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Kids and breakfast - 10/11/2008 6:51:11 PM
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csl7037
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Not eating breakfast is just not an option, not going to happen. I'm a huge breakfast eater. I've never understood people who aren't hungry in the morning, it's like the first thing I have to do in the morning. So I don't understand but at the same time I know it's not good to skip breakfast, especially for growing kids on their way to school.
My ds has started recently saying he's just not hungry. This is something of a last straw for me. As it is, they eat junk cereal - Capt. Crunch, Froot Loops, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, etc. which is bad enough - that's what dh eats and has always eaten in the morning. This is unacceptable, IMO.
I need to find something these sugar-addicts will eat in the morning. Something healthy that will get them through the morning at school; actually they don't eat great at lunch either which makes it even more important.
Sometimes I can get them to eat pancakes. Ds will eