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

It varies in our house; fruit, porridge, toasties, scrambled eggs, muffins, yoghurt, and milk or fruit juice to drink.

I very often witnessed primary age children walking to school eating crisps or chocolate and drinking a can of pop. The parent(s) usually had a can of Monster in one hand, and a ciggie / vape in the other. 🤦‍♀️

Porridge with Cadbury drinking chocolate sprinkled on top or chocolate weetabix… yes, there’s a theme. I stood firm and it was fruit, yoghurt, non sugary cereal, crumpets or pancakes at the weekend. They’re now 14-17 and I’m just grateful they’re eating breakfast of any description.

This!!

My 2y/o has greek yogurt with chopped banana, and a drizzle of honey. She's just started chopping the banana herself and is chuffed with the new arrangement!

We had a year group email sent out to us saying that chocolate bars and red bulls are not suitable breakfasts for 3 year olds…yes, my daughter is in nursery and apparently, that’s what some parents are feeding their kids. I don’t judge (each to their own), but don’t these kids have enough energy as it is?! 🤣🙈

My child has either shreddies , weetabix , toast , yoghurt or an egg. Sometimes he has potato waffles. I usually try to make sure he eats some fruit if possible. I don’t buy surgary cereal except for special occasions I get a selection box of them for a treat.

Humble brag much?

Quinoa in breakfast cereal?!

God, back in the day if my mum did that to me, I think I would have put myself up for adoption.

Yeah there will be those who give chocolate bars and there will be those who give nothing.

We usually do pancakes (oats, plant milk, half a banana, some walnuts blended up) I fry them up on Monday and pop in the fridge. I two two per child in the microwave with maple syrup on.

The syrup is £4 a bottle and that's per week, but the rest of it is cheap. Even cheaper if you use dairy milk.

I'm impressed at your 8 year old cooking. Our brekkie is really easy this way and I believe it to be nutritious.

Toast, cereal, pancakes.

Mine usually go for cereal, porridge, overnight oat with chai seeds, yogurt and granola. We dont do toast as I usually give them sandwiches as part of the packed lunch.

Porridge.

Porridge
Fruit and yoghurt
Toast
Homemade yoghurt and berry muffins
American pancakes or waffles, homemade in bulk, frozen, put in toaster

Eee god, I can only imagine the hell of a toddler hyped up on Red Bull. It would be enough to have me locking myself in a quiet dark room.

Older primary & secondary - always cereal, porridge or toast (marmite/nutella/jam) with a glass of milk. Never missed breakfast once (i’d feel awful with them going to school without it).

If they have ever had a day of not really feeling like breakfast, I still always try to get them to eat fruit and a yoghurt but it is rare they don’t fancy it.

Varies massively, eggs on toast, omelette, bacon sandwich, porridge, cereal, Nutella on toast, chocolate brioche, pain au chocolate, cheese and chorizo croissant, tuna melt panini. These have all featured in the last four weeks.

Tomorrow we are out the house for a sports training at about 5.15am it will be chocolate brioche in the car, this morning it was poached eggs on toast.

My DD could do bacon and eggs at 8. She started cooking scrambled eggs in the microwave when she was 5, now she’s 11 and regularly makes her own meals at the weekends, she’s going through a Japanese phase at the minute so likes doing Gyoza and egg fried rice or Raman bowls with hard boiled egg and chicken breast.

She was interested in cooking and enjoys it so it made sense to show her how to do it and teach her how to do it safely. She knows not to use the oven/hob without checking with us first and making sure we’re on hand to help if anything goes wrong.

Toast With Nutella & tea , that’s what they want in the morning..
I don’t care that it’s choc 🤷🏻‍♀️, I’d rather them have ate something .
There is no weight concerns & we have healthy lunch & dinners ..

We do porridge every day before school. We load it with mixed frozen berries, cinnamon, chia seeds, ground flax seeds and soy milk.

Weekends it's toast and scrambled tofu, blueberry pancakes, french toast, pain au chocolat etc

Always a savoury breakfast at ours, nothing sugary in the morning, not needed and will only lead to sugar crash later in the morning. So it’s usually eggs…scrambled, boiled, fried, poached etc with toast sometimes either grated cheese or any left over bacon or sausages etc. As they got older, they preferred it with smoked salmon or avocado which got expensive fast!! Seems to have worked well over last twenty years of children! No complaints..

Breakfast is fine if you have children that eat easily. If you have a child with a lesser appetite, getting food, any food, into them before school some days is all that counts. I would prefer healthy food but if all eating is refused (as it often is), yes, I'd allow biscuits or a pain au chocolate. DC is too skinny and I hate to think what would happen to their concentration if they had to go all the way until 12.30 on no food at all.

Having said that, the carb heavy, protein absent foods written about on here by at least half of the parents, aren't a lot better than chocolate. Pastries, bread, or just about any cereal isn't any better. Porridge is great. Scrambled eggs fab.

Western breakfast doesn't tend to be healthy. One of the reasons Asian countries do better.

In the week its mainly crumpets, bagels, sometimes croissant. with some yogurt and a piece of fruit. If they do have cereal it’s rice crispies, weetabix or bear cereal. won’t buy the surgery stuff. Usually with a milk or occasionally a small cup of juice

Porridge with ground nuts.

Raisin wheats or shredded wheat.

Sometimes fruit.

WTF!! I bet the teachers despise those parents.