thinking I should do a cooked breakfast most days for my sons

[JackandDiane]

I have three - one doing a levels in the next couple of weeks, all huge sporty and growing,
i did bacon rolls today as pre exam thing and they all said they would happily eat a proper breakfast every day
I get up early - its no skin off my nose, maybe a bit more prep etc
Do any of you do cooked breakfasts every day? I think I should put more effort in

I would, just balance things out a bit with fat/salt content.

Google Christmas wife saver. It's this Canadian breakfast dish which you put together the night before and then just bung in the oven in the morning.

Oeufs en cocote with some veg and smoked salmon.

Lots of fun ideas on pinterest that make for a healthy balanced start to the day, especially for healthy, active growing lads.

If I did my DP a cooked breakfast in the morning for a couple of weeks because he was doing exams or had a busy time at work,I just KNOW he would expect it all the time from then on after and that's not going to happen.

Good to hear! All children should set off with a hearty breakfast. Lucky boys. You and they will reap the benefits in terms of long good health and mental energy throughout the day.

I do the same. Whether it's proper porridge or something else hot. All prepared by me. I'm also glad to do it. Must say I'm baffled by the Kellogg's campaign to get parents with their own children to fund/support other people's children who don't get breakfast! Great Britain? More like a developing country by those standards!

I wouldn't go full on fry up every day!

I do protein filled breakfasts for kids every day (they are 4,7 & 9) so they often have eggs (scrambled, boiled, fried) or if I've had time the night before to cook off some sausages then they have them cold with boiled egg and some sandwich thins! They also love an egg and cheese wrap or ham and cheese toastie!

If we are in a rush they LOVE peanut butter...(I buy the natural almond one-full of protein) so they have peanut butter with a little jam in a crossiant!

Often if they are still hungry they then have fruit or maybe natural yoghurt with a bit of honey..or cereal!

It works well! It lasts them until snack at school about 10.30 and then lunch!

DonkeyOaty gives good alternatives. Bacon is really unhealthy, however nice. A cooked breakfast is ok if you want to do it but bacon? I would make a bacon cooked breakkie ONCE to celebrate end of exams

I know a lovely man who has a proper cooked breakfast every morning. Sadly he is two stone overweight and is diabetic. I'd love to eat the same thing too but would treat it as a special breakfast, just for holidays.

Well... my dear old dad had bacon n eggs every morning and lived until he was 92!

No, you are not BU.

You should not eat bacon every day, hate to say it but linked to cancer (I say this from experience, recovering from BC and my oncologist said bacon needs strict rationing (or rasher-oning;)
My son now refuses to eat it! (I am more of an 'everything in moderation' kinda person, but my 12 year old goes mad if he sees me reach for a rasher now! (Can't really blame him)
I bloody love bacon :(

Cooked breakfasts don't have to be 'unhealthy'... grilled rasher of unsmoked bacon/tomato, poached egg instead of fried, baked beans, a couple of slices of wholemeal toast.... not bad at all.
Just avoid frying.

NB: Slow release carbs are better in the morning for concentration and to ward off hunger snacking mid morning though, so include baked beans and wholemeal bread... )

Turkey bacon is very nice, and less unhealthy. But some people are almost talking as though pork bacon is fatally toxic. It isn't- it should just be eaten in limited quantities.

Where do you buy turkey bacon in the UK, I've looked everywhere?

Agree with Ms Hoolie. I think the official guidance is that processed meats, which includes bacon, should be limited to once or twice a week. The more you eat, the higher your risk of bowel cancer. Same for red meat.

His diabetes will have little to do with the fact that he is eating sausages, eggs and bacon every morning, though.

Hash browns, baked beans, fried bread...maybe!

I agree that supermarket bacon every single day is probably not a wise choice in terms of being highly processed. But there is nothing wrong with a breakfast of bacon, eggs, sausage and mushrooms a couple of times a week, plus ringing the changes with fat and protein-based foods the rest of the time. Fantastic fuel for growing kids.

My eldest, also doing A2s, is enjoying a cooked breakfast every morning on these revision days.

This morning he had scrambled eggs, bacon and black pudding. He did it though as I rarely venture towards the cooker. His dad, however, will lovingly cook them whatever they choose be it waffles, pancakes, full English or omelettes.

I used to do a full cooked breakfast on a Sunday morning when kids were younger, but stopped that a while ago. I now tell them there is cereal and/or toast on a morning, take it or leave it ... they usually take it.

So, I've already taken this thread on board, bought a load of breakfast foods which aren't the usual cereal and toast they do themselves, and managed to coax both of mine to the breakfast table today.
I think it's going to stick OP (poached eggs on toast tomorrow). Thanks for the suggestion, even breakfast refusing GCSE taking 16YO is up for family breakfast!.

Where do you buy turkey bacon in the UK, I've looked everywhere

tesco.

Or Ocado.

Tired all the time take to doctors

Otherwise a kid doing a levels should be preparing all meals them self and shopping for ingredients tbh also contributing to food expenses through part time job

ROFL.

Wow, I am really confused by this thread.
I thought that sausages and bacon should be a treat and normally only consumed once a week. Red meat, high in sat fat and processed with nitrates etc. I also thought eggs normally should be eaten a couple of times a week.
We only have French toast or bacon occasionally at weekends. My kids all like different things, one loves sausages, the other doesn't like them. One likes bacon the others don't. Only one likes boiled eggs.
Breakfast for us is the dreaded cereal, weetabix, shreddies, muesli, Special K etc no chocolate ones and then fruit. I had no idea we are so unhealthy!

Also toast but only buy brown bread.

Reminds me of just how much my son ate when he was a teenager. Starting the day with 5 Weetabix and finishing with more Weetabix before bedtime. Healthy, slim, sporty but always eating. Glad he's someone else's responsibility these days though I miss being the nurturer

I also though baked beans were full of sugar and salt but I know the beans are good for you.

Why do you think they have to add the vitamins and iron, jannier?

Well it does depend on the cereal you offer, we have porridge most mornings, but you can add milk full of vitamins to most cereal. and milk is full of things needed by all of us not just unders 5's

My real worry is the proven link to processed meats like bacon (even Turley bacon) causing cancer with the increase in cancer rates meaning now 1 in 4 get breast cancer and almost 50% of us will have some sort of cancer I think that's really scary, maybe having just finished chemo Im more worried than others but there is a proven link.
My husband also had a heart attack so food with a high salt content is best not eaten to excess few cereals have the salt content of a rasher of Bacon or sausage per portion (it is possible to get low salt low sugar cereal there isn't any ham based meat at under 13%...the red warning in food....Bread is about 7% at its lowest. )
I just wouldn't feel comfortable setting my children up in a habit that could lead to ill health in years to come or the temptation of making a regular stop at a greasy spoon which gives a cheap breakfast for a £5 anymore than encouraging a bar of chocolate a day followed by crisps.

Did anyone watch the programme "How Healthy so Your Diet?" The other day?
They did loads of tests and came to the conclusion that the best breakfast was bacon and eggs - beat fruit and yoghurt and cereal. Fried eggs, not scrambled, as the egg doesn't absorb the fat, as scrambled egg. Apparently eating bacon has such a tiny chance of causing cancer that it was negligible. Bacon and egg kept them fuller for longer, caused less of a sugar spike, basically was better all round.
Anyway, I go through phases with breakfast, we will have a could PE months of me getting up and cooking breakfast every morning, and then ages where the kids are lucky to get cereal - as they'd prefer to have an extra 10 minutes in bed. Whatever suits you.