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?

One of my teens has to leave for school at 7.40am so he usually buys his breakfast at school, usually a pain au chocolat! Sometimes he’ll have a toasted bagel at home.

I think nothing is better than eating crap.

17 year old will have toast and banana or egg.

12 year old has nothing or porridge.

Cheese toastie
Hot cross bun
Apple
Porridge
Granola, fruit, yoghurt
Brioche
Pancakes

Any of the above usually.

Weekdays-
DS1 (13) will have a hot chocolate (that I add extra milk powder to for extra calories) or a protein shake or something. He might occasionally have a boiled egg or a few nuts if he's in the mood.
DS2 (10) a few dry shreddies or bran flakes, sometimes a peanut butter and Nutella toast sandwich or if we have toaster pancakes, waffles or crumpets then he'll go for those.

Weekends-
Depending on time available we might have boiled egg and soldiers, croissants, homemade pancakes, homemade wholemeal oat and raspberry muffins. Or for a special treat McDonald's breakfast at home (muffin, fried egg, processed cheese and bacon). Christmas breakfast is usually cinnamon rolls. On the anniversary of moving into our house it's always doughnuts for breakfast as we had those the day we moved due to everything being packed!

DS (20) Porridge or beans and eggs on toast immediately on waking up, 7 days per week.
DD (12) Nothing. I tried to force her while she was at primary school but now she is at secondary and can have something substancial (but shite) at break I have given up. She leaves at 7.30am and I couldn't eat that early. At weekends she has something about 11am: anything really: a pastry, toast, leftovers, berries and yoghurt, egg and soldiers, whatever is knocking about and she fancies.

17 yo. Currently bread fried in egg or ham sandwich or cereal.

22 yo probably crisps, left over pizza, chocolate or nothing. When at secondary school, nothing at home, doughnuts or similar from school. Sigh. (Brought up to eat cereal as far as I can remember)

I make my 15 year old breakfast most days.. cheese on toast, eggy bread, pan o chocolat with fruit, banana pancakes, pate on toast.

If my Ds does it , chocolate pudding ,cake. Any junk food he can get hold of.

Why would you make them eat breakfast if they don't want to?

Oh ignore me sorry.

I bloody read it wrong twice! 🤗

Dd1&3 - cereal but preferably chocolate weetabix, coco pops or cheerios
dd2 - banana or an actimel drink (begrudgingly) not sure how long I’ll fight this battle - currently Year 7. Dh stresses about it but I don’t eat breakfast until mid morning at work so get it.

Waffles with Nutella 😳 they are thin as rakes though.

DC22 has shreddies, and has done every day since he was 6! DC21 hasn't had breakfast since he was 15!

16 year old nothing, I pack a hearty lunch which she dips into at break.
Dd2 (14) between a third and a quarter of a slice of marmite toast 🙄 ditto on the lunch.

Wow. This is like a glimpse into how the other half live.

We have croissants and pain au chocolat on Christmas morning as an annual treat.
It's cereal or toast for my two (15&13) but normally they don't bother.

What do you have for a 'treat' breakfast?

Nothing. I got sick of throwing cereal boxes out, so don't even buy them now. Ive told a few people that we don't have ceamreal in the house svd you'd think it was child abuse, the way they react. I've tried buying all sorts of other stuff but they still have nothing. I gave up trying.

• so many typos! Sorry

Different DC different breakfasts. ..

1 toasted bagel with eggs or similar

2 nothing

3 shredded wheat with apricot centres or waffles

4 nothing

the day after a birthday we sometimes have cake for breakfast

Two slices of wholemeal toast with melty butter and either marmalade, bramble jelly or marmite, and a satsuma, an apple or some plums.

Pain au chocolat or pain au raisin on special days like Christmas.

Mine are young adults now, but as teenagers they’d have toast or cereal (usually ready brek or weetabix) on school days. Saturdays they’d maybe make themselves a brunch of sausage, egg or bacon butties and on Sundays either myself or their dad would do them a fry up. Pain au chocolat is treat food reserved for Christmas or birthdays.

16 year old boy has scrambled eggs and plum tomatoes with toast on college days. Weekends and late college start twice a week has sausages, bacon, plum tomatoes, hash browns and a fried egg. He goes for a 2k run whilst I cook it for him. He has confessed to occasionally having a sausage sandwich at college at 11am as he says he only gets half hour lunch break and either most hot food gone by 1pm when he gets his lunch or queue too long so just has yogurt and fruit with hot chocolate.

Ds(18) throughout secondary school had Porridge and banana most weekday mornings (all year round), he still eats it now but in the last couple of years he adds a scoop of his protien powder to it. At weekends he likes half a box of Crunchy nut cornflakes.

Our youngest (15, well 16 in a couple of weeks) also has pain au chocolat. Usually grabs it on the way out the door in the morning.

Eldest (20) is back from first term at Uni and seems to be back on cereal. He's normally been a peanut butter sandwich eater for breakfast.

Weekdays 17 year old d s has baked beans on toast that he does himself. Weekends he enjoys an English breakfast made by me.