Help with breakfast for 2 1/2 year old dd....

[returningstress]

She only eats a small amount of breakfast. She used to eat weetabix everyday for about a year and a half. Then porridge for a little while, but now will not eat either.

Sometimes she eats peanut butter on toast or boiled eggs, but she cannot have eggs everyday and they take lnger to make. And I have recently bought her chocolate weeteos 9which I really didnt want to) but she only eats a small amount of them. And the same with Frosties.

Please give suggestions.

Continental breakfasts are very often cheese, hams etc - we're just so used to what SHOULD be breakfast that it seems odd to go straight to savoury/proteins of this type. So nothing wrong with cheese sandwich, unless that's what she's having for every meal. My DS always goes for yogurt but sometimes is persuaded to eat toast or cereal (and only shreddies and sultanas). FWIW I'm v envious you can get her to eat eggs, DS generally refuses due to the texture... perhaps that's why she's not so keen on eggy bread or omelette? They do have a more greasy texture.

My 2.10 year old DD isn't a great breakfast eater either and some of these suggestions sound great. She is enjoying hot cross buns at the moment.

my dd 2.5 has toast, or egg on toast, or yoghurt or muesli, or fruit - apple grapes etc. I don't stress about it if she doesn't want anything, I offer her some milk. They seem to eat every two hours at nursery, so I don't worry about her going hungry for long. She's currently having toasted hot cross buns for breakfast.

DD is now 3.8 and has had, since she was little a mixture of the following depending on time, what is in and what she wants:

Crumpets and butter/jam/peanut butter
cornflakes
porridge with a variety of different fruit, depending on what we have and i try to let her pick (ie frozen fruit, warmed up, fruit compot, bananas, tinned fruit etc)
toast and jam/peanut butter/honey (all the sweet stuff when DH is up first with her!)
scambled eggs with or without toast / beans on toast.
jam sandwich (DH)
noodles - DH ('she asked for it, so why not?' fair point)
just fruit
yoghurt with or without fruit
wheatabix
cheese, raisins, crackers
pancakes/drop scones
fry up (weekends)

But I don't think it matters what she eats for breakfast, as long as she eats something (dh's argument for most of what he dishes her up!). And lots of things can be covered over and given a little later if she wants to come back for it.