What do your DC eat for breakfast?

[confusedofengland]

I am interested in finding out what other DC eat for breakfast. Even better if they are 10/11 year old boys.

I took DS2 to a paediatrician (routine appointment for his ADHD)& she said I don't give him enough breakfast. He has grown 2cm in height since January & 2kg in weight since end of July & she says he is not growing enough. He is on approx 6th centile weight/50th height. GOSH were happy with him upon seeing his dad who is similar build.

He usually has 2 slices of toast with marmite & juice, on weekdays. Weekends usually 2 courses - crumpets/croissants/waffles, followed by a plate of fruit. He is slow to do everything, including eat, and toast is quickest thing we have found.

My DS is a bit younger OP but similarly tall and skinny. I think both myself and DH were very skinny as children though you'd not know it now

Breakfast is normally one of

2 slices of wholemeal bread with butter and marmalade
Small bowl porridge (made with milk, no sugar)
Bowl of shreddies or weetabix (no sugar)
Slice toast and a scrambled egg

If there are some leftover sausages or similar he might have a couple, and occasionally he'll have a croissant or hot cross bun as a treat.

I find his appetite not great in the morning (compared to the rest of the day when he eats like a horse).

I'm not sure how often the centiles are updated? AFAIK they reflect where one individual is compared to the rest of the sample. However if, as we are told, childhood obesity is increasing, then presumably that impacts on the centiles?

15yo and 17yo. Pain au chocolat. Sometimes a sausage roll. Living rurally, they have an early bus to catch and this is what works for them. They eat well otherwise 🤦🏻‍♀️

10-16yos need a lot more calories than an adult. Just offer lots of the right kind of calories and a small amount of less healthy calories.

Eldest dc is 7.5 but very tall and skinny and always hungry. Not sure of his centile anymore but compared to his classmates he is way above. 3 younger dc.
Breakfast is either:
Porridge with variety of toppings but usually honey and pecans for the eldest berries for the others.
Croissant and fruit ( usually 2 for the eldest).
Crumpets/toast with peanut butter, cheese and apple.
Bacon with croissant/bread or soda farl at the weekend.

Pancakes with bacon/choc spread or various toppings.
Eldest isn’t keen on fruit unless it’s apple or melon, dislikes eggs and loves nuts.

Beans on toast sometimes with cheese.
I sometimes do him a chocolate nut smoothie and toast too.
Occasionally cereal, cornflakes or Cheerios but once a week at most.
I notice if mine don’t eat well at breakfast.

Three grown up sons but at that age one would have nothing other than a drink, water, juice, or occasionally an actimal type drink (I don't like breakfast til I've been up 3-4hrs so difficult to object🤷). One had a bowl of cereal and the other liked a toasted bagel with marmite. If they were off school or weekends various forms of cooked breakfast such as bacon, sausage, mushroom, tomatoes, eggs on some sort of toasted sandwich/bagel but usually late morning. The one that refused breakfast was terrible about eating at school and could easily go all day with nothing so I used to try and pack in calories in the evenings with full cream milk, hot chocolate, they always had supper before bed as well as evening meals. I'm more of an evening eater, think sometimes it's just genetic.

DD, 14, on weekdays a bowl of cereals with a decent amount of milk she then drinks at the end.

At weekends - 2 scotch pancakes with chocolate spread, 1-2 crumptes with salted butter. If I have time we may. do French Toast or fresh waffles

We. prefer a sweet breakfast. DD is more a 5. meals a day person, so think of small breakfast, yoghurt or fruit mid-morning, lunch, afternoon snack and dinner. Also during the week there is no time to do anything big even if she would be eating it.

DS9 eats plenty but a limited range of foods.
He has toast with spreading cheese every day - 2 rounds on school days, 3 at the weekend/holidays.

DS10 eats a good, balanced diet but doesn't like to eat early, so on school days it's usually 2 pain au chocolats but at the weekend something more substantial - pancakes, bacon sandwich, bacon and cheese oatcakes. He does most of his eating in the evening.

My 11 yo is tallish for his class but not hugely. Slim/muscular build. He plays a lot of sport.

His breakfast is eg two pieces of toast and honey/peanut butter and a glass of water. Maybe some grapes/pineapple if I've bothered to cut one up.

He comes home saying school lunch was disgusting and then stuffs his face with handfuls of dry cereal, followed by yoghurts and toast and fruit juice. Then I give him a proper supper

I reckon he's just growing at his pace and he will get there. But I feel for you as I've had an underweight child (years ago when a toddler) and it was worrying.

