I've lost all perspective on breakfast. Please advise!

[KindergartenKop]

I'm in an ongoing battle with my kids over breakfast. I want them to have plain porridge, they want toast with jam, chocolate spread and pancakes on. We usually compromise somewhere in the middle. They also take ages to make any choices for breakfast, thus making me late for meetings etc etc.

So new plan is that I tell them the breakfasts available in the week and they choose which day it happens in advance. So in a week they have to have...

2 x cereal (not fun ones) or porridge with small amount of raisins or half a banana and peanut butter.

2 x plain yogurt with frozen fruit.

1 x treat breakfast (pancakes or croissant and jam etc)

1 x fruit smoothie and a chunk of cheese/babybel.

1 x egg on toast

Also fresh fruit if they want it.

Is this crazy? Is this too much sugar? I've lost all perspective! They are 6 and 8. I'm a bit concerned they need to keep dairy consumption up, they don't drink milk at all.

I won’t cook breakfast midweek, so it’s toast or cereal here. Weekend pancakes or bacon sandwich or scrambled eggs etc

@Wearywithteens

I often look back at all the mothers I knew who were puritanical about things like this - the food they ate, friends, clothes, hobbies, homework, rigid rules about every second of their kids’ lives. As it turns out most of those kids left home as soon as possible and went to the furthest universities they could find to do Ket and get pissed and eat as much KFC as possible. Plain porridge ffs. Be a ‘nice mum’ by teaching them some independence and being a bit more relaxed, especially first thing in the morning.

THIS!!!

Plain porridge sounds absolutely disgusting. I don't particularly like sweet things but even i have a teaspoon of maple syrup and a few blueberries in it.

I couldn’t be arsed with all this in the morning. DS has a pan au chocolat or a Nutella wrap and water. I’d rather he ate something than not at all. This is what he will eat. Breakfast is too early to start a battle.