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.

Porridge (with raisins and golden syrup)
Toast with marmite
Cereal (often with sugar, prefer the sugary ones to the non-sweet ones which are often quite salty as I think DD could do with the calories)
Fruit
Dried fruit
Sandwich (ham or fried egg or marmite)
Bacon/sausages, egg and mushrooms

It all depends how long I have to cook and how hungry DD is.

This morning she had four leftover stuffing balls from last night's dinner and an apple. The reasoning behind that is that she is a peculiar child.

Depends. Could be:
Egg on toast (brown)
Weetibix Minis
Porridge (with maple syrup on top)
Cheese on toast
Pancake with nutella or syrup

and some fruit.

I have 2 exceptionally good eaters -except when it comes to breakfast. So if they eat ANYTHING before school I'm happy. AT teh moment they are going through a phase of eating Scotch pancakes - one has them with chocolate spread and the other with butter.
They won't eat cereal (even chocolate or sugar laden ones). ds is quite happy to go to school with nothing in his stomach - so I reckon 2 pancakes is better than that.

All have porridge or shredded wheat or other sugarless cereal... then toast with chocolate spread something healthy!!!

DS has porridge most days (with honey & banana), also likes Weetabix (well, own-brand equivalents) & maple & pecan / raspberry crisp.

DD usually has some random combination of 2 or 3 cereals (bleurgh): weetabix, rice crispies, raspberry crisp, malties, etc, etc! Her fave though is the Aldi version of Special K Red Berries - she gets through bowls of the stuff if we have it in, but not exactly nutritious IMHO!

The sugar-laden / chocolatey cereals (Frosties / Honey Nut Loops / Coco Pops et al) are only allowed as a holiday treat, so about 3 weeks out of 52...

If they're still hungry they have toast or crumpets (usually with jam or honey or something equally sweet and sickly just to undo all my hard work )

DS used to be a marmite toast boy, but since a trip to the US has been demanding pancakes and maple syrup (doesn't always get them).

DD usually has cereal (currently shreddies), but is happiest when presented with an early-morning bowl of rice and some nori (seaweed), possibly with a few small dried fish as well. If we could get smelly fermented soybeans here she would have those too. She was born in Japan, but left when she was four - it seems that comfort food settings start early.

My home made honey nut granola with Greek yogurt and cut up fruit.

I'll level with you, I've only made it once. Three days ago. But it's so fab and so quick and so much cheaper and nicer than the bought stuff that I might even go into business!

why smug spidermama full of sugar and fat

Porridge and fruit without fail. Second breakfast of boiled egg and soldiers or american pancakes if it is a lazy morning.

weetbix if we have milk. Because it is easy and not too sugary and because it has rugby cards in it. If we have run out of milk (this happens about once a week, I am not organised) he has porridge. Weekends he has porridge but I prefer not to make it during the week, it takes too long!

Sorry, why? Because it the time of day when they have always been starving and open to good things. DH will feed them beans and buckwheat if left to his own devices bacause he knows he can get away with it the morning!

DD has a small fromage frais and a piece of fruit with either a slice of toast or a bowl of cereal.

Since she started school in September am trying to get her to have cereals in the mornings rather than overloading with bread (she has a packed lunch with a sandwich), so she only has the option of toast and marmite or cereal (she eats most of them including the weird concoction of muesli, bran flakes, all bran and dried fruit DH mixes together himself from the weigh-your-own shop!).

Have just bought peanut butter and choc spread as it's the hols, but they will disappear next Monday.

She also likes a full English with DH occasionally (loves black pudding ), and if we're having a girly day I make pancakes.

My two have one of the following:

purple weetabix (weetabix with defrosted
blueberries in the milk)
toast and honey/pnb/marmite
no added sugar muesli
porridge, usually with banana
american pancakes with blueberries and maple syrup (saturdays or sundays only)

I found the programme quite interesting, didnt realise it didnt go down well round here

DD and ds (3 and 1) have a free choice from weetabix (often storebrand), rice krispies (asda value ones), shredded wheat or cornflakes (but after prog saying Kellogs contain more salt than walkers crisps i will stick to own brands)

They occassionally have toast after their cereal but i dont like to give it to them as lunch is often soup and bread and i think it is too much bread in a day.

If i have time i make porridge which they are allowed honey on (and i dont care that honey is sugar as it supposed to have lots of health promoting qualities so a little is fine for them)

I'm quite an avid label-reader, and i was shocked to find that Kelloggs Bran Flakes have so much sugar in them.
And interesting that own brand rice crispies etc are lower in S&S. That will affect the way I shop.

Weetabix/oatibix or sometimes porridge virtually every day. On breakfast club days they might also have some toast there.

Special treats are other cereals or very occasionally a bacon butty or fry-up

I choose those cereals because they are low in sugar (and oats are just that!) - they have a big bowlful as children need a good start to the day

dd - some kind of nutrigrain or granola bar on way to bus stop. Sometimes nothing.

DS - Porridge

ds2 - nothing.

Ds eats

Museli (no added sugar or salt because that is what dh likes)
Quaker Oats Oat Crisps
Porridge
Wheetabix

But he is still too small to be swayed by advertising. He still just wants to eat museli because that is what daddy eats so it must be the best thing in the world ever.

Dd is only 10 months, she gets lobbed a bit of fruit and a few bits of cereal soaked in milk. She isn't fussed about breakfast.

My dd most often has a bacon sandwich before school, with an apple, sparkling mineral water and a vitamin pill. And often a hot chocolate too.

Sometimes we have pancakes at the weekend, sometimes boiled eggs. She doesn't like breakfast cereals.

Both my dc were the only children in their classes who didn't put sugar on their cereals at school when they covered the sugar in food topic in science. Their friends all thought they were nutters or lying. They usually have weetabix or corn flakes or muesli, sometimes malties or porridge, occasionally rice crispies or puffed wheat. They fill up on toast & dd occasionally has an egg.

Mine only put a teaspoon of sugar on their weetabix / oatibix / porridge. If it is a sugary cereal, they don't need extra sugar.

They don't complain, they think it's normal And they are 10 and 8!

We all eat a bowl of cereal for breakfast - Oatibix, Shreddies, Cheerios, or Special K. I am incapable of anything much in the morning, so dh sometimes cooks porridge - most likely at a weekend - which we eat with golden syrup.

Breakfast is such a brilliant meal - you really can have anything. I remember when I was small that the best bit about a sleepover was having a different breakfast from usual (one of my friends had cheese sandwiches, which I thought was fantastic).

Anyway, my nearly-five-year-olds have breakfast at nursery four days a week - it's either rice krispies, cornflakes, shreddies, or toast with butter. Well, it is for ds2; ds1 has coeliac disease, so can only have rice krispies out of that list.

At home, they like three courses. Porridge (I make it with millet flakes, as oats are a no-no) with a dollop of honey or jam; nazi no-added-anything cereal (puffed teff, at the moment, because I got sent some as a sample - it actually tastes like wheat, which is nice) with raisins; then toast/gf bread. I try and keep portions sensible - all three together probably add up to one of the bowls of cereal they get at nursery.

At their aunty's house, they like gf cinammon bagels with nutella. If their dad is doing breakfast, they like scrambled eggs and beans on toast. Breakfast on a plate is very exciting.

And only just on topic, I would also like to share how much it pleases me that if you are texting someone to say that, alas, you can't meet for breakfast after all, and type in 'kisses for everyone', predictive text gives you 'kippers for everyone' first.