Be honest, what do your older kids/teens eat for breakfast?

[Comedycook]

Mine are 12/14. My 12 year old eats a pain au chocolat for breakfast every day. Occasionally I might persuade her to have a yoghurt with it. 14 year old often skips breakfast on school days much to my dismay...but otherwise he has cereal/pancakes. I'm aware these aren't the best breakfasts ever! What do your older DC eat?

DC1 - overnight oats/Porridge/brown bread toast
DC2 - cereal, healthy 9 times out of 10 and treat cereal once a week. Both grab a piece of fruit for on the way.

Their overall diet is balanced but brekkie has never been a struggle - thankfully. I know that is not universal.

DC1 normally toast
DC2 normally porridge just those microwave sachet ones

Sometimes they get to school early and get hot chocolate/croissants/ bacon butty before school. But that's maybe only once a week or so as they get £3 a day so it doesn't stretch to breakfast and lunch every day at school so breakfast usually at home.

15yo - nothing
12yo - sugar, mostly. Either a couple of brioche rolls, toast inch thick with jam, or porridge with half a pint of maple syrup.

Ds1 has been on crumpets with peanut butter and a glass of milk for months now.

Ds2 varies between cereal on school days and scrambled egg at the weekend.

My eldest will not eat breakfast at home and I've given up trying to make him. He usually has a croissant or toast from the school canteen.

Varies- croissant or pain au chocolat, cheerios, egg and bacon bap, sausage bap, cream cheese on toast.

My daughter - now in 20s - often has savoury stuff and/or leftovers. At weekends she'll make shakshuka or eat mashed avocado on toast.

14yo usually makes scrambled eggs or similar on toast during term.

I don't think cereal is too bad, even the sugary ones are fortified with vitamins and teens need loads of calories due to rapid growth and their brains developing.

My dd has granola, sometimes shreddies, sometimes toast.

I wouldn't allow no breakfast, it's an important meal imo.

Dd often nothing sometimes a pastry.

Ds has meds that need a decent breakfast so usually porridge or a frozen protein smoothie in summer.

DD 17 doesn't eat breakfast on school days, she prefers an extra bit of time in bed.
On a weekend, she'll happily eat anything as long as she doesn't have to wake up early for it.

School days DD 17 will have a bagel, toast or English muffin with marmite and glass of Orange or apple juice. Loves a full fry up on weekends or smashed avo on sour dough

I tried to make sure they had protien, carbs and fruit of some sort, but it was a lsoing battle. Usually toast with peanut butter and juice, or a yogurt and muslie.

I did them a decent packed lunch so they could have a snack out of that at morning break. But they later told me that the lovingly homemade flapjacks were swapped for crisps or chocolate bars from other kids.

If its any consolation they are both grown up now and perfectly healthy.

Nowt. Past about 11 years old neither have eaten breakfast.

Nothing! But likely gets haribo or something on way to college!

We make a quick smoothie for all to share (just mix up banana + frozen fruit + almond butter). Then he has a hot cross bun and maybe yoghurt.

Either a thin bagel with jam or two slices of fruit toast. He has a pan au chocolat when he gets to school.

Weetabix with honey if there is time, if not a big glass of milk and a pain au chocolate which is eaten in the car, sometimes an apple too

Mine are hobbits.

14yo: brioche roll with chocolate &/or ssg roll & then 1-1.5 hrs later: bowl of porridge (FF milk, sugar)

18yo: bagel with butter & then bacon butty 2 hrs later

Adult DD has orthorexia & has...

2 fried eggs + load of spinach & a few pieces of bread with butter, coffee

Older adult DS likes nothing better than a full fry up but will settle for toast in a hurry.

I don't force them to have breakfast past the age of about 10 - I think the "most important meal of the day" thing is a complete myth. I fast myself until 1pm and have done for several years - I get up at 6am with the kids (and for work) and drink half a liter of water and two black coffees... It allows me to maintain a healthy weight and I'm actually never hungry until my usual eating time (I used to be hungry much earlier when I was overweight and ate breakfast...)

My youngest is 11 and always has toast or cereal and a glass of water and a glass of fruit juice and takes an apple, a banana and one slice of bread sandwich to school for a morning snack.

My 15 year old almost always has plain toast - for some reason all his own he won't put anything on it, not even butter, even though it's right there on the table. He also has water and fruit juice.

My eldest has to be reminded to have a glass of water and never has anything else on a school day, but eats a big breakfast if she's been able to sleep in til mid morning and isn't in a hurry at weekends or holidays.

Thankfully they both now have something decent, like wholemeal toast with peanut butter or porridge with nuts and seeds. One sometimes does scrambled eggs. And they always have some fruit. They’ll have a vegan cooked breakfast if I cook it.

They’ve both been through stages of eating only white bread toast with jam or some variety of cereal bar. Something is better than nothing though, they’ve both been through stages of refusing anything for breakfast. It seems pretty common. There’s been periods of time where they’ve had nothing for breakfast and then they’ve bought a slice of pizza and a biscuit for lunch. 🙄 Still, they were always full of energy, healthy and growing so I tried not to worry, just always encouraged better options and now they both eat really well. All you can do is make it available and bore them with the benefits of eating a good breakfast.

DC1 - nothing (possibly a couple of Quality Street 😬), she sometimes has a banana or a piece of toast
DC2 - porridge, flaxseed and cherries
DS - boiled egg and toast

Also, I’m definitely not a ‘something is better than nothing’ believer. If they have pure sugar, which causes a massive glucose spike, then nothing would have been better.

My 11 year old mostly has toast with cheese and ham. Sometimes I buy chocolate cornflakes and she then alternates mornings between toast and cereal.