Eat the damn Crumpet

[Paddleslowly]

My ds is a very fussy eater and I'm at my wits end with it. Now that he's in year 7 he doesn't want breakfast at home but wants a cake at the school cafe in the morning. He has gone from "I don't like milk" on his breakfast to "I don't like Rice Krispies" and any other cereal you name it I have brought it. The box goes into the bin as he takes one mouthful and doesn't like it.
So I reach a compromise and ask what would you like. "Urm I like crumpets n Nutella" great I say so I buy them and he is fine. But this morning he created a drama "I don't like crumpets" and proceeded to take 15 minutes to eat half of it! Apparently he doesn't like the make of the crumpet, don't know why as I but the same packet.
I really don't like him to leave the house without some sort of breakfast in him. For a treat once a month I have said he can go to the cafe but I'm not happy about it. What can I do it's so frustrating I just would like him to eat the crumpet no drama

I started eating breakfast when i changed schools and my main meal moved to lunchtime, rather than the evening. When we ate heavily at night, i just wasn't hungry enough in the morning.

Hope you find what works for you,

I'd just buy standard stuff and its up to him if he eats. Unless he is seriously underweight.

Sounds like an eating disorder to me. My Yr 9 DS eats his bodyweight in fruit, cereal, biscuits, crumpets, toast and yoghurt before he exits the front door every morning. And he is a tall lanky bugger.

Sounds like an eating disorder to me. My Yr 9 DS eats his bodyweight in fruit, cereal, biscuits, crumpets, toast and yoghurt before he exits the front door every morning. And he is a tall lanky bugger.

That's a huge amount of food to eat, sounds likes binge eating. Maybe he pukes it up as soon as he's at school - he could be bulimic (see what I did there?)

If the OP's son is wanting KFC and cake then I'd seriously question that he has an eating disorder based on the information contained here.

My 18 year old can never stomach breakfast, rarely eats anything before 11am. He is 6'1" and built like a brick shit house.

My son began to get like this. So I stopped buying anything treat like and if hungry he gets fruit cheese or oat cakes. No more problem....if I ain't got it, ain't got it. Nutella for breakfast is insane btw!

Yep the warburtons are his exact choice. And I have to toast and re toast them for him so they are just right. I don't buy any other brand so his carry on this morning of " why did you buy these" are nonsense and him just being a brat.

No. Stop toasting! I second or third or 25th the idea that you need to point out where breakfast foods are kept, tell him he has to eat something, and leave him to it.

My 7 year old makes his own peanutbutter on toast sandwich already. I make the marmalade toast while he eats that, otherwise we would go through 2 jars a week. But still, he toasts the bread, and spreads the peanutbuttern it (and the counter, and his hands.) He can pour cereal and milk too, without spills most days. Yours surely can. Remove yourself from the breakfast making scene, other than buying this week's options.

Would he eat Macaroni cheese at breakfast time?

DD2 has a chicken quesadilla for breakfast. Breakfast doesn't need to be traditional breakfast food. Anything healthy is fine.

He has now changed from crumpets to eating crunchy nut cornflakes without milk! At least it is something in the mornings.

TBH I only like one brand of crumpet.

All others are too salty, or smell funny - Kingsmill I'm looking at you!

Just a little story about my ds and the right brands. He insisted he would only drink tropicana juice. So for a few weeks I bought own brand juice and poured it in the tropicana carton.
Guess what he couldn't tell the difference!! His face when I told him was a picture