[mum19]

What do you give your children for breakfast? Everyday breakfast and different things you give them occasionally for a change? How old is he/she?

thanks

 

[luv my 2 sweeties]

My kids are 6 and 4. Breakfast is the one meal I will short-order cook to some extent, so they get to choose what they want from a few standard choices. The 6 y.o. can often get her own breakfast now, and sometimes her brother's as well!

Oatmeal or cold cereal with milk are the most common choices. (We are moving away from buying cold cereal, however, so it will soon be only an occassional treat.) I will usually make them an egg if they want one and if I have time, though they only ask for eggs once or twice a week. Lately my dd has been having yogurt as part of her breakfast a couple of times a week. Usually she also has something else to go with it -- oatmeal or whatever. Fruit is always available. They often have a piece of fruit after their cereal or oatmeal is gone. Pancakes I will *not* short order cook!

If I make pancakes, that's what everyone eats. Usually we prefer to have pancakes as a lunch or dinner meal. Occasionally I make bacon as a treat, especially if I need dd to get up a little early for something -- the smell of bacon brings her downstairs in a jiffy!

HTH!

 

[kdmama33]

Oatmeal, buckwheat pancakes, french toast, eggs, ham and eggs, yogurt or cottage cheese with fruit or maple syrup, fruit, avocado, smoothies, rice with peaches or raisins topped with cream and honey, and combinations thereof. Oatmeal and smoothies are the two most frequently served. Eggs are often an evening meal for us, or snacks during the day, so they are not often on the breakfast menu. Yogurt is also more of a snack food here, but does make it to the breakfast table, too. DD and I are the ones that eat avocado for breakfast, mostly because we'd eat an avocado any time of the day or night, if one were available.

My favorite breakfast is a bit ... unusual. My mom used to make it when I was a kid and I've always loved it. It's a piece of toast with cottage cheese and tomato slices on top. Sprinkle with basil and black pepper.

My kids like it, too. Well, okay, 2 out of 3 like it. And DH despises it, but he doesn't like anything that doesn't have an unpronouncable ingredient list.

ETA: My kids are 13, 5, and 2.5 years.

 

[Herausgeber]

kdmama, I LOVE cottage cheese, toast and tomatoes. I never tried putting basil on it, though. That doesn't sound bad to me AT ALL.

 

[alegna]

My dd is two (next week!) she nurses for breakfast.

-Angela

 

[akkimmie]

Ds is 2 and

pancakes, oatmeal, smoothies, cereal and french toast scramble (1 egg, 4TBLS soymilk, vanilla & cinnamon to taste add one cut up piece of bread all scrambled in a skillet) and always fruit

 

[tinuviel_k]

We have oatmeal most mornings. Denali loves it!
A couple times a week we have something special like homemade pancakes, dutchbaby pancakes, waffles, eggs, and stuff like that.

 

[DahliaRW]

It usually just depends on what I feel like, since I give ds (19 months) what I eat almost all the time. Hot cereal, cold cereal, yogurt with berries and granola, whole grain pancakes or waffles, on rare occassion whole grain frozen waffles, scrambled eggs/toast, breakfast burritos (scrambled eggs and cheese in whole wheat tortilla), quiche, cottage cheese and fruit...

I usually just try to make sure we have some sort of fresh or frozen fruit with breakfast. A lot of times that's the only part ds eats!

 

[treemom2]

My children are 5 and almost 2. For breakfast we have: tofu scramble with whatever veggies we have in the house and sometimes I make it with fried new potatoes on the side, scrambled eggs with spinach, Yogurt with granola, cereal with rice milk (usually multigrain cheerios), or peanut butter sandwiches. On the weekends we may have ww pancakes or waffles, or sometimes biscuits and gravy. We are trying to eat less meat, dairy, and processed grains so I am not sure where this is going to take us for breakfast. Oh yeah, DS loves rice for breakfast. So, if we have leftover rice sometimes I will make a veggie fried rice with either tofu scramble or scrambled eggs. DS also loves ochazuki, a Japanese dish where you take leftover rice add a packet of dried seaweeds and ume plums then cover the whole thing with green tea.

 

[homemademomma]

whenever dp gets up with ds, they usually share a bowl of whole grain flakes with raisins & soymilk

not my idea of the healthiest breakfast, but whatever.

im always bemused by this, but people think i am CRAZY because i almost never eat "breakfast food" for breakfast. i seriously dont get what the big deal is!!! my ds calls most meals "breakfast", and my FIL made a seriously snarky comment about how we cant expect ds to know the difference since he eats non breakfast food for breakfast (obviously not his exact words...)

ds pretty much eats whatever i eat. i like ww spaghetti with pesto or sauce, quinoa salad, fruit fruit fruit, veggie sandwiches, veggie burgers, whatever. often its leftovers. i always feel best when i have a big piece of fruit before i eat anything else, so me and ds have a ritual of going out onto the front porch and sharing a mango, big piece of melon or whatever else we have.