to think nesquick whole grain cereal, fat free milk and no added sugar juice is relatively healthy for a fussy eater

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Hi,

My 7 year old Ds is a very fussy eater, tried everything!

I would love it if he would eat kale with cottage cheese on rice cakes for breakfast but get real no child eats perfectly like that.

Today he had a normal sized bowl of whole grain nesquick cereal with skimmed milk.I know it has some sugar in it but its only about the same as a banana and to counter this he has a glass of sugar free orange squash. Both the cereal and juice have added vitamins. Does everyone else agree this is pretty healthy and realistic breakfast?

Thanks

Marie

Nuts are extortionate.

You're surely not denying the health risks re too much red meat,it's been highly researched.

We have 1 free range chicken a week spread over two meals,can't afford more.

Sorry we like a balanced diet,we eat a balance.Have never believed in excluding food groups or eating vast amounts of others.A balance with loads of fruit/veg and minimal junk/red meat is what we eat.We have a couple of teaspoons of honey/ sugar at breakfast as part of a balanced meal.I'm happy with that,gets us going,ensures we all eat breakfast and we eat very little sugar during the rest of the day.We supplement that with fresh air,plenty of sleep and enough exercise.

Going by our weight and health it seems to be working.

We don't eat protein at every meal.
I often skip breakfast. I'm more hungry in the day after breakfast, whether it's carb based or protein based.
I don't think it's sensible to eat every food group at every meal tbh.
And nuts are extortionate. So theres no way I'd be eating nuts, cheese and meat for breakfast every day.

Yesk Raw, that's why I always use the phrase "good fats" rather than fat. There are some awful man made fats which do people no good at all.
Avocados, nuts, fat on meat etc is very good and people don't have enough. I have never thought nuts were very expensive but I'm not on the breadline so that might just be my not noticing it. We used to gather nuts in forests as children actually so they can be a food for which you forage whether on the breadline or not and when you forage for free food you are also getting exercise which is win win.

Foraging for nuts.

No excuse there retro.

Did I read that right? You are suggesting foraging for nuts rather than giving a child a bowl of cereal everyday?

I dont think we need to go foraging, we have a nut right here!

We're hardly on the breadline but even Lidl nuts for a family of 5 are out of my league if consumed in cast amounts and not just as a treat or in baking.

Shouldn't think we're the exception.

No cashew,walnut, pecan or even hazel nut trees near me sadly.

vast

Bogey

My dad has an olive tree in his garden I'll pop down and see if he can press me some oil,might save me a bob or two to spend on nuts.

Bit short of forests in our back garden too (and it's June. Definitely No Nuts).

No time to read the whole thread so don't know if this has been said but please BOYCOTT Nestle!
Bananas with peanut butter are a favourite of my dc, or pbj on toast, or egg on toast. Milk or water or diluted fruit juice to drink.
I am 'lucky' not to have fussy eaters though...just very messy ones!

Aldi 'Everyday essentials' salted roasted cashew nuts are about 80p a pack I think. Hard to resist!

Pancakes can be made and frozen between sheets of greaseproof paper. Two mins to defrost in microwave or take out the night before.

Not the vile shrove tuesday pancakes, the american/drop scone type.

Wow salted nuts and pancakes are the new healthy foods,who'd have thought it.

Nah I'll carry on doing as we are thanks.

No intention of boycotting Nestle either.

Retro I didn't say pancakes were "healthy foods" - I said they can be made ahead and frozen

Actually Aldi cheap cashews are delish as a snack and are far nicer than the more expensive ones imo, I love them but the kids dont get a look in, they are my treat :o

Yes I love the Lidl ones in the can and the Lidl weigh your own salted almonds they're selling at the moment.

Apologies Sunny thought you were part of the anti cereal mafia.

Maybe you could hide some lidl nuts in the garden and get your kids to hunt them down.

Oh no I love a nice heaped bowl of cardboardy shite. I just make pancakes sometimes too.

Harold handing out the wicker foraging baskets as we speak.

Just noticed the Lidl chunky choc with hazelnuts has masses of nuts in,wonder if that counts?

Just noticed the Lidl chunky choc with hazelnuts has masses of nuts in,wonder if that counts?

I would say so!

Salted nuts are not a healtny food. Pancakes are just carbs.

Stick with your eggs, nuts, meat, fish, leafy veg, avocado and you cannot go far wrong.

The foraging is nice for children. At the very least take them out in the Autumn to gather blackberries. My mother had an allotment as did I too. In fact lots of people grow their own stuff and the movement and hard work digging is very good for you and being in touch with soil is good for health apparently, reduces even asthma.

Beware of mushrooms though - I remember a famous composer who in Scotland with 3 friends picked and ate the wrong ones and I think some of them needed kidney dialysis for life and a transplant.

Nursery rhyme... here we go gathering nuts in May. I agree it's seasonal. Anyone who is over weight i.e. 60% of the UK population needs to go easy on the nuts anyway.

We do pick loads of blackberries(which the kids make into hand pies with balls of pastry),whortleberries up on Dartmoor and shed loads of trout and mackerel my dad and dtwin 1 catch(so much so dd refuses to eat another mouthful by the end of the season as trout allegedly tastes of soil),friend gives us allotment veg now and again(do actually need to plant some stuff in the garden) but still like to bake and eat cereal.Sorry.

We went cep picking in France a few times,I do now realise we were dicing with death as my mushroom knowledge is actually zilch.

Lol at me not seeing the comma between Swedish style and meat.

That's what my kids have for lunch most days in the summer, I suppose it'd make a good breakfast as well.

Today they had scrambled eggs on English muffins and grapes. Why are they called English muffins, I wonder...

No idea, Cheerful - I've never had them in England! They have them in Australia too...