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.

yabu

but there's nothing wrong with fruit and yoghurt for breakfast. Personally I always have either that or porridge. I don't have a little bit of yoghurt though!

But why feed the children a fairly substantial meal before bed, when they will be asleep and not need the fuel anywhere near as much as they will in the morning? Bread and soup would make more sense in the morning than at night.

Doesn't sound like much of a breakfast. My dc would get tired on that and lose concentration at school. Its not enough to see them through the morning imo.

Glad to hear it squirrels :)

I have found something nice at night helps both children sleep and also isn't rushed as it would be in the morning.

Italian - I am of course eager to avoid food issues but giving them fruit for breakfast isn't, I feel, giving them issues - it's giving them, well, fruit. I feel that if I was giving rbem fruit for breakfast and lunch you would have a point of course!

We are technically pescetarians but that sounds horribly poncey, so I say 'veggies who eat fish!'

It's not sensible though Sunshine, loads of us are telling you that. You admit to having an aversion. Your kids are affected by that. Feeding two dinners is not sensible. It's unnecessary. As I said you're condensing most of the food during the shortest period of the day when they need less fuel. They need more fuel in the morning. You're being stupid and have issues that you admit to. And like everyone like that you'll justify it to the death. Sad for your kids. I hope if you have sleepovers the other kids don't tease yours for the lack of proper breakfast food. You can always tell when things are not quite right.

Soup for supper? Lol, that's tasty for 'em

It's beginning to sound like the workhouse to me. Rough oats with water and a pinch of salt would set them up for the day. Acorn coffee is frugal fare too.

I think we all know there is a difference in the sugar found in fruit and the sugar found in haribo!

What is it with some parents and fruit? Fruit is packed full of quick-burn sugar. A few vitamins, yes, but very little in terms of fuel. It won't keep them full until lunch, and definitely not as they get older.

Mine have natural yoghurt quite often for breakfast - but on top of weetabix or with a chopped banana in as a 'dessert' after a boiled egg and toast.

YABU.

It's the most important meal of the day. Breakfast. Break your fast. Breakfast. After no food for 12 hours they need to fuel their body with something decent.

As your children are pre-school at the moment, it is presumably possible for them to eat something substantial mid-morning and thus make up for a less substantial breakfast.

Oncwe they start school, and have fruit and milk again at break time, you may want to re-balance things to give them something more lasting early in the day.

Otherwise 7.30 am - 1 pm on fruit x 2, milk x 1 and a little yoghurt is going to be less calories thabn they need to concentrate at school through the morning.

As another poster has said upthread, teachers really, really notice who has a good, solid, slow-release breakfast in the morning, and who doesn't, in terms of concentration and behaviour, especially later in the morning.

Agree with LadyGregory - the soup would be better in the morning. But Sunshine's "wants" come first.

ladygregory I have this idea that children grow at night but that's probably nonsense from my mother

X-posted with you, OP.

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.

But the whole point is: You HAVE recognised that you have issues. But you STILL think it's OK to "compromise" by forcing those issues on your children by restricting their choice at breakfast.

If you know it's not right, why "compromise"? Go the whole hog and feed them with variety and choice. What will you tell them when they're old enough to ask for other things?

Hidden, that is completely unfair.

Why, on a Sunday they have a slice of bread with it!

As I've said, a supper helps them sleep. It's nice soup, I promise! I am rather proud of my soup-making skills :)

That's why he has it balletgirl, the protein and potassium plus other vitamins - I think that's a decent breakfast for a baby who still breastfeeds and eats regularly throughout the day. So that's a fruit and yoghurt breakfast I think is ok. But all the issues to do with disgust and gluttony suggests such an unhealthy attitude to food plus the fact that all that fruit plus honey is a ton of sugar...it doesn't sound great.

I think you will find that as they get older they will probably demand something more. What woukd you do if they asked for toast or cereal, faint on the spot. Yes this is your issue, not your childrens.

My concern is not so much what you are feeding them but the fact that you seem fixated with the amount they eat to the point of restricting them.
You mention gluttony, shoving food, not getting up just to eat like it isn't important.
You need help your relationship with food seems unhealthy.

What does their father say about their breakfast and your attitude towards food?

op I'm a natural at doing the 5:2 diet. I can easily get to 1:30 -2.00pm with out eating. But I wouldn't place that on anyone else in the family. I dont expect my family to have the same eating habits as me.

You seem to eat a lot at the night time (bingeing maybe) soup and bread is quite heavy. I bet that's why your not hungry in the morning as it's sitting in your stomach all night. Your basically having two evening meals.

I wonder what your dc attention is like in school as after the sugar rush they will have after the dip may leave it hard to concentrate and lunch is a long way off from 7:30 .Maybe switching to somthing with slow release carbs would be better.

Those kids are getting a lot of sugar. Oh dear.

Just when you think MN can't get any weirder, someone comes along and 'disagrees with the concept of breakfast'.

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.

See now I think that's a lot of food to pack 'shove down' in such a tiny space of time. A wrap, a yoghurt, a flapjack, a banana and a pot of berries is a lot to eat given the small time frame allotted to kids at school.

Then they're expected to do PE or run around the playground straight after.

In my opinion it would be better to offer some variety for breakfast...like porridge, toast or cereal and then he/she wouldn't have to pack all that into them at lunchtime.

If a child has had a decent breakfast and will have a decent dinner in the evening, just a sandwich and a piece of fruit should be fine midday.

It's a buggering wind up isn't it! Course it is. This is no newbie either. Well carry on OP until the joke has worn so thin it's transparent ………oh wait ….…

I don't feed mine anything for breakfast at all.

I save a fucking fortune :)

They get a drizzle of honey too - i.e. more sugar

Soup every day is boring as well. Thank god you weren't my mother.