What do you give your children for breakfast?

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DS1 (18mths) will usually eat a waffle or some cheese on toast or some yoghurt with a little honey and sliced banana or pancakes if DH is around. I wanted to give him some cereal instead as a change but was shocked to read that almost every cereal i chose online for tomorrow's delivery had glucose-fructose syrup in - chose Tesco's own rice krispies in the end i think.

Also to find that it's also in petit filous. Do you think the amounts are too small to cause much harm? What do you give your children for breakfast? Some new healthy ideas would be great.
Thanks.

weetabix!

At home choice from:

porridge
weetabix
bran flakes
starting right (asda's version of just right)

with or without raisins

Last week in hotel:
cocopops

when I was concerned about my DS2's formula milk intake, or lack thereof, the HV said as long as he is eating Weetabix and drinking water, he'll be fine as Weetabix and other similar cereals contain all the vitamins and minerals found in formula....

dd2 weetabix or porridge
dd1 Yoghurt, Fruit, fruity toast, toast, cornflakes or cheerieos, what ever she'll take on that day.

Cornflakes, shreddies, weetabix, toast, crumpets, scotch pancakes, boiled egg with soldiers. (Not all at once..pop!)

Oats with another cereal - either Kallo puffed rice, quinoa flakes or puffed multigrain cereal

I get cereals from here

then I add ground almonds, dried and fresh fruit, and soya milk

he tends to eat the fruit and leave half the cereal, so then he might have a yogurt, a banana, some toast or some nuts

At weekends he has porridge with banana, vanilla or cinnamon

Special occasions we have croissants or pain au chocolat, plus fruit etc

weetabix, fruit, porridge(uurrghh),various cereals of the day.......toast....

me....croissants a plenty

I think it depends on what you give them for the rest of their meals. Some sugar, in moderation is ok. My children don't normally get anything sweet (other than fruit) for their other meals, so I give them chocolate chip challah toast or sugary cereal for their breakfast. We also don't keep juice in the house and they only get it on special occasions.

Hair of the dog

Wholemeal toast and marmite, rice crispies, Tesco multithings, scrambled egg on toast, bacon sandwiches, etc.

Oh, and porridge and weetabix.

We have a selection of ceral that they choose from

Cereal!

pmsl @ seamonster!

weetabix or porridge with fruit

followed by

toast or bagel (most of which ds feeds to the dog)

Yay - weetabix this morning! (with sugar though). Hadn't thought of grated apple so my try that.

varies, this morning DS1 had wholegrain toast with egg, yoghurt and fruit. Ds2 had croissant, egg, ham, yoghurt and fruit. Breakfast is big in our house!!!

sibble - I'm guessing you're not in the UK if your lot have had that already and you're posting? Or else you've got some very early risers....

porridge pancakes
eggy bread
toast
shredded wheat bitesize
yoghurt
boiled egg with soldiers
scrambled egg
poached egg
hash browns
potato waffles

Wow Nappyaddict, they must be huge!

I try to get mine to eat fruit each morning, with either cereal or toast.

my ds has had breakfast already! he got up at 5 am [sigh]

other things he has are omelettes, bagels, bacon, cheese on toast.

yikes is my ds getting insufficient variety - he has:
toast every day with butter and jam (1 piece)
plus either weetabix, or rice crispies or porridge with mango puree

He isn't complaining but should he have more variety?

By the way - a great easy way to add fruit to yoghurt is to get those Plum Baby Organic pots - they are just purees and ds (now 2) used to have them as a baby but I carried on buying them to add to yoghurt as they are full of superfoods and easy (they aren't jarred in case you aren't familiar with them). I also add them to porridge.

DD1 3.9 yo chooses (or i give her what's avaliable)from:

fruit (always)
porridge
toast with honey
no-sugar muesli with large nuts removed
plain yoghurt
cheese

she chooses between cows' milk or soya and drinks water