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What does your 5 year old have for breakfast?

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CoucouCache · 14/09/2012 21:29

We've only ever given DD weetabix, porridge or oatibix. And shredded wheat. Think she's getting bored of these options, but I don't want to go down the coco pops route.

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vodkaanddietirnbru · 14/09/2012 21:34

mine has cereal (cookie crisp, rice crispies multigrain, honey shreddies, etc) or pancakes or a toasted sweet waffle or a croissant with ham.

littleducks · 14/09/2012 21:38

I used to have a very limited list like you but now allow cornflakes, branflakes, rice krispies (asda smartprice ones are not very sweet) as well.

I try and jazz it up by offering chopped fruit on top or warm milk.

Otherwise things like egg and soldiers/scrambled eggs when I have more time.

MrsPnut · 14/09/2012 21:41

Mine has brioche, or crumpets, or boiled egg, or some rubbishy cereal.

Porridge is for the winter and she often has a slice of toast if she has cereal or egg.

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ISeeThreadPeople · 14/09/2012 21:42

All sorts of cereals but her favourite is porridge followed closely by shreddies, weetabix, cornflakes and muesli.

Yoghurt and fruit.

Pancakes with various fillings and toppings.

Toast.

Eggs- boiled, poached, scrambled, eggy bread etc.

Muffins/crumpets/pitta/wraps.

noyouhavehadawee · 14/09/2012 21:44

toast on a weekend and 2 bowls of cheerios/ krispies or cornflakes weekdays.

BigHairyFlowers · 14/09/2012 21:44

Either porridge or cornflakes on a school day. At the weekend we will have something more interesting usually, eg a boiled egg with an english muffin and some fruit

CoucouCache · 14/09/2012 21:44

Thanks for suggestions.
Have just ordered crumpets for tomorrow's breakfast.

DD has an egg allergy ...

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picnicbasketcase · 14/09/2012 21:45

Toast, raisin toast or cereal.

BornToFolk · 14/09/2012 21:45

Weetaix, porridge, muesli or bran flakes, usually with fruit. Sometimes mini-shredded wheat, I mix the plain ones with raisin filled.
He quite likes a bowl of muesli mixed with chopped fruit and yoghurt.

Usually followed by a piece of taost, or crumpet etc.

At the weekend I might make panckes, or eggs.

TooBusyByHalf · 14/09/2012 21:49

Porridge / ready brek/ shreddies / weetabix/ cornflakes / muesli and fruit (fresh, tinned or dried) and/or toast on school days. If just toast then milk to drink otherwise water.

Weekends - usually pancakes with fruit and maple syrup (crepes or pikelet type), or eggs, or banana scones, or english muffins, sometimes croissants or brioche or bagels

WilfSell · 14/09/2012 21:51

cereal sometimes, porridge sometimes, toast and butter sometimes, yoghurt sometimes, cheese sometimes [he LOVES cheese, on its own, a hunk of it], fruit sometimes, very occasionally when we can be bothered, scrambled egg.

But mostly cereal and mostly Cheerios.

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AbbyLou · 14/09/2012 21:57

Dd would have nothing if she had her way but I refuse to let her go to school without eating. She doesn't like any cereals other than chocolate ones and is only allowed them at the weekend.
Shse used to have toast then went off that, she just doesn't fancy it in the morning.
At the moment we are on a small yogurt, tiny drink of milk and big plate of fruit. She loves all fruit so I just make her a mixture on a plate in the morning and call it fruit salad. Works a treat!

happybubblebrain · 14/09/2012 21:57

My 6 year old has cereal, porridge, toast, eggy bread, pancakes, muffins, yoghurt, boiled eggs and toast, egg sandwiches and sometimes cheese and sweetcorn in tortilla for a change. She gets bored very easily.

mejon · 15/09/2012 11:37

Just turned 6 DD1 has taken a long time to actually want breakfast but yogurt followed by a toasted muffin and marmite or toast and jam or just bread and butter was the norm this past week. She will also have scrambled egg or eggy bread on occasion. When it gets colder she favours Ready Brek with raisins.

Sometimes breakfast is eaten at a snail's pace and I wonder why she bothers to ask for what she does if she isn't actually going to eat it but she hasn't been too bad recently. At weekends she tends to just have a yogurt sometimes followed by some fruit. I'm not a great breakfast eater so I don't push her if she doesn't want anything else as she eats well the rest of the day.

Gumby · 15/09/2012 11:38

Cheerios

But sometimes she only wants fruit

albertswearengen · 15/09/2012 11:44

Toast with Boursin on it- yum, yum. It's usually a chore to get him to eat anything.

peeriePistoriuslicker · 15/09/2012 12:04

Whatever cereal I've bought. Could be anything from Weetos to cornflakes. I really don't have any issue with giving the children sweet cereals for breakfast.

survivingsummer · 15/09/2012 21:58

My dd is very fussy about breakfast and doesn't really like cereal but will eat those breakfast biscuits (Belvita things). She also has Greek yoghurt with honey some days and also toast or brioche/crumpets with eggs.

Is hard with an egg allergy OP - my dd's friend has this and does limit meals I know Sad

cosysocks · 15/09/2012 22:19

Cereal, toast or bread and butter. Actimel. Sometimes if he is not in mood for a big breakfast ham and chopped up apple, baked beans (if left over from night before), porridge with honey & rasains. Maybe a banana if he is not hungry.

FairyPenguin · 15/09/2012 22:25

Always a bowl of cereal: Weetabix/Cheerios/Cornflakes/Shreddies/(Muesli if it's the weekend so I don't spend ages watching them chew forever)

At weekends and also during the week if we have time before school: toast/bagel/crumpet/muffin with Marmite or just butter. Nutella only allowed at weekends. I'm so mean.

Special treats at weekends: croissants/pain au chocolat.

PiedWagtail · 16/09/2012 22:14

piece of fruit
yoghurt
fruit juice
toast/waffle/pancake/potato farl/muffin
cereal

special treats at weekends - brioche, pain au chocolat, chocolate pancake

NeverKnowinglyUnderstood · 16/09/2012 22:21

Like FP
Start with cereals or porridge (cereals include shredded wheat mini's, weetabix, shreddies, rice krispies, corn flakes, cheerio's, during holidays, sugar puffs and frosties)
then toast, crumpets, bagels, waffles, pancakes, croissants with ham/cheese
fruit juice
toppings for bread products usually bovril or jam or fruit with the pancakes or waffles.

LibrariansMakeNovelLovers · 16/09/2012 22:22

toast and jam, porridge with jam, yoghurt with fruit/jam, egg on toast, pain au chocolat (only occasional, usually weekends), crumpets, muffins, pancakes.
Anu of the above depending on weather, time and my mood.

MrsRogerSterling · 17/09/2012 13:28

Most days she has cereal, rice crispies, corn flakes, weetabix, cheerios or porridge, always a portion of fruit and sometimes followed by toast. Sometimes she has a piece of toast topped with marmite, peanut butter or jam with a banana and a yoghurt. Weekends she will have pancakes, french toast, scrambled egg with beans or bacon, egg and soldiers.

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