I let DD22m choose breakfast today...🤣

[AliceTheCamelHasFiveHumps]

We all are porridge.... with a side of pickled beetroot and gherkins

LOL

Sounds vaguely Scandinavian 🤣

I'm with your DD with beetroot ( although I have never had it pickled ).
You've lost me with the gherkin though. I'd have to hide them and pretend I've eaten them!🤢

@DNAshelicase

‘22 months’

???

@SunshineCake1

Sometimes I'd let my primary aged kids have their dessert before their savoury. The first time they thought I had lost the plot but it was great fun and every time they still ate their main dinner. Have fun with food.

national eat icecream for breakfast day is a thing....also eat icecream for dinner day (27th July)

nationaltoday.com/national-eat-ice-cream-for-breakfast-day/

Wow some of these responses. I think some folks are arguing for the sake of ot

Op I think it’s lovely she got to choose, she’s equally important as you and her father and it’s great to give her a say. I did the same with mine.

She’s now a happy healthy non fussy slim 24 year old and I never cooked seperate meals. We all ate the same. We all had a say.

I am trying to not instil made-up food rules for my daughter (e.g. only can have cereal or toast for breakfast, or you must eat all your savoury before sweet, or you can only have salads in the summer/casseroles in winter etc)

I'm very on board with this. Dd8 never eats a typical breakfast. This week has been - vegetable samosas, pitta bread cooked with a smear of tomato purée, cheese and chorizo to make a pitta pizza, breadsticks and cucumber with humous, chorizo with cucumber and breadsticks. She likes to make her own lunches and always lays them out with any sweet stuff or crisps together on the plate like i would. Will often eat the crisps/sun bites etc first.

I'll admit I grew up in the 70s, but as a family, we all ate the same at each mealtime. I didn't realise that was unusual

When DD was about the same age she convinced step MiL that she always had pizza for breakfast. So stepMiL made pizza for breakfast for the kids for years until someone asked why and the truth came out!

Funny how it's often written on here that everyone should eat the same dinner, kids shouldn't be given nuggets etc or assumed they don't want the apparently more fancy food their parents have - sad to be proud your kid eats octopus - so as to be not fussy, not make extra work for the cook, not be demanding etc. Here we have a mum who lets her toddler chose breakfast, they all have it, yet it's still an issue. I'm sure there are, or will be, times when parents have a bacon and egg breakfast but the child just fancies shreddies and toast and it isn't a problem.

We all ate the same for lunches and dinners, (though people could omit elements).
But breakfast is different. Some people (like me) can't face much first thing in the morning. Others (like my DD1) are starving when they wake. That's physiology, not pickiness, so I'm very happy to indulge it.

First time I read the title I thought you were saying your 22 year old daughter chose breakfast and I was like '????' 😂 Lol.

That's a hilarious choice OP! I used to choose grated cheese on a plate at that age. I would have eaten it for every meal if given the chance 🤣

I totally get why you all have porridge if your toaster is tucked away in a drawer!

@Tomorrowisanewday

I'll admit I grew up in the 70s, but as a family, we all ate the same at each mealtime. I didn't realise that was unusual

I'm not sure that it is.

I would say that we pretty much did.

Not down to having to have porridge if it was being made, or all having to have the same cereal or having to have toast-there was some autonomy!

The main cooked meal was whatever it was & you had it or some varation of it or shifted for yourself & the same with the lighter mealin the evening.

My eldest sometimes had icecream for breakfast when he was a toddler. He was very slow to figure out how to get food into his mouth (even with fingers - let alone a fork or spoon - turns out he's dyspraxic), and whilst we were fine to feed him, he was so happy sometimes to be able to actually eat something on his own, and icecream in a cornet was what worked.

Christ on a bike, that's running a restaurant or talking shite

I'd put money on it being the latter

😅 Absolutely not! We all help to cook so it's not a huge deal. There are a lot of pans at the end but we all get a meal we like. Obviously this isn't every night but if someone wants pasta and the others stir fry then fine. I won't make a roast, fajitas and spag bol all in one evening!

