To wonder what your kids eat for breakfast before school

[DancyNancy]

Following on from a thread where a mum found herself in a pickle and had to give a snack based breakfast....and MN posters felt a banana and a granola bar was deemed a horrifically inadequate quantity of breakfast I'm really curious to know what people's kids eat in the morning.

My lot are aged 9-12yrs.

2 out of 3 are often not hungry first thing but I insist on at least milk.

One always has cereal or porridge
One of the inconsistents has a glass of milk and then possibly a bagel or pitta with peanut butter
One will have milk and might have natural yogurt, or bagel, or banana with peanut butter.

They have 2 breaks in school so eat at 11 & 1, and then again at home around 3:30.

To me a banana and a granola bar is quite a hefty breakfast, and equates quantity wise to a bowl of cereal or porridge 🤔

I don't understand the horror response to that as a breakfast...... enlighten me??

My dcs are 6, 8 & 13

usually it’s just toast, cereal, fruit & yogurt or a combination thereof. My eldest would sometimes take a cereal bar if she’s run out of time.

my dd12 hasn’t been eating much at school so we’re trying a new breakfast routine - we’re only on day 2 - so may all go to pot - but the idea is we’ve agreed to a menu so no decisions to be made in the morning and breakfast is a bit more filling:
home made waffles (left from the weekend)
egg muffins (the recipes you see all over instagram) made the day before
eggs or beans on toast
porridge
berries with yoghurt and a slice of toast.

wish me luck! 🤣

Always cereals, juice and toast. Weekends we sometimes have croissants. Sometimes eldest has cereal and yoghurt

My 10 yr old usually has a bowl of granola or weetabix, or sometimes a couple of slices of toast. Maybe a banana. But he isn't very hungry at 7am, so he doesn't usually eat much at breakfast time. I think so long as they eat something it's ok. Some people aren't keen on an early breakfast, at the weekends he often won't want anything to eat until around 10am.

I change choices

Porridge
Croissants
Toast with peanut butter or honey
Scrabbled eggs
Pancakes with topping
Cereal
Fruit banana pineapple melon strawberries with yogurt
Yogurt

Weekday:
Porridge with Bio&Me granola + goji berries and honey.
Toast with Nutella (but a healthier version if poss) or peanut butter
Fruit.

Weekend:
Mexican eggs, tortillas, refried beans.
Smoked salmon and cream cheese bagels.

Drink: water or cow milk

Every day they can choose from: Muffins, Bagels, toast, fruit salad, yoghurt, cereal. Normally with a cup of tea or warm milk!

Boring cereal like rice crispies, cornflake, Weetabix etc no sugary shite. Sometimes bagels or hot cross buns or muffins if I've raided the reduced shelf while shopping. At weekends they have chocolate spread a a treat or I make pancakes. No one is interested in cooked breakfast except for husband

My two (12 and 9) inevitably have two slices of marmite toast on a school day, because we run short of time and they end up eating it in the car.
On days when we are not so rushed, they will have a bowl of malted wheats or weetabix. Elder DC likes eggy bread as a treat. Younger DC is not good at eating in the morning, and will often say they are not hungry, but will sometimes manage something more continental like a bagel with cream cheese and ham, or houmous on toast or rice cakes.
In my book fed is better than not fed.

DC10 usually has one of following:

• bowl of multigrain cereal with full milk, and some mixed nuts on side
• bowl of porridge made with full milk, cinnamon on top
• 2 slices toast with PB and drizzle of maple syrup, glass of full milk
• piece of buttered toast and a hard boiled egg, glass of full milk

On weekends he'll have more - like eggs and bacon with toast, or a bowl of special fried rice (homemade), and some fruit to follow.

That thread you mentioned, OP, was so silly - people reacted like she was giving her kid that every single morning rather than what it was: a last minute panic breakfast in the car.

We are not big in cereal here so after DC got over the mushed Weatbix phase at age 2 he tried various cereal and fruit variations before settling to a bowl of fruit chopped, piece of fruit whole or fruit will a dollop of Greek yogurt followed by a piece of toast.

I'm always amazed on here at how many children eat porridge....

Anyway...mine rotate between cereal, fruit, yoghurt, croissants, brioche rolls, toast....

