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

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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.

Tinker why is op being a wind up merchant?

Great so people want op to replace her original healthy fruit (yogurt not so much) with muffins and cheerios

The sugar in fruit will not break down slowly, like the carbs in wholemeal bread or oats do, so they won't provide the same sustained release of fuel over the morning.

And regardless of that, the OP is asking her children to go for 16.5 hours with only fruit and yoghurt between supper and lunch - that cannot be good for a child.

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 so is it more about you not being able to make them anything more substantial than yoghurt/fruit in the morning? Is it that you think what they eat is sufficient? Or that you don't think they should be 'gluttonous' in the morning? Or that you physically struggle with cooking. Because they are all different reasons, all of which you are citing.

If you find it difficult to cook first thing, it could be worth preparing something the evening before, such as porridge, get it ready, then nuke in the microwave first thing. Or make sandwiches the night before. Or, get everything for toast out the night before, so all you have to do is pop it in the toaster/spread it.

Are they old enough to help prepare their own food?

SP there's nothing wrong with a small muffin containing whole grains and fruit. No one is talking about one of those sugar bombs that's as large as a baby's head and basically a cupcake. And no one's talking about replacing anything, they're talking about giving a bit more protein and slow release carbs to growing children who haven't eaten in 12 hours, in addition to their fruit and yogurt.

God how many people have been fooled by cerial companies sponsored research? There is no such thing as essential carbs. Dd sometimes just has a banana dipped in almond butter for breakfast, she does manage to make it out of the door.

Everyone in here has suddenly become a dietician -inevitably

Well, I do think a lot of these suggestions are a lot of food, eating issues or not

I am just glad OP isn't serving me breakfast- I don't want fruit and yoghurt at that time of day.

what a lot of crap science.

human beings need a good mix of nutrients and food sources. There is very little that we are not designed to eat, and as long as we get the nutrients there's very little that we must eat. That's why you can be a vegetarian, not eat dairy, etc etc; as long as you get the nutrients you need.

Not everyone feels like eating first thing, but sending kids to school hungry or on a quick fix sugar breakfast stuffs up their learning. Slow-release carbs (as the name implies) will keep their energy levels higher for longer.

sugar is sugar is sugar; difference between fruit and a cereal bar is that the fruit also provides other nutrients.

OP I get really tired of people who don't eat certain things then say they are vegetarians.
Vegetarians do not eat meat or fish.
They eat eggs and dairy.

You are not a vegetarian if you eat seafood.

You are a vegan is you eat only plants and no meat, fish, eggs or dairy or anything that has animal origins.

I have not time to read 18 pages of your thread so I don't know what you have said about eggs.

If you are a vegetarian you will eat eggs unless you say so in your original post.

You will also eat cheese. And yoghurt and milk.

It is very hard to bring children up healthily as vegans or leaving out whole food groups. Personally I am not in favour of enforcing adult preferences on restrictive diets on young children because I feel they ought to make moral choices when they are older and more mature.

This is partly why you are struggling to feed them with enough protein because all that is left for you and them are carbs, dairy and pulses, along with fruit and veg.

Cereal = shit in a box though. One mumsnet mantra I am in absolute agreement with.

You talk about crap science, then just give two big dollops of crap science

You can still be vegetarian an not eat eggs if you don't like them you...

Lady, it is rare for me to say so but if you're going to speak to me like a naughty child RTFT.

It is ALL covered at length.

And I'm not fucking making any of you breakfast so quit with the sneery high handed 'I'm so glad I'M not eating at the OPs!' as I wouldn't serve you anyway; rude twats

and the protein from plant based foods- like cereals- is not the same as in meat, fish or eggs.

As someone else pointed out if you want to do this veggie thing then you need to do it properly. The body doesn't know the difference between sugar- fructose in fruit- and refined carbs broken down into glucose- it's all sugar or carbs in the end.

So all your children are having as protein is a small amount of yoghurt- I hope it's full fat Greek yoghurt that has a higher protein content and not low fat 'healthy' stuff.

Yes because you are speaking to me like a four year old.

I said in the thread something along the lines of 'we aren't really vegetarians as we do eat fish but I don't like saying pescetarian as a) iPad can't spell it and b) it sounds poncey. But that is what we are.

And anyway I am hiding the thread as its just fucking EGGS and I really feel very sick.

Lady

That is pretty unesscessary.

Protein is all different, but sugar is all the same! Hilarious

Fit fruitarians www.30bananasaday.com/forum/topics/811-gladiators?id=2684079%3ATopic%3A847000&page=24

Lady you come across really nasty, get off the OPs back seriously if you haven't read the rest of the thread you can't really comment.

well maybe you are behaving like a 4 year old?

Just because eggs smell revolting and you 'don't like the idea of hot breakfasts' or, even worse, the'concept' of breakfast! FFS is there any such thing as a 'concept' around breakfast?

You sound like a control freak.

Keep your preferences for YOU and feed your kids decent food without being so much of a dictator. Poor mites.

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You need to read real science not some pseudo science blog. I know what I am talking about.

If someone is on a low-sugar diet you will find their intake of fruit is limited too.

Fruit and plain yoghurt is perfectly decent food, as is the rest of the OPs menu. You have obviously never suffered from morning sickness Lady.