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Healthy grab-n-go breakfast for DC?

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GiantCheeseMonster · 15/09/2022 08:02

DS has just started in Year 7 at secondary school and now has a very early start. We live 100 yards from his primary so he was used to rolling out of bed at 8 and strolling there at 8.40, but now he has to be up at 6.30 and leave the house at 7 to be on a bus at 7.15. He doesn’t have time to eat at home (he’s very slow to get going in the mornings!) so he’s either been taking a pastry or cereal bar to eat on the bus, or buying a bacon butty from the school canteen once he gets there. I want to have something healthier that he can take with him to eat there or on the bus. Any ideas? Happy to make something, I just can’t think what!

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Whoareyoumyfriend · 15/09/2022 08:04

I tend to make breakfast flapjacks for my boys. Oats, butter, dried fruit, nuts, Chia seeds...that kind of thing. Look up healthy breakfast flapjacks. They're super yummy and also freeze well

Snugglemonkey · 15/09/2022 08:09

Breakfast muffins. I still bake several of the muffin recipes from the baby led weaning cookbook that my son loves. They make great on the go breakfast, sugar free banana muffins, apple, veg packed, cheese and spinach, sweetcorn and bacon/ham. Great for lunch boxes too.

Rutland2022 · 15/09/2022 08:11

I’m no good in the mornings. But on office days I take a pot of greek yoghurt with granola and compote (in a tupperware pot) or an egg muffin. Egg muffins are great. I like a bit of bacon in mine but also nice with mushrooms and cheese. They keep a good few days in the fridge.

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Favouritefruits · 15/09/2022 08:11

I think you’re just going to have to live with the unhealthy cereal bars and pastry for a few years, I can’t see a child his age cracking open his chia seed concoction or a pot of over night porridge more than once, his peers will soon put an end to that!

WinterCarlisle · 15/09/2022 08:11

Mine leaves at 7.10 and chugs a smoothie / milkshake thing before he leaves. I make it with fruit, nut butter, full fat milk and a few table spoons of ready brek to thicken it up. He’s in Year 8 now and loves them. He says they keep him full well up to break time.

W0tnow · 15/09/2022 08:11

My mum made this for the first time, oh, 30 years ago? I make it regularly now. You can make it in those individual silicone muffin things, or in a dish and cut it up. I tend to line the large dish with baking paper and just lift the entire thing out when it’s cool.

The kids zap it in the microwave to warm it for breakfast or as an after school snack. Or they take it for lunch some days. I can make it in my sleep now. Occasionally I have to not make it for a month or two as they get a bit sick of it..

www.taste.com.au/recipes/zucchini-slice/eb7eed59-5f53-4f6f-bfb5-9b7e3f81a702

Butterfly44 · 15/09/2022 08:19

Same. Mine takes an innocent smoothie carton and fibre one cereal bar to have on the way!!

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GiantCheeseMonster · 15/09/2022 08:43

Great ideas here, thank you!! Going to try some baking this weekend.

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Elsanore · 15/09/2022 08:46

I was going to start this same thread today! Except I need something that we can buy ready made as our kitchen is a building site of rubble for the foreseeable. Are there any cereal bar type things you can buy that aren't just pure sugar? The dc had Cadburys brunch bars for breakfast today- not ideal it's more of a chocolate biscuit.

Hastingsontheup · 15/09/2022 08:49

www.jaroflemons.com/no-bake-oatmeal-protein-bars/

I make these for DS

FancyFelix · 15/09/2022 08:53

Very well timed thread as I have this same issue. Love the idea of the breakfast flapjacks and mine may like the smoothie with ready break too

MakkaPakkas · 15/09/2022 08:54

Placemarking as I have the same problem

BatteryPoweredMammy · 15/09/2022 08:58

I wish I could interest my DS to eat more healthily so I’ll be keeping an eye on this thread for good ideas.

Like you, we lived next to primary school so he’d roll out of bed around 8:15 and get to school for 9 (school didn’t start until 9:20, so he was always early). He used to eat a bowl of plain cornflakes with no milk for breakfast. Now he has to catch a bus at 8:15am for school, he’s getting up around 7:15 and still only eats a slice of buttered white bread toast for breakfast.

What’s worse is that he won’t take any lunch or eat anything until he gets home around 4.30pm. No school dinners available over here. So one poxy slice of white bread to last until dinner time. DH is a fussy eater too unfortunately. 🤦🏻‍♀️

imayhavelostmymarbles · 15/09/2022 09:13

Sheet pancakes. These are from a gluten free recipe book but sheet pancakes, made in advance in oven. DC's eat them cold cut into large pieces like toast and say they are really filling. Even DS who is an unfillable pit at the moment!

CatchersAndDreams · 15/09/2022 09:15

My ds eats overnights oats or has an oaty smoothie on the bus in the morning.

emmathedilemma · 15/09/2022 09:17

wholemeal bagel with peanut butter and jam

Katrinawaves · 15/09/2022 09:27

I used to make homemade McMuffins and freeze them. English muffins, bacon medallion, poached egg and slice of cheese. Wrapped in baking paper and microwaved for 90 seconds from frozen. Can be eaten on the go.

louderthan · 15/09/2022 10:08

Sandwich with peanut butter/marmite/hummus/jam or whatever else he'd have on toast and a banana. Why make it difficult faffing with muffins and flapjacks?

louderthan · 15/09/2022 10:10

Or a bagel as more filling

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