Breakfast before school

[Gambino1726]

I am just curious. What are your children eating for breakfast before school?

We’ve got into a habit of making scrambled eggs and a toast. My 8 year old makes this by herself most mornings. Occasionally, if there’s bacon in the house, she’ll throw in a rasher or two!

We don’t do cereal. Mainly because it slides into sugary shit plus we don’t drink milk so wouldn’t know what to put with it (daughter had an intolerance as a baby and we just never got back into it).

The teacher told me she has children in the class eating chocolate bars for breakfast - but is this really true?

Curious what others do

Cereal, toast, bagels and crumpets in general. We have to leave to get to school at 7:30 and the kids aren’t happy early risers so needs to be quick.

Cereal on weekdays. My DD likes rice krispies, cornflakes, weetabix or bran flakes. Usually with milk, occasionally with yogurt and fruit. Weekends usually porridge or toast.

I've seen kids at my daughter's school walking up the road with ice creams their parents just bought at the local shop. Cans of Monster. Share bags of sweets. So I can believe the chocolate bars!
My daughter has porridge or toast or sometimes Weetabix if she's in the mood.

Usually porridge with banana and cinnamon or overnight oats, sometimes crumpets or just a smoothie if my eldest isn't feeling hungry. I usually have cereal or sometimes eggs on toast. My dh has 'surreal' cereal which is high protein no sugar.

Crumpets, bran flakes or weetabix here usually

I know this isn’t the point of your thread but breakfast is a battle every morning as my son is rarely hungry, but it feels wrong sending him in without feeding him.

So, sometimes cereal, sometimes porridge, sometimes pancakes, we did cereal bars for a while.

I haven’t tried chocolate bars or share bags of sweets but we aren’t far off that!

Weetabix (well, fake supermarket “wheat biscuits”).

Teacher shouldn't be gossiping about other kids really should they? If they have concerns about how kids are being parented that should be addressed privately with those parents not gossiped about with other people.
I expect most kids do indeed have a reasonably healthy breakfast. Mine did at that age and so did pretty much every other kid I knew.

Cereal usually as we need to leave at 7.45 and my kids are not early risers! Sometimes toast. Very occasionally porridge and I will admit to when we have been in a huge rush, shoving a pain au chocolat in their hands as we race out the door to eat on the way!!!

Yeah, it wasn’t told to me in a gossipy sense. We were discussing wellbeing of children and it mentioned that some children have nothing, others chocolate bars

Porridge followed by toast. Or weetabix followed by toast if we are in a rush or the weather is hot

My 13 year old has to leave at 7.40 for the school bus, so it's just toast with peanut butter every single morning that he makes himself.

He hates cereal, yoghurt and all other toast toppings except beans but he can't be bothered at that time in the morning 🤷🏻‍♀️

When my step kids are here they make porridge/toast/yoghurt as they wish.

We don't keep sweets in the house much and they certainly wouldn't be allowed them for breakfast.

cereal or porridge then usually a piece of fruit.

My DS 7 goes to breakfast club at school every day and has jam on toast and orange juice. Every day.

Porridge, cereal or toast/croissant, sometimes eggs.

Weetabix or porridge on a weekday. Eggs at the weekend. I wouldn’t give chocolate for breakfast (unless it’s a treat on holiday like a chocolatine). I grew up on the continent where sugary/chocolate breakfast are very common for children, way more so than here. All our cereal is about 50% sugar! I wouldn’t give bacon though, there has been a lot of studies looking at carcinogen content in bacon.

Some kids just don’t feel like eating breakfast (I was one). I’d sometimes have a bit of toast before school to appease parents, but didn’t feel better for it.

If dhe doesn't mention any names its just general chat ffs

cereal

MyDS didn't have breakfast before leaving the house. He used to buy it at school at out 10,30am ( usually chicken)
He still doesn't eat first thing in the morning, but then again nor do I

Fab opportunity to shame other parents right here! I so want to say mine had a bag of crisps and a crunchie every day….

Pain au chocolates or cereal, not great but it means they eat

I don't think you are that curious you sound a bit bored, high and mighty and would like to feel good about yourself.

Mine have cereal or toast, sometimes a croissant, occasionally eggs. But for me it is more important they have some time to relax and chat to me at breakfast.

If you really believe that the parents that give their kids chocolate bars are actually on mumsnet and actually willing to admit to it then honestly I do worry for your children having a parent a bit out of touch with reality.

Eldest teen always has weetabix and water. Sometimes toast and juice and tea.

Younger teen struggles. Over the years we've gone through the very worst sugary crap cereal choc spread on toast, espresso, latte, croissants, smoothies, bagels. She does have water though.

I've seen many kids eating chocolate for breakfast. Live near a corner shop and seen parents buy them on the way to primary school. One couple did it all the time even though they worked in our sainsburys. It was a bit mad. I judged them.

Yes indeed … rather distasteful

We do actually have boiled egg and toast most mornings. DS likes marmalade on his toast as well (thanks, Paddington.)