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 son doesn’t like milk so no cereal here either. He’ll have pancakes (just little Aldi ones I pop in the toaster), or he’ll have a cereal bar (blueberry nutrigrain) and some fruit (watermelon and apple.) On cold days he’ll have a bowl of Wee Willie Winkie sausages (were in Scotland I’m not sure if you get them anywhere else)

Since primary ds had a huge bowl of porridge oats with a large sliced banana mixed in and a large glass of milk.

22 years old and still has the same, but with protein powder mixed in 🤦🏻‍♀️ (except weekends where it can vary)

Exactly! I'm a teacher but not primary so it tended to be kids buying their own snacks on the way to school. But have seen multiple kids eating Doritos, fizzy sweets, energy drinks first thing in the morning.

And one parent - obv completely in the minority - who we had to wait for before leaving on an afternoon trip during summer school. Her DS was autistic and would not eat the school lunch (totally fair enough). The lunch was a giant pack of jelly babies. I understand there can be ARFID and all kinds of sensory issues around food - I have autistic family members, obv it's not a monolith - but was still pretty shocked at that one.

Cereal, toast, bagels, sandwiches. I do allow them sugary cereal one or twice a week and things like Nutella now and again but most of the time it's either weetabix or toast with either butter, honey or cheese spread.

I also think it’s not very professional of a teacher to make comments like this. If she’s concerned about the welfare of her students she should report her concerns. You’d have to be living under a rock to not realise that some children are sent off with a Kit Kat and an energy drink, there will be other children who wake up to bare cupboards, not okay obviously but of course they exist.
I’ve just been reading Kathy Burkes autobiography, her mum died when she was a baby and her dad was an alcoholic. As you can imagine she didn’t have the best start and there is a lot of talk about the lack of food but also how kind some of her teachers/neighbours/friends mums were, they would stop her some mornings and give her a bowl of cornflakes or half a bacon sandwich, little acts of kindness that made a world of difference.

My eldest doesn't have breakfast, doesn’t like eating early but will have toast or cereal at school if they want it. At weekends they will have something around 9/10 and it could be anything, likes noodles.

My youngest likes cereal, crumpets, toast, but will sometimes have an ice cream like a rowntrees fruit stack, or a couple of biscuits or a small chocolate bar.

I occasionally like a mars bar for breakfast in the car if we've got up and out busy early

This feels like a thread to make some people feel extra good about themselves and others feel bad.

One of my children doesn’t eat anything. Under the eating disorder clinic and school induced anxiety just means food doesn’t happen.

Usually something hot, DD has always preferred a big breakfast and a light dinner. This morning was crumpets with cheese, yesterday was part baked rolls heated in the oven with bacon (not a bacon sandwich because apparently if you put them together they’re horrible but side by side they’re good), day before was egg white omelette (she doesn’t I like yolks), day before was porridge with berries.

All stuff that’s quick and easy to make but filling.

Normally cerel, toast or pancakes and fruit. I have seen kids waiting in the nursery queue to go in at 9 am having a "breakfast" of chocolate or sweets.

Cereal, often gasp chocolate Krave cereal because I want them to eat and don't want an argument about food in the mornings before school, one ds takes adhd meds that affect his appetite so won't eat for the rest of the day at school usually so I'd rather he had something than nothing, and the other ds is the worlds fussiest eater

DS13 and DD16 leave at 7.30am for the school bus.

DD will have a couple of chocolate chip brioche or a bowl of Shredddies, with a coffee.

DS has either brioche like his Sister or a protein chocolate or cinnamon porridge pot, the kind that you pour hot water or milk into, and a huge glass of milk.

Older DS19 has two slices of toast with peanut butter, an apple, and a banana, with a cup of tea. He has an active job (roofer) and is impossible to fill up!

We do cereal like weetabix, but are you just coming to write this OP to make yourself feel more superior?

The teacher who told you isn’t very professional. I’m not judging what other people feed their kids because they aren’t mine and you don’t know their circumstances

School days are normally a pain au chocolate or croissant, and a bowl of cereal.

Weekends will normally be something hot.

The breakfast of queens and champions!

Organic rolled oats
Made with either milk, water or plain live bio yogurt. So eaten either hot or cold.

A sprinkling of nuts and seeds such as: pumpkin, chia, sunflower, almonds, brasil, walnuts etc etc

With berries of your choice, then all mixed together with a drizzle of either locally sourced honey or high quality maple syrup.

Anti inflammatory, full of fibre, essential oils, fats, vitamins and minerals, proteins and more.

Nothing bad, nothing fake, all goodness.

It's so variable that it never gets boring!

Cereal, toast, crumpet, porridge, bagel, waffle. Breakfasty things.

Mine eat nothing at all despite everything and anything being available. Occasionally a few bites of toast or a spoonful of yoghurt. It bothers me a lot. She eats fine otherwise but declares herself to be not hungry in the morning.

Mine have cereal or toast i wouldn't let my 8 year old fry bacon by themselves that seems really dangerous

That’s great. Our toast is usually Nutella or jam. But Nutella if she gets to choose

Sounds ace!

Omelette, weetabix, overnight oats, occasionally toast with jam. We try to go heavy on protein to fill DC up, always ‘starving’ otherwise!

Hilarious. I have no recollection at all what I used to eat for breakfast. Isn’t that strange

A rotation of;

cereal (they never want this but would be quicker)
porridge
toast
yoghurt
fruit loaf
brioche roll
bagel with cream cheese

always try to give a piece of fruit with breakfast and when I am off work I will do cooked things but sadly can’t do daily. The scrambled eggs and bacon sounds lush!

Porridge, cereal or toast, not really egg eaters in this house. Youngest is 16 now and she usually has a pain au chocolat or toasting waffles with Nutella, it's a crap breakfast but if i dont buy them she eats nothing at all.

The shamers would love me 😂 my two year old had a burger barm he nicked from the kitchen 😂😂 not much different to toast really and fed is best 🤷 healthy as we can be within that realm. But hes fed, on 98th percentile for height and weight, very healthy generally, and most importantly happy. Who gives a shit beyond those things?

DD mostly goes to breakfast club where she gets 1 slice of toast.

On home breakfast days it’s either greek yoghurt, honey with some fruit or toast with nut butter or a croissant.

DD only has cereal at weekends because she only likes it dry and takes 2 years to
eat it. We also do brunch some days so will have scrambled eggs.

There’s no time for cooked breakfasts though on weekdays for us as DD not a morning person (neither am I). I don’t have mine until 10am