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.

Our breakfast tabkle has - always has had - several types of adult cereal, including porridge, unsugared meusli, fruit, greek yoghurt, milk, fruit juice and bread for toast. We eat different combinations, but with the exception of making porridge when the children were small - DD does it now, she's quite capable of microwaving - I don't prepare anything at all. If you find food preparation difficult, then breakfast is in fact the easiest meal for which you can just put out food and let them help themselves.

They do get variety and choice, I promise :)

But, with the best will in the world that is difficult in the morning. I don't like the eating as soon as getting up - partly because as I've said that has always felt a little greedy. I imagine my mother possibly said something when I was young that stuck but I could be unfair there; I don't know.

Fruit is healthy, there's a variety of it and I know they'll eat it - and its non smelly :) (I am pregnant and eggs really do make me heave; I do love them though - just not at 7 a.m!)

At weekends and holidays I am more chilled as there isn't that 'out of bed FOOD! feel.

Exactly, op your relationship with food seems very worring. I hope you don't pass this to your children.

Sunshine - sugar is sugar is sugar. It's all the same. Honey, maple syrup, ect.. Pure orange juice is just as bad as coke.

What you like isn;'t the point - you don't have to eat. Your children do.

The fact that you feel eating a meal is 'greedy ' is a sign of serious food issues. Which you are passing on

Why are you avoiding all the questions OP?

Eating late at night generally doesn't help you to sleep & as your body find it harder to digest the food then you are more likely to put on weight as you are inactive at night & so don't burn the calories off.

I'm no expert but have been reading up on nutrition in the light of dd being serious about her dsncing.

Annie, that was a sample menu - I have today as an example.

Before bed can be soup or the much famed porridge, a small omelette, slice of cheese on toast and so on.

No need to be rude!

Get them up a few minutes earlier, get them dressed and ready BEFORE food, feed them a bit later?

Yes your last post is very concerning. What if your children asked you for toast and cereal for breakfast, would you say no to them. No that is not a filling breakfast, once your children are at school will feel pretty hungry quickly.

If my children complain I let them look at a dried fig for a bit until the hungry feelings subside.

I'm not avoiding questions; the thread is moving very quickly :)

Breakfast is not greedy. It's really weird you think that.

I think you should try counting up how many calories your eldest is having in a day.I don't know their age and sex, but as a guide:-
4- to 8-year-old boys generally need 1,400 calories when they’re sedentary, 1,400 to 1,600 calories if they are moderately active and 1,600 to 2,000 calories daily when they are active.

I am very concerned that your children are going from bedtime one day to lunchtime the next which must be 17-18 hours 'fruit for variety and just a small amount of plain yoghurt'
I think your comments about breakfast being gluttonous are especially worrying.
You are at best ill-informed and at worst screwed up about food.

Wow! Your poor kids!

We have lots of cereals in our cupboards, none of them terrible sugary as I won't buy 'kids' cereals. Invariably they opt for the same ones on a school morning:

DD1 (7) goes for Weetabix, Cheerios or Shreddies (with no added sugar) or sometimes plain porridge/ready brek mix with a tiny sprinkling of brown sugar. I add the ready brek to the kids' porridge because it's fortified.

DD2 (5) always has porridge, a massive bowl of it. She's minute too - you'd never believe the amount she packs away at breakfast. Sometimes she'll go for a bit of variety and have some granola with chopped banana instead

DS (3) always has shredded wheats - the plain ones, with nothing on them except milk

If I've dragged my weary ass out of bed early enough then they might have poached or boiled eggs on toast.

All kids have a large glass of 50:50 apple juice/water

At the weekends they will sometimes have eggs on toast or toast with Marmite/peanut butter/honey on. Or Staffordshire oatcakes with melted cheese on. Sundays are usually pancake days. DH does them crepe style, I do them American/Scotch style. Either way they are served with bananas and maple syrup or lemon and sugar. Extra fruit is also provided.

I can't imagine your children are really being set up for the morning with so little inside them. Fruit on its own is just going to give them a short term sugar rush and then a crash sometime mid-morning. They need carbs or protein. Fruit also isn't that great to serve as a meal or snack on its own as it's really bad for kids' teeth.

Look, just get them fed with some decent breakfast carbs or they'll fail their GCSEs and will end up living with you forever. Just imagine how much money you'll be spending on chuffin' fruit if that happens

I'm sure your soup is lovely.

That's not the issue. The weird thing is you shoving two meals into your DC every evening, and then denying them breakfast because it's "greedy".

Your last post just underlines your issues. Seriously, speak to someone as you're inflicting your kids with it. You might not think so but you are. You don't like the eating as soon as they get up. Why not? You're not eating then, they are! Seriously, you have a problem.

Why you posted here I don't know. No one agrees with you. Every morning from now on when they only have fruit and a yoghurt you will remember this thread that no one thinks you're doing it right. Why post? And then to so determinedly stick to your guns. I think there's a problem there. But anyway it's yours not mine. Shame for your kids. If they're school age they're old enough to pour a bowl of cereal and put milk on it. You don't even need to watch.

Wait wait wait. Omlette for supper? Omlette with eggs? The ones you cannot abide?

I assume you don't have teenagers.
Good luck when you do.

On the "soup/supper" making them sleep, thing - honestly, my kids sleep at night too, all night - because they're tired, because they've grown out of sleep disturbances. Not because of how late they ate before bedtime.

You might be surprised if you changed up the routine a bit.

But on the other hand, it's up to you. What you're doing is not wrong per se, but it does seem really odd as an attitude, and your DCs will pick up on it as they grow up.

If they want more for breakfast, please give it to them. I hope they feel they can ask for something if they want it.

What you mean OP is that you really, really want to have a dig at posters who dare to eat breakfast and insist on foisting it on their children. To do that without censure, you have to bring in your children and try to make it about their welfare.

Nobody gives a fig what you do with your children, unless you make a hash of it, in which case Social Services will soon intervene. Does that help?

I Think your bingeing at night.

We have supper here but it's very light. Nobody is starving by this point as they have had regular meals all day.

It looks like your mum had an issue now you have it and your dc will probably develop it or start secret eating.

I can understand the OPs aversion to eggs. I feel the same about cheese. I couldn't cook dd cheese on toast in the mornings though I have occasionally prepared cheese oatcakes the night before & she microwaves them here self.

How about bagel & peanut butter or Philadelphia. Not much preparation & a few more nutrients than just plain toast?