Is this really such a bad breakfast for a 1 YO?

[Mummytoagorgeouschops]

My mum asked me 'just out of interest' what I fed my 1 YO DD for breakfast.

Her breakfast is generally always the same, a banana, a slice of wholemeal toast with butter and a beaker of whole milk.

Her dinner and tea time meals are always very healthy and varied.

Mum seemed shocked and said she could've believe that I fed my child 'that dross' for breakfast. I always thought it was fairly healthy bu now just left feeling a little unaccomplished

That breakfast sounds ideal, I was thinking you were going to say a McDonald's egg mcmuffin and hash browns!

My DS had coco pops today after refusing fruit, yoghurt and toast was one of those mornings! Most days he has a piece of buttered toast and we vary lunch and dinner.

I thought it sounded fine too!!

My 20 month old has porridge with whole milk, with berries or banana and a smidge of honey on weekdays and then dippy eggs or scrambled eggs with Daddy at the weekend (boy time!).

Sounds fine to me Another one here who thought you were going to say you gave her pom bears, a Gregg's sausage roll and a fruit shoot for breakfast...

Are you sure that your mum's criticism is because she thinks it's unhealthy? Maybe she just thinks it's boring and that spangly sugar-coated cereal and squash would be preferable? I know both my mother and my MIL think I feed DS a very deprived diet, because it's healthy and not full of sugar. Perhaps your mum is similar.

She said that too many carbohydrates and full fat butter will make her fat and tht bananas have too much potassium in them for a small child!

Interesting point about the wholemeal bread hindering vitamin absobtion though! Thanks guys. Just needs reassurance that it isn't 'dross'.

She will probably have porridge/fruit in the winter months as I find it a tad heavy going at this time of year in the heat.

She suggested the shop bought cow and gate porridges and apples instead of bananas. She doesn't have any bak teeth yet so she still struggles with certain fruit and veggies (cucumber with skin, apples, oranges, tomatoes etc) I still give her them though as she still seems to enjoy them. She will suck them, try and bite them but can't quite grind them down enough o swallow them but she does like them.

He has a very varied diet. I did a fish pie a few nights ago with peas and sweet corn and she loved it

Yeah well, she's wrong. Fat doesn't make you fat, excessive calories makes you fat and practically nothing bar force feeding makes babies fatter Han they should be, and they should be a little bit fat.

Babies need fat, saturated fat, like from butter, and breast milk, and full fat cows milk, for brain development.

Next time she says something so silly, just laugh in her face, because that is how wrong she is!

I don't think that advice about white bread being better is right. Wholemeal has loads more calcium and fibre is good for digestion. White bread is pretty useless nutritionally speaking. Your breakfast sounds great OP, babies need fat for brain development. And how does MIL think a baby with no back teeth will eat apple? She should mind her own business.

www.nhs.uk/Conditions/pregnancy-and-baby/pages/baby-food-questions.aspx#close

No, I'm afraid the NHS backs me up on this - bran, such as that part of the wheat that makes brown bread brown, hinders mineral absorption. Babies and toddlers require a different diet. They require a moderately fatty and easily digestible diet or their stomachs don't cope. A normal amount of fibre may include some wholemeal, but not all wholemeal.

www.patient.co.uk/health/toddlers-diarrhoea

DS2 (1yo) this morning had a slice of wheatgerm toast with cream cheese and picked at some horrid coco pops croco copter things.

He usually has some combination of wheatgerm/oat etc toast, eggs, pancakes made from cream cheese/peanut butter or banana and egg. He occasionally has Wee Willie Winkies. He doesn't tend to have fruit at breakfast but that is just because he wont usually eat it that early.

There's nothing wrong with that breakfast, I'd vary it sometimes with different kinds of fruit etc but it's definitely not "dross"! Your mum sounds really unsupportive and if I were you I wouldn't tell her things if she's just going to use them against you.

Your mum sounds nuts. Nothing wrong with that breakfast. My dd has gone off cereal at the moment so has toast and fruit most days. Maybe vary the fruit she has instead of just banana? Banana are fine though.
Babies are growing so NEED fat (butter full fat milk ect) young children need a different diet to adults.
As a side note those cow and gate porrides are full of sugar (which babies don't need) normal porridge or ready break with fruit is much better.

Cow and gate porridge- much healthier than a banana. That's why God created it.

My mum was always trying to persuade me to give up breastfeeding as formula had added vitamins. Smile and nod.

sounds okay to me. Maybe put a little bit of marmite or peanut butter on the toast now and again for some vitamins? Give her different fruit instead of banana ocassionally? But tbh don't see what's wrong with that!

My DD has pretty much same breakfast and lunch each day.

Weetabix/Shreddies/toast and sometimes a banana. I do porridge in the winter.

Sandwich and fruit for lunch

Dinner is usually varied and balanced so I use that as my "good parent meal"

Wholemeal has loads more calcium and fibre is good for digestion.

Yes, in a mature gut. Not for under-twos, as per Trollsworth's link.

Posted too soon...

She's 2.2

I think that breakfast is absolutely fine and your mother is just interfering!

My mum thinks DS's diet is terrible too. She once threatened to call social services because of the amout of junk food I feed him. Her idea of junk food is anything we didn't have as kids. So rice, pasta, avocados, beansprouts, yoghurt, blueberries, WATER!

Fair enough about wholegrain bread for under 2s, but surely no bread (and healthy breakfast alternatives given instead, such as egg, protein, porridge, fruit, etc) is better than white bread, which is pretty much just pointless stomach-filler.

I can imagine trying to switch a 2YO from white bread, to better, wholegrain alternatives might be a bit of a battle.

She has a VERY healthy diet compared to some. Plenty of fruit and veg. I don't buy jarred sauces I always make my own. Grate carrots into everything and onions (plenty of garlic) too.

Funnily enough, she LOVES chomping on lemon slices. Like I said she struggles with things that are slippery I have skins on but she still seems to enjoy attempting to eat them which I wasnt to encourage.

Today she had tuna, pasta (whole grain, it was all I had in)broccoli and a little bit of cheddar cheese! She loves it. For tea she had homemade chilli con carne with carrots, peppers, garlic, onions, red kidney beans.

She also drinks a lot of water. I really percervered with the water as I didn't particularly want to resort to juice.

margaret that's my thinking regarding the brown bread. I don't want to have battles with her trying to swap to healthier alternatives when she's older.

Her 5YO half sister is a nightmare regarding this. She just doesn't eat bread while she's here. I refuse to buy a load of white bread JUST for her as everyone else prefers brown. Her mum doesn't feed her very well by all accounts and I hav only just got her to try a bit of cucumber. She won't even eat fruit!

Crazy.

Her, not you. :)

DD is one and loves bananas, toast, bagels, etc. I do try to give some protein as well. We do wholemeal here too.

chunderella she just turned 1 last friday