My youngest is 15 now and he has one of the following ...

Hot breaded chicken in a wrap with salad

Sausage sandwich

Cheese on toast

He prefers hot over cold and wouldn't eat toast or cereal as wouldn't fill him up

He has the above accompanied with a hot chocolate, fruit and some nuts

This morning ds1 made himself 1 crumpet with honey, 1 piece of toast with peanut butter and asked me for a fried egg which he ate with bread and butter. That's quite a lot for him.

So far today he has had 3 crumpets with lots of butter & marmite, plus orange juice. Now having 150ml homemade smoothie - mango, grapes, blueberries, banana, honey & apple juice. Muttering about biscuits after that.

Then we will scoot to the playground, so he'll probably burn it all off again! But I don't want to stop him being active.

Will he eat porridge? It only takes five minutes to make. DS has porridge and fruit most mornings in the week. Today he had a poached egg, slice of granary toast, a banana and Greek yogurt. He's 3. I always try and make sure he has protein at breakfast not just carbs or he nags for snacks all morning. Whole nut butters and full fat yogurt are good options to have with his toast and don't take long to prepare

He takes ages to eat anything with a spoon. Like 45 minutes for a bowl of porridge, then extra time for drinks & his medication. We don't have that much time & can't get him up earlier as if he is tired he will concentrate even less in class & that is already his main issue.

He won't eat peanut butter, I tried it & he doesn't like it - I don't blame him, neither do I!

Unless he doesnt eat enough due to anxiety or any other issues than I'd say it up to him how much he eats. Not up to a random doctor. You are doing fine :)

@confusedofengland

He takes ages to eat anything with a spoon. Like 45 minutes for a bowl of porridge, then extra time for drinks & his medication. We don't have that much time & can't get him up earlier as if he is tired he will concentrate even less in class & that is already his main issue.

He won't eat peanut butter, I tried it & he doesn't like it - I don't blame him, neither do I!

I have a DD who is only 8yo, but is very skinny despite a good appetite, and we are always conscious of quietly trying to maximise the calories she gets. One bout of illness will have her looking worryingly thin. She doesn't like peanut butter either (nor do I), but she loves cashew butter and will also eat almond or hazelnut butter if the cashew isn't available. It is sweeter with no nasty aftertaste - might be worth a try? She has it every day on whichever bready item she's chosen for breakfast. Luckily she likes whole nuts, cheese, and avocado, so I get plenty of these into her diet across her meals and snacks. Grated cheese is really easy to add to lots of meals, and it's easy to add a bit extra to hers without it being noticeable to her (average build) sister that she hasn't got exactly the same. She unfortunately doesn't like smoothies. FWIW, she has a bagel/crumpet (or 2!)/toast/hot X bun with butter and cashew butter, 2 portions of fruit, and a bowl of cereal/Wheetabix for most days for breakfast. At the weekend she'll often have 2 x eggs on toast or cheese on toast plus fruit and a bowl of cereal whilst she waits for the eggs/cheese.

I could try other nut butters, I will have a look out for them. DS wouldn't eat the breakfast you have listed simply because we don't have the time!

He had a snack before we headed to the park. I offered biscuits, nuts, cheese & crackers, fruit. He opted for salad & a bit of cheese! He loves healthy food. Which normally would be good, but I guess there are not enough calories there for him

In which case, it might be worth focusing on how you can bulk up what he already eats rather than adding in extra portions. Adding extra butter and using whole milk etc.
Salads can be bulked out with cheese, chicken/other meat, avocado, tuna, croutons, nuts, and seeds then doused in a calorific dressing if that's what he likes to eat. Keep the volume the same, just a little less lettuce and more fats and proteins.

Well, this morning he seemed to eat a lot quicker. DH came up with the genius idea of putting his toast together like a sandwich so it took half the time to eat We had some batter left over from Yorkshire puddings last night, so I made all the DSes a pancake. Obviously can't do that every morning, but will get some yoghurts when I go shopping & he can have one of those too.

Two 11 year old boys, on a school day fresh air if I don't manage to force a slice of toast down them or fruit down them.

But if they do want to eat usually its cereal, toast with jam or peanut butter, some mornings they'll have scrambled eggs/beans on toast and water, both aren't big juice or milk drinkers.

Weekends I always make a "cooked" breakfast which usually consists of croissants, sausages eggs, fruit etc.
I've found as mine have gotten older they eat less in the mornings, but are ravenous at lunch or dinnertime.