What do your children have for breakfast in the morning?

[GailFawkes]

Especially in the winter. Stuck in the cereal rut

how do you make eggy bread/french toast?

Anyone else read Felicity Lawrence's Eat Your Heart Out? After reading her chapter on breakfast cereals I vowed never to have them in the house again (helped out more than a little by the fact that the dcs won't eat it anyway - and every box I had was about two years out of date...) We do fruit and yoghurt or honey on yoghurt, and bread or toast which is able to be eaten in the car on the way to preschool

beat an egg, add small drop of milk, dip bread of choice into it, fry with small amount of oil/butter whatever suits you, I put salt on mine but some like a sprinkle of sugar.

fabalicious

Porridge/weetabix, hasn't changed for 6 years and no about to anytime soon!

no - what did she say? I always assumed the likes of Sredded Wheat, Fruit and Fibre etc are ok?

Thanks Kbear - I will give it a go!

Pretty much the same as goldenhaze

Porridge with Kara or almond milk and omega seed mix and whatever dried or fresh fruit we have in the house.

Sometimes weetabix with the above.

Unless I am running late and then it's toast with fruit spread or nut butters - this ds can feed himself without the chaos porridge would mean!

And he always has a banana on the bus to work. He asks for one whenever we get on a bus now - infact, he climbs on the chair to reach them from the side and puts them in his bag or under the pushchair every morning now :D

No idea during the week because he has breakfast at nursery

We do normal porridge oats in the microwave too: would guess about 2 parts milk to 1 part oats (I just go by eye), cooked on full for 2-2.5 minutes. Then add a bit of honey & fruit. DD likes hers with raisins in (raisins added before cooking). I find the oatso simple type packs far too sweet (and expensive!).

We do a cooked breakfast sometimes on a Sunday or in school hols - just don't have time on a normal day. DD won't eat eggs and DS doesn't like bacon so it's not exactly the easy option (we end up doing the full works so at least everyone has something they like).

My DD has porridge for breakfast,with a tsp of cocoa & 2 tsp sugar. I don't do it in the microwave, but boil the milk & then pour on the oats in the bowl & stir before it sets like concrete.

DD2 now requests her porridge just like this...

Weekends are egg/soldiers/bacon & pancakes with about 5 different spreads.Yum !

DD has

porridge with fruit/raisins (grated apple, berries, chopped pear etc) and a bit of cold milk and golden syrup or honey or maple syrup

scrambled eggs on toast

toast and marmite/jam/honey

eggy bread

beans on toast

fruit on cereal

stewed fruit and custard

yoghurt with added fruit

croissants (frozen, they only take a few minutes to heat in the oven) with butter and jam

We sometimes have either a fry up or a big flat spanish style omelette at the weekends.

We do Jamie Oliver's pancakes sometimes at the weekend - very easy, so DS (age 6) does them on his own. 1 mug milk, 1 mug flour, 1 egg and 1 grated apple or pear. Whisk together, and just fry spoonfuls in a little melted butter. Weekdays he has either poached egg on toast, porridge with stewed apples, wholemeal toast with jam, Marmite or honey, or crumpets.

Nutella... With pancakes or toast for ds1 and it drives me bonkers but he really will not eat cereal or porridge or eggs and iv tried so so so many times but he'd really rather go hungry! He'll have a few dates now and again too. He will not drink milk or have any calcium thing at any time of day which is really worrying me but once I got Rid of bottles that was it not a drop would he drink since... if anyone has any ideas how to get him to it would be great! Ds2 will have porridge the odd time but only a little or a few bites of toast and jam, really not a good eater but loves his milk... Till I give his bottle to the bottle fairy then we'll see...

DS has waffles with nutella,bacon sandwich,toast

DD has pepperami,go ahead bar or crumpets

Secretwishescometrue - you can get orange juice which has calcium added (can't remember which brand it is now ) or have you tried some non-milk drinks? Ds has a milk allergy so he has oatly with added calcium, but there are also nut drinks, rice ones and soya which he might prefer the taste of as they are often sweeter tasting though no added sugar?

Secretwishes I had a similar issue with ds2. I used to make muffins with milk in them, milky bread in the bread machine and try to sneak some yoghurt into smoothies and curries and some cream cheese into pasta dishes. Surprisingly, he liked cheesestrings. I know they're not ideal but when you're desparate!
Thankfully, he doesn't mind dairy too much now.
I also give him kindervital (vitamin mixture with added calcium. From chemists)

Mine have
cereals (shreddies, cheerios)
porridge with a sprinkle of brown sugar
pancakes
fried egg on toast
toast with marmite or cream cheese
muffins if I've made any
fruit

My 2 are cereal monsters. DS1 (8) has shreddies and ds2 (5) has weetabix. Neither particularly likes milk so it's a good way of getting a bit of calcium into them.

Thank you Ekka and Shaxx some really good suggestions I will def give them a go. He is very stubborn when he sets his mind to something that's it... He used to love chedder but in the last 6-8weeks won't touch it, kids eh... Thanks again for the tips :)

Secretwish...when I stopped bfing ds at 12 months he refused anything dairy at all. 6 months later he asked for a drink of milk one day! Now hes two and can drink loads of the stuff during the day!