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What do your teens have for breakfast before school?

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JustSpeakSense · 12/10/2016 11:25

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

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

Please tell me what your teens eat?

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Hulababy · 13/10/2016 20:26

14y is also a really good eater on the whole, but just not at breakfast time.
At a weekend it is fine as she will eat later on, but before school she just can't/won't. Even then though it wouldn't be cereals or toast, but she does love a bacon or sausage butty given a chance.

She takes a travel mug of coffee (latte) in the car with her and drinks it on her way. I can sometimes encourage her to have a small cereal fruit bar thing, or maybe a small brioche roll. Tomorrow she will have a small sausage sandwich - they had sausages tonight and I always leave a couple spare as know she (or probably DH) will heat them up and put them between bread for her journey to school.

Sadik · 13/10/2016 20:36

Wildly variable - this morning 1/2 a piece of toast (admittedly my home-made bread and it was somewhat on the stodgy side Blush ).

When she's in a breakfast mood various things that go down well are fried tomatoes on toast / soft boiled egg / blackcurrant & banana yoghurt smoothie / spanish style toasted baguette with mushed tomato, garlic, olive oil & salt. (She also likes scrambled eggs on toast but I can't quite face them at 7.15 and I make breakfast so they're not often on the menu Grin )

JustDanceAddict · 13/10/2016 23:30

Bowl of cereal & drink. TBH I don't want to eat much at 7am either!

user1473872482 · 17/10/2016 19:31

My son 16 has toast with either bacon, ham or cheese. Very rarely will eat cereal for breakfast.

My daughter 12 will have nothing, not even a tea.

AnneOfCleavage · 17/10/2016 20:30

DD 12 will have anything from boiled egg, bacon and beans or pancakes to just cereal, or brioche and yogurt. If I have offered everything I normally offer with no take up then I settle on cut up raw veg and hummous sometimes with cut up fruit too. Always has a glass of juice.

On occasion she has had beans on toast, egg in a basket (fried bread with a hole cut out and an egg dropped in to cook) but tomorrow I may offer French toast as not had that in aaages and she may fancy the novelty. She will have chocolate cereals on a Friday (rarely) when I'm too tired to argue the non health benefits as I would rather she eat than not.

I only eat a yogurt and drink a glass of juice as can't face a big meal at 6.30 / 7am but as a child I had to eat breakfast as my DM wouldn't hear of us not.

LineyReborn · 17/10/2016 20:31

Crap cereal and milk, glass of orange juice.

dalmatianmad · 17/10/2016 20:35

13 year old ds loves his breakfast and has anything from cereal to a bacon sandwich on a school day...

15 year old dd often has nothing, too busy doing her hair and make up, she did ask for a cheese and tomato sandwich at 7am this morning though Confused

Thatwaslulu · 17/10/2016 23:42

16yo son has a coffee before he goes out then grabs a bacon butty from the sandwich bar near school every now and then. He doesn't like eating as soon as he gets up and leaves home at 7am.

DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen · 17/10/2016 23:59

Ds asked if he could have leftover dinner for tomorrow's breakfast as it was so nice- chicken, rice, vegetables and gravyGrin

SuburbanRhonda · 18/10/2016 00:03

DS always has leftovers too - curry and rice, spag bol, chili, pasta and sauce. He hates cereal and anything bland.

selfishcrab · 18/10/2016 00:07

DS has cereal and toast plus a cup of tea (19) always has, he wont even entertain starting a day without breakfast.
DSS nothing (14).
I always stressed how important breakfast was when DS was little and it seems to have stuck!

DooWhop · 18/10/2016 02:24

Mine are 11&14. 11 yo still eating cereal or porridge or toast. 14yo DD usually takes Options hot chic in a heatmug and a cereal bar. Refuses lunch but eats brownie and water then raids cupboards at home Hmm

ifonly4 · 18/10/2016 11:53

I was in my late 20's before I started having breakfast. I just never wanted it in the morning.

DD was having cereal and two slices of toast. However, this has recently changed to cereal and a banana or orange. She says she needs breakfast and couldn't cope without it. I guess we are all different.

marvelousdcomics · 18/10/2016 19:10

DD (14) and ds (13) have eggs on toast, English muffins with pb&banana, porridge, fruit, nuts etc

Lifeisshort123 · 18/10/2016 23:38

DD (14)-2 slices of toast with butter or jam or 2 wheatbix and a banana and milk.
DS 15- a bowl of Cheerios or a chocolate cereal pretty much everyday.
DS 17- coffee and a few biscuits nowadays, used to have 3/4 slices of toast but hasn't for almost a year now.

BadToTheBone · 18/10/2016 23:41

Ds has either a cereal bar or a glass of milk, or indeed both.

Dd will have cereal but only 6 mini weetabixes, lol. If I sneak in a 7th when she's not looking she leaves it

They both have a multi vitamin too

BadToTheBone · 18/10/2016 23:43

Sorry, dd isn't a teenager, she's only 10, but awkwardness for breakfast has been since toddlerhood.

Fozzleyplum · 18/10/2016 23:47

DS1 (15) currently has a couple of crumpets with Nutella, a glass of orange juice and a cup of tea. Also occasionally some yoghurt or a banana. On the 2 days a week he has an 8.15 start at school, he sometimes has a sausage cob at school as they provide breakfast.

DS2 (13) has 2 Weetabix (on which he spreads jam before adding milk!), a yoghurt and a banana plus tea and orange juice.
In the Winter, he has porridge, but he tells me it's not cold enough yet.

They also get a drink and biscuit at school at morning break. DS1 is prone to migraines and I'm sure preventing extreme hunger and thirst helps reduce the frequency of these.

fatmumma · 25/10/2016 19:01

MIL told me I wasn't a "proper mother" as DC didn't have a cooked breakfast every morning as in her day, she made sure her DC did AngryAngry - she also doesn't agree with me working, apparently I should be at home baking cakes and warming DHs slippers ready for when he comes home

DD 14, doesn't usually have breakfast, sometimes eats a Belvita or similar on the way to school

DTS 13, bowl of cereal

Bertucci · 25/10/2016 19:06

14 year old will have weetabix or scrambled eggs on toast or a smoothie.

pasanda · 26/10/2016 08:54

DS (15yr) has scrambled eggs on a muffin, occasionally he will have this with....spinach!!

If she is in the mood, DD (12yr) has baked beans on a muffin but often she doesn't want anything as it's too early.

garlicandsapphire · 27/10/2016 19:19

DD has a bowl of cereal and DS toasted bagel or eggs and bacon.

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