Breakfast ideas please, what do you have?

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Ds is possibly on the autism spectrum and has some issues with texture/mushy stuff ie he will eat strawberries as long as they're whole as cut up he doesn't like the wetness of it. He also has a hair trigger for vomiting so I won't do the he'll eat it if he is hungry or make him or anything like that as it either ends in full refusal to contemplate it ever again or him vomiting it all back up. Bananas are now a no go as he had an over ripe one and will even flee the room when his sister is eating them.

So I'm having a problem with what to give him for breakfast, he used to eat organix baby muesli until about 6 months ago now eats toast with peanut butter/jam/honey but he starting to be difficult with this too. So I want to come up with other idea so we can rotate a bit.

He can't have milk/milk products but likes oat milk. Won't even try any cereal (I even tried cornflake cakes and he wouldn't even try them)

So if you've read all that thank you and could you suggest any breakfast ideas. Just looking for any/all ideas as I could adapt ideas for his dairy allergy. What do you/your children eat for breakfast?

Coconut yoghurt

You could try porridge with non dairy milk but I’m guessing the texture will be a no

Bagel

Apple

Eggs (boiled scrambled fried etc) again though he may not like the texture

I know you said no cereal but wonder if he would eat it completely dry? Dry cheerios for example

Bagels
Pancakes
Toasted tea cake
Beans on toast
Home made breakfast bars

I eat
Marmite rice cakes with some form of topping
Omelettes
Coconut yoghurt and fruit and muesli

Anything he likes that isn't traditionally breakfast? Sometimes I have fish finger wraps!

My DS2 (autistic with vomiting hair trigger so I know exactly how hard that is) decided that he liked lightly toasted bagels with thinly sliced cheese inside for breakfast. He would also eat cream cheese bagel. He'd try white ones or brown ones and eventually granary ones too. The bagel thins are quite good if he doesn't like the stodgy stickiness.

How about: a bagel or bagel thin with cheese or ham or chicken - whatever he likes - and sliced/peeled apple or pear on the side?

Don't worry about food being normal for time of day. DS would have tinned spaghetti with grated cheese for breakfast sometimes. It was warm on a cold day with protein from the cheese and slow (ish) release carbs from the pasta.

Has he tried dry cereal? DS would eat tiny pots of dry cheerios for years before he agreed to add milk to them. You could give him a small pot of those and a glass of oat milk or oat milk cocoa.

Thank for the ideas.

Think I could try porridge as it's worth a shot and I already have oats anyway. Overnight oats, do I just shove some oats and milk in together and leave?

He loves fish fingers so could try that. Also likes wrap sandwiches (hummus and peppers and cucumber)

Haven't tried dry cereal for a while so could try again but last time it was a complete no no. Might try it for a snack as often more resistant to things for breakfast than later in the day.

Absolutely nothing wrong with a veg wrap for breakfast

I’ve never tried making overnight oats (too mushy looking) we just do traditional stirred porridge in a pan. But plenty of recipes online

My DS has ASD and he has a bowl of warm beans and a slice of bread for breakfast.

If he's still hungry I'll make a little fruit salad too.

Yeah I think sometimes people are "you can't eat that for breakfast?!"
And I'm "well that's what I want"
I've been known to have beef stew and veg or soup and bread

Does he like egg?
My youngest doesn't like scrambled or a normal omelette but will eat a denser Spanish omelette with potato in or a 'muffin' made with bacon, sausage, cheese and egg crucially not beaten) made in the oven). Both are good hot or cold. I also make a pie (pastry top and bottom) with the breakfast meats and pieces of cooked hash brown, with unbeaten eggs, which can be cut into squares when cold for breakfast or a hearty snack.
If he doesn't mind a runny egg then dippy egg and soldiers is a meal and an activity in one.
Bacon or sausage sandwich.
Kedgeree ( dry like a pilau but with some sauce or dressing if he wants it).

