DS 2yrs breakfast

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Advice needed please! DS breakfast used to be a slice of toast, a bowl of porridge or malt wheaties and a piece of fruit. Apart from now he's flat out refusing porridge or wheaties and fruit, and is asking for more toast. We buy cheapy brown sliced bread (can't afford anything more fancy, used to make my own in the bread machine but it was hard to slice and no one else ate it so a lot got wasted.) The traffic light for salt on the bread is orange, and as he'll normally have more toast or sandwich at lunch I just don't want my 2 year old to be eating 3-4 slices a day. But I also don't want to send him out for the day on 1 slice of toast. Or am I over-reacting? Any other low salt and sugar cereals to try? This is part of a wider picture of struggling to crow bar in his 5 a day, I always offer him plenty and cook meals from scratch but he's gotten very picky.

Would he eat beans or scrambled egg on the toast? Peanut butter?
I wouldn’t personally worry about salt in the bread but would try to shoehorn some protein in to ‘offset’ it.

Annoyingly he won't eat egg either! He might entertain beans on toast, I could give that a go thanks!

One piece of toast is fine for a two year old

Will he eat Weetabix?

If he’s refusing, he’s not hungry. Try not to worry too much OP

My 3 year old manages fine on one slice of toast and she doesn't even eat the crust! Can you just give him a snack a bit later if he's still hungry?

I would try to mix things up a bit though OP. There’s lots of things you can give for breakfast, sausage and beans, smooth nut butter on toast, avocado on toast, one egg omelette, cinnamon & raisin bagel with butter, ready Brek with chopped banana.

There’s some more suggestions in this guide from the Caroline Walker Trust

Thanks everyone, and thank you for the link I'll have a good read of that. I will try giving him different things, we're on a very tight budget so it's painful trying something new he just wastes, and we can't afford to have a big variety of food, but I will try maybe some peanut butter/ bagels. Also thanks for saying he'll be ok on a slice of toast! Very reassuring

Can you change up lunch a bit?

Yes I think a general shake up is in order to try and get him interested. Going shopping tomorrow- thank you everyone!