Quick and easy Breakfast for toast and cereal refusing toddler

[silverstreak]

Am at the end of my tether today. 2.7yr old DD, moderately fussy eater but has her safe foods for most meals (albeit quite reduced when it comes to healthy foods - will typically eat any amount of "orange" foods) has started to refuse, or should I say just not eat her breakfast staple of wholemeal toast & peanut butter with cucumber; she usually eats the cucumber but for the last 5+ days has just licked off the peanut butter and declared herself "finished!" in a cheery tone. She will then day she's hungry again an hr later and badger me for snacks, but this is usually when we are getting ready to leave the house or already out and just isn't possible half the time - besides which I want her to get into the habit of eating breakfast with the rest of us! It's really annoying and I'm afraid I lost it a bit this morning...

For clarity, she has eaten this happily for ages till this past week, she won't eat any cereals I've tried (most stuff Inc porridge) and won't have toast with anything else on. She will eat egg but only scrambled but I can't do that every morning and besides she should have some carb....

Please help!!

Fruit and yoghurt?

Mash potato and beans/spaghetti/egg or grated cheese.

I buy the frozen mash.

Don't give into snacks. She will figure it out.

What about other carb - mine love crumpets, crusty bread, mini pancakes, bagels, croissants, sourdough, fruit bread, scones, chollah

Crumpets, oatcakes, croissants, brioche with peanut butter.
Fruit and/or yoghurt.
Also breakfasts don't have to be cereal and toast any healthy (ish) food is fine .

Crumpets, bagels, omelette, scrabbled eggs with beans, flapjacks

Pancakes, you can make a batch at the weekend and keep them in the fridge or freeze them. My DC eat them with peanut butter on.

Thanks everyone, some cool ideas!! Won't do bagels, oatcakes, crackers, brioche, muffins or crumpets (really!!! She is pretty fussy), and she usually has teacakes or fruit bread at lunch (cos she doesn't like sandwiches - any picnic lunch ideas gratefully received alsalso!)o but going to try pancakes .... Fruit and yogurt are her snacks or desserts throughout the day (although lots of fruit is never a bad thing I guess) and not too keen on hot brekkie tbh, I'm pretty disorganised with my time so usually in a rush, plus struggle to keep on top of the washing up as it is without adding a few more pans into the mix!

It's really tough!!

Stop doing snacks altogether - probably why she is fussy as never really hungry.

Banana pancakes - just pureed banana, an egg, a heaped tblsp Sr flour and a splash of milk. You can make dozens at a time the size of the palm of your hand and freeze them like button says, and so long as they are thick enough they can be defrosted/reheated in the toaster.

She doesn't need carbs at breakfast, as long as she has some across the day/ week she will be fine

Neither of mine really eat bread in any form

Breakfast here is either porridge, Greek yogurt with fruit and nuts, or poached eggs with beans/ mushrooms maybe a sausage. Sometimes a combo ie yesterday both dss ate just a poached egg, followed by a bowl of total Greek yogurt, banana and pecans

Lunch and dinner is generally just meat/ fish and vegetables. With rice or potato sometimes but not always. Rarely pasta or bread as not keen.

Personally I would give scrambled egg most mornings if she eats. It's takes 2 mins to cook, and can even be done in a microwave. Add some Greek yogurt and fruit.

Do you have a hand blender? Try whizzing together a banana, some milk and a blob of honey. Call it a milkshake. For extra excitement add a teaspoon of cocoa powder to make it a chocolate milkshake.

A banana by itself.

1 banana
50g flour
50ml milk
1 egg

Mix all up and cook tablespoonfulls in a frying pan to make banana pancakes. Makes about 8.

Scrambled eggs at weekends if it's impossible in the week, bit of cheese and some fruit other days?

How soon after waking is she sitting down to breakfast? I've always struggled to eat first thing, could that be her problem?

Lunches I do a plate with little nibbles on it - carrots, cucumbers, cherry toms, cashews, crackers/breadsticks/leftover pasta, ham or hot dog. I keep it pretty simple and healthy.

Been out all day but Thanks everyone for replies. I must admit it hadn't even occurred to me (embarrassingly!) to not bother with some sort of complex carb so that could be the way forward tbh. It's totally not too early Blue as we've been up about an hr and a half when we did down, and she often asks for breakfast or says she's hungry.... She loves yogurt and fruit, egg, banana... Loads of these suggestions - all stuff she rests I've just been fixating on "typical" breakfast items. Asked her on the way out this morning if she still liked toast and was met with a v.emphatic "No, mummy!" so maybe she's just been saying "Oo yummy, toast!" to be kind?!

Anyway, thanks again!

Much more important to have protein and a bit of veg/fruit

Mine hate toast/wheat. We aim for eggs and tomato juice or hot porridge with berries

My 2 1/2 year old can be really really fussy too. In the end I just got tough - 2 choices - take it or leave it. Seems to be working. He's getting so much better at eating a wider variety of foods.

My ds is 5 he hates toast or cereal he can on the odd occasion be tempted by a hot cross bun but generally we go for yoghurt fruit and glass of milk.