What do your teens have for breakfast before school?

[JustSpeakSense]

DS age 15 & DD age 13 barely touch breakfast before school, this morning DD managed half a smoothie

They are good eaters, but neither seem to manage breakfast before school. Too rushed? Too early?

Please tell me what your teens eat?

[SheSparkles]

Ds(14) has a massive bowl of porridge and a 3/4 egg omelette. There isn't a spare ounce on him. Yes I'm jealous 🙄

[leonardthelemming]

Schools start too early these days. When I was at school we had to be there by 0915. Now it's typically an hour earlier. When I was teaching I used to have a cup of coffee before leaving the house and then had breakfast at morning break (1050). I think a lot of pupils did the same. Personally, I think the solution is to move the whole school day back at least an hour, so that teenagers - and teachers - can get more sleep. I doubt whether it will happen though.

[corythatwas]

Dd has never been able to eat early in the morning: we gave up on the idea after she had thrown up over the plate enough times. While she was still at college she used to take extra money for a mid-morning snack.

Ds (16) has cereal and a cup of coffee.

[WetsTheFinger]

I'm impressed by all these teenagers getting up in time for breakfast. Mine are always sprinting out the door last second.

[Balletgirlmum]

Dd has to leave very early.

On days when she has dance in the morning she usually has porridge or beans on toast On non dance days she has a bagel or cereal & milk/yoghurt.

DS usually has cereal & yoghurt or a bagel.

[ErgonomicallyUnsound]

DS has either a brioche and or two pieces of toast. If he doesn't get up in time he gets a bacon roll at school, before he starts or at break.

It's DD, who's not yet a teen, isn't really hungry in the morning. This morning she had a cup of tea and took in a Whitworths shot (fruit and seeds with some ickle bits of chocolate). At the weekends when she gets up later she will go for eggs and or beans.

[saoirse31]

Bowl of muesli

[DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen]

Porridge or eggs sometimes a bacon roll.

[IsItTimeForWine]

My DD aged 14 will have a yoghurt but only because she's prone to migraines if she doesn't eat. My 10 yoDD is a very fussy eater and I've given up with the healthy stuff! She would sooner starve. She usually eats porridge ( not too unhealthy) but only with syrup in or some kind of cereal, but not really the kind I would like her to eat and with no milk

[AcrossthePond55]

DS1 ate cold or hot cereal every school morning of his life. He wouldn't eat anything else. Well, he'd eat cold pizza if there was some leftover. As an adult he now loves 'big breakfasts' with eggs, hash browns, meat, biscuits and gravy, etc.

DS2 usually had toast or waffle, an egg, and some type of meat. As an adult, as a rule he doesnt' eat 'breakfast food', other than steak and eggs occasionally. He'll fix himself 'supper' type things.

Go figure.

[RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie]

Nothing, unless one of us is around to force feed her something, and even then it's usually just a cup of tea and a couple of brioche or Scotch pancakes.

We've pretty much given up trying now. She'll happily eat a bacon or sausage sarnie, or an egg sarnie, once she's been up a couple of hours, but rarely has time for that in the week.

[GreatPointIAgreeWithYouTotally]

Porridge, hard boiled eggs, milk, tea. They won't eat most cereals as they say they're not healthy.

[GreatPointIAgreeWithYouTotally]

We're always starving for breakfast as I haven't eaten for 14 hours- dinner at 6ish, breakfast at 8. Do other non breakfast people eat later? I'd be so moody and horrid if I didn't eat breakfast.

[RebelandaStunner]

Yogurt or apple.
I would faint if that's all I had.

[FrickOnAStick]

DD (14). Usually something toast based. 2 slices. Toast + butter, jam or peanut butter & banana or just peanut butter. Or cereal & milk, usually special k or weetabix (she'd prefer crunchy nut cornflakes but I don't buy them).

[imjessie]

Breakfast bars .. specifically elevenses which is all she will eat in the morning .

[GetAHaircutCarl]

Cereal or toast or yogurt usually.

DD often has a bit of fruit too, but DS doesn't.

[booellesmum]

Generally nothing.
I was the same at that age - just couldn't eat that early.
I don't worry as they both eat healthily otherwise and are doing really well at school.

[notagiraffe]

DS1 has juice and either cereal or beans on toast or cheese on toast or a bagel and coffee. DS2 has juice and a cheese and ham bagel most days. If they don't have time I give them money to buy a croissant and also give them a piece of fruit to take in.

[WankersHacksandThieves]

My two start at 9am. They get a lift at 8.30. I shout them up around 7.15 and they come down, eat and then go up for a shower and get dressed. They then sort their hair and do their teeth pack their bag and go. I've never had to call more than twice but one shout is the norm. Seems I'm lucky.... :)

[unlucky83]

DD1(15) hasn't had breakfast for years...she doesn't get up in time and also doesn't want to eat anything. I did go through a stage of giving her a breakfast bar to take with her but she didn't eat it till she got home - I also tried fruit but that would come back battered and bruised...I gave up.
She's been on medication for ADHD for the last 18months - she takes it as she heads out the door in the morning (her choice) and it is an appetite suppressant so then she often doesn't feel like eating anything much until 8.30pm ...
She is maintaining her weight (thankfully) so that isn't a concern but she says the meds make her feel sick and also she isn't eating for 20hrs out of 24 (in the week - she doesn't take meds at weekend and doesn't stop eating!)
If you want to know how to feel like a really bad mother - imagine explaining teen breakfast refusal to a dr -and then tell them what solution you have come up with ...after much negotiation she agreed to have a bourbon biscuit for breakfast -I give her 2 but she often leaves one and she will also now have the odd custard cream
Although she has just changed to a 'teen' clinic rather than 'child' and they do seem to be less shocked about breakfast refusal (and being up later than 10pm...) -so it must be pretty 'normal'.

[weegiemum]

Dd1 (16) maybe areal bar and a yogurt drink. She always has time to make a coffee in the tassimo though!
Ds (14) sha a bowl of cereal every morning.
Dd2 (12) is good eat in queue for coffee! She usually has a fruit/cereal/yogurt but breakfast as well.

[Owllady]

I'd put in a little Tupperware box with some biscuits, a brioche or croissant in and a piece of fruit if they are having to leave very early but I'm a big softy and mine are picked up just after half seven!
The eldest (17) manages cereal but the 15 year old is like a sloth and its a surprise if he ever manages anything so I buy those brioche etc from lidl so he can grab something iykwim
As I said, I'm soft!

[corythatwas]

GreatPoint, some people wake up hungry and really need to eat. My dad is like this. Other people feel a little queasy in the morning and can't eat.

My mum is like this. She can now, in her 80s, manage a small piece of Ryvita without butter; when she was younger she couldn't even eat that. It's because she is very much an evening person, and the normal getting-up time in working society was just wrong for her; it made her feel ill.

My dad otoh has always struggled to stay awake during normal adult socialising hours, as he is not an evening person. He doesn't feel hungry at 11 o'clock at night either, because his body is winding down. (My mother otoh will be full of beans at 11 p.m.- and have an appetite). But morning is his time, that is when he feels hungry and energetic and his body is working just right.

I'm lucky enough to be in between: I can stay awake and carry on a conversation at almost any time.

[Bobochic]

Cereal and milk (especially if it's raw farm milk from the market)
Fresh baguette, butter and jam
Brioche
Fresh orange juice

IME the more tempting the breakfast, the more likely it is to be eaten!