quick hot breakfasts before school

[madmotherof2]

Hi,

I'm looking for hot filling breakfasts that I can knock up in no more than 15 mins for my 12 year old DS.

He isn't a fan of eggs ( stems from an allergy from birth to 7). He's tried porridge but wasn't keen, but I'm wondering if I could make it tastier with different flavours?

He loves sausages and bacon, however I'm concious of the unhealthiness of that!

He likes beans on toast, but think he's starting to get bored of that every day!

Cereal doesn't fill him up, he eats at 7ish ( bus at 7.30) and if he's just had cereal he's then in the school canteen buying paninis or bagels. Id rather him have a good nutritious breakfast at home!

What do your children have for breakfast?

Any ideas?!

Thanks

Have a look in the Anna Jones books, A Modern Way to Cook/Eat. Loads of breakfasts in there!
Nigella Lawson also has lots of breakfast stuff in Eat.
Also Jamie Oliver superfoods book.

Banana pancakes?

We can't do breakfast cereals before school either, just doesn't work for us. Got 2 girls, one in year 1 and other at playgroup who both have dreadful mood swings and low blood sugar if they don't eat enough. Will cry and have awful tantrums and look like death with dark eyes and white skin when hungry. Our breakfast options are always one of these, in no particular order:

Potato waffles in oven, sometimes with grated cheese on top
Staffordshire oatcakes (like crepes but made with oats), can get in supermarket bread aisle. I get two of them and fill with grated cheese and fry until slightly crispy and they really fill girls up until lunch
Potato cakes (not as filling as other options but with butter and marmite they're v quick)
French toast (bread dipped in whisked egg and milk mixture can add vanilla too, then fried and can dip in light coating of cinnamon and sugar or have minus sugar and dip in ketchup or brown sauce-good way to get eggs in without realising
Sesame bagels with cream cheese
Porridge made with whole milk
Scrambled egg (but only one girl will eat them so not featuring v often these days!)
Beans and toast
If breakfast hasn't been eaten well then I sometimes follow up with a yoghurt.

We only do breakfast cereals on weekends, as I am then around to give a more filling snack mid morning or do an early lunch. It's such alot of effort at times to do a hot breakfast before school but if all they eat between 7.30am and lunch at 12 (which by all accounts is ridiculously small) is one miniature under ripe pear or apple provided by the school, it's got to be done unfortunately. I then end up meeting from school with a sandwich as she's starving again after school. Feel like a walking kitchen at times and don't think she's fed enough at school which makes me feel horrible.

I second a breakfast burrito.

For my 14yr old DS, I made scrambled egg, crumbled sausage, and cheese. I scrambled 12 eggs, 12 sausages and as much grated cheese as I saw fit (loads) then started filling tortillas. Think we made about 12? So 1 egg and 1 sausage and 1 wrap per breakfast. Wrap them in clingfilm and freeze them. They take 1-1.30mins in the microwave.

They were pretty bloody filling.