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?

DD has milk when she wakes up & shortly after porridge (usually a sachet of oats so simple) with whole milk. Occasionally has wheetabix, but it isn't her favourite.
We are always busy in the mornings so I give it her as I know it fills her up, I've tried her with toast but she doesn't eat it that well, just drops it on the floor.

My nearly 3 year old will have a cup of milk. If she's at home for breakfast she will have dry cereal, toast with butter or porridge. If she's at one set of grandparents she has a mixture of there cereals (bran flakes, musilli etc) or dippy egg and toast. If she's at the other grandparents she loves chopped up fruit (mainly berries) with a muller light and granola.

Toddlers eat?? My two just feed whatever i put out to our invisible dogs that live under the table.
Generally they eat cold toast - its best eaten as old as possible and only when rubbed around the floor.
I offer fruit strawberries, grapes and slices of blood orange go down well.
Cereals they just drink the milk off and they cereal is discarded.
Occasionally they'll eat brioche, croissants or pain au chocolat.
My older kids devour bowls of cereal, fruit and pastries with glasses of fruit juice.

My nearly 4 year old has a chocolate brioche on the way to preschool, then rice crispies or weetabix and some wholemeal toast.

When she's at home she'll have any of the below:
Porridge with fruit
Chocolate porridge
Weetabix
Crispies
Cheerios
Toast with Honey, jam or Nutella
Scrambled egg on toast
Full English with us if we are having it.

My DD is 2.5 she will have either slice of toast or bowl of cereal followed by two pieces of fruit either apple,banana or pear.

Usually porridge, cornflakes if we're running late! At the weekend we make pancakes or French toast with fruit and yoghurt and lashings of maple syrup

Toast with cheese and fruits
Toast cheese smoked salmon
Toast cheese with boiled eggs and fruits
Toast with Nutella sometimes
Always have some nuts there too and juice

My 18m old has breakfast at nursery around 8:30 which is normally weetabix or cornflakes I think. We are up between 5:30-6:00am so he has a bottle of milk and maybe a slice of toast or a small scotch pancake.

At weekends or when off nursery it's either porridge, toast, cereal or yogurt and fruit (or a combo of 2 of them if he is particularly hungry).

DD (2) generally has weetabix or porridge with fruit (usually some combination of blueberries/strawberries/banana or pear) or toast with peanut butter and sliced banana. If she's still hungry after that she might have yoghurt. Sometimes she will have a cup of milk to drink, sometimes just water.

As a weekend treat she might have a hot cross bun with butter or pancakes with fruit and honey.

I'd love her to eat eggs for brekkie but i've tried cooking/presenting them in every way I can think of and she won't eat them.

Any variation of eggs with toast (scrambled, boiled, poached, eggybread), often with a slice or two of ham and some grated cheese on top. DS2 also drowns his in ketchup.

At the weekend they have eggs, bacon, toast, sausages etc on Saturday and waffles with fruit and honey on Sunday.

They're 8&9 now but they've had this breakfast pattern ever since they were weaned. When they were smaller they'd have one egg/slice of bread, now they eat two of each.

Mine has weetos or weetabix, toast yogurt or fruit or a combination of. Will eat porridge but it's rare that I cook it. Plus full fat milk. Or squash. I don't get hung up on breakfast I'm grateful he eats it the one meal I can pretty much fill him up on.

Dc3 is 2 and he has weetabix, shreddies, Cheerios, toast, pancakes, beans, scrambled eggs, fruit.

Children are 6 and 4

Weekdays
Porridge
Shredded
Cheerios
Toast
Bagel
Water, milk or juice

Weekends
Eggs and toast
Pancakes
Crepes
Waffles
Hot choc, water, milk or juice

I do porridge made in the microwave with water. It takes two minutes, and at the end I add cold milk on top, plus chopped banana, strawberries, grapes and raspberries. Alternatively we have natural yoghurt with the same fruit and a small handful of raw oats. I will chuck in dried blueberries if I have some. Weekends they have croissants first thing, then we have brunch with bacon, eggs, toast ect. Mine are twins age 11.

Bread, ham, cheese, hummus, scrambled egg, porridge or Weetabix. I do try and avoid sugar a bit coz I know I am ravenous by 10.30 if I've had sugar first thing and they have to wait till lunchtime at school. So I try to lower the sugar and up the protein for that reason. But oh, they do have Greek yoghurt with a few berries too.

Oh. Now I do feel bad. My youngest is four (nearly five) and will only have a cup of tea and dunk digestive biscuits (2) followed by a banana. Every day.

7 y/o has toast, with marmite or peanut butter and a cup of tea or warm milk - or fruit or yoghurt or cereal or anything else breakfast-ish she fancies including a microwave steamed chocolate pudding if her dad is in charge

Cereal, porridge or sometimes yoghurt. Rarely toast - they had that as a snack.

My 1 year old has one of either porridge (sometimes with fruit sometimes without), weetabix, and on weekends scrambled egg with tomatoes/ boiled egg and toast. Not very imaginative but she wolfs it down and seems to enjoy it.

I could be really vague and just say 'cereal' but I'm going to be honest: my dc, 4&3, eat chocolate pillows, strawberry pillows, cookie crisps, chocolate balls, raisin/apple/strawberry/red berry/cherry wheats, porridge (those ready flavoured ones out of the sachets)... Occasionally they'll have toast but this mostly doesn't get eaten. They won't touch egg so it's pointless making it. They (and I) don't like the 'healthier' cereals such as weetabix or whatever so it's a waste of money buying it. Yes there's lots of sugar but fruit and yoghurt is also full of sugar. I hate cooking and I hate mornings so to start cooking at 6.30 on a morning would most likely result in murder. They eat fine and generally healthily the rest of the day and don't get overload with sugary or sweet food/drinks at any other time.

My 19 month old usually eats weetabix then half a banana afterwards. Occasionally she will have rice crispies or Cheerios but I would say 6 days out of 7 she wants weetabix. She has a milk allergy so can't have yoghurts or choc cereal even if she wanted it.

My older kids get their own breakfast and get what they want from the following: weetabix, shreddies, Cheerios, rice crispies, bran flakes, toast, yoghurt, fruit. I also buy one box of choc cereal per week but once it's gone they don't get more until I go shopping again.

My 2 year old used to get readybrek or weetabix everyday and would happily polish off a bowl of whichever was put in front of him - but then he suddenly stopped eating it so I've compromised. I'll still ask him he wants porridge but normally says NO - so now it's usually one of these, almost always with a handful of fresh fruit (raspberries, chopped banana, strawberries, blueberries):

• toast & jam or honey
• shop bought scotch pancakes & jam or honey
• a crumpet & jam or honey
• half a toasted bagel
• toasted hot cross bun (although gone off these again at the mo)
• home made pancakes if DH makes them at the weekend
• dry cheerios on a plate next to his fruit!

He has a beaker of milk when he first gets up, but then just water with breakfast.

Seeing a few people saying yogurt has made me think perhaps I'll get some plain natural yogurt if he;ll go for that with his fruit as a bit of an alternative!

Both have some berries (strawberry, blueberry, cherry) and either toast, yoghurt or rice crispies/cherrios/malties. DD1 has fresh apple juice and DD2 has water.

Chibs toast is like fine wine, better with age.

I think some sugar is fine as it helps the brain do quick thinking. I tend to go for berries as they're slightly lower - but banana is full of it.

DD is allergic to egg and milk. She usually has cereal with soya milk, toast with dairy-free spread and jam or fruit and soya yoghurt. Then her milk or water.

DS (5) has the same, or if we have time he might have his favourite dippy eggs, or a toastie.