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

A Banana on it's own is about as nutritious as it gets & that's without all the extra protein, calcium, vitamins etc from the bread & milk

Unless there's a CMP allergie or something, it's Y DM who is BU, not you

I would agree with others over mixing things up a bit though, maybe avocado on toast as it's another super nutritious food & different berries with porridge - but purely from the POV of getting your DD used to different tastes whilst she's small, if she's eating a good mix of fruits, eggs etc during the course of the day & eats everything happily - then I really wouldn't worry too much about it at all

& I'm a health food nut - your DM is either a fruit loop or a cow

My ILs consider breakfast to be bran flakes cereal with milk - nothing else is acceptable.

DS has never liked cereal - when very small he had scrambled egg or toast or porridge most days. They thought it odd.

Sounds great to me
Sometimes I think people like to change all parents to be like them.

Good grief at all the white bread bashing. It's not a 'pointless stomach filler', it's a great source of carbs, calories and fibre, also white toast tastes lovely! It's not called 'the staff of life' for nothing. And what a weird theory about getting an older toddler to switch - kids love brown/wholemeal/seed bread at any age cos it tastes interesting. I used to beg my folks for brown bread instead of white when I was a kid! Just mix it up eat a bit of everything and enough with the hand wringing.
Yanbu, OP. My ds at the same age used to sometimes have banana and toast and a glass of oat milk (he had everything intolerances and it was one good meal I could make on the go) for TEA! That's how much of a terrible mum I am :-) (he eats pretty much everything now, though he does love a bit of toast...)

It's nothing personal! If you like white bread, keep eating it.

You would need to eat a heck of a lot of bananas a day to ingest too much potassium.

It's that old banana thing again...SIL is very strict that her 18 month old doesn't have more than one banana a day. I never restricted bananas, and all my DC arel doing OK.

What she's said just doesn't make sense. Young children need fat. Plus the potassium thing sounds bonkers - children around the world have grown up on bananas, they're suitable for all sorts of diets (vegetarian, vegan etc). Ask her what the sources of this information was if it ever comes up again. If it doesn't I would ignore it as she's obviously talking rubbish.

Does your mum have a background that might make her believe she has some expertise in this area (e.g. retired nurse, doctor's receptionist...)? And, as pp said, does she make a habit of picking you up on perfectly acceptable and mundane aspects of your parenting? It's just such an overreaction about a child's breakfast, it looks like she is trying provoke a reaction from you in some way.

Toast? What the fuck is wrong with toast?

It's toast ... with fruit.

Fruit and toast. Bad??

Seriously ... TOAST.

That sounds perfectly ok, and not a problem to have every day if she likes it. Ignore the bizarre anti-bread/anti-anything-other-than-organic-quinoa-and-steak-for-breakfast gang, they have no scientific backing. There is actually some research suggesting that people who eat the same things on a regular basis are less likely to be overweight/obese than people who eat 'varied' diets, and you don't need that much variety to get adequate nutrients.

Er, mine had commercial boxed cereal and a peach. In a plastic tub (the cereal, the peach she just held in her hand and then disposed of by throwing at me when I said it was time to get dressed for nursery). You're welcome to run that by your mum if you wish.

I had a friend who would very occasionally feed her toddlers ice cream for breakfast if it was the only way she could get them out the door to day care. they grew up just fine.

God don't even get me started on how many bananas ds can pack away in a day. Never crossed my mind to restrict him. Then again, we don't read the daily mail in my house so I'm blissfully unaware of how too many bananas will turn him into a constipated murderer or whatever.

I'm pretty sure that the weaning leaflet my health visitor gave me suggested giving bananas to babies as a first food.

Bananas can't be that bad for small children if the nhs recommend them as a first weaning food...

Sounds good to me, as does the routine. Having the same breakfast every morning at around the same time would be a gentle way of getting ready for the day, perhaps preferable to being confronted with choice and decisions when time is limited and you've not even had your breakfast, lol.

My DD was bite your hand off for a banana.

We had to take them out the fruit bowl and into a cupboard as she would be sat eating dinner, see the banana and then throw a strop as she wanted the banana not her dinner.

I try not to let her have more than 2 a day more for getting a variety into her than anything else.