My youngest DS has always been fussy. For breakfast he likes:

Cheese on toast
Fried egg on toast
Fat American pancakes
Bagels with just butter on
Cinnamon cereals (like curiously cinnamon, or that cinnamon churros cereal)
Bacon rolls
Tagliatelle carbonara (it was his birthday 😆)
Sausages

I have poached eggs on toast, or porridge with berries or grated apple cooked in, or just coffee and Rich Tea biscuits with a yogurt. 👌🏻

DH loves French toast with marmite on (it's lush).

DS1 sleeps through.

I think you make overnight oats by mixing oats with yogurt, and fruit, then leaving overnight in the fridge.

Beans with not on toast would work

@ODFOgrinch how long in the oven for the muffins? And do you cook the bacon and sausage before?

Crumpets, bagels or scotch pancakes as a bread alternative? You can find good recipes for breakfast muffins online- might be worth a try if your up to some baking? Tinned beans and sausages, maybe with toast on the side? Dry toast and then cheese or something else on the side? Would he drink a milkshake- If so maybe a smoothie?
I also wouldn't get hung up on tight food at right time of day. That's a social norm which is unlikely your DS will get if he has ASC.

Cold hard boiled eggs?

Cook the bacon and sausage, chop both into bite size pieces. Put into a muffin case and crack in an egg. Pinch of pepper (you won't need salt) and a sprinkle of cheese if liked. Bake until the egg is solidified.
Like the pie I listed you can add pieces of cooked hash brown or tinned potato if liked.
It's the density that my DD likes (which is hard to define but I suspect you'll understand the nuance ) .

Make thick rice pudding with coconut or oat milk. It doesn't need any sugar (but you could add fruit - something like blueberries wouldn't be mushy).

I do this in batches for DD and freeze it, where it thickens further to dough consistency.

I thin it with milk and give it to her for pudding, but there's no reason it couldn't be a dryer breakfast food.

"Continental" breakfast type stuff? Slices of non dairy cheese, sliced meat, served with bread/toast/wraps. Could serve with carrot sticks, hummus etc. if he gets bored.
Flapjacks?

Waffles with Nutella or jam on?
Baked bananas with chocolate chips and honey drizzled on with coconut yoghurt
Mark’s and Spencer’s do nice fruit not cross buns as well as marmite ones both of which are lovely especially the latter eight cream cheese or peanut butter on
Cinnamon buns
Those little cakes with sultanas in fingerless I think they are called
Churros

What about a batch of oaty muffins?
You can add oat milk and cocoa powder to them. Maybe some puréed carrots or mashed banana?

I have one like this and basically it seems to have boiled down to him liking meat for breakfast. Lightly toasted bread sandwich with a filling of ham, bacon, fried eggs or smoked salmon! No butter, just olive oil and some ketchup. Also partial to sausage sandwich and the occasional hash brown .

Would he eat banana pancakes? If you mush the banana into the mixture, it's not so noticeable. Or blueberry pancakes?

We batch make sweet potato waffles sometimes and then eat them for breakfast for the next few days.

You guys are brilliant. I’ve got a list of things to try out. Many thanks.

More ideas always welcome

For my son I used oats to make fruity flapjacks! Or fruit toast, cereal, yoghurt, water melon, blueberries & the occasional pop tart or things like peanut butter or jam on toast. Again occasional treats like Nutella on toast etc

How old is he OP? Is he able to have a conversation with you about his favourite foods? Could you potentially try to scrap any notion of it must be typical breakfast food and just go for food that is good for him, that he likes? My friends little one has a cheese sandwich for breakfast every day, someone else I know has leftovers from the dinner the night before.

He is just 5 and young for it. He was a very late talker and still tends to go into gobble and mumble when trying to explain anything. I took him shopping recently and was completely resistant to picking any cereal to try not even the crappy cereal that has way too much sugar in it.

He had beans and fried egg (but mixed up first) with toast and a sprinkle of cheese today. Which did get eaten so brilliant! I think tomorrow I’m going to give him the option of 2 things like they do on school dinners and see if him picking what he want helps as well.