@5128gap

Again with the racism on mumsnet.
I already said I'm not British. Where I grew up, it's very much the norm to have more of a buffet style breakfast with a few choices. There'd be more curried dishes of course but I cant do that because I have to work. I can manage simple British some like toast, porridge, eggs and sausages and still have s lovely breakfast with my kids and then we all go off for the day.

But, as usual on this forum, if you're from a slightly different cultures, you're are mocked.

I think it's very silly to insist that breakfast must all be the same.

In our house Breakfast is whatever people fancy we don’t have to have the same thing. I grew up in a house where there was always toast on the table (toast rack) or a basket with English muffins or croissants in and then a selection of cereals. usually some kind stewed fruit or fresh fruit and yogurt too. It was the way my grandparents did it too (maybe a cultural thing). Cooked breakfast items were on offer on weekends. So I do it the same way for my kids

Supper we all have the same meal (apart from slight variations for my autistic 3 yr old because he has sensory issues with food)

[quote ImUninsultable]@5128gap

Again with the racism on mumsnet.
I already said I'm not British. Where I grew up, it's very much the norm to have more of a buffet style breakfast with a few choices. There'd be more curried dishes of course but I cant do that because I have to work. I can manage simple British some like toast, porridge, eggs and sausages and still have s lovely breakfast with my kids and then we all go off for the day.

But, as usual on this forum, if you're from a slightly different cultures, you're are mocked.

I think it's very silly to insist that breakfast must all be the same.[/quote]
There was no racism in my comment nor was there any cultural mockery. I was making fun of competitive parenting. Which in your case manifested as a need to outdo OPs anecdote with a list of how much better you do breakfast.

This is a lovely thread and the OP's daughter's breakfast choice made me smile. Good for her! And it sounds like you have a healthy attitude toward letting her daughter eat what she wants in the order that she wants.

Quite often I'd be cooking three different mains once the kids were bigger. But it would be on a day when it was everything baked in the oven dinner and it made no odds. When they were little they all ate the same.

I have had food issues and often was not fed enough as a child. No way was I going to make my kids have issues. As long as they weren't hungry and had plenty of fruit, veg, protein, carbs I was okay with it.

But, as usual on this forum, if you're from a slightly different cultures, you're are mocked.

I think it's very silly to insist that breakfast must all be the same.

Oh, for heaven's sake. There is no mocking of a different culture; someone joked about your one-upmanship post regarding breakfast.

And the OP did not say "all breakfasts must be the same". They were quite clear that everyone is offered the same thing but are free not to eat what they don't like or to make themselves something else.

Tbf the OP did state several times that they all eat the same thing at meal times, and made quite a deal of 'not having any rules.' It was quite a bit later in the thread that she conceded her husband could indeed make himself a slice of toast instead of porridge and pickled veg if he wants. So in fact it's a non event really...

@BettyCarver

Tbf the OP did state several times that they all eat the same thing at meal times, and made quite a deal of 'not having any rules.' It was quite a bit later in the thread that she conceded her husband could indeed make himself a slice of toast instead of porridge and pickled veg if he wants. So in fact it's a non event really...

Maybe she presumed people would have the comprehension to understand she was saying she cooks 1 meal for the family, and of course she isn’t standing over her husband meanly making him shovel in porridge and beetroot.

@BettyCarver

Tbf the OP did state several times that they all eat the same thing at meal times, and made quite a deal of 'not having any rules.' It was quite a bit later in the thread that she conceded her husband could indeed make himself a slice of toast instead of porridge and pickled veg if he wants. So in fact it's a non event really...

There's rules surrounding food, and there's cooking the same meal...

It's not imo a food rule, but a practical way to feed my family. I really don't see why people think it's ok to all have sausage and mash for dinner but not all have porridge for breakfast.

If DD was 7, then yes, she might make herself some toast, while I have cereal...but she's not even 2...so can't make her own meals,I have to make them, so we have the same thing, because I haven't got the inclination to make 3 separate breakfasts just because "it's breakfast"....