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

Eldest with ASD has a peanut butter sandwich every day (must be correct type of bread and correct type of peanut butter). Youngest usually has porridge or yogurt granola and fruit. He’s quite adventurous so we mix up different flavours and toppings like seeds and dried fruit.

11 year old has 2 slices of toast with butter (has to be butter), a big pot fromage frais and fruit plus a drink of milk

My DC goes through phases. We've had granola, yoghurt and prunes, Shreddies, bread or croissants with jam. Needs to be quick on a school day as we frequently get up, get ready and arrive at the school gates in 40mins!

On weekends I'll sometimes make pancakes or waffles.

I'd love them to eat eggs but they won't.

Bacon is processed meat, and according to W.H.O is associated with an increased risk of cancer, In fact they class it as a group one carcinogen. I don’t buy any processed meat.

Please leave him alone. And for the love of god, don't resort to chocolate.That's an awful habit to set up.

I was that child. Write from reception age.I never ate breakfast and I didn't want it. My mum was obsessed with feeding me too.

Lo and behold I'm in my late thirties, and I have always struggled to eat breakfast. Leave him be. Some people just don't feel hungry in the morning.

Egg & toast, porridge & fruit, bagel, rasin toast, wheatabix & banana, yoghurt & fruit. Pancakes at the weekend 😋

My mum used to give me a chocolate biscit to eat on the way to school and a pound for the tuck shop, which I would use to buy a chocolate bar 😅. I try to give me daughter porridge or eggs for breakfast.

Poached egg on toast
Scrambled eggs with salmon
Boiled eggs and toast
Scrambled eggs with fruit and or veg
Cheese omelette
Eggs benedict
Eggs florentine
We love eggs for breakfast!

The school I teach at we feed all of our students (breakfast)
and mid morning break.
and lunch.

some chose not to partake. Some demolish everything we offer. Some it’s the only meals they get.

I suppose the point I am making is that if she is happy then let her get on with it. I also wouldn’t make food a battleground though and it’s ok to have something lesser or not at all.

It isn’t gossip, it is is a hard fact of life. Too many kids only get meals at school, no breakfast (unless there is a Magic Breakfast charity), no dinner. They get their free school lunch and that is it.

My mum was a teacher. In some of the most deprived areas kids would bring a bag of hairibo for lunch, or a day old happy meal. Their parents were often care experienced with no idea about cooking or basic nutrition.

Most days pancakes. I make a big batch once a week then freeze them and reheat in microwave. Spread with a decent chocolate spread (the high nut content kind) and a glass of milk. We only have to leave house at 8.45 so I have plenty of time. Sometimes boiled eggs and toast. Sometimes porridge and peanut butter.

I think that’s really great that your 8 year old eats that for breakfast, especially before school. And makes things their self.

We might do porridge, or I have used those porridge pots, not as good but I don’t have a microwave and on the hob can take too long.

Greek yoghurt with low sugar granola on top, a sandwich or bap so getting some protein in.
Fruits in or on the side with something.

If I’ve done some boiled eggs might have one on the side, or a sausage etc.

When my kids were small they had cereal, porridge, toast bagels etc.

they are teens now. The oldest has bagels or eggs if she can be bothered and apple. Youngest gets fancy and makes açai bowls….. how freaking middle class wanky is that!!! Have you ever tried getting açai? That stuff is like gold dust.

I admit I have only ever had one açai bowl in my life on holiday, it was fine. Generally I just have coffee and maybe fruit and fibre.

A thread to make parents feel even more crap.

mine eat a mixture of what everyone’s said really. Mornings are tough. Mixture of cereals (some naughtier than others), porridge, eggs, croissants, stuff on toast (chocolate spread, peanut butter, marmite), crumpets, yogurt……

Sounds ridiculous but mine have avocado and salmon, bagels, omelettes, home made pancakes with different toppings, eggs and soldiers, home made breakfast muffins, Greek yoghurt honey and fruit.

I go big on breakfast - evening meals aren’t always as great. I’m a morning person and by the time evening comes around, I’ve often run out of steam.

Choice is usually;

cereal (malted wheat or similar, plain)
toast
crumpets
porridge
oatcakes with things on side eg fruit/nuts/a yoghurt if they are being a bit indecisive

we make cooked healthy breakfasts at weekends

I think if you’re feeding your children a poor diet then you should be ashamed.

Op, we kept it boring, eggs and soldiers of egg omelette. Porridge a million different ways, add whatever you like, apple, banana, peanut butter and or honey. Pulse some seeds and throw on top for extra fat.

Plain yogurt drinks like kefir and glass of milk.

Toast of course.

This is brilliant, I wish mine had salmon/avocado they’re great fats to get in.

Oh ffs, not everyone knows what’s good diet is. If you are care experienced and living in poverty, a salmon and cream cheese bagel or eggs Benedict ain’t going to be top of your morning list.

Dh sorts dc breakfasts. Sometimes they have cooked breakfast, scrambled eggs with toast, porridge, bagels but if there isn’t anything special they will eat cereal.

Porridge with fruit and honey. And nuts for me, trying to introduce to DC

My son has one Weetabix with milk and a small croissant.

They usually had a choice so crumpets,toast,bagels,croissants or something on toast beans or scrambled eggs or boiled egg and toast and they'd either have some cereal, yogurt or fruit as well and orange juice.

I've heard about children eating sweets or crisps on the way to school but I can't remember ever seeing it.

Jesus fucking Christ, that was a joke.

Porridge, cereal or toast with a banana. They are in breakfast club 3 days though and usually have a chocolate waffle or pancake, despite there being multiple choices.