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....

that which? report is 2006

Mine have plain cereals like cornflakes, bran flakes, weetabix, shreddies. We have croissants once a week or so and sometimes toast.

Yup, it is from 2006, but I doubt manufacturers have made their cereals a lot healthier. Although the salt levels might have gone down.

Once, yes it did, but then dh goes shopping and comes back with sugary crap. Even though I have TOLD him. He's one of those dhs who does not listen to me but when someone else tells him the same thing he'll say to me 'ooh, Ed/mum/whoever told me x, what a good idea'.

Frustrating because I used to work for Which? so I have a good idea what to look for in a product!

When we do have plain cereal Ds1 just covers it with sugar anyway.
The sugar in the the sugar caddy thing so he just gets iut himself.

Ds2 is prob the best of the bunch and he's have egg (scambled/poached/boiled/fried he's not fussy). He has got a sweet tooth and has only just started trying the crap ds1/ds3 eat.

Ds3 is teh main problem. He's tiny. Alway has been and has atiny appetite to go with it. He does eat friut and would eat alot of it if I let him but then won't eat any lunch/dinner. He'd be happy with an apple for dinner TBH.
In his case the sugary cereal can't be that bad.

Ds4 eats anything so he doesn't count

for now ds has fruit, and either plain buttered toast/porridge/oatibix/croissants/pancakes. but this is because its what i eat and he knows no better
one day he will clock that dh has coco pops and sugary crap and that will be the end of that

white toast and butter for dd1 but for the last couple of weeks she has been into weetabix.

cereal (non- sugary type, topham, you slacker) and toast with butter and jam or honey.

milk to drink, sometimes fruit juice

porridge or weetabix

Depends. Often porridge with maple syrup or brown sugar, or cornflakes/rice krispies/cheerios/bran flakes. Always fruit on the side and
at weekends, pancakes or croissants or cooked breakfast.

We have those little multipacks of cereals when we go on holiday. They are ingeniously known as holiday cereal.

we do porridge, puffed wheat and shredded wheat as they are sugar and salt free.

sometimes instead of milk ds has yoghurt on it and also sometimes fruit or unsalted nuts. or sometimes just yogurt or fruit.

he also likes potato waffles, hash browns, crumpets, muffins, bagels and toast.

when he goes to my nan's he gets homemade pork and apple sausages which he thinks are great. i can't make them for him here cos i haven't got a food processor yet so it's a special treat.

dd has a choice porridge or a.n.other (no sugar) cereal such as weetabix, shreddies, cornflakes, I only ever have opne alternative in.

or toast with butter/jam/marmite/honey/marmalade

she nearly always opts for porridge but varies the topping.. banana, sultanas, honey, golden syrup, maple syrup, jam etc

I can never get her to have a drink though.. very rarely she'll have a smoothie

we also do french toast with cinnamon, teacakes and croissants.

am planning on trying this for tomorrow:

Ingredients:

225g (8oz) sultanas, raisins or currants
75ml (3 fl oz) unsweetened fruit juice
160g (5½ oz) plain wholemeal flour
15ml (1 tbsp) baking powder
2ml (½ tsp) each of mixed spice and ground nutmeg
1 large egg, beaten

Sieve the flour, baking powder, mixed spice and nutmeg,returning any bran left.Add the beaten egg to the fruit mixture, then stir in theflour mixture.Tip the mixture into the tin and bake for 40-45 minutes,until the top is springy to the touch.

oh and ds has homemade cashew nut butter on everything that he can possibly spread it on

hate to say it but weetabix has sugar too...

My 2 love tesco's multigrain stars or rice krispies.

It varies here, usually toast or cereal during the week but can be, eggs of some sort with toast ie boiled egg and soldiers, scrambled egg etc, crumpets, english muffins, croissants and that sort of thing.