What do your young children eat for breakfast?

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I’m in need of some new ideas for breakfasts for my little boys aged 6 and almost 3. I feel we’re in a boring rut at the moment and would like them to have more variety!

They usually have one or more of the following: Weetabix, porridge, banana pancakes (egg, banana, oats), home made muffins (banana/carrot/spinach and cheese), omelette or beans and toast, toast with nut butter. Always followed by some fruit and sometimes Greek yoghurt.

Reading this back it seems quite varied actually! But any other ideas would be very welcome! They don’t eat brilliantly at school/nursery so I am keen to fill them with something really nutritious to keep them going.

DS is 16 now but he's always had 'lunch' type things for breakfast. Things like ham rolls, chicken sandwich etc with an apple or banana.

These seems very varied! Mine also like ReadyBrek which is very similar to porridge, and eggy bread.

Sounds like you do a great breakfast already. Mine just have porridge with some chia seeds chucked in while cooking then get to choose their topping. Either homemade Nutella (dates, hazelnuts, cocoa powder and milk), banana, peanut butter or homemade jam.
In the summer they sometimes have smoothie ice cream which is a frozen fruit blended with Greek yoghurt- it is still too
cold for that though.

My youngest is 8, until about 5 he had porridge pretty much every day, then he had cereal most days until I refused to buy the sweet chocolate cereals any more. Now he usually has a sandwich (dark rye bread with cheese, ham and gherkin usually but sometimes a peanut butter sandwich on normal sliced bread) but will sometimes have porridge.

It is quite a variety already, possible additions could be cheese on toast, other varieties of egg (boiled with soldiers, scrambled, poached, fried), overnight oats or leftovers from last night’s dinner. If they’ll eat them nuts are a good addition too, my DS has always liked walnuts with yogurt or overnight oats. My DD often ate leftovers, she preferred them to most breakfast things, so risotto, frittata, even curry! Weekends I would sometimes do pancakes or a vegetarian English, rarely did bacon or sausage, so eggs, tomatoes, beans, mushrooms, potato hash with onions and tomatoes, potato scones.

DD is grown up now but her favourite breakfasts were, cheese and ham toasties, egg in a tea cup, English muffin breakfast pizzas and sliced banana with peanut butter crumpets.

Thank you all so much for your replies! I will definitely try toasties and some other less typically “breakfasty” things!