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Hi
Ive two daughters aged 1.5 and 3.5 years old.
I’m looking for healthy breakfast option ideas for them please. Considering porridge with berries etc but all ideas would be welcome.
Our little guy has a fruit salad every morning. He loves it. Usually strawberries, blueberries and grapes but also melon and pineapple. Can add yoghurt to it as well if wanted.
A boiled egg with half a soft flour tortilla wrap for the 2.5 year old here. Large egg, boiled for 4 minutes so it isn't too runny or solid (which would be a disaster 😂)
She'll generally eat all the egg and a variable quantity of dipped / shredded up wrap.
Can of Monster and 10 B&H
washed down with a pint of coke 🙂 Should set them up for the day, save the monster until they are ready for school
Pete Doherty matches that breakfast perfectly both look mingin, looks like a young Steptoe
Excellent stuff. 😎
Wonder if robbos or mikes has more sugar in it?
Cold oats, banana slices and mixed fruit. When winter hits next week, heat in microwave, adults allowed to eat same in larger portion.
Loads of ways to have egg; scrambled egg, eggy bread, poached egg, omelette, pancake, pikelet.
Savoury muffins when we can be bothered to make them. Yoghurt and stuff.
Usual things like porridge and weetabix with fruit.
Weetabix FTW. Quick and easy, can easily be dished up in ones depending on appetite, My two-year-old got through five this morning, must be having a growth spurt! Or rice crispies, we have them in a dispenser thing which both kids like, they can help themselves from it as required.
And pancakes or waffles at the weekend.
Weetabix? Hideous tasteless gruel, Brits truly have the most horrendously conservative breakfast tastes....
As above, a nice platter, fresh fruit, cold meats and cheeses, baked fruit and oat muffins, bagel toasted wi poached eggs, even bloody beans on toast is an attractive proposition when compared to breakfast cereals! 🤣
Weetabix +1 loads of fruit & honey
Porridge - we've just stewed a load of plums from the garden for that!
eggs - dippy or omelette in our house.
pancakes and fruit ,Toast and jam.
Camping this weekend, so there's bound to be some Coco pops ,served with glitter and a red bull .
🙂
Cold meats, cheese and fruit?
No!
This is the UK we have pies.
Um, just what ever we are having. Various but just like, you know, what everyone else has i suppose.
Porridge/glitter
Eggs (in various guises)/toast/larger
Beans/toast/coke
Fruit/Yogurt/sweets
Pancakes/stuff on top (fruit/yogurt/bad things)/stuff found on the floor
Toast/redbull
Cereals/dog food
Croissants/insults and put downs
Black Pudding
Smoked fish ,haddock, kippers,mackerel, salmon
Congee with preserved eggs
Get your kids used to flavour before it is too late.
Whatevers in the bin that the rats won't eat
Whatevers in the bin that the rats won’t eat
A traditional Brexfast.
How about the cornerstone of any nutritious breakfast?
my 1 year old was having a bottle pre breakfast at 7, then breakfast at 830 (to match nursery) we dropped the bottle as he started refusing poridge, wont eat weetabix. he gagged then threw up when i tried to feed him muesli over the weekend. he's the same bottle or not.. is teething though..
petit filous never fails. currently having a layered yog/fruit combo that comes in a jar. he like grapes too..
o/h is a teacher, so weekdays from now he'll be back at nursery every day, not sure what the menu is right now (they have a chef that makes everything fresh)
Batfink Jnr (2) has Bircher muesli/overnight oats with raisins - make up a big tub on Sunday night - does the whole week.
on weekends she has a babycino and a croissant 🙂
Just watch out for too much fruit as dentists say it's actually bad for young children's teeth. I think a small portion of fruit or dried fruit is ok with yogurt. Check with you dentist. The same with fruit smoothies, also not too good for children's teeth.
We used to give our nephew just weetabix with milk, then a piece of wholemeal toast with jam or honey. He wouldn't eat the porridge I made. He also sometimes had a few slices of banana with the cereral. But none of that sugar coated rubbish.
Mrs LJ is on Instagram as @feedingminisuperheroes posting healthy meal ideas for nippers that sort of age. She's a Dietitian but approaches it more from the point of view of busy parents.
I have come to the conclusion that any breakfast cereal* is probably the worst of all breakfasts, child or adult.
They are just 100% carbs and don't fill you up. Also try weighing out the "portion" stated on the box, you'll be suprised how little a serving is.
Porridge or natural yoghurt with some fruit in and a bit of granola are my go to breakfasts..... unless bacon and eggs are available.
I'm a dad to a 4 month old and this early on becoming aware of just how much bad food is targeted at kids e.g that Haribo advert and breakfast cereal adverts... and how much marketing plays on mum and dad's fears... e.g. follow on milk, apparently invented as there are rules stating infant formula milk for under 6 months cannot be advertised.
*Edit: served just as the cereal with milk
how much marketing plays on mum and dad’s fears… e.g. follow on milk, apparently invented as there are rules stating infant formula milk for under 6 months cannot be advertised.
Had to laugh at this, assume your wife is breast feeding then, there's waaaaay more guilt / fear mongering from healthcare professionals to push people into breast feeding than there ever could be from even the most evil formula producers.
there’s waaaaay more guilt / fear mongering from healthcare professionals to push people into breast feeding than there ever could be from even the most evil formula producers.
Had to laugh at this, there's recommendations and advice from healthcare professionals but they're happy for parents to choose.
E for B and be your best. Applies to all ages.
my daughter loves an enduro burrito for brekkie. mashed banana, peanut butter and drizzle of honey wrapped in a soft wrap. nom.
PICs or pip and nut for the PB
good ol' "never did me any harm" boxed fortified cereals and full cream milk: cornflakes, weetabix, shreddies, special k, all bran for fibre and cheerios as a treat
porridge if we can be bothered
plus toast with honey, jam and / or peanut butter
they get nice healthy balanced stuff at other times but breakfast is for CARBS only.
both my kids can get very HANGRY. especially after a night of sleeping / fasting, so if you gave them oats poached in elderflower vapours for breakfast they'd chew your face off before you'd offered them their ethically sourced willow spork to eat with.
Our 3 year old is a porridge connoisseur. She eats it pretty much every day but it has to be just right. Good quality oats that taste of something, half milk half water. A few raisins and a splash of milk. A handful of berries if she's feeling fancy, but if I just put the berries on there'll be bother. Correct spoon and bowl.
Other favourites are crepes. I make them with spelt flour they seem to have the right texture. French toast is popular and omelette. The omelette has to be made to French cook school standard or it'll get rejected.
Kids can be right fussy little blighters.
Had to laugh at this, assume your wife is breast feeding then, there’s waaaaay more guilt / fear mongering from healthcare professionals to push people into breast feeding than there ever could be from even the most evil formula producers.
Eh? What a bizzare post. There is actually a real lack of support for breastfeeding mothers. This goes from healthcare to society as a whole.
Formula is a fantastic invention and has certainly helped us. However now being in the thick of it with other parents of young kids, I can see the influence of product marketing subverting the "advice" parents are following to one in favour of consumption of products. The infant formula/follow on milk being one of these and similar can be seen with Calpol. It's alarming when qualified advice from healthcare professionals is held in the same regard as marketing from a company trying to sell you its product.
Eggy bread. Of course!
Had to laugh at this, assume your wife is breast feeding then
I had to laugh at this... who said anything about being married?