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.

I had toast butter and jam and lots of cr*ppy cereals like rice crispies and weetabix with sugar and it didn't do me any harm (well I'm not obese and never was)

I DO limit sugary foods and don't give ds (2) complete junk (e.g. he gets those organix biscuits sweetened with fruit juice but occasionally gets 'normal' biscuits) but what's the deal with all the super healthy breakfasts here?

I let him have a bit of ketchup now and then - am I a bad mother? Yikes....

cereal
porridge
eggs and toast
occasionally bacon, eggs and toast
(all options followed by fruit)

Mine have eggy bread, or toast or oaties with honey or choc spread. Plus fruit and juice and water. One likes boiled eggs, the other doesn't. Neither will eat scrambled egg for some reason. They don't like milk so cereal is out, sigh, that would be the easiest. I do pancakes at the weekend if I'm not working. Treat breakfast is croissants with choc spread, birthday/christmas is kedgeree and mango and pineapple with Bucks Fizz for me and DH. Kamikayzed - have you tried microwave porridge? You can do the normal kind or buy sachets - I was addicted when pregnant.

Mine have Ready Break with peanut butter and jam mixed in, or sometimes Weetabix.

porridge
corn flakes
cheerios
raisin wheats

porridge
weetabix
egg & toast

Organic porridge with diff fruit - bananna, rasberries, raisens, apple and cinamon.
Organic Weetabix with bananna
Crosiant and jam (treat sometimes at weekend)
Scrambled egg and toast
Just starting on rice krispies and cornflakes occasionly but bit messy with the milk and all (dd 20 months)

porridge
muesli (buy base and add nuts, seeds and raisons and whatever is in cupboard)
eggs (boiled, scrambled, omelette)
baked beans
wholemal bread (we have breadmaker and they love warm bread with butter and honey or marmite)
weetabix
cornflakes
shredded wheat
loads of fruit
fruit juice

Weekend or when we have some extra time
pancakes and french toast

dd1 (5yrs)
Can vary between the following: Cheerios, Corn Flakes, Rice Crispies, Wheetabix
Toast and marmite, Fruit

dd2 (15 months)
Some sort of fruit puree
Yougart
Toast and marmite
Fruit
although some part of this usually ends up on the floor!!!

Me: coffee!!!

ds (2.8)
Either toast (with choice of butter or marmite) or oatibix (though usually goes for toast). Then if still hungry piece of fruit (usually apple or banana).

On weekends he often has rice cakes and then yoghurt (cos I am lazy).

At that age he had porridge (with blackstrap molasses and raisins) or cereal with yoghurt and raisins and some fruit.

These days his favourites are porridge or museli and yoghurt, or pancakes on a Sunday, or if he's around grandparents it's whatever they are having!

DS has chocolate brioche, bowl of strawberries/raspberries, toast and marmite and a mug of hot chocolate.

DD has hardley anything, cup of juice, sometimes a yoghurt or a bite of a cheese sandwich or whatever she asks for really that isn't complete crap!

during the week my ds1 will have shreddies or cheerios and a helping of fruit after...usually grapes, plum or an apple (he sometimes insists on a carrot or tomatoes.... On a saturday he will choose if we have pancakes or muffins and we make them together...daddy has a snuggly lie in with baby

Usually we give them a cooked breakfast followed by fruit and milk to drink,

Favourite breakfasts are

Pancakes (either with cheese or with honey)
Eggs on toast
Sausages and mushrooms
Bacon with tomato
Porridge with honey

We do all organic and wholemeal

Every morning they have weetabix and wholemeal toast with a drink of milk.

That rarely changes except now and then they will have a banana sliced up or some eggy bread or something but it's usually the same. I daren't change it, DD1 would have a fit if I did!

Wow Quattrocento - Can we come to your place for breakfast!

We have cereal (weetabix, cheerios, rice krispies, speicial K) and toast or muffins every day.

at anyone having time to cook breakfast.
ds hs weetabix without fail.
dds vary usual cereals, cornflakes being a big favroutie.
i read that the average amout of cereals in a household is 8, that is true here and am really trying to limit that.. cant resist the BOGOFs.. but somehow we still have 8 packets

Sometimes we have boiled eggs!

DD very strange when it comes to breakfast, usually asks for chorizo sandwich or sometimes kelloggs multigrain without milk, sometimes dry bread or dry toast and very very occasionally weetabix (with milk)

Yes, sorry reece. Sounded smug really. I am useless at breakfast. Totally useless. If it were up to me, the children would be eating their breakfasts in the car on the way to school. In fact, whenever it is up to me (thankfully not very often) they frequently end up doing just that. It can get messy.

The secret of organising a good breakfast is to marry someone who is a BELIEVER in breakfasts.

Varied menu:
Weekdays:
Hot smoked salmon with scrambled egg is a top favourite
Cereal eg Oat Crisps
Toast and marmite
Weekends: bacon and eggs with tomatoes and mushrooms
Summer: lots of fresh fruit salad followed by fresh rolls and cheese or ham

Ready Brek with a bit of honey drizzled on it, toast and marmite, either milk, hot chocolate or apple/mango juice and some chopped fruit/s.

Wheetabix or Cream of Wheat (when we have some over from the US).

toast, if she shows willingness to vary. will also eat a bagel if i'm having one.

porridge
wheetabix
toast and jam
occasionally we have brunch with bacon poached eggs or eggs with hats on
pan au choc for Mummy for a treat
Springadoras sounds nice!