What do your children eat for Breakfast??.....Mine are eating the sugariest things known to mankind ATM but surely its better to have that then nothing at all (which would be teh case for ds3)

[ladytophamhatt]

I remember having toast and jam for my breakfast as a child, then a cup of tea with about 5 sugars in because I couldn't taste it due to the jam.

Is it really that bad?????

I think not incase you hadn't realised....

Colditz

My favourite.

breakfast in bed please

i am now absolutely starving having read this thread

and it is too cold to go to the kitchen

i am watching tv in bed

are only purists answering this thread? i am amazed at the willingness of your children to eat in the mornings. and mine, if they do give in to my pleas, will only have revolting cereals... where have i gone wrong? i used to be so determined .

We don't do sugary cereals. If you don't buy them they can't eat them. They won't starve themselves, they'll eat what you have IMO.

We have readybrek, porridge, multigrain cornflakes, normal cornflakes, rice krispies (but only on the weekend because they aren't substantial enough to get them through a school morning IMO), cheerios (which I think are probably TOO sugary), shreddies

well ds very poor eater used to eat shredies which are actually a sugary cereal but dont actually have a crtust of suagr and they never realised that some weirdos sugar addicts people actually add sugar on to cereal as well as milk

ds actually had porridge this morning and dds just had toast but will no doubt within half an hour be asking for more..also when Dh gets up he will probably do bacon so they will want some of that.

so am I zippi

during the week, dd has toast and choc spread and an apple and ds has either toast and honey or jam or a bowl of ready brek with golden syrup

which is a vast improvement on just biscuits which is what dh let them get away with when I first went back to work and he sorted them out in the mornings grr.

We have about 10 different cereals in the cupboard. Cheerios, weetabix, just right, cornflakes, porridge oats, ready brek, rice crispies, choc weetos (space variety!), clusters.... They just pick what they want. DS1 usually goes for a combo of Weetos and cheerios. They must be mixed, not in layers, with plenty of cold milk. DS2 likes cheerios dry, or weetabix with warm milk. I don't really care what they eat, so long as it keeps them quiet while I come round (they're up between 5 and 6!). I'm nursing a lemsip and a cup of tea!

mine have nutella on toast
but they are teenagers so were raised on weetabix without sugar for years.
I like toast n marmite.
dd1 who is 16 apperantly has organic porrdige with honey n raisens n yogurt.
dd2 has ready brek.

We make porridge.

With brown sugar, cinnamon and sultanas.

My 6 yr old has learned to make it for everybody.

he either has jam & toast,

or at the mo he's having 2 little yoghurts, and some fruit, with 9oz roughly of milk.

snack at 10 is fruit/ salad stuff.

those cookie thinga are not cereal they are little biscuits!Too sugarry imho tooth rotters BUT kids love them

I buy some really weird chocolate pillow things as a snack, but I don't allow it for breakfast, they are like tiny chocolate biscuits!

Honest to God, they get what they are given, I'm too bad tempered in the morning to field arguments. they get sandwiches (pb&J or cheese) or toast with marmite, or sometimes cheerios if I am feeling tolerant of food shrapnel

they don't argue about it because there really is no point

I would throw the sugary stuff away tbh, inform your dearly beloved children that it will not be bought in the future and calmly listen to the shrieks while keeping your foot firmly down. then offer a healthier range, no child to be allowed out of the door until they have eaten something.
toast and jam is healthy in my book, btw, tea with 5 sugars definitly aint!

I have done this with dd1, when she refused to eat what was on offer - she ended up eating a token small piece of toast while complaining at the top of her voice after I said I would write a note to her teacher explaining why she was late.

Porridge or toast with marmite. He's an early riser so still has a bottle of milk when he wakes so he's not that hungry for breakfast.

Mine are like little hobbits though, 1st, 2nd and third breakfasts. Cereal then toast then fruit. Then they start asking for crisps and /or biscuits.

lol at tiny chocolate biscuits. I hate those pillow things.

frosties are the worst.

My Dd's have weetabix or shreddies without sugar. They also like cinnamon bagels. Sometimes they ask for toast and marmalade.

On schooldays DD (5) gets a choice of cereal - cornflakes, puffed wheat, muesli, or porridge. She usually goes for porridge if its cold and has it with jam/raisins/fruit and milk or yoghurt.

Weekends we often do cooked things - scrambled egg on toast, cheese on toast, pancakes if she's lucky.

We get choco hoop type things in for birthdays and Christmas, and if she has a friend staying over I sometimes produce mini packs. But normally we don't have the sweet stuff in the house and so it not an issue.

Thing about sugary breakfast is it will cause a crash later on. Slow release carbohydrates will keep them going much longer.

oatabix - wheat intolerant.
followed by yohurt drink and banana. They are both quite good eaters. They have never tasted surgary cereals

Just to toss in some balance then neither of mine would eat a blooming thing in the mornings. Nada. Rien. This despite me trying everything from normal breakfasts to Forbidden Fruit and even for one short period of despair at the height of the 'Breakfast is the most important meal of the day and your kids will get one grade E GCSE in typing without it' campaign, I took up thin, buttered, crustless toast cut in triangles and wrapped in a warmed linen napkin (I kid you not) to one DD's bedroom every morning. Only to have her take one bite and leave it, whining horribly.

They're old enough to make up their own minds now and one has half a slice of melon and some plain yoghurt, the other still has nothing - 'My stomach just doesn't wake up till lunchtime, Mum!' To be honest, I'd have been far far happier seeing some sugary crap and milk go in those stubbornly zipped small mouths than nothing at all. But both survived, are normal slim weight, and did fine in school. So don't panic.

ds1 oatibix with fruit slop
toast and pate or toast and jam

(at the moment this is what he eats for lunch and dinner too ).