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?

My 13 yo has ham rolls and a piece of fruit

They have nothing other than a glass of milk which I force upon them. Gave up the breakfast battle years ago.

Something chocolate-y or nothing
Occasionally a cup of tea, eggs and bacon on the weekend

17 year old: nothing
19 year old: protein shake or oatmeal with protein powder or eggs on a protein bagel

DS 3 × weetabix, fresh orange juice. Plus either yakult /croissant / choc spread on toast.

DD orange juice in a carton and kinder bueno chocolate bar. Not great but better than nothing.

15 yo: Cereal/muesli/granola eaten dry, sometimes some dried fruit and nuts, followed by a crumpet with peanut butter or Nutella. Tea, peppermint tea or red bush, and a glass of water to drink.

12yo: yoghurt or rice pudding, followed by toast or bagel with jam or nutella. Tinned fruit with the yoghurt sometimes. Occasionally porridge with milk and honey, but only if I make it, usually I leave for work before they are up. Juice to drink.

I’m happy for them to choose whatever they want to eat at breakfast time.

Weetabix before he swims

More cereal, pan au chocolat, cereal bar or flapjack or something equally as quick and easy afterwards!

DS (13) eats a variety of breakfasts (porridge, toast, shreddies with milk, or bacon with baked beans)
DD (16) eats either about 10 special K flakes with milk, or a slice of toast. At the weekend/holidays she rarely eats breakfast.

They don’t

Mostly toast or porridge. Sometimes a fried egg.

At the weekend they have croissants or pancakes and smoothies/fruit

12yo DS 2 eggs either boiled or scrambled, 1 slice of toast and a glass of milk. He is a swimmer so this is part of his meal plan.

15yo multiple bowls of cereal and a coffee, even if his breakfast time happens to be at lunchtime on a weekend he still has this first then has lunch.

Ds (17) pain au chocolat on a school day as he never has time to sit down and eat.
Dd (14) porridge.......every single day
Dd (12) all sorts of things... fruit, yoghurt, bacon , eggs, avocado on toast

15 year old ds: weekdays during term time, porridge or Rice Krispies, Saturdays and school holidays, often nothing and will snack on fruit mid morning. On Sundays we all usually have a later breakfast of a bacon or sausage sandwich or pastries or when I can be bothered a full cooked breakfast. We don't usually eat lunch on a Sunday and just have a late breakfast and a then a roast dinner at around 6pm and he'll often have fruit and biscuits in between

Mine is 11- usually weetabix with milk or toast/crumpets.

16 year old has a massive bowl of porridge every single morning without fail.

12 year old has brioche / crumpet / crunchy nut cornflakes or granola and yogurt

Nothing, pain au chocolates or crumpets on a school day. Weekends copious amounts of cereal.

DD14 eats porridge or has a banana with a glass of milk before school, nothing at weekends.
DD18 has homemade muesli she makes herself.

I‘m also in the ‘something is better than nothing camp’. Especially for active kids - If they have PE first thing for example.

DS14 - bowl of cereal/porridge pot/toast with jam and fruit.
DD12 - pancakes, fruit and maple syrup/waffles/ cereal/ toast honey and banana.

I used to be very precious about what they had for breakfast- I’d call cereals ‘crap in a box’ and not buy them. I’d insist they had porridge every day.

I’m far more relaxed now with 2 slim, active boys who just need to eat. I’m happy with a bowl of rice crispies!

Dd17 avocado and egg on sourdough with an iced oat milk latte.
Dd2 makes a smoothie or has homemade granola with yogurt and fruit.

I have no idea where their twattery comes form but it's certainly not me!

Dc15 - cornflakes or toast with butter and/or jam. Nothing exciting!

Usually nothing. She doesn’t have time before school and on weekends/ holidays doesn’t get up until nearly lunchtime. Occasionally she will take a brioche roll to eat on the way to school.

Same here. All in their 30s now and still nowt.

DD1 16 brown toast and butter, fruit if I've got any berries in. Weekends will do avo or tomato toast or pancakes etc

DS 14, varies massively, today he had a bowl of cheerios, a banana, 3 slices of melon and a ham sandwich. Weekdays normally a bagel or cereal, sometimes yoghurt, oats and honey. Scrambled eggs at the weekend.

DD2 14. Nothing. Won't eat before school and gets up at lunchtime at the weekend.

DS14 - bowl of cereal (Fruit and Fibre, Apricot Wheats, Cheerios, granola) on a school day. Scrambled eggs with or without bacon, or jam on toast at weekends. He has announced recently though, that he doesn't like cereal anymore. I have made a few suggestions, like bagels, croissants, crumpets etc, but he doesn't like the sound of them, so keeps snaffling the cereal out of habit😅

DS10 swings between filling breakfasts such as muesli with yoghurt or porridge, and Rice Krispies or cornflakes.

Ds1 (18) makes himself a protein shake

Ds2 (17) has 4 pieces of toast and about a pint of tea