise I feel sick but weekends he generally wakes a bit later and I'll wait for him to ask me for food so I give him bigger portions to fill him up more.
My DS is more of a cereal for tea type person rather than breakfast! Cornflakes and weetabix usually or if I'm feeling spontaneous I might buy a variety pack so he can have coco pops and I can have Frosties

@NellWilsonsWhiteHair

How come you make profit for your son with water? Just curious.
I make it water for myself but for them most definitely milk

Profit should read porridge!

@workreturner mainly because he first had it while camping, so water through necessity, and then when I tried him with it made with milk he didn't like it (found it too creamy). It makes life easier this way tbh and I'm not convinced he actually needs milk (he's six btw - although bf til nearly four so even when he was younger I would've been a bit sceptical about the 'dairy is essential for small children' message I've sometimes seen). He does eat other forms of dairy (cheese, yoghurt... chocolate!) and occasionally drinks milk, so it's not that I deliberately leave it out but I definitely don't feel he needs it added to his porridge.

(Hope this doesn't sound defensive? I was just trying to answer the question accurately!)

Thanks!

For me I do it for the fact
Both mine are skinny and exceptionally sporty. So I like to add fat whenever possible

salami, ham, cheese, yogurt sometimes egg.

4yo DD has one of:

Toast with butter or jam
Cereal (usually Cheerios, Shreddies, or Bran Flakes) with cow's milk
Wheatabix with cow's milk
Porridge

Then she like a little bowl of dry cereal afterwards. Sometimes "good" cereal and sometimes she'll have something not so good. She also has a cup of Alpro Jr (throwback from her CMPA days that I can't convince her to leave behind...).

5 year old dd will have something out of this list:

Toast and peanut butter and a banana.
Plain toast, yoghurt and blueberries.
Porridge and an apple.
Cereal, milk and an apple or banana.
Jam on toast, piece of fruit.

During the week: cereal, toast, waffles, and a banana.

At weekend, dippy eggs, bacon sandwich, full English breakfast.

I have to give huge portions pre football training and football matches.

Porridge most days, buckwheat pancakes if we have time (both with honey). Sometimes eggs. Cereal if we’re late.

Ds1 porridge, weetabix, cheerios, special k, shredde wheat, basically anumy cereal we have in, then a yogurt and cereal bar and fruit. He is 4

Ds2 cheerios and a yog maybe a few fsrm animal biscuits. He is 2 and not a big eater

I’m surprised so many children will eat porridge, can’t say I like it much myself.

Mine hates breakfast. She usually has a small yoghurt (petit filou type)

My oldest loves sweet waffles or toast and my youngest will have choc hoops, rice crispies or a cheese sandwich.

Ragwort mine like porridge but I make it with milk, and top it with apple compote, dried apricots and raisins, cinnamon, maple syrup, honey, butter, a blob of jam, etc... it's more like a deconstructed cream tea in a bowl by the time I'm done with it

My five year old would have five or six breakfasts a day if he was let.

He usually has cheerios or weetabix or porridge, fruit, a yoghurt, toast or a crumpet /muffin and sometimes a small piece of cheese.

He is also like a whippet. You can see all of his ribs, sharp shoulder blades, hip bones, and spine so I'm quite happy for this volume of breakfast to carry on.

Rice crispies or cornflakes, chocolate brioche, yoghurt!

Porridge, cheerios, granola, cocopops, banana on toast, pancakes, sausage sandwich. Last 2 weekends only!

DD7 has had wheatbix with warm milk last two days. Other popular options are porridge, smoothies, poached eggs, bagels & toast.

Sunday’s we always have bacon & eggs.

Eggs, tuna sandwich or cream cheese and smoked salmon bagel. DS could eat anything for breakfast and doesn't discriminate between meals.

I set up omelette, smoothie and granola stations before I go to bed. I like us all to sit down for a good 40 minutes together in the morning.

Only kidding, we bolt cereal and toast.

We don't even eat breakfast together at the weekend.

I wish mine would still eat porridge (though I suppose overnight oats are the same thing really but warm porridge is nice on a cold morning). She'll eat rice porridge but not normal oat porridge.