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

Porridge with fruit/seeds, tea or water to drink.

Scrambled eggs or an omelette, with some fruit on the side.

children in the nursery queue at 9am probably had breakfast hours ago (mine were early risers) so the chocolate or sweets is their mid morning snack

This morning DS (14) had scrambled eggs with peanut butter toast, a double bowl of chocolate protein porridge made with milk, and a bowl of Greek yoghurt with a chopped banana, blueberries, blue raspberry flavoured creatinine powder mixed in (so the yoghurt was a lovely shade of blue) and honey. Also a pint of sugar free squash. He doesn’t really eat much at lunchtime at school as says there’s no time so prefers a bigger breakfast. He’s a Type 1 diabetic and his glucose levels stay in a lovely straight line mostly after a small initial spike initially after eating so it’s all good.

Older DC (now adults who do their own/don’t live at home) always had (sugary) cereal, toast and yoghurt with juice, and occasional American Style pancakes with blueberries. bananas and maple syrup if I was feeling particularly Earth Motherish.

Usually peanut butter on toast or smoked salmon bagel

I sometimes do bacon and egg 'mcmuffins'

I try to avoid cereal, but if they do have it, they need a hard boiled egg/ yogurt with it

I thought the same until the mum announced loudly to everyone that was his breakfast. It seems a daily one.

We have egg on toast most weekday mornings, my youngest doesn’t like egg every day so sometimes has yoghurt and granola or a croissant/jam sandwich

Weetabix, Porridg or Greek Yoghurt -all topped with fruit, honey and seeds. Sometimes a piece of toast, sometimes scrambled or Chucky eggs. Always with cups of tea!

Mine used to have porridge or toast with ham and cheese and a bit of fruit. Sometimes weetabix or shredded wheat or wholegrain malties

Eggs, yes. Bacon? Does your 8 year old do that? I call bullshit frankly.

Toasted fruit loaf with apricot jam and water to drink or fresh orange juice if we have it. We often do wholemeal toast with jam or marmalade or crumpets with jam maybe with a banana or yoghurt if he's still hungry. When DS was younger he had porridge every day. At the weekend it may be a cooked breakfast or pancakes.

eggs and sourdough/other home made bread, plus fruit/nuts
older one has green tea with fresh mint and ginger, and younger one has milk

or porridge with nuts and berries
or avocado on home made bread
very rarely Bircher muesli soaked overnight

or natural yoghurt and berries/nuts granola

I have got to say despite a hearty wholesome breakfast mine were all starving at primary if relying on school dinners. Especially last year - we are London area so free school meals for all. Half the class seemed to have switched to packed lunch as it just was not enough food for the kids and little to do with what breakfast we serve them or not.

It varies, sometimes egg on toast, pancakes, halwa puri, today it was half a pack of oreos.

My 5 year old son has porridge with honey most mornings. Occasionally, it is mixed up with an omelette on weekdays and pancakes at the weekend.

Weetabix or porridge, pancakes, fruit and yoghurt here. We are far from perfect as I have two fussy eaters, but we would draw the line at a chocolate bar or ice cream for breakfast.

However, I have to say that my dh was raised with far less home cooking from scratch and he is really slim and healthy. I was raised on home cooked, healthy everything and am always battling to not gain lots of weight. There's no justice I tell you!

My DCs have breakfast at school. We are in the US, and our state maintained free school lunches for all students, but our school also offer morning breakfast club for all students too.
The menu varies - some days it’s cereal and toast, sometimes it’s sausage and egg bagels (my kids favourite!), pancakes sometimes.
Theres always fruit and yoghurt available every day

Porridge and/or brown toast with peanut butter, Shreddies or Weetabix usually, during the week. Maybe a cinnamon bagel if we have them. Tea, water or watered down juice to drink. Of course, my eldest might go to the shop on his way to school and I wouldn't know! But at least he had something decent to start with at home...

Porridge
overnight oats
wheatabix
dippy egg
bananas pancakes

Jam/marmalade/marmite/cheese on toast/crumpets/english muffins/croissants.

Waffles and syrup if I'm feeling fancy. Usually in holidays as less rushed.

Non sugary cereal like weetabix, porridge, shredded wheat with warm milk at this time of year cold milk in summer.

Yoghurts, fruit and fruit juice freely available along with tea/coffee and cocoa.

Toast and yoghurts on weekdays here and weekends my husband likes to make a cooked breakfast. I’m not a breakfast eater though.

DS has SEN so has a bowl of coco pops everyday then a croissant on the way then has toast at breakfast club. Just his routine now

Croissants/pains au chocolat/pains aux raisins

natural yoghurt with chopped fruit

wholewheat toast with nut butter

porridge

weetabix

on weekends we might have pancakes or waffles instead.

I’m impressed your eight year old is making egg, bacon and toast. Is she using a frying pan?

Me and dc1 (13) - yogurt and fruit
Dc 2 (15) prefers sleep
Dc 3 (18) protein bar and banana as runs out the door as also prefers sleep

This feels like a stealth boast. Well done you for avoiding sugary cereals and teaching your daughter to cook. Shame on the rest of us for relying on whatever is easiest