or are crumpets an acceptable breakfast food for children?

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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:)

Thanks for the extra info, sounds totally like a joke to me. If they don't normally effect your son I wouldn't stop giving them.

After reading you reply, OP, I think the teacher was joking.

Fingers crossed it was just the out of ordinary weekend and he stays healthy.

Far healthier than sugar packed cereal, as long as the butter isn't thicker than the crumpet as it would be on mine if I were allowed carbs

Oh I think she was joking

Its not just national start a thread day, it seems to be national "have a bun fight about nutritional breakfasts" day - have you seen the "sugar on weetabix" outcry?

Anyway op, hope your son settles down and it was just a blip.

crumpets = toast, near enough - no problem.

I think she may have been joking but along the lines of "well he obviously had a bad reaction to them so please can you avoid giving them to him again" rather than a serious "crumpets are generally crap for breakfast".

Your DS's teacher is obviously aware that some foods may adversely affect his Asperger's, but I think she was saying it in a light-hearted way rather than a critical one.

My DD loves toasted crumpets with melting butter on top for breakfast. She isn't keen on cereal (because of the milk) so often has toast, muffins, crumpets, etc.

I work in an infant school and def wouldn't think they were a poor breakfast - bar of chocolate, maybe, crispsy, probably, crumpets now.

Having said that - wheat is one of the foods that commonly does affect children with ASD, and so is yeast - and crumpets are more yeasty than bread.

Might be worth bearing in mind, if he doesn't go down with a cold or virus?

Bring on the crumpets - no problems with crumpets for breakfast here, only problem in our house, is the DCS fighting over the last one

My children have never eaten breakfast, only ever as babies and toddlers, as they got to five they stopped eating breakfast and haven't eaten it since.

Their first meal of the day was always school dinners/packed lunch, they then came home ate a proper dinner, and had a supper.

so your children have nothing to eat from supper til dinner time the next day?

Fabby - I'm very surprised to hear of children who went thorugh school without that breakfast (I see from your profile that yours are now past school age), surely you're not recommending it ?

Breakfast kick start your metabolism though, Im sure its the most important meal of the day
Though I myself,do not eat breakfast, I would deffo not let my DCs start the day, without it

i feel terribly hard done by if i don't manage to eat before i leave the house

some good ideas for packed lunches here

Definitely a light-hearted remark from the teacher. She probably likes you and is just talking in the way she would to a friend - I'm sure she would be horrified that you are anxious about it.

Im like Fabbys children, i never ate breakfast as a child. Didnt seem to make any difference to me, wouldnt see it as a big deal if a child ate crumpets, toast, cereal, biscuits, nothing....whatever they fancy is fine with me. Somedays mine wont eat anything until lunch, sometimes they graze all day....tis only food, not worth getting worked up about.

DD would eat crumpets every day for breakfast. The only problem is they cost 2 euros for six , I've made them myself but she won't eat them.