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.

Ah, keeping 'aibu' lovely and pleasant again Sparkling?

a scraping of butter

Jeez op, way to make life fun...

Well, I personally find you strange to serve soup & bread before bedtime, after a full evening meal. But hey, whatever floats your foodie boat, I guess.

But you know, the time of day you eat it is a little irrelevant. So you're just loading up suppertime as a bigger meal and making breakfast smaller.

So really, it's all horses for courses, eh?
(But you have made me laugh, thanks!)

Sunshine - Fruit is just sugar and water, nothing filling about that. Healthy carbs i.e wholegrains (wholegrain toast, porridge etc) is far more healthy and substantial than fruit and yoghurt, especially for growing kids.

Yabu it's not enough o think. That would be something I would give dcs if they were refusing to eat before school and wanted something light. And yabu to be so restricting.

I am imagining the DC as teens stopping off at Maccy D's on the way to school for a dirty breakfast to make up for the years of fruit and yoghurt now.

I tend to feel a bit cross when people go on and on and on about breakfast being the most important meal of the day.

For some people, yes. For me, no.

I do however provide a range of food for breakfast for the children - and 2 out of 3 are genuinely hungry at that time, and 1 isn't. Dh eats with them, and that's fine. DD, over the course of the day, consumes healthy enough food and is a healthy weight. As do and am I.

I'm guessing you're vegetarians then? How about Marmite on toast to supplement the fruit and yogurt? Not massively indulgent.

I run a breakfast club at a primary school and if I served up fruit and yogurt tomorrow there would be mutiny! Don't get me wrong there is fruit and yogurt on offer but it's alongside healthy cereals ( no kids specials) wholemeal toast and eggs. I've got kids coming who previously had to fend for themself and had little or no breakfast and the teachers can see a obvious improvement in their work now.
I'd rarely reply on AIBU threads but yes I think restricting your childrens breakfast like this just because you don't like it is very unreasonable! For what it's worth I detest eggs but still serve them to those who enjoy them.

Sensible nutrition is not what you want for your family. Fair enough then.

Also don't understand why you're questioning if you're BU when you're so adamant that you're not. Your opinion, fine. But why ask if you don't even care about the answer?!!

I have always disliked the concept of breakfast so fruit seems a reasonable compromise. what do you children think about the concept of breakfast and how old are they?

I think it is too limited. More variety. Doesn't need to be sugar etc.

Eggs smell revolting; I can 'taste' them in the back of my throat for a while after I've had them even after thorough teeth brushing. But you would not be eating them if their were for the kids breakfast.

And gluttonous!!!

Sorry must stop reading now but just want to say my mum restricted my food quite a bit and held a very funny attitude to food and eating. Guess what. My sister and I are both heavy. I am very heavy and have had an eating disorder. Let them develop their own healthy attitudes to a wide variety of foods. Please.

I'd think they'd need more protein. A hard boiled egg wouldn't be hot food and wouldn't smell. I try to offer my DC and mindees a carb, protein, and fruit for breakfast. So toast and fruit and cheese maybe. Or a mini muffin, fruit, and a sliced hard boiled egg.

Jelly - Greek yoghurt has more protein than normal yoghurt. I often buy it for dd. And bananna is probably the most filling/energy giving of all fruit, all that potassium.

Someone upthread said that having a high protein breakfast stoppef sugar cravings.

I remember watching a programme on TV where they investigated that. Low fat but high protein breakfasts were proved to be better for people trying to lose weight than eating less.

I feel they are fed sensibly, annie. They have freshly made food and I try to discourage sugary snacks like sweets as much as possible whilst recognising that can make such things more appealing.

I have thought and thought about where my aversion to breakfast comes from and I'm afraid I just don't know but the idea of sitting a child at a table when they have only been up less than an hour and having them eat quantities of food that seem a little excessive to me for such an early hour feels wrong to me.

I do recognise this is 'my' issue and it isn't conmunicated to the children: I feel however that given my thoughts on this fruit and yoghurt with a drizzle of honey for the eldest is more than adequate.

I never ate breakfast as a child and managed to survive and even thrive at school so I am sure my children aren't starving and are/will do well :)

I can't see the posts but I don't doubt the children's daily diets will have been torn to shreds in the meantime!

I do get it to a certain extent - at the weekend we don't usually eat breakfast till 9 or even 10 because as a family we aren't that hungry that early. But through the week we do have to compromise so everyone goes out to work and school with enough food inside them to get through to lunch.

To me, that's simple logic. It's about as far from 'gluttony' as the moon is from my house.

Although now I'm thinking about it. the thought of all that expensive, out of season and imported fruit is fairly gluttonous to me. It's all a bit lavish, isn't it?

Yabu on multiple levels. The most obvious one is: why, other than boredom and/or smugness, did you start this thread? Are your children asking for something else that you do not want them to have? Because if not, there's no problem is there? On whose behalf are you asking?

You also clearly have some food issues (gluttony, breakfast as a concept rather than something you eat after you wake up, no eggs because they would make the children smell awful, etc) and you might want to sort through them before you pass them onto your dc.

There is nothing wrong with fruit and yoghurt for breakfast. There is somethong controlling and worrying about nothing but, ever, because Mum thinks breakfast is greedy and seems to be making a strange moral judgement about toast or porridge.

What time is your eldest's lunch?

so you starve them at breakfast but have dinner followed by supper of soup?

If you thought it was ok you wouldn't have started a thread about it would you.

Yabvvvvu unless that's all they want, then you are massively restricting their diet. Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, your kids have nit eaten for more than 10 hours, and need something much more than yoghurt and fruit.

The oddest thing about all of it is your wish not to have your family eat first thing in the morning. You haven't explained why, except to day it "seems gluttonous" which is total rubbish (breakfast = break fast = long time without food). That's why people think you have shoos.

Just in case it wasn't clear to you from the virtually unanimous thread.

I wonder if they'll want a boiled fish and broccoli tart instead of a birthday cake?

Do you ever give them sweeties OP?

Dc1 had cheese on toast for breakfast today, dc2 had an apple and milk followed by cereal an hour later.

Sometimes they have egg and soldiers, sometimes Nutella on toast. Sometimes sausage, egg and hash browns. Sometimes dc2 won't eat anything just has milk and then demolishes the fruit bowl at school (they can help themselves to fruit,milk and water at our school)

Everything in moderation.

And also banging on about sugar while essentially giving your children bowls of sugar in the form of fruit makes you seem a little bit uninformed op. Fruit is sugar.