Teenagers won't eat breakfast. What do yours do/eat? Help!

[Monty100]

My two teenagers, dd 16 and ds 13.11 leave home quite early for school (7.15am) and they both refuse to eat at that time of day. They take drinks/crisps/fruit/cereal bars with them, but I don't feel right about this.

What do yours do?

Dd feels sick in the morning, so doesn't eat. I make sure she has enough dinner money to buy a snack at break time if she needs it.

They do have a healthy diet apart from the non-eating of breakfast. They have a home cooked dinner every night apart from Fridays.

I don't even have fizzy drinks in the house either, the drinks they take with them in the morning are cartons of pure apple/orange juice, and they also take fruit and cereal/smoothie bars.

They do buy food in the cafeteria either before school or in their breaks, although food from the cafeteria usually amounts to a bacon muffin.

Although they have quite an early start at school they also finish quite early and they eat all sorts then when they get home. I don't get home until after 6pm and I cook for them then, although sometimes this is home cooked bolognese/lasagne,curry etc that I have previously frozen.

I seriously believe that there are some people who simply cannot handle mornings in any shape or form. My mother- a very light eater- is of this kind; forcing her to have a big meal in the morning (or, when she was younger, any kind of meal) would just make her throw up. She has still gone on to lead a very productive life; she just needs to start the day gently.

Dd went through a phase of throwing up after meals (not voluntarily, bulimia-fashion, but onto her plate, being unable to stop herself), so now I am concentrating on keeping her on an overall healthy diet rather than insisting on when it has to be eaten.

She has chronic pain issues that are always worse in the morning, so I think it's a losing battle here. If I can get her to school at all, that's a bonus.

Ds otoh does not have these issues- so with him I do make sure he eats.

Gosh Cory what does the gp say about dd?