Healthy Christmas breakfast

[PointeShoesandTutus]

...no, I’m not the fun police!

We’re going all out this christmas after a rubbish year, and I really want something special for breakfast for DD (2.5) as she’s really getting into the festivities! Something that looks fun and tastes delicious.

I’ve googled and pinterested ideas, but most of them involve chocolate, sweets, marshmallows etc. Under all normal circumstances I’d be up for this, as it’s a one off, BUT DD is under paediatrics for a number of reasons and we have been advised to monitor her sugar levels and keep them as consistent as possible, so as to avoid spikes and troughs. So chocolate, sweets, even a full plate of fruit is out.

Normally she has dippy eggs, or porridge, or cheese on toast. Any creative ideas?! She can have some fruit so long as it’s balanced with something less sugary.

Ideally vegetarian as the rest of us are veggie (she’s not as she’s restricted enough but I’m not wild about cooking something like bacon tbh!)

Poor kid. Halloween was bloody miserable!

Dippy eggs with a santa egg cup and a warm cup of milk in a santa cup. They have some lovely ones in sainsburys. Or Christmas shaped crumpets.

Cheese swirls
Toast cut into Christmas shapes
Savoury pancakes cooked in Christmas cutters

You’re all amazing! So many good ideas! I think I am a bit overwhelmed with the whole dietary thing and panicked and overthought the whole thing! She loves crumpets, so I’ll look out for tree shaped ones, and a festive dippy egg cup would be great! I’m loving the sound of apple and cinnamon or chocolate orange porridge for me too!

We usually have the Christmas tree shaped crumpets from Asda. Quick, easy, festive and tasty.

Dad likes them either with butter and jam or with cheese melted on top depending on her mood.

If you want to jeep her blood sugars stable I'd go for the avocado Christmas Tree, you can use pieces of avocado to make the tree shape (rather than trying to cut it as one shape) then you can 'decorate the tree' with pieces of tomato carrot cheese etc with some cheese 'presents' at the base.

Or dippy eggs with Santa hats.

That'll give you a bit more leeway for through the day.

Try making the 'event' festive rather than 'treat food. Its not great, but she'll feel better (and consequently behave better) on the odd occasion I have a 'treat' I remember that as goid as it tastes, it's not a 'treat' because I feel bleurgh after.

Vegetarian & Diabetic - diet controlled).

Asda are doing reindeer shaped crumpets this year, they look really cute.

I think Sainsburys usually do a mince pie flavoured porridge.

I got an Elf on the shelf drink cup with a bendy straw from Bargain Buys, it has the plastic head of the elf doll on top.

I LOVE crumpets, but that amount of carb (which turns straight into sugar) makes my blood sugar go right out of whack & afterwards I get tired & grumpy.

But if she usually eats crumpets & you're fine with her having that much carb to sugar then they're cute tree crumpets 🙂

@waltzingparrot

Or a cheesy version of this with a suitable dip

This looks lovely, what is this please???

We usually have a smallish breakfast of tea cakes and I’m wondering if you can get a lower sugar version to have with some fruit?

This thread made me think of My granny who lived with us when I was little and sometimes had a couple of fishfingers as a treat for breakfast. (1970s) It sounds weird now as no one eats fish fingers on their own, but it didn’t seem unusual at the time.

Edible glitter sprinkles on her porridge, or on natural yoghurt, oats and a bit of fruit compote.

I have a fussy eater to work with, so I focus on the table setting rather than the food. We do things like banana and strawberry canes, toast cut with cookie cutters, and pancake snowmen but that’s as far as it goes. One year I put a drop of food colouring in ds cereal bowl to magically turn his milk green and he nearly lost his life!

Our dinner table setting is very tasteful but for breakfast we have the santa chair covers, table socks, a collection of mismatched Christmas dishes, cutlery covers, napkins and crackers.

I draw faces and buttons on milk glasses with an icing pen, and tie a ribbon round for snowmen. Before we got Christmas dishes I used to write song lyrics and draw pictures on their plain plates in edible ink.

Thanks all - interesting about crumpets, I’ll have to have a look. We’re waiting on the dietician referral so I’m stumbling about in the dark a bit at the moment.

I think I’ll focus on the table setting, and I love the idea of an avocado tree with ‘baubles’ - she loves avocado and olives and tomatoes, so I can definitely do something with that I reckon!

If anyone sees festive egg cups, let me know!

Mine have Santa pancakes. Which is pancakes with a Santa face made from strawberries, blueberries and cream. If you Google you can see ideas. This could perhaps be made with no sugar in the pancakes and unsweetened cream.

You could also do snowman pancakes with just a few blueberries instead to reduce the sugar? Or Asda do shaped crumpets, it was Christmas trees last year, I think they have reindeers this year.

Pancakes? Get a squeezy bottle and you can form the shape really easily or a frittata type thing with whatever she likes in a Christmas tree mould?

If you google Santa hat strawberry kebabs you will find some cute ideas. The ones with green grapes make little grinch faces. You can also get a set of fruit cutters from Amazon and make stars out of fruit to put on normal breakfast

Pancakes with 0% fat Greek yogurt topped with chopped strawberries and a tiny drizzle of honey 🍯