What does your 2 year old eat for breakfast?

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Standard breakfast for our DD is toast, porridge, cereal or fruit but I'd like to mix it up!

My DD is younger at 15 months but today she had scrambled egg, toast and strawberries! Sometimes she has weetabix and toast, or pancakes and fruit.

Weatabix, porridge, shreddies, wholemeal toast & peanut butter or occasionally, a cinnamon & raisin bagel .. to be honest, our kids eat what we do. I don’t put any pressure on to eat fancy breakfasts! We aren’t ones for cooking breakfast in a normal week & neither of us has ever been into eating yoghurt/overnight oats etc at breakfast either (I hate oats/porridge etc 😷😂)

We also have cereal, toast, bagels ..! I just try make sure it’s reasonably healthy. Wholemeal & wholegrains, no really sugary cereal etc

Usually weetabix or porridge with fruit puree or honey. Or wholemeal toast with peanut butter/marmite.

Sometimes she'll have blueberry wheats or cheerios or similar but mostly asks for porridge/weetabix.

Toast, dried Cheerios, cornflakes, maybe pancakes or scrambled eggs twice a year, yoghurt,

Really nothing exciting!!

My 18m old DD loves toast (esp with crunchy almond butter), cereals, porridge & fruit but will also eat croissants & banana pancakes which we tend to have at weekends as a treat.

Porridge with banana and blueberries, toast (sometimes), yoghurts, fruit, beans on toast

One thing I’ve done is quick French toast - which my toddler has taken quite nicely to

• one beaten egg with a dash of vanilla & cinnamon
• dip bread in egg, fry in a squirt of coconut oil couple of mins each side
• serve in fingers drizzled with honey and some fruit

It’s a nice way to get some protein in and as it’s sweet they think they’re getting a treat

Toast with honey/peanut butter, cereal, strawberries/banana/blueberries. If DH is doing breakfast they always request a smoothie and on weekends he makes them French Toast.

Mine usually has a yogurt and apple slices, along with 75ml of orange and mango smoothie I put his liquid vitamins in. He’s a pain and doesn’t eat a lot at breakfast. Sometimes he will eat a bit of toast or I can get him to eat some of my cereal.

Midweek they (4 and 2) have cereal (weetabix), fruit toast or crumpet and a portion of fruit.
On a Saturday they have a cooked breakfast of eggs, bacon, sausage, beans, toast, tomato and mushrooms.
Sunday is treat breakfast day so pancakes/ french toast/ croissants with squirty cream and strawberries.

Toast
Rice Pudding
Eggs
Yoghurt and fruit
Sausage sandwich
Cereal
Pastries
Pure rage some mornings

I give mine a main breakfast and a treat to follow up. The main breakfast can be either one of these:

• Scrambled eggs with cheese and a slice of toasted rye bread
• Toasted rye bread with butter, smoked salmon and a soft boiled egg on top
• Sugar-free Russian pancakes with sour cream / cream cheese and smoked salmon or salmon fish roe
• Toasted rye bread with cream cheese and homemade thin chicken patties / very thin sliced chicken breast and cucumber slices or bell pepper slices
• Vegetable and cheese omelette with a slice of toasted rye bread and some thinly sliced chicken / thin chicken patty on the side

The follow-up treat can be either one of these:

• Greek yogurt with honey
• Greek yogurt with fresh berries
• Fresh fruit salad
• Sugar-free milkshake. Usually strawberry or banana

@DelphineMarineaux

I give mine a main breakfast and a treat to follow up. The main breakfast can be either one of these:

• Scrambled eggs with cheese and a slice of toasted rye bread
• Toasted rye bread with butter, smoked salmon and a soft boiled egg on top
• Sugar-free Russian pancakes with sour cream / cream cheese and smoked salmon or salmon fish roe
• Toasted rye bread with cream cheese and homemade thin chicken patties / very thin sliced chicken breast and cucumber slices or bell pepper slices
• Vegetable and cheese omelette with a slice of toasted rye bread and some thinly sliced chicken / thin chicken patty on the side

The follow-up treat can be either one of these:

• Greek yogurt with honey
• Greek yogurt with fresh berries
• Fresh fruit salad
• Sugar-free milkshake. Usually strawberry or banana

Had to smile when I read this. Is this a follow on stealth boast ?

