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?

Weetabix, porridge and Rice Krispies are offered. Usually ends up being Weetabix with jam, porridge with a fruit pouch or Belvita breakfast biscuits. I'm aware there's way too much sugar in those but if she doesn't have any breakfast our whole day goes to shit so I need her to eat. I know she eats plain Weetabix at nursery so I'm going back to work for her own good

Toast / eggs / beans tend to be lunch in this house.

Wheatabix

Toasted tortilla wrap with soft cheese
Weetabix
Toast with butter
used to eat readybrek, but I had forgotten about it
Blueberries and grapes
If we are in a massive hurry, fruit pouches.

On very special occasions, smoked salmon, justrol cinnamon whirls, cooked breakfast.
Or alternatively chocolate,if my mother is around.

18mo son has toast, fruit, milk, and a baby brekkie pouch from ella's kitchen. 4.5yo son has weetabix, fruit, glass of milk, and sometimes toast.

DCs (4 and 6) usually eat either:

Toast (one bit with margarine, one bit with honey)
Ready Brek (with some cinnamon)
Shreddies

They love freshly made pancakes, though, so I usually try to make these at least once at the weekend.

Plain readybrek or plain yoghurt with fruit, eggs if I can be arsed and sometimes Weetos. It depends which parent makes their breakfast DH gives them weetos

Op your breakfasts sound good. I wouldn't do the shop bought pancakes really but ok in a hurry. I used to give weetabix(warmed up with milk) or ready brek or wholemeal toast, eggs.

Dry Shreddies or weatabix and a cup of milk. We call it deconstructed breakfast! Then either toast with cashew butter, raisins or more dry cereal!!!

Toast, small yoghurt, fruit.
Cereal, whole milk, fruit.
Porridge, fruit.

...weekends egg and toast. And fruit.

She is of the 'hard poop' variety of toddler if we miss the fruit out. So always fruit.

Having worked with parents good and bad for 16 years+, you are not a bad parent for giving them what you do for breakfast. Some people need a reality slap. It doesn't always have to be gourmet/organic. b

Some people think cereals are really bad so was getting worried. Have been told yogurts are full of sugar so tend to avoid them too.

I give them fruit as a morning snack so I don't mix it with their breakfast.

My toddler gets organic fuckall!

Can't really get too excited by all of the fuss about breakfast cereals tbh. surely common sense tells most people to limit the chocolately, over-sugary kind (I know that most of them have some sort of sugar content) then it's a perfectly adequate breakfast. Especially for a fussy toddler!

Weekdays porridge or brioche and fruit or weeetabix and toast weekends it's eggs on toast or pancakes and bacon or what ever they want from a English breakfast.

We don't do snacks in this house either

Many cereals are not too sugary and many yogurts are fine. I will always remember taking my DS to hospital when he broke his arm and the boy next to us in the queue had chocolate buttons and full sugar cocacola in a beaker- he was about 2 years old. I am not joking this is 100% true. I did judge the mum in that case but I think that a bowl of Weetabix, corn flakes, rice krispies etc are absolutely fine. It's still full fat milk in my house, and DSs are 8 and 10.

Ready brek mixed with mashed banana and full cream milk.
Weetabix.
Toast and butter (not keen on jam etc).
Yogurts.
Bagels and peanut butter.

I'm afraid I'm too lazy to do cooked breakfasts for either DD or myself and DH.

2 year old DD has porridge, weetabix or Rice Krispies

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With a waffle each generally. They live on Weetabix and waffles.

Can't get worked up about them going to pre-school without a breakfast, DS2 eats at daycare, DS1 will skip breakfast if he's not hungry.

At the weekends they get the same or toast with jam. If we go out for breakfast it's pancakes for them, and a sausage each. They eat enough fruit during the week that I can't get het up about them not eating it at the weekends.

Her staple is half a fruit bagel with cream cheese on and some grapes, strawberries and blueberries chopped up. At the weekend she sometimes has eggs or pancakes.

A combination of the below;
Toast and marmite
Fruit ( e.g raspberries, blueberries, strawberries )
Boiled egg
Yoghurt

Weetabix usually, sometimes with banana, strawberries or blueberries. Or peanut butter on wholemeal toast. Sometimes (if I can be arsed) porridge, or scrambled eggs. She loves Weetabix though.

Oatibix with strawberries and FF milk. Sweetened with a tiny bit of honey/ golden syrup. Cup of milk to drink.
At weekends he has coco shreddies . Or pancakes. Sometimes a hot cross bun/ fruit toast with butter.
I'm a dentist so do worry about sugars but more between meals than as part of a meal. He has his teeth brushed after breakfast.

DS is 20 months. He likes weetabix, porridge with mashed up banana in, toast with marmite or peanut butter, crumpets with cream cheese and homemade pancakes. Usually followed by some kind of fruit.
We do stuff like eggs and beans on toast more for lunch.

DD gets breakfast at nursery. On days she's not out of the house at the crack of dawn, she has Weetabix, porridge, Shreddies or Cornflakes. Usually with a slice of toast and then a piece of fruit about an hour later. Definitely no cooked breakfasts on a workday here - no time to be messing with that.
Weekends there's a little more variety on offer, but not generally accepted.

DD (who's two) would have porridge every day if we let her. Every. Day.

We stopped asking her because it's all she'd ever say. Some options now are boiled or scrambled egg, toast, crumpet, yoghurt, cereal, pancakes, or fruit salad and crackers with phili.

Oh and smoothie. Proper one with oats and seeds etc.

Porridge with banana in the week, some version of English breakfast at the weekend.