to ask what your DC eat for breakfast?

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I'm having trouble getting my six year old to eat anything for breakfast. The past few days it's been just a multivitamin and a yoghurt. She used to eat toast and fruit but is fed up with toast now and no longer wants fruit at breakfast time. She doesn't like anything cooked like eggs and won't try any cereals. What do your DC eat?

Dd 7 & DS 5 eat:
Bacon sarnies
Pancakes
Cereal
Pan au chocolate
Croissants
Toast
Fruit
Yoghurt

What about a substantial smoothie. I love almond milk, plain yoghurt banana, date, peanut butter and cacao powder. Very calorific but packed full of protein and vitamins. It looks like a chocolate milkshake so might appeal?

She won't eat eggs and wouldn't eat anything with oats or cereal in. She doesn't enjoy food much at all and is only just in the normal range for her weight/bmi and is often lethargic so I feel conscious that I need to do something. She won't eat the snack at school and only has 3 x cucumber slices, 2 x cream crackers, 4 x strawberries and a small peperami for her packed lunch. This has been the same since starting nursery and if I change it she eats nothing.

At weekends she will often choose to have nothing until mid afternoon.

Try making it fun with faces etc in the food.. ...used to help my boy years ago

She will only eat tubes of yoghurt too so they can't be meddled with. I'm reluctant to do so anyway as it'd mean she'd stop eating something altogether if I did something different to it (I. E. Different butter on crackers)

Would she eat a sandwich or roll? One of those soft white rolls maybe with ham? Or my DC like those brioche rolls.

Most often just cereal with milk, or sometimes buttered toast or pancakes with peanut butter. Occasionally strawberries and yoghurt. On Saturdays they are allowed pain au chocolat or croissants or waffles and hot chocolate.

No she doesn't eat bread since stopping eating toast, and she won't eat ham or cheese.

A mix of things, from cereal, to toast, to croissants, to breakfast bars.

As long as it's not a huge tub of pick n mix I'm sure you're grand.

My six year old is the same, she will go a couple of weeks at a time where she'll have the same every day and then switch, she's also started to not be a massive morning eater, she eats the majority of her food from lunchtime onwards and always has cereal before bed (DH is the same) I expect it's a phase but overall throughout the day she gets plenty, typical breakfast for her alternates between:

Banana (plus sometimes a yoghurt)
Apple and grapes
Scotch pancakes with marmalade
Weetabix/Rice Krispies/Cornflakes
Crumpet with butter
Toast & marmalade (plus a yoghurt)
Dippy egg with soldiers (weekend favourite)

I don't argue with her as its more important to me that she goes to school with a full stomach!

My dd6 is the same recently!!! she will take ryvita with butter instead of toast and almonds and raisins instead of fruit... she's not a big fan of cereal either. She will also take croissants the odd time but don't like her having these too often as they are high in fat.
Does she generally have a big appetite? If not then a yoghurt may be enough for her. Just watch her weight and if she starts dropping then you'll need to up get calorie intake.
I find with mine they go through periods of eating like a horse then eating like a bird for a while. All depends where they are at in the growth cycle

I would stick with the yoghurts, maybe offer crackers too.
Does she eat pasta or rice?
Buttered malt loaf?
Would she eat a smoothie frozen like an ice lolly?

Potato waffles?

DD1 likes Marmite toast, DD2 likes shit in a box type cereal, and DD3 likes both plus milk and fruit. Or bacon and eggs if anyone's bored enough to make them for her. She's the only one out of all of us that's a morning eater. The rest Iike to fill up at dinner time.

A nutribulllet is one of the best things we've ever bought. The dc sometimes have a banana milkshake with breakfast (literally just banana and milk) or a fruit smoothie.

It's also brilliant when they're ill if they don't want to eat and they love making random combinations of fruit and veg to throw in.

One of mine hasn't eaten breakfast since he was 3 and he's now 15 - I gave up trying a long time ago. He eats around 10am usually or (these days) about 2-3 hours after getting up.

His brother has croissants or pan au chocolate every day

Ds sometimes has cereals or toast, sometimes pancakes and syrup, bacon muffin, croissants or brioche, scrambled eggs on toast or omelette. On a weekend we sometimes have a fry up.

Has she tried any gluten free food? Dd often prefers it as she finds gluten makes her feel heavy and uncomfortable. Protein she quite likes in the morning - fish , cheese, ham, leftover chicken. Crackers, smoothie. She takes a snack for mid morning.

Have you taken her to the gp? This isn't just about breakfast, she has a very limited diet both in types of food and amount of it.

The alarm bells for me were you saying she's lethargic, a young child should have lots of energy. I feel you need professional advice as most of the suggestions of foods to try have been met with "she won't eat that ".

Yes, she's seen a dietician whose advice was pretty much give her whatever as long as she's eating something. She has sensory issues so food is a difficult issue for her. She won't have a homemade smoothie even if she made it. She prefers packaged things.

I agree with a trip to the GP.

In the meantime I'd probably replicate the lunch she eats, as at least it's getting something inside her before school.

Sandwich. If your child does not like typical breakfast food, there is no reason they have to eat that.

What does she eat? For lunch and dinner?

dd is fussy, especially about carbohydate foods, not keen on bread, cereal, won't drink milk. Pain au chocolate or brioche rolls and hot chocolate usually. 30 seconds in the microwave.