Breakfast has always been a tricky one in this house

current menu is either
bagel with marmite and peanut butter. Glass of juice and a ginger hot shot
egg/sausage muffin
crumpets with Nutella
boiled egg and soldiers

they are teens.

when little it used to be porridge and fruit and yoghurt and all sorts of lentil weaving loveliness but around the age of 7/8 it all went to pot and as long as they had SOMETHING (anything!!) I was happy.

they take money to school and get a coffee/cookie/pizza bagel at break then their own packed lunch at lunch and a hot dinner too. They cost a fortune.

DD8 is not a big breakfast fan (just like me) she would prefer to have nothing but on school days has a bowl of cereal (multigrain meteors) with whole milk, or porridge with blueberries.

We try to make them hot breakfast every day:
banana pancakes
fried eggs + bread + butter
boiled sausages + brioche
Bourne Vita / Horlicks / cacao / hot chocolate to drink
This fills them up properly for a few hours. I remember when I was a kid, I only got a slice of bread with ham in the morning. I was very hungry after 2 hours and couldn't focus at school.

My kids are like me and can't eat in the morning! They always fought me on having breakfast.

Now at 19, 17 and 13 they are free to sort themselves out if they want something (we always have things in that they can make or just grab quickly) but they generally don't. They do have a large dinner in the evening though so maybe this contributes to them not being hungry enough in the morning!

Having been forced to eat food I didn't want or when I wasn't hungry as a kid and not having a great relationship with food now, I don't force my kids to eat if they aren't hungry - I offer food, maid choices available, I make it if they ask etc but I'm not going to force them to eat because I said so. They generally eat well the rest of the day, aren't overweight or underweight so I just make sure they eat well at the later meals!

Depending on how long they spend preening in the morning anything from eggs, yogurt, bagels, noodles, toast, pitch, fruit, nothing.

They tend to go through phases and then get bored so we vary week to week but

porridge
cereal
mini pancakes with a banana and a little choc spread
are the usual

the 17 year old god only knows some days, I’ve caught her eating cold pizza from the night before 😂 but mostly the same as above

Similar to yours.

Breakfast here is usually:
Toasted something (regular bread, bagel, muffin or crumpet) usually with peanut butter and banana, jam or plain butter.
Grilled cheese toasty
Greek yoghurt with fresh fruit, granola or cereal mixed in.
Sometimes eggy bread and beans or honey.

Always a glass of milk and some fruit.

I mainly focus on getting some protein in for the day.

DS1 either has cereal or grabs something at work, DS2 gets a cooked breakfast at work, DS3 has cereal (with no milk 😱) or toast with chocolate spread on

When they were younger they all had cereal followed by toast

Neither of mine are big breakfast eaters. I nag them into a brioche and fruit or some cereal. But often it’s half uneaten. Both have snack time at school. Honestly, since being a child I’ve never eaten breakfast and I remember feeling sick as my mum tried to make me so I ensure they have food options and encourage them to eat but I don’t worry too much. They are a healthy weight and eat a cooked lunch and cooked dinner.

Aside from birthdays… I have never in my life cooked my children breakfast at 7am on a school day. I think the ‘oh I just whipped up an egg muffin with broccoli’ brigade are not the average family 😁

DS2 (13): bowl of cherieos and a handful of dried cranberries. Glass of water.
DS1 (15) all sorts. Porridge, toast with a variety of toppings - often egg based, crumpets... whatever takes his fancy basically. Plus tea.

Porridge, every morning for the last 12 years. With fruit, or raisens, or a sprinkle of brown sugar.
Weekends maybe the same or something else like pancakes or toast.

Half a bagette with peanut butter/tuna spread/olive oil and fuet/leftover roast chicken etc is the 11am school snack. Home by 2:40 for a slap up lunch.

Almost 10 year old - usually 2 weetabix, or a bagel with a yoghurt and some fruit, glass of juice, smoothie or milk.

13.5 year old - struggles to eat anything for breakfast so usually just a glass of milk or smoothie. Sometimes fruit or a yoghurt.
She eats at morning break at school (flapjack, toast or granola bar etc)

I think a banana and granola bar is ok, not perfect but definitely not a bad breakfast!

Mine won't eat any form of traditional breakfast food. They will happily eat anything I'd usually serve for a hot lunch or dinner, so will have what I save from the night before.
It's werid but they are happy.