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.

Well are we talking about one child who is a preschooler? It sounds like they are very young.

What is the rest of their food routine?

Why don't you give them a choice of healthy options and see what they eat when they have a choice?

Joyful - my eldest has a packed lunch and usually has a wholemeal wrap with cheese, some pickle and lettuce, a yoghurt, a homemade flapjack, a banana and a pot of berries.

For our evening meal it's generally something like shepherds pie with quorn and carrots and peas followed by Apple crumble and custard or similar.

Then before they go to bed there's usually supper of homemade soup and two slices of granary bread and a scraping of butter.

My daughter is still a baby so more of a grazer of course (she is nearly 1) - has cheesy mash, broccoli, courgette, tomato, omelette, homemade cake, but still has lots of milk.

Why mention it if you're happy with it? I bet your kids are starving at school no matter what they say. Feel sorry for them, especially in the winter. They must be bored of it too.

If the OP is rich enough to buy all that exotic out of season/ non native fruit to feed her children I guess they are rich enough to give their children large amounts of said fruit, which will provide plenty of sugar calories to get by on till mid morning snack,or even lunch time or is that another concept the OP doesn't do?

Personally I give my lad breakfast ( of the cereal with dried fruit and milk variety) and he doesn't bother with a mid morning snack, because it would interfere with his football playing time. He has a small lunch. and a modest sized dinner.

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

Doctors are the worst people to listen to! Only 50 years ago they were selling cigarettes. Mine still suggests low fat foods and sugar free drinks. They always peddle out dated advice.

As others have said, slow release carbs is better- that way they shouldn't need lots of snacks mid morning to see them through to lunch. Tbh I feel shaky if I don't have a decent breakfast and I don't do half as muh running around as a child!

I don't eat breakfast and probably haven't since I was about 11. No eating disorder, I just cannot bear eating as soon as I've got up. I tend to have soemthing, poss a slice of toast, at about 10am. But sometimes don't eat until lunch. My brothers are the same. Just different appetites I suppose.

Youngest 2 eat like horses at breakfast, because they're ravenous before school. Eldest dc is 11 and she, similar to me, tends not to be hungry first thing. Will have a glass of apple juice and maybe force a yoghurt down. Possible banana on her walk to school. Thankfully she has the opportunity to have a mid morning snack at secondary school, and that's fine.

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'Concept of breakfast' reminds me of the city yuppies that get invited to Beatlejuices house

There's more sugar and calories in fruit and yoghurts than in two weetabix.

If I had fruit and yoghurt for breakfast Id be so hungry by 9:30am id be having a Mars bar. Weetabix will keep me going till lunch, as will porridge.

Breakfast should be one of the most substantial meals of the day so YABU. Tbh my DD often has just yoghurt or fruit but that's because that's as much as can persuade her to eat, certainly not because I am limiting her breakfast. If I have time to cook breakfast then she'll have a much healthier and more filling breakfast (usually egg based). From a personal point of view, I have found a high protein cooked breakfast really does stop my sugar cravings.

Dh on other hand always eats first thing.

I'm certainly not being snotty - I am being perfectly polite. I have said I don't like the idea of people getting up and immediately starting to eat: fine if others choose to do so but it isn't what I want for my family.

That supper sounds glutinous to me......

Tiggy

You're eating a lot of food in the evenings. Maybe they're just not hungry in the mornings.

Still not sure why you posted in AIBU

Why two dinners? That's weird. Just as you're going to sleep your digestive system has to wake up and do some work . Also the biggest gap - from going to sleep to waking up - they have the least calorific food, have to last the longest time to lunchtime, when they have a relatively substantial lunch, then dinner then supper? So all that food condensed during a time when energy wise they don't need it? That doesn't make sense.

So why are you asking a bunch of random strangers on the internet if it's ok or not?

I can't face food first thing in a morning, so I have breakfast when I arrive at work. Dd on the other hand has to get up at 6.30 & leave at 7.30. She doesn't feel right until she has eaten.

Well then, you don't have to give your children that supper, do you? :) I am sure they don't go to bed starving just as my eldest doesn't go to school starving!

YANBU

My dd (5) has 100g soya yogurt and 80g strawberries or raspberries every single day. We don't offer her a choice except on a Sunday where we allow her to choose whatever she wants for breakfast. Its the only way we can keep her blood sugar stable in the mornings. She is growing well and her dietician has no problem with it

*gluttonous

My 11mo often has banana and Greek yoghurt (full fat) for breakfast. I think that's much more sustaining than a bowl of Rice Crispies for example. My 4yo isn't very hungry first thing but will eat a slice of toast with peanut butter which I hardly think is gluttonous! They both eat a second breakfast at the childminder's later in the morning or if we're at home we do pancakes or porridge or something a bit later in the morning.

SjP a fruitarian diet is definitely not 'very healthy' for growing children. It's fine for an adult to choose a fruit only breakfast but kids do have additional needs. Fruit is full of sugar and won't help their energy or concentration throughout the morning.

There's lots of healthy things you can eat for breakfast which do not involve sugary cereals or hot food,

For example: homemade muesli, porridge, toast ( if you want to be super healthy it can be rye or spelt bread)

But restricting breakfast to yoghurt and fruit does seem a bit paltry, children need energy in the morning for their bodies and their brains to be able to function

Why isn't it what you "want"? What has want got to do with sensible decisions regarding feeding your child?