To think breakfast is important?

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DS says I am being unreasonable, he is 11 and has a dx of aspergers.
This morning he presented me with a letter (he hates writing so i was quite chuffed by this!)

Please can we stop cereal for breakfast as i think it is NOT suitable for human consumption (or for that matter for animal comsumption). Any deal will do.
Love ds
PS it is also very boring having the same thing everyday
NOW PLEASE PUT THIS DOWN AND THINK!

Thing is we DO have cereal everyday (quick, easy, healthy?) but my brain knows not of alternatives.... His alternative today is to say i wont eat at all until lunchtime so he has had a glass of water and disappeared upstairs.

AIBU to say actually cereal is fine and stop moaning?
What do you have for breakfast? (i can honestly say i have had cereal almost everyday if my life so im a bit at a loss!)

(please be nice ive never started an aibu before!)

Oh, I LOVE cereal. I'd live on it if I was allowed!

Yogurt is a good breakfast though, or a nice fruity smoothie.

My son has:

Ham and cream cheese sandwich
Scrambled egg and toast (egg made in microwave)
toast
pizza, if we have any

I have fruit and cottage cheese and whole grain toast.

How about- toast, fruit, boiled or poached eggs, porridge?

Some good ideas already but.. why not ask ds for his suggestions? Perhaps say you will discuss it properly with him once he has written a list of healthy suggestions?

belief, there's bread, butter, honey, nutella, jam, cold meats for them two savages lol, cheese, fruit, juice, coffee and yoghurt. Once a week we have boiled eggs, on my day off.
I have a breakfast tray in the kitchen cupboard, quite large one, on which the jam, butter, breakfast bread in a little basket etc live on all the time. So all I need to do is get it out, make a pot of coffee, put the juice and yoghurt and take it through to the living room.

Omelettes go down well here, allows us to use up any odd bits too like mushrooms or spinach that need using up.

Porridge ( with fruit/ nuts)
Poached egg
Beans
Apple/ pear pancakes ( slice fruit and pour batter over)

Most cereal has the same nutrition as cardboard! If you take rice crispies and crush they just turn to dust.

Forgot to say, I think your son's letter is brilliant, been doing chores round the house and keep giggling at: and now put this down and think! Hahaha

I also think your son's letter is brilliant - and he's absolutely right! cereal has one of the highest sugar contents around - some have something like 30 tablespoons of sugar in one bowl.

Lots of good suggestions here OP. Why don't you show this thread to you son and ask if any of the options appeal to him? I eat cereal but IMO rice kirspies and cornflakes are probably the most boring and monotonous you can buy.

Put the onus back on him to suggest ideas and he can help make it?
My DC want scrambled eggs and not cereal, I never eat breakfast so the oldest (a teenager) makes scrambled eggs. I don't have a problem with that.

Breakfast muffins, made with porridge and bananas are good too. Make a load, freeze, then just pop in the microwave for a few seconds in th morning for a lovely fresh muffin.

Yep, agree with others, cereal isn't healthy.

If he can come up with something easy and quick that he can have for breakfast, then no problem surely?

cereal is pretty crap and having it everyday sound awful.

Eggs - boiled, fried, poached, scrambled,

french toast with fruit, ketchup, baked beans, bacon and syrup

pancakes with fruit

smoothies made from two handfulls of frozen fruit, half a handful of porridge oats and topped up with a fruit juice and water to make

fish, kippers, kedgeree is lovely for breakfast. Kippers you get frozen and pop in the microwave.

muffin with ham and egg on top is one of my favourite

or rostis with poached egg or ham - these you can by frozen and pop in the oven for a few minutes.

Stop thinking of breakfast as breakfast and just think of it as first meal of the day. Dd often raids the fridge for leftovers and munches on those for breakfast. Write back to your son and tell him that you are willing to enter in negotiations. Ask him for 5 alternative breakfast suggestions and you will also come up with 5.

Your son is dead right. Cereal is mostly crap and not good for you at all! Well done him! Be a bit more imaginative using some of the fab suggestions above.

Ponders....why do do many people seem to think that cereal is a good breakfast when it is just the opposite....?

little advertisers on tv, that's why!

Same as snacks aimed at kids..... Cheestrings,anything with the word 'fruit', etc

Because there's big money put into advertising cereal to persuade us that it's good!

I agree - there are plenty of much better alternatives to cereal.

Good quality bread, toasted - top with banana, avocado, sliced tomatoes, nut butters, cottage cheese.

Yoghurt - add fruit and seeds (I'd avoid the granola)

Fruit - grapefruit, apple, banana, orange, berries

Overnight oats - soak porridge overnight in fruit juice (or milk or water). In the morning add grated apple, yoghurt, fruit, nuts, seeds.

Eggs in the microwave - add mushrooms, tomatoes, spinach, cheese.

Bacon butties.

Smoked fish - salmon, trout, mackerel.

Ds has just come back from his grandparents in Scandinavia where breakfast includes several types of fresh bread with a choice of cheese, marmalade, pickled herring and salami type sausages. And some kind of youghurt. Fortunately, I don't think he often made it out of bed in time for breakfast, otherwise we'd struggle to live up to these new standards.

I like fruit for breakfast, together with some nice bread.

I usually have leftovers from the previous night's dinner or some sort of veg/protein combo (eg eggs baked in a tomato and chorizo sauce with rocket, stir-fried greens with leftover chicken, egg mayonnaise with veg sticks, soup, salad with tinned fish). Sometimes I heat up frozen raspberries in the microvave, or have stewed fruit with an omelette.

Would he like a smoothie? Quick, easy and nutritious..??

Breakfast is a pretty modern invention, there's a lot of people not fully evolved to eat it - the same appetite mechanisms which prevent you waking up in the middle of the night for food, don't appear for everyone before breakfast. For those people they are eating when not hungry, which is difficult and the sort of thing which encourages over-eating.

Mostly carb breakfasts make that even worse too, so as others have said, up the protein and fat content... eggs, cold meats, cheese, yoghurt all pretty much as easy as cereal, and likely more palatable to those not hungry.

Of course it's not quite as simple as that, as there's not always the possibility for food when the hunger does rise - particularly at schools.

I love cereal as I had a sweet tooth, but it is rubbish and not good for you.