or are crumpets an acceptable breakfast food for children?

[littlepigshavebigears]

not life and death obviously, but I would be grateful for a few views

are crumpets OK for a child's breakfast? If you were a teacher and you asked a hyper child "what did you have for breakfast" and they said "crumpets" would you think anything of it?

tia:)

GwendolineMaryLacey eh? What does it matter how you hold them? Holes side up definitely for me, otherwise the rivers of butter runs out!

I'm sure I read somewhere crumpets have 100% of a child's daily allowance of salt, maybe that's why people don't think its a good breakfast? My kids eat them though.

they are quite low in sugar - I have them a lot and I have GD.

DS will only eat crumpets as cereals are too sugary for him first thing in the morning - not too bothered how healthy they are for him as long as he actually eats something before school.

My DS2 (4) INSISTS on crumpets with Choc spread for brekkie. Am sparing with butter and said spread, but why is it any diff from toast?

Crumpets are lovely! I put loads of butter on so they're definitely a "treat" category breakfast, but they're certainly not terrible, and whilst I wouldn't serve them every day, 100% acceptable for a breakfast imho. in fact you've made me want some now.

Yes TheSecondComing, it is national start-a-thread-day, and I have started two. So I doubt I will be winning any prizes.

We have crumpets with butter and nutella - lovely.

I really don't get all this hand-wringing over sugar and butter for kids - it does them no harm at all providing they get decent exercise.

My dd doesn't like cereal very much. She has either toast or crumpets with butter.

What's wrong with them?

Eeeeuuuuuuwwwwwwwwwwww butter AND nutella together is just awful. DH insists on it but it's just WRONG!

IMHO. :o

Crumpets are always acceptable.

Google trypophobia :o

Nobody has been rude or critical about them, I THINK

my ds1's teacher (who is a goddess as far as I am concerned - she keeps me informed, she talks to me, she is respectful and fab with the children and has a great sense of humour) phoned me at work to ask me what my ds had had for breakfast and whether there was anything wrong. He has Aspergers and apparently today has been more skittish/nervous/angry/generally Aspie than he has been for ages

when I replied crumpets, she made a joke about not giving him crumpets ever again, and I wasn't sure whether it was totally a joke, or a gentle criticism IYSWIM. So I thought I would ask you lot. Especially as it is national start-a-thread-day and I was only planning to start one other

I don't see anything wrong with them for breakfast. DD loves it when she has crumpets for breakfast.

I put far less butter on two crumpets than I do on two slices of toast so therefore crumpets are less fattening for me. We often have crumpets for breakfast, there is always cereal, fruit etc on offer too.

I don't see what the problem is tbh

Crumpets - v good as part of breakfast. Maybe some hungry monkeys would like something else - yoghurt, fruit or something...

Crumpet - [sidjamesemoticon]

so aspergers relates to diet?

yes children with Aspergers can be more susceptible to diet-related behavioural problems

I wouldn't give him cocopops on a school morning!

Was a total joke

sounds like she was trying to figure out if there was a trigger. Unlikely to be the crumpets but worth trying him with them again in a few days and see if you get any similar behaviour.

I guess it might depend on what you put on the crumpets - lots of jam or chocolate spread (like mine do) may make him a bit hyper.

GML, I did wonder if that's what you meant. If you have trypophobia wouldn't you avoid crumpets full stop? (If anyone doesn't know what trypophobia is and wants to be put off their crumpets, go right ahead and google it.)

littlepigs - I would hope it was just a not very funny joke. My dd also has AS and whenever she's like you describe your son it's almost ALWAYS because she's coming down with something, I hope that's not the case for you although sometimes it's just nice to have a reason iykwim?

he has had them loads of times, I have never noticed a problem

he has them with peanut butter

I did offer her another explanation for the behaviour (very busy, active weekend away where he has been playing in the woods with a load of other kids and having lots of freedom)

she seemed satisfied with it

I just couldn't shake off the niggle about the crumpets and wondered whether they were considered a crap breakfast!

Crumpets are very high in salt, not sugar.

I guess they're OK but it depends how much more salt your child will eat.

I did say to her that often when this happens he comes down with flu or something a couple of days later

it was the first thing that crossed me mind. And some of ther children we were away with had stinking colds!