To ask what you give toddlers for breakfast

[Fiona80]

Ater reading the other thread about sending a child to school without breakfast and all the comments, I'm starting to think I must be a really bad parent.

My 2 and 3 year old eat either shop bought pancakes, cornflakes or scrambled eggs, beans and toast.

What do you give your kids?

DS (3) eats rice crispies or shreddies, with a cup of milk or scrambled egg and toast or a banana. Sometimes he just wants a plain piece of bread with his milk. I let him choose with the exception of biscuits which he also sometimes asks for. He also likes the crusts of bread I cut off his nursery sandwiches. Win win

We tend to have one of the following...
Toast with butter or peanut butter
Banana with yoghurt
Yoghurt and muesli
Scotch pancakes with yoghurt and strawberries
English muffin and butter
Boiled eggs at the weekend
Oaty Pillows (toddler cereal from Boots)

Milk to drink
Cereal - either Cheerios or alphabites which he has dry, or shreddies or weetabix with milk
Some kind of carb either toast and marmalade/jam, or crumpet, or brioche
Scrambled egg sometimes
Hard boiled egg at weekends (don't have time during week due to multiple school runs)
Bacon sandwiches again at weekends if DH cooking them!

Either sausage egg and toast or bacon egg and toast. She won't eat cereal or porridge.

Toast, crumpets or pancakes with jam, honey, marmalade or marmite. The only cereal they will eat are the raisin wheat things.

2.10 here and just growing out of toddler fussiness. Will eat Shreddies or wheetabix, drink small cup of apple juice and usually half a bagel thin buttered. Her sisters all eat porridge and then some sort of toasted bready comestible...

Agree with pp that as preschool I tend to do eggs at lunchtime for the two of us. Older DC all have hot lunch at school.

it doesn't matter, I'll find it squashed under the table no matter what it is.

Op why do you feel bad about your breakfasts? Sounds fine to me. Or just chop up some fruit to add a bit of fibre to their breakfasts, I know if I chop up a banana, or grapes, or a satsuma, strawberries blueberries etc, and put it on front of my DSs (they are not toddlers anymore though!) they used to wolf it down.

Weetabix or porridge. Occasionally toast. That's all I've ever given her unless we go out for breakfast then she might have an eggs and toast. Normally eggs and beans and stuff I do at lunchtime.

Toast/crumpet/muffin/brioche/tea cake/fruit bread/cereal/porridge/granola/scotch pancake/English pancake/American pancake/pain au chocolate/croissant/cracker/ryvita/small baguette/pitta/

Egg/bacon/sausage/beans/tomato/cheese/prosciutto

Fruit/yoghurt/smoothie/juice

Milk/water/squash/tea/hot chocolate/vanilla hot milk

No toddlers anymore but breakfast has always been similar offerings just with bigger portions now. On birthdays I make blueberry or raspberry muffins.

Mine has breakfast at nursery and it's usually Weetabix or Rice Crispies.

On a weekend she has scrambled egg and wholemeal toast or she has a bowl of fruit

Weetabix
Scrambled eggs and toast
Toast with butter and/or honey
Home made pancakes or waffles (i make loads and freeze and then pop in the toaster)
Bagels
They would eat bacon every day if they could but i try and reserve that for Sat mornings

One of the above plus normally a small pot of yoghurt or a piece of fruit.

Fruit, peanut butter or marmite on toast, weetabix or rice crisps, sometimes porridge or oat muffins.

My 2 year old has some cheerios, scrambled egg on toast and then a banana

18mo DS mainly has Greek yogurt and sometimes a bit of porridge or bread and butter.
4.5yo DD alternates between porridge, bread and butter and yogurt with honey. On odd mornings she has a croissant.

Porridge. Every morning. We sometimes have brunch around 11am but they'll have had their porridge at 7am so it's more an early lunch for them. They have stewed fruit on top (blueberries, raspberries or apple and pear, stewed at home with a wee bit of sugar to take the edge of it). I'd never get them it of the house before they've had their porridge. And it's nice to have one meal that is non-negotiable and not subject to whom. They are 3. Baby (7 m) is just starting to get involved.

Oh. They do have some chopped fruit after as well. And if going through a ravenous phase, a slice of toast.

I'm bemused at all this.

Someone up thread has a two year old who has a full English on the weekend?!

DS, also two, usually has a banana, he'd never eat bacon etc never mind a full English breakfast!

sigh.

Mine (DD4 2.2) wont eat eggs in any form form. Or cereal in any form, or beans, or crumpets or buns or anything like that. Or peanut butter, or jam.

She will eat fruit, cucumber raisins, and yogurty things (fromage frais, fool, yog etc), but i like to keep those for snacks and puddings during the day.

So what does she insist on for breakfast?

A big drink of milk plus one of those little organic first weaning jars of puree spinach/potato/cheese, or the cauliflour cheese, or the risotto This is about 8am.

At about 10ish she'll accept a slice of buttered whole grain toast (sometimes) and maybe some fruit. But she wont accept it any earlier.

I'm so hoping she'll change. My older 3 used to eat what ever they were given always go to school on an omelette plus toast, cereal and milk.

I do hope this is just a stage. I keep trying her with 'normal' breakfast fare but she's not budging so far.

DS. 2.5 has cereal - shreddies, weetabix, bran flakes, ready brek etc. Sometimes he'll eat a cut up apple or pear afterwards

Otherwise it's brown toast and peanut butter with a banana smoothie (the only way he'll eat bananas)

If I've got time I'll do pancakes and a berry coulis type thing.

I might try scrambled eggs though, hadn't really thought of those for his breakfast, always saved them for lunch for some reason!

Porridge and fruit.

Sorry I didn't see the other thread. What's the guilt about breakfasts?

porridge made with milk and optional flaked almonds to sprinkle on top

Weetabix

Bit size shredded wheat

Porridge mixed with mashed banana.

DS (18mths) has a bottle of milk on waking. Then half an hour or so later he'll have any combination of the following:

Half a banana
Raspberries/grapes/blueberries
Melon/cucumber/satsuma
A few spoonfuls of porridge (I share mine with him)
Toast with jam/peanut butter
Sticks of cheese

Some mornings he's a bottomless pit, others he won't entertain a single thing. Although I'm told that on the mornings he has breakfast at nursery, he eats everything and usually has seconds too...

His sister (9.5) on the other hand, will only eat a bowl of plain pasta shells or twirls and occasionally some grapes