Should I try to persuade dd (11) to eat breakfast or just back off?

[dameofdilemma]

Dd (11) has never been picky with food, never routinely skipped meals etc. She's a healthy weight etc.

Since starting secondary this week she's refused breakfast - never happened before, in fact she's always been most hungry first thing in the morning.
She says she just doesn't feel like it. She has a say in what she has for breakfast (within reason, relatively healthy etc).

She says she likes secondary - has friends there she knows from primary and locally. Never had any issues with school generally.

Should I just leave it for now? I've always thought breakfast is the most important meal for school kids....

I have a fussy breakfast eater. Never been into breakfast. Aged 11 now. Wont have cereal, toast! Porridge or fruit. Will now have crumpets with jam, cereal bar or pancakes with lemon and sugar or chocolate. I gave up on nutrition for breakfast just want him to eat something and get the calories in! He's skinny and can't afford to miss a meal. Eats OK for other meals but breakfast has always been a challenge. I don't feel comfortable letting him not eat as doesn't then get chance at school till 11.

I went right off breakfast at around that age, and at 40 still don't eat it. I just don't feel like eating at that time in the morning. As long as she's eating her other meals I'd leave her to it.

She may just feel like the extra 10 minutes in bed is worth it!

I stopped eating breakfast in secondary school, and I’m now 30 and still don’t eat breakfast, unless it’s the weekend and I’m in no rush to leave the house. If I’m getting ready to go out I just don’t feel hungry, the thought of it makes me queasy! Once I’m settled at work around 10-11am that’s when I finally think I could eat comfortably.
I think it started due to anxiety in the mornings before school, don’t have the anxiety anymore, but just became habit now!

I was the same at that age and still don’t really eat in the mornings unless it’s an ‘event’, eg. doing a fry up or going out for brunch and in those cases, it’s usually at about 10am when my body has ‘woken up’ and I’ve started to feel hungry.

I’d let it go as long as she’s eating well for the most part, just remind her there are ‘grab and go’ things if she wants them. Fruit, cereal bars, those individually wrapped croissants/pain au chocolat.

Tbh I rarely had breakfast during high school. I didn’t like to eat until 10ish so I would take a big ‘break’ snack like fruit, and a cereal bar and sometimes a sausage roll as well🤣
I wouldn’t make too much out of it, just monitor her attitude to food and obviously change tactics if she seems to be pulling back in all meals/making choices you know are unusual for her.

I can't eat breakfast early it makes me heave. Give her a snack she can eat later banana maybe

My mother insisted I ate breakfast at this age when I really couldn't face it. I vomited it back every day (not intentionally) I just couldn't keep food down that early in the day.

I naturally want to eat about 10am. I've always been the same. Suddenly I'm ready for food then.

Could you pack a healthy something in her bag for morning break? I'd send a wholemeal half a sandwich with a filling that doesn't need to stay cold, like marmite.

It's the equivalent of a slice of toast but eaten later.