What do your children have for breakfast and why?

[Feelingoptimistic]

So, I was watching that C4 Dispatches programmme last night about all the salt and sugar in breakfast cereals and it made me wonder what people give their DCs for breakfast...

My DD has always had porridge, and I thought that was pretty standard, but talking to various friends, it appears that we are quite unusual.

At weekends DH cooks waffles or buttermilk pancakes.

I have a friend who is SO obsessed by how much salt is in her DS's diet that she completely blanks the sugar content.
We went on holiday together and she brought with her some own brand chocolate cereals. When I pointed out that her cereals had loads of sugar in them her answer was yes but the salt is .6 lower than yours!!!!!!!!

So she doesnt mind giving shed loads of sugar but salt is bad.
I know which one I have an issue with.

I can remember always wanting lucky stars for breakfast!

Oh dear, mine (now grown up) have eaten all sorts of crap cereal for breakfast as well as healthier stuff such as Weetabix, Ready Brek and Porridge, with or without banana. Strangely, they survived, grew tall and slim and with good teeth and passed their GCSEs/A Levels, university etc.
I saw the programme a few months ago when Dr Joan Regan (?) concluded that any breakfast was better than no breakfast and felt further vindicated.

Ds1 (3.5) has a huge bowl of oatibix or weetabix, shreddies, and cornflakes or rice crispies (he chooses). Fruit puree on top. It is the only meal he really eats enthusiastically.

Ds2 (20 months) has a small bowl of oatibix and fruit puree. He's not terribly interested in breakfast.

DS has porridge and a banana.

Dd has yogurt. Because she likes to eat yogurt for breakfast.

Ds has fruit. Because he likes to eat fruit for breakfast.

Ds has ready brek or wheatabix with puree fruit.

DD has Cherios or tescos own choco snaps ( as do i )

porridge
toast and Marmite/jam/occasionally Nutella
cereal (shreddy-type things are his favourite but he likes shredded wheats, weetabix and oatibix as well. And bran flakes, but they seem to give him force 10 diarrhoea so no more of those for the foreseeable)
fruit of all kinds
eggy bread
pancakes with yoghurt
yoghurt

(not all at once though)

Cereal, toast, crumpet or brioche. I'm not making porridge just for DS (I can't eat it and DH doesn't like it). Ds likes to make his own breakfast anyway.

dd won't eat porridge or weetabix type stuff, I don't think she likes the consistency (she's similar with soup and that sort of thing).

She usually has Fruit & Fibre (or Six and fiver as she calls it ) like her daddy. Then a yogurt or piece of fruit afterwards.

After seeing that Dr Regan programme about food myths I go with the any breakfast is better than no breakfast view now.

Cocoa pops (well supermarket version)
Chocolate loops
Chocolate squares
Chocolate balls
... basically anything flavoured with chocolate
Usually followed by toast
a piece of fruit
a biscuit
packet of haribos

Honestly they do not stop eating until they get to school.
Neither will eat porrige, but will sometimes have readybrek.

As long as they eat something for breakfast.

toast with various condiments

couple of times a week we have scrambled eggs or bacon or whatever with it

or cereal (not sweetened, and no sugar)

sometimes at weekends we have cocoa pops, or a fry-up brunch

on holiday we always have croissants and brioches with chocolate spread

Porridge (DS1, won't eat cereal, I often don't put any sugar on, he doesn't seem to notice). And a glass of milk before he leaves the house.

Cereals (DD, sprinkling of high sugar type of cereal on less sugary varieties)

Lidl malties (DS3, 20 months old, refuses anything else) and milk

Varies hugely (DS2): McVites cheddars and apricots, or porridge or cereal or toast...

Sometimes toast/bready stuff, but I don't like them to have so much bread/wheat.

dd (2.5) has any of the following:

weetabix & hot milk
readybrek
cornflakes & cold milk
toast, butter, jam

and fruit

because this is all I've ever given her what she likes

on saturday's she'll have a bacon sandwich if there's one going

At the moment DD (21 months) has Weetabix, Special K (nicked from me), toast or yogurt. She always has toast whatever else she has. She's a total carb freak like her mother . But I can see in the future the choccy cereal at weekends thing. We used to as kids and it never did us any harm. Ready Brek during the week and Coco Pops for treats

What? Food.

Why? My conscience will not allow me to starve her.

oh and quite often she'll eat half of my oats-so-simple ... just can't be arsed to make "real" porridge and it's just as good!

Oh and she loves Muller rices as well. I haven't had a whole one to myself since she was about 7 months...

Very boring here. Ds usually has cheerios (yes I know about the extra sugar or salt), occasionally he will have weetabix or porrige instead. Also has a slice of toast, fruit salad and glass of milk.

At the weekends we might have poached or scrambled eggs and bacon or pancakes and fruit.

Ds has a portion of milk and cocoa budino (which I think is blancmange in english?), 2 slices of toast with butter, a glass of orange juice.

Dd has 2 slices of toast with nutella or ham, a glass of orange juice.

Why? Because that's what they like for breakfast. We are not English and porridge is not our cup of tea.