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

My 15yo has lots of food in the mornings. He has ASD/ADHD so takes meds which curb his appetite so I really load him up first thing as he doesn't usually eat any lunch.

Most days he'll have a couple of eggs, 2 crumpets, fresh fruit, and a bowl of walnuts/almonds. I may throw in some cucumber or celery as well.

Hope you “mentioned” that your child makes her own scrambled eggs…!

As a secondary school age child I used to have an ice cream to eat at the bus stop … my mum was very concerned but the GP reassured her that something was better than nothing so she went with it . This was 35+ years ago so no doubt would be considered child abuse these days , but it done me no harm lol .
When we were growing up food was never a battle, although it has made both me and my siblings very fussy eaters .

Some suggestions based on my understanding of nutrition;

Recommendations state you shouldn’t have more than one portion of processed meat a week (bacon is a processed meat, as is sausage) so maybe avoid her having that too much.

Good breakfasts include oatmeal (add quinoa for protein) made with fortified plant milks and fruit.

Wholemeal toast with eggs or avocado or almond butter.

Scrambled eggs or omelettes with vegetables (tomato and spinach is good).

Egg muffins again with mixed veg inside.

Avoid too much saturated fat like butter or free sugars like jam.

Low sugar cereals, chia overnight bowls, boiled eggs, porridge, brown bread with cheese, jam or ham, vegetables and bananas are the options here.

Nutella on toast plus whatever is in the fruit bowl. So only a marginal step above the chocolate bar 🤣 But it’s quick and they make it themselves.

My DD eats breakfast every morning but she’s been know to eat her mid morning snack in the playground before school starts, usually a chocolate biscuit or freddo type bar. I sincerely hope the teacher supervising the playground isn’t assuming that’s what I’ve given her for breakfast, much less gossiping to other parents about it.

Weetabix or shreddies
pancakes with fruit
yogurt & toast

My sons autistic so is quite fussy with food(barely hungry in the morning). I make the both of them a bowl of cereal (Weetabix, Cheerios or Krave, depends what else is in the cupboard lol). Failing that, they have a breakfast bar (usually a pain au Chocolat, croissant, crepe). They sometimes choose cereal and a breakfast bar. This morning my daughter had Weetabix and some watermelon, son had a baby cucumber and Weetabix.

I've started doing Jamie Olivers banana overnight oats. DS1 has it as it is, DS2 warms it up in the microwave and adds fruit. I bought all the pots etc and layered it all up nicely in different flavours. They proceeded to empty it all out into a bowl. so now I just leave it in a big bowl in the fridge for them to add toppings to!

Usually just Greek yoghurt with honey and a fruit coulis made at the beginning of the week from frozen berries. I find mine don’t have appetite in the morning for solid food. In the summer when it’s very hot (not UK) we make smoothies from frozen fruit and it’s alike a breakfast ice-cream.

Porridge with berries and 1/4 banana for one DC, something on toast for another DC (avocado / beans / scrambled egg / banana) and cereal (Weetabix or Shredded Wheat) for the other DC. Middle DC gets bored easily but other 2 eat the same thing every weekday.

None of them make it themselves though - was the whole point of the thread a stealth boast that your 8yo cooks their own breakfast? 😜

Porridge with plenty of toppings now it’s colder. Over summer every single day it was toast or bagels (I miss it, the clean up is easier!)

Mine had eggs in some form most days - scrambled, poached or boiled with toast or muffin. Sometimes smoothies with frozen berries, mango, banana and yoghurt.

Oh my. I can’t believe this.

I have fresh farm eggs and milk delivered, and almond milk for the lactose intolerant. Then I make them a spinach quiche for energy to get through the day with a side of sourdough and homemade strawberry rhubarb spread (low sugar). One apple in season or else 14 raisins next to a Brazil nut for their brain. A bowl of miso soup, steamed white fish, rice and kimchi. Then a milky coffee and biscotti. I think if you don’t incorporate at least 3 blue zones you might as well just buy American chocolate and coke.

(white bread and jam or honey, or rusk, or porridge. There was a nice yogurt ohase that looks like it’s done and it isn’t unusual for them to read or play until 2 min before we leave and go hungry). Sometimes a tea biscuit or granola bar en route.

toast or coco pops usually.

Following with interest and hopefully some suggestions and we've become very lazy with breakfast - no excuse either as we have plenty of time.

DD6 would happily have a chocolate crepe or pain au chocolate everyday so we do that a couple of days with some fruit and yoghurt, then rice crispies some days and 1-2 days she'll have a sausage, beans and a baked hashbrown.

After seeing people have porridge though Im going to give that a go as I love porridge.

Your 8 year old is frying bacon and eggs for themselves every morning?

Mine are in a bagel phase, mainly just buttered or cream cheese, sometimes I make a big skillet of folded scrambled egg and put that with some cheese in it. Porridge with berries and peanut butter for when they have busy days ahead, and if we're really running late then toast or a pastry. We don't do chocolate or sugary cereal for breakfast

Youngest 2 almost always an egg sandwich - eaten in the road in the way to the bus stop. Dc2 (left home now) either nothing or yoghurt and granola - she likes a breakfast wrap of hash browns and sausage but rarely gets up in time to make it. Dc1 (also left home) liked porridge but was also a big fan of last nights dinner microwaved.

Can do scrambled egg in microwave. Put in bowl, beat up with splash of milk. Cook for one minute, stir up partly cooked egg and put on for another minute. Ta da scrambled egg!!! Any 8 year old should be capable of that surely

Any of the following in a school day: Wheetabix, granary toast, egg on toast, shreddies, porridge, bowl of mixed fruit, salami or ham sandwich on granary.
Weekends might be a cooked breakfast, pan au chocolate for a treat, occassional pancakes or any of the same as the weekday breakfast.

Chocolate bar (SENd) mum 👋🏻

Well. Sort of.

He has porridge or toast.

He also demands a chocolate bar usually just before we leave the house.

Depending how horrendous our day has started/last nights sleep was, if he’s eaten his breakfast I have been known to give in. If he’s not had breakfast, he doesn’t get that as a replacement.

Today was 2x bowls of porridge, and essentially forced into the car with 2x small kinder bar things, because we’d been up since 1:30am and I just wanted to leave for school 😂.

My 11 year old sometimes has cereal, sometimes a yoghurt

My 8 year old has toaster waffles with Jam and cream - Not at all healthy but he wont eat cereal and doesn't like bread. He has a salad for his lunch every day and would always choose fruit or veg over sweets so im lenient with this for him

We have very limited time and my daughter is a slow eater so we tend to do toast/croissant/pancakes plus fruit which can be finished in the car if needed.

She loves cereal but I easily takes 40 minutes to eat it!