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??

7 year old twin girls:
Glass of milk and:

• slice of toast with thin layer of Nutella

or ‐ a banana/apple and oatcakes or

• plain biscuits

They're rarely hungry at breakfast time and have a piece of fruit at breaktime, so as long ad they've had something I don't police their breakfasts too much.

This. Middle dc isn’t a big breakfast eater. She will normally manage a Babybel and some grapes or yogurt at a push. She does have a second breakfast at nursery though

In primary mine used to have weetabix with fruit or a cheese and tomato omelette (omelette maker means its fast and you don't have to do anything).

Once they got to secondary it tended to be a muffin or piece of toast. Once DD became ill, she struggled to eat first thing but her medication didn't work as well on an empty stomach and it would make her feel nauseous, so I became a dab hand at smoothies. Would do half a banana, some berries, a carrot and some spinach with a bit of yoghurt.

3yo - crumpet or toast or bagel with cream cheese, yoghurt (sometimes 2) and banana or orange or strawberries (scrambled eggs or sausages at the weekend too)
6yo - cereal or toast and some kind of fruit, usually an apple/pear/strawberries/pineapple, and milk to drink. Sometimes she has a chocolate chip brioche roll if she refuses everything else, which I know isn't ideal but is at least something

Mid teen
porridge with smoothie
weetabix, fruit, hot chocolate
banana pancakes, yoghurt, berries, honey, yoghurt, fruit, granola
hash browns, bakedbeans
eggs
leftovers
We have an air fryer so they put something on there before jumping the shower and it’s ready when they’ve finished preening.
banana pancakes keep in the fridge for a couple of days so I make a batch for
them to heat up

To me a banana and a granola bar is quite a hefty breakfast
Really is it? To me a hefty breakfast would be cooked breakfast or a full continental. I wouldn't describe a banana and granola bar as a hefty anything

My 5 year old will eat a bowl of cereal or a crumpet or jam on toast. And usually but not always this is followed by some fruit.

My 10yr old DD has a bacon sandwich! Gets up and puts 2 bits of bacon in the air fryer at 6.30am, butters bread and viola. Im still in bed listening at that time! Maybe followed by a bowl of rice krispies cereal and 2 digestive biscuits.

Then won't eat more than a sausage roll and a banana for lunch! School have flagged the no eating many times but she doesn't like a smells and sounds of the school canteen, so will eat bare minimum and rush out. I tell school all the time she's probably still STUFFED from breakfast anyway.

At that age they would have had porridge, Rice Krispies, Weetabix, cornflakes or toasted bagel and butter.
Now they are 14 and 17 they get their own so I don't know what they have, one of the above or muesli, probably.

Gds (8) has been known to have Weetabix, plus a fried egg on toast, plus half an avocado - followed by 2 bananas during the 15 minute walk to school. (‘Still hungry!’)
He is a human hurricane, and skinny as a rake.

Weetabix, porridge, crumpets , toast. I've nothing against a granola bar and banana tbh.

Bowl of cereal or poached eggs on toast. Maybe a banana if they're still hungry.

Neither of my DC are hungry much at breakfast. They like to always have a cup of tea or hot chocolate and then they have either:

cereal

2 slices toast with butter and marmite

2 crumpets with butter

or as a treat a croissant with Nutella.

Back in the day my almost 16 yo would have porridge/weetabix/eggs or anything else considered a sensible breakfast.
We're currently at 3 or 4 pieces of fruit now and I just leave it at that, as she'll be having the god awful waffle at school at 1030 😒.

So far this week kids have had:

soft boiled eggs and toast

cornflakes

veg soup

Spaghetti bolognese

pitta bread pizza

nothing

Both of my parents grew up eating things like potatoes and pasta soup for breakfast.

my childhood breakfast was cereal with sugar on top, even Frosties with a spoon of sugar lol

Porridge with fruit
Overnight oats with fruit
Yoghurt with oats and fruit

Smoothie
Eggy bread
Boiled eggs and soldiers

Mainly the first three. She doesn't eat much of it though (rarely finishes a whole bowl). 10 years old.

Why do you insist on them having milk?
DSD usually has cereal (muesli, granola, mini shredded wheat things with fruit in them), toast or bagel. It's best you just put something in front of her and don't engage in conversation at 7am until she's eaten, she's not a "morning person"!!

On school days, Weetabix or shreddies with banana sliced on top. Dd has apple juice to drink, ds has tea or milk). Porridge with fruit in the winter. On weekends they have various combinations of toast/crumpets/natural yoghurt/fruit/eggs/cooked breakfast

Whatever they fancy really. My DS (15) had chicken ceasar salad for breakfast this morning with a cup of tea. My DD (13) had toast.

None of my children eat eggs (oldest DD might venture a spponful of scrambled a few times a year) so certainly no egg based breakfasts here. Middle child doesnt eat breakfast. Shes in her teens and like me not hungry in the morning so occasionally grabs a glass of juice. The other two some variation of cereal and toast.

Oh and shock horror the youngest is allowed a bowl of coco pops at the weekend

Mine had weetabix or porridge at primary. Now aged 13-16, they have chocolate chip weetabix or coco pops. I’m just grateful they’re eating something. Dd2 will have fruit or yoghurt sometimes but she’d rather have nothing if I’m honest.

DS16 has boiled eggs and soldiers before school.

Mine are very little still so not helpful quantity wise, but in terms of what they actually eat on weekdays...out of 5 days probably three of the days they will have cereal with milk and a small cup of milk as a drink. This is usually things like rice crispies, Weetabix, bran flakes, malted wheaties or fruit wheaties, hoops etc. Followed usually by fresh fruit e.g. blueberries, strawberries, banana, pear, apple, or satsuma. Sometimes they will have soreen with margarine on and/or nuts or dried fruit (usually mango or raisins) instead or as well as the fresh fruit, depends how hungry they are and how early they wake up.

The other 2 days they will usually eat a more bread based item e.g. hot cross bun with marge/croissant with marge and jam/ scotch pancakes with syrup or chocolate hazelnut spread and berries/ bagel with marge or peanut butter etc.

Little one has a second breakfast of toast and cereal at nursery on the two days he goes.

A couple of slices of toast in the car. He prefers to sleep longer and i'm not arguing with that because so do i 😀

I wouldn’t call a banana and a granola bar hefty but I would see it as a normal sized breakfast. I would class hefty as a big full English.

my 9 yo has toast or crumpets with jam
my 12 yo has cereal such as cheerios, weetabix or bran flakes.

both have fresh orange to drink.

they both have a snack in school at 11. 9 has an apple. 12 yo has a chocolate bar.

I'd be thrilled if DS would eat a banana and granola bar before school! He's 12 and has to leave the house at 7.30 and just isn't hungry/feels sick if he tries to eat. So he has a yoghurt bar/granola bar in his bag along with water and usually gets something like a sausage sandwich at school at break time (roughly 10.30 I think). Today he's home sick with tonsillitis and has just had a big bowl of porridge.

DD is 3 so obviously does eat but sometimes just wants fruit or maybe 1 or 2 crumpets, a croissant, a piece of toast etc. She gets a snack at nursery at 9.30 am anyway and lunch at 11.30 am.

At the weekends, they love pancakes but DS won't have them till 10/11 am.