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.

What would you feed them in a day?

Aside from, well, everything, as another pp said, studies have shown that children do better and can focus better at school when they've had breakfast. Offering them toast or porridge, for example, is not force feeding them a large meal. Saying they can only have fruit and/or yoghurt is downright odd.

There's an interesting thread over in Chat that might make for some good reading...

Pass - we're all different! I find your eating habits odd if you'd really be 'starving and dizzy' on chopped melon, mango, strawberries, blueberries, banana, apple, pear and yoghurt, sometimes with a tiny amount of honey. Oh and a drink of milk.

If you would be dizzy and weak on this I really suggest you see a doctor.

Please don't feel sorry for my children. They are healthy weights and well - healthy.

Ignore them all op, a fruit only breakfast would be far healthier than what they all eat. Starchy carbs a just glue for your insaides.

This has to be the most amusing thread today, I am now going to plan my 'concept of breakfast' for tomorrow morning. . Goodnight all.

I detect ishooooos here. Which is fine as long as you keep them to yourself but it's not cool to make your kids weird as well.

And this too. This thread is vair funny.

Who knew there was an even better horror than sugary cereal first thing? But there is, it's . . . hot food!

hahahahahahaha

[Disclaimer: I do not eat breakfast either, as a general rule.]

you really need to separate what you like and dont like from what is good for your children. I can't stand mushrooms, for example, I think they are slimy and. disgusting, but I cook them for dd because they are another healthy food she can enjoy.

ballet dd1 and I started having granola and yogurt with a drizzle of honey (thinking we were being posh and healthy) until I seen the bloody calories in it!

You have an eating disorder and you're inflicting it on your children by proxy.
Worryingly, you seem to have no self-awareness of this.
I say this as someone that personally can't eat much breakfast but in no way would I consider it appropriate to starve a child in the mornings because of my personal preference.

Oh wow - how about just offering them a range of different foods - porridge, eggs, toast, fruit and yoghurt (yes, please tell us it's full fat)..and letting them eat what they want . Children are very good at that, better than most adults in fact who often develop some very strange ideas about food as they go through life. If ever there is a time to eat lots, it's at the beginning of the day - not that it should be obligatory... You have some very strange ideas about 'gluttony' and food smells!

Your kids need more in the morning.
Frankly, I find your attitude very frightening.

Wow. You have real issues with food don't you.

And you are snotty about it.

Breakfast is essential to a healthy metabolism, so every doctor and counsellor who has treated me for my eating disorder has ever said.

It is called breakfast for a reason- you are breaking the fast of having not eaten for 8 hours if an adult, and up to 12 if a child- which is half a day.

How is eating after almost half a day being greedy? I have serious issues with food- they go back to being very young, and having a skinny mother who lived on fags and fresh air. When I dared to go through puberty and put on weight like a normal child, her attitude stank. As a result, I developed bulimia at 11- I'm now 43, and still have lapses.

OP, feed your children at breakfast, and seek help for yourself. Before you screw up your dcs relationship with food.

Eggs make you smell awful for the day??? This has got to be a wind up......

my dd (10) regularly just has fruit and yoghurt for breakfast. She's not a morning person and has a small appetite generally. But she also sometimes has toast, cereal, potato cakes, bagels etc. My only rule for breakfast is that she eats something.

I don't do cooked breakfast mon-fri as I just don't have time. But hot food is available sat & sun.

I was wondering what made you think you might be being unreasonable? Has someone said something to you?

You don't like encouraging kids to eat large amounts before 7.30? I'm the complete opposite - I encourage mine to eat a decent breakfast as lunchtime is a long way away (5 hours in our case) and they need fuel. Toasted bagel with peanut butter or marmite or sometimes jam, wholemeal toast with the same. This is always served with a cereal (Weetabix or Shredded Wheat usually although sometimes I let them have a sugary one) with sliced banana or porridge with raisins in. On other days a boiled egg and toast. I hate it when they eat less than that for breakfast and encourage a big breakfast more than other meals. Seems a bit more logical to me. Your kids will burn it off and regulate what they eat for lunch.

When ever someone mentions not eating a like a SAD loads start shouting eating disorder lol

If you are absolutely sure that all is ok with your childrens' breakfasts why start a thread asking if you are being AIBU? You are adamant that it is fine.

chopped melon, mango, strawberries, blueberries, banana, apple, pear and yoghurt, sometimes with a tiny amount of honey

That is a lot of sugar! Something with a lower GI might be a better idea.

YABVVU.

Porridge, weetabix, shreddies, shredded wheat, scrambled or poached egg on wholemeal toast, beans on toast or egg and beans and/or bacon, cheese, ham or mushroom omelette, muesli with yogurt and fruit, boiled egg with soldiers, wholemeal or buckwheat pancakes with honey, fruit and yogurt. Bagels with cream cheese. Wholemeal muffins with bananas and nuts in them. Homemade granola bars, with dried fruit, nuts and seeds.

Breakfast should be nice, and give them enough fuel to get through to mid morning at least. If you want it to be a bit more leisurely and enjoyable, get them up earlier. Mine used to have to leave the house at 0715 to catch the school bus, and they always had a good breakfast first.

Glad you're not my mum, I love a good breakfast! Best meal of the day

Welcome to MN OP.

I know joyful I was shocked!!! Full of sugar.

Dds favourite breakfast is croissants & she used to have two on Saturday for breakfast but I stopped it & said she could save that for Sunday's as I was concerned it wasn't substsntial enough (she dance for 3 hours on sat mornings)

Maybe if it involved some granola (make your own if you're worried about sugar) greek yoghurt and fruit it would be okay for a quick breakfast but just some plain yoghurt and a piece of fruit? thats not a great breakfast for a child! As previously said, it sounds more like the breakfast of dieting woman.

You might not need breakfast or struggle to eat early/find it gluttonous(yes, breaking the fast of nighttime how indulgent) but your kids do.