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 do scrambled eggs, bacon, beans or tomatoes & slice of toast or bagel each morning for me and my teens. Well I don't have the toast/bagel as I need less food then they do.

It's quick and easy and I know they've had a decent breakfast. If I left them to make there own it would be total carnage in the kitchen or poor choices.

And ThenLater bacon and eggs is more filling and less fattening than a bowl of Alpen

Really!??
Food is such a fucking minefield these days. I'm having Wotsits.

Absolutely really!

Would you feel the same way about daughters?

What an odd question!

Awwww at tired and hungry all the time

And yes it's about nurturing 'em innit. Of COURSE they can feed themselves but it's okay to wanna coddle them a bit

i have girls and a boy. My ds would eat a cooked breakfast everyday if i made it for him. He went to uni last year however and now eats coco pops for breakfast because i refused to ever buy them at home. My dds have much smaller appetites (probably because they are both a foot smaller than their brother). dd1 is doing GCSEs and has porridge for breakfast every day. She makes it herself though.

And that is my useful contribution to this thread.

i think walter has hit the nail on the head - maybe I am feeling more like that. Specially when in the holidays you aren't really needed so much tiny violin

oh God, if you want to do it, go for it.

I completely get the wistful thing - being aware that they are about to head off.
Mine all just had/have different routines and I ended up feeling like I was catering a small cafe.

Do it.

I like making a big family breakfast. At weekends I often do Jamie's superfood pancakes with yoghurt, fruit and honey or I make cinnamon rolls with berries. Birthday breakfasts are a big thing in this house as is Christmas breakfast as well. I would definitely do something nutritious and hearty for exam season.

I lived with a boyfriend and his parents briefly in my teens (long story). His mother brought us a full English in bed every single morning. Happy days.

i think it was a good question about Daughters actually
( forgot what a good thread CAN be like on mumsnet - thank you everyone for being so insightful)

This thread is making me sad and my son is only 3. It goes so fast though, seems like no time since I was 38 weeks pregnant building his cot.

Can't imagine what I'll be like when mine are teenagers. Or when they leave and marry people who will almost certainly not be good enough for them and I'm only half joking

And now I REALLY want a bacon sandwich.

Hahaha at small café Paggy

I have scrambled egg on toast.

Dd is a dancer at full time dance school & needs a good breakfast. Her breakfast of choice is either porridge or boiled eggor beans ontoast with the occasional sausage oatcake for a treat.

We have cooked breakfast every day!

DD asked me to get her a box of mini chocolate chip weetabix for breakfast during her exams......doesn't sound very healthy!

Sorry to drip feed. Also nutrition a bit on the radar atm as one son is training to (hopefully) be a pro sportsman and so eats like a horse, looks like a whippet.

i don't know, its so primal the feeding thing.

I remember when they were babies PHONING my mum to tell them how many cubes of fucking mashed potato or whatever they ate

My mum made me & my sister a cooked breakfast every morning of our exams, it was lovely.

(Was back in the early 90s, and now she's nagging at me to do the same for my boys).

I understand what you mean OP, I think there is something in the 'mother love' that some mothers have for their sons. I have three brothers and my mum still clucks around them wanting to feed them all the time. I don't mind - until she starts wanting ME to cluck around them too...

I was independent from a young age and don't let her do anything for me. Apparently, my first phrase was, "Leave me, Mummy, I can do it!".

its the caring thing. I dunno, You can almost see them grow atm - one said ' basically I am tired and hungry all the time'

Ahh. yes there is something about teenage boys. They are so big and adult like, but still your babies, and feeding them is one of the ways they will accept affection.

Go for it, he'll be off to uni soon and you'll look wistfully at the frying pan...

(and just for the record, my girls aren't teenage yet, so I don't know how they will tug my heart strings at that age)

thanks Ballet

lol at choc chips
Radar - the WHOLE Thing? Do you live in a hotel?

STEPPE YOU ARE MAKING ME WELL UP NOW

Thanks for understanding my question OP. I just had an feeling that it was a boy thing - I didn't think my question was odd. My mother didn't start making cooked breakfast every day when I approached university but I have a feeling she might have done if I'd been a boy.

I can remember when pfb was a baby giving my mum detailed instructions on how best to boil veg. To her credit she didn't tell me to eff off.

I just assumed it would be the same for daughters!

I have sons and daughters though so twas probably a no brainer for me...

That being said, dd currently eats like a sparrow so it would be wasted on her at the moment!