I mean fish roe? Come on !

Three options on rotation:

Overnight oats
Weetabix
Organix porridge

If we're lucky she'll accept some fruit puree, but she's becoming pickier by the week (just turned 2).

What's wrong with fish roe? Very common thing to eat in many parts of the world :/ Not everyone cares to feed their kids carby and processed shit like porridge, toast and weetabix first thing in the morning - or at any other time of the day.

Mine eats porridge followed by a banana every day virtually. He likes it, and eats it.

I wouldn’t call porridge ‘processed crap’ personally, it’s just oats with milk 🤷‍♀️

@Caspianberg

Mine eats porridge followed by a banana every day virtually. He likes it, and eats it.

I wouldn’t call porridge ‘processed crap’ personally, it’s just oats with milk 🤷‍♀️

Have you looked into the process of making oats edible, though? It's definitely processed...

Anyway, every parent can decide for themselves what they think their child should eat. Fish roe is very common in my part of the world, and it's extremely nutritious - so my kids have it. I appreciate it might be an odd thing to feed kids in, say, the UK. But then again, I also don't get packets of crisps as kiddie snacks or in kids' packed lunches, which seems to be considered part of a healthy children's lunch by Brits...

I know how to make oats edible. They are basically steamed, dry heat and flattened. They are not ultra processed.
I’m not in the uk either. Oats are a mainstay diet of many cultures world over and have been for centuries.

Regardless I’m happy giving porridge and banana most days as he actually eats it. If we give something different on occasion like scrambled eggs he eats tiny bit then flings it on the floor…

My 2yo is allergic to dairy, eggs and oats so he tends to get cereal, toast, fruit. Occasionally at weekends he will get a vegan croissant.

Fruit smoothie and a breakfast biscuit. So basically carby processed shit.

Toast with almond butter (regular, maple or hazelnut) or yoghurt and berries. Some mornings he'll demand a banana and scoff the whole thing.

We're in NYC so most weekends he'll get a fresh bagel with smoked salmon and/or cream cheese.

My 2 yr old is obsessed with 'pop pops' (rice krispies) but otherwise the same as most others, porridge or fortified cereals, yogurt, toast, scrambled eggs or omelette, fruit.

Yesterday she ate at 3 bowls of pop pops insisting on 'more pease' and for lunch had sausage scrambled eggs and beans.

Whatever really to keep her full and happy.

@DelphineMarineaux

What's wrong with fish roe? Very common thing to eat in many parts of the world :/ Not everyone cares to feed their kids carby and processed shit like porridge, toast and weetabix first thing in the morning - or at any other time of the day.

Smoked salmon?

Pull the other one

@Anordinarymum

Had to smile when I read this. Is this a follow on stealth boast?

I mean fish roe? Come on !

@DelphineMarineaux

What's wrong with fish roe? Very common thing to eat in many parts of the world :/ Not everyone cares to feed their kids carby and processed shit like porridge, toast and weetabix first thing in the morning - or at any other time of the day.

Pffft not even stealth 😂😂

Lol. We get it, you like Rye Bread. God forbid we should feed our British children wholemeal toast & jam 🤣 must ensure to slice my chicken very finely..

Scotch pancakes and some fruit. Every bloody day.

She then has cereal at nursery on those days as a second breakfast but tends to ask for it as a snack here rather than in the morning. Occasionally toast but she will eat that for lunch so I try to keep it up my sleeve for if she's being silly about lunchtime. She isn't a great eater so we let the breakfast tedium go on because at least she's had something to start her day off well!

She went through a phase of liking Weetabix but then decided she didn't like milk. She will eat those porridge finger things occasionally (lots of 'recipes' out there but it's basically solid porridge) but again more likely for a snack.