To only let my children have fresh fruit/yoghurt for breakfast?

[Sunshinesunflower]

They have plenty of healthy food during the day but I don't really want them thinking the day has to start with them shoving lots of hot food or sugary cereals down themselves.

There is plenty of fruit for variety and just a small amount of plain yoghurt.

Aibu? I have always disliked the concept of breakfast so fruit seems a reasonable compromise.

demelza they may rebel the other way. Both of my younger children absolutely refuse to eat breakfast.I think they started to refuse when they were 8 or so, and before that it was a struggle to get them to eat anything.
It's been an interesting thread. I missed breakfast myself today,and I didn't feel hungry at all. I might try cutting breakfast out for a week and see how I feel.
By the way, what you describe isn't a delight to some people. That would be my worst nightmare.We are all different.

I found this thread interesting. It reminded me of a half-forgotten magazine article on a particular attitude to eating, so I did some Googling. This is what I found.

www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/orthorexia-nervosa

I personally think fruit and yoghurt is fine, although I would give full fat greek yogurt. I would be perfectly happy if mine ate that every day, I eat a large bowl of fruit and yoghurt myself (mainly yoghurt) and it keeps me going fine. If egg makes you feel sick, don't give them egg and don't worry about it. Sorry you are feeling so bad about yourself though .

They are not going 16 hours without carbs or protein though are they? Plenty of carbs in fruit, plenty of protein in yoghurt. Lots of kids are quite happy with a light breakfast and a snack at breaktime.

During my first maternity leave I put on loads of weight and saw a GP at my surgery who specializes in weight loss. One of the first things she asked me was ifI eat breakfast and she was so ssurprised when I answered 'every day'. Far and away the vast majority of patients that sought her advice on weight loss did not eat breakfast or indeed very much food throughout most of the day but would then over-eat throughout the evening. Her first strategy with most patients was to simply get them eating a sustaining and nutritious breakfast that would reduce cravings and a tendency to over eat later in the day.

Obviously there are plenty of slim breakfast-refusers out there but I thought that might help you to see that breakfast is NOT greedy. Some people seem to think it's more ladylike or refined and restrained to claim not to be able to face food in the morning. Fine if you genuinely can't, I appreciate that plenty of people don't get hungry til later. But it's idiotic to ascribe a moral value to it. It has nothing to do with gluttony and it's not disgusting to eat at breakfast time!

Hang out at a shop near any secondary school at 8am and see the kids buying bags of doughnuts, litres of fizzy pop, chocolate and crisps to eat on their way into school. Far better to do your best to instil the habit of a healthy and filling breakfast to help them avoid insane sugar cravings later. Whilst you control their eating habits, make them as healthy as possible - give them fruit and yoghurt but also some slow release complex carbs or healthy filling fats. It really is better for primary age kids - and it's not at all greedy.

I imagine away from mumsnet many people put a bowl of cereal in front of their children and have done with it and I am I must confess a bit mystified by the concept that this is somehow 'better' then fruit and yoghurt.

I also do feel that the ideas suggested by some are massive and I think my children would struggle with those amounts.

Scrambled or poached egg on wholemeal toast with a piece of crispy bacon.

We are vegetarians and the egg thing has been much discussed, but thanks.

Your children should be having protein and a small amount of unrefined carbs.

So- cheese on toast, baked beans, eggs in any shape or form, whole cereals like Weetabix or porridge without loads of sugar. Add in a piece of fruit and some yoghurt if you must but on its own they won't be getting many calories to start the day.

you mean vegans? vegetarians eat eggs- or they used to.

Lady vegetarians don't eat eggs, non of the ones I know do anyway.

Yes but we don't generally eat bacon.

Eggs have been much discussed on the thread.

Some vegetarians also avoid eggs. Though as far as I can see it's not that different in its issues to commercially produced milk. Which then means vegan.

WorryWart you can be a vegetarian and still eat eggs and cheese. Vegans don't, though.

Sunshine you could do mini muffins, toast, bagels in addition to the fruit and yogurt. (Preferably with a protein-y spread like peanut butter or cream cheese) Or look for a low sugar granola to top off the fruit and yogurt, something with seeds etc.

We just eat eggs from our own chickens and we do eat seafood so not strictly vegetarian. However, eggs are out for the reasons cited above at length.

To be honest there's no way I am up to making anything other than a piece of toast/hot cross bun; I'm really not so well.

sure this has been mentioned not read thread but eggs are a far better option, yoghurt can have high sugar content too, I would rotate their breakfasts ideally.

I don't think there's a lot of logic about what most of us eat - though the important thing here is whether there's any conflict between one person's perceived 'gluttony' (wanting toast for breakfast is 'disgusting') and meeting children's nutritional needs.

But I would point out that some vegetarian staples that are marketed as natural and health - such as Quorn (mycoprotein) - which was mentioned above, are highly processed. To quote one article.

"Mycoprotein is a highly processed product, produced by means of a fermentation process, which starts off with a natural type of fungus, Fusarium venenatum.

The fungi are put into a fermentation vat where they are fed glucose, oxygen, carbon dioxide, nitrogen, as well as vitamins, minerals and other secret ingredients.

These elements allow the fungi to grow while the vat is kept at a constant temperature.

Once it reaches its desired size, egg and seasoning are added to the mixture, which is cooked and turned into chunks.

It is then frozen, resulting in a structure resembling meat."

Sunshine what you're feeding your children is fine, if you can add a little something to it it would be perfect like suggested a slice of toast or full fat yoghurt or granola etc although I understand most kids probably won't eat granola!

Just seen eggs referenced , just rotate, everything in moderation, I started to have carrots and humour for breakfast and never felt better actually

Sorry OP, I wasn't suggesting eggs (I've seen they were out). I was just recognising that some veggies never eat them or cook with them.

Things you can do the night before are good. Would you really not think of something like soaked oats? It can go into the fruit and yoghurt and you don't have to do it when feeling icky.

Otherwise, bagels, fruit bread etc would all be great to offer alongside. Is your eldest old enough to spread, etc.

OP is obviously just being a wind up merchant. Hopefully.

it may sound ridiculous and I just don't know if it is just me but I am genuinely gagging just at the thought of eggs in the morning just now.

I would really appreciate it if people could stop going on about them as its not funny when I'm gagging/retching. when I was pregnant with dc1 dH bought an airwick air freshener thing and that was similar, the smell was cloying and it made me so sick.

it's okay penguin, sorry. I actually like egg mayo salad but not when pregnant!

How far along are you, Sunshine? :)

You could maybe make mini muffins the night before with the DC. There are a lot of recipes that have lots of whole grains and fruit. But if you're not feeling up to it a whole meal slice of toast in addition to yogurt and fruit is fine :)