What healthy breakfasts can I throw at the children?

[MissMole]

School mornings are a rush in my house and yes, I know I could get up earlier, lay uniforms out the night before etc and lovingly boil them an egg each. But the reality is that most days we are all grabbing toast at best and chocolate muffins at worst and running out the door.
What can I give them that is healthy, oh, and cheap?

[madmomma]

nutella on top of the almond butter on toast is amazeballs. My son has that every morning.

[motherinferior]

Good stuff. Go for a gentle and manageable improvement. Grand plans for breakfast all too frequently misfire. I know whereof I speak.

[MissMole]

Right toast it is. I shall invest in some nicer bread, bagels and a massive jar of peanut butter forthwith.
And for a change the yoghurt I think, with fruit.
A new microwave for winter would be good. I love porridge.

[crumpet]

Ready brek and honey

[motherinferior]

Cream cheese bagel for one, peanut butter for the other. Repeat for as long as the formula works.

Am glad to have spread the lime pickle love. My mum started me off with mango pickle but I think this works better.

[Castlemilk]

Toast is fine - how about seedy bread and with peanut butter? Good oils in there. Or banana on it. Real butter and full fat milk (good fats and protein).

Toast definitely better than any cereal.

Porridge is quick - again, full fat milk, cinnamon sprinkled over, banana sliced on top?

[FruitBasedDrinkForALady]

Sorry, rogue "1" in there...

[FruitBasedDrinkForALady]

My banana cakes come from a blow blog, can't remember the name though! Recipe is
1banana mashed, bigger and brown is best
1
0.5 cup milk
0.5 cup plain yoghurt
1 egg
1 cup self raising flour
1 tspn baking powder.
Mix all the wet ingredients, add flour and baking powder and mix well. Drop a spoonful into a hot frying pan (I don't need any oil or butter in my non stick pan). Flip them when they bubble on top. I get about 12 from this recipe and they keep in the fridge for about 4 days.

[Hakluyt]

Peanut butter and lime pickle, you say? Hmmm. I have amazing lime pickle made by my brother...........

[MissMole]

I have tried the healthier muffin route before. It's just that healthier muffins aren't that appealing. Ditto the flapjacks. I've made Hugh Fearnly Whittingsall's healthy breakfast bar things, which were delicious but the DCs turned their noses up and I had to eat them all.
DC's won't eat weetabix or shredded wheat without piles of sugar on top.
Bagels-yes!
Yoghurt and fruit-yes!
Ham has been known to be eaten but is it healthy?
Porridge takes too long now the microwave has gone kaput.
Smoothies would be too much faffing of a rushed morning surely?
DC2 likes a peanut butter sandwich, that is true.

Should mention that DCs are Picky and Fussy.

[motherinferior]

It is terrific. My Indian mother taught it to me. Makes a v nice lunch too. A strong coffee or poss tea goes well with it too.

[MollyBdenum]

I am going to try that peanut butter and lime pickle combo tomorrow. It sounds potentially amazing.

[MollyBdenum]

We generally do have boiled eggs, because they are quick. They are not lovingly boiled. The breakfast routine tends to go : put eggs on to cook, make toast, boil kettle, straighten hair (our only mirror near a socket is in the kitchen), butter toast, give out eggs.

We also eat peanut butter on toast, porridge or Greek yogurt with frozen berries. In winter, I heat up the berries in the microwave.

On less healthy days, we have bran flakes or Cheerios.

[motherinferior]

I seriously would work with the toast. You are not, by the sound of it, going to start doing advance baking. Slosh beans on the toast (heat up while it's toasting)? An egg can be scrambled or poached v quickly in the microwave if you can manage that. Cream cheese is nice on toast too. Especially garlicky cream cheese. And almond butter (quite readily available) is terrific.

It is also nice to mix peanut butter with hot lime pickle on toast but you may prefer this more than the kids.

[calzone]

Could not rush round like that in the morning!

I need to have uniform out and packed lunches done.

However, mine eat......

Pancakes
Cereal
Scrambled eggs
Baked beans
Bacon
Pain au chocolate
Tea and biscuits

[tess73]

Cereal with milk sounds quick but takes ages to eat
I make dd2 an egg pancake
-whisk up an egg

• oil onto crepe pan, heat , wipe with kitchen roll
  
• pour egg on, swirl to cover pan, cook, flip, cook, serve
  

Takes minutes and is eaten v fast.

[Hakluyt]

I am sure ds would tell you that toasted chocolate cake "is" a hot breakfast...........

[Northumberlandlass]

I like DS to have hot breakfast in winter months so porridge or beans on brown toast.

I leave house at 7.15am....I HAVE to do quick breakfasts. DS doesn't do dairy so won't have cereal & milk and toast is rubbish without lashings of butter

[tess73]

Can you post recipe for banana pancakes please?

[motherinferior]

Peanut butter on toast is a good option - you can always add surreptitious Nutella to it if you live in Hak's house or mine.

[motherinferior]

PMSL@ Hak. No wonder the poor lad dashes off early for a cinnamon swirl.

I'm afraid I'm equally hopeless....

[SoftSheen]

Weetabix or shredded wheat with milk and fresh fruit

Porridge with fresh/dried fruit

Homemade healthy breakfast muffins

If time, homemade banana pancakes (no sugar and use 50% wholemeal flour)

Natural yoghurt sprinkled with granola and fresh/dried fruit

Peanut butter sandwich and a piece of fruit

If you have a sandwich maker then toasties made with granary/wholemeal bread and any combination of cheese, egg, ham or tomato etc might go down well. Or grated apple, sultanas and cinnamon for a sweet version.

[grassroots]

Sorry, these flapjacks..www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/3028699/feelgood-flapjacks