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

You let your 8 year old fry bacon and scramble eggs??

calm down dear

@BluntPlumHam
whatever
they eat well the rest of the day and very rarely eat sweets

Porridge with banana and cinnamon with a blueberrry side and oat milk, sourdough with poached egg, avo and chillli oil, baked beans and scrambled egg on toast, Nutella and banana on toast as a treat. Shredded wheat with hot milk. Every breakfast has a fruit as a side.

variety is key and they have something different every day.

Mine regularly eats coco pops for breakfast. Making sure a child eats at all sometimes has to be the priority.

Weetabix, Nutella and apple slices, avocado on toast.

Most days, ours have wholemeal toast with peanut butter, and a banana. If there's time they might have a yogurt afterwards.

Sorry but yes it does matter. You'd be better off giving them nothing than a penguin bar(!)

Not sure that's true. I fancy a penguin bar now. Used to love them as a kid

We all love penguin bars. Doesn't make them a nutritious breakfast though, unfortunately.

But it's probably not worse than nothing at all, which you said

I dk. The sugar spike would probably make them hungrier earlier than extending their overnight "fast". The sugar crash, with nothing proper in them to level it out, would likely leave them whingy and distracted, if they're anything like mine. I guess it's the school's problem, but still. The sugar and chemicals would be bad for their gut bacteria too.

No protein, fibre, vitamins or minerals... Can't think of any benefits (other than the taste), but maybe I've missed something?

Honestly if not, I think having nothing, would be better than a penguin bar. Better to save them as something delicious, for after they've lined their stomach with something proper at lunch.

Normally weetabix or shreddies. 7yo DS, who seems to have hollow legs, will often have toast as well. Bananas and yoghurts always available. DD loves brioche but we try to keep that for a weekend treat.

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what the fuk, this is peak Mumsnet

Cereal, toast, croissants, cereal bars, porridge, pancakes, crumpets ,choc chip brioche rolls, fruit etc I tend to have a fair few options available for them

Chocolate chip mini weetabix. Weekends are toast/pancakes/potato cakes. Dd's don't have long to get breakfast, cereal is quick and fairly filling. I'd prefer no chocolate but it gets eaten which is important. We have croissants and pain au chocolate available. Dd1 usually grabs a croissant to have on the school bus.

Dd2 did go through a phase of yoghurt with fruit and or granola during the summer but it isn't filling enough for school. Bagels are often for lunch here.

My kids are chalk and cheese.

my youngest eats most things but often isn’t very hungry first thing in the morning so eats a load of fruit before she goes to school where she will eat toast or bagels at the schools breakfast club (she gets dropped at 7:30am as we work)

My eldest has autism and ADHD and is an extremely fussy eater unfortunately and won’t eat any breakfast food (that being said she probably WOULD eat eggs and bacon but we simply don’t have time for that on a school day) - she doesn’t eat bread or any bread like product (bagels, muffins, waffles, crumpets etc. - you name it, she hates it) she won’t eat cereal or fruit. It’s a nightmare and she MUST eat to be able to take her ADHD meds, so I’m embarrassed to say it but she often eats a choc chip muffin or cookies for breakfast. Am I happy about it? No. Do I need to ensure that she has eaten SOMETHING to be able to take her meds and not go to school on an empty stomach? Yes. Needs must. We make up for that poor nutrition with healthier lunches and dinners that cater to her very particular tastes.

My dc go to breakfast club so they have a bagel each.

I haven’t mentioned any of those items you have listed. I have mentioned porridge, eggs and dairy. The porridge and eggs can be prepared differently. 6 free range eggs are about 2 pounds and 1kg of oats around 1.50 the items I have listed aren’t massively expensive. They can be prepared with daily household produce like butter and milk etc

As for children in care, the op was asking what parents are feeding their kids. If it was up to me every child whether in care or not would have access to healthy decent food.

I agree with you. The occasional treat here and there but as long as their daily, regular diet is full of whole healthy foods.

Cereal usually (weetabix, shreddies, cheerios etc) they are allowed 'weekend cereal' on a Saturday/Sunday and that's the more sugary stuff. They always have fruit with breakfast. About once a week will have those toastable pancakes instead of cereal usually a Friday but not always.

I think the teacher was just making a general comment rather than “gossiping” about specific children. Quite a few kids have big cans of monster, share bags of crisps, big bars of chocolate and sweets that they buy on their way into school.

How is everyone finding time to make all these big and cooked breakfasts as well as nagging kids out of bed, into their clothes, getting packups finalised, own work stuff ready, a passable appearance etc? You must all be up very early. It's very much toast or cereal bars and a drink here.

Cereal (with oat milk), fruit, scrambled egg on toast if we have time, cheesy crumpets, peanut butter sandwich sometimes 😅 only as she won't eat it on toast.

Toast. I was Always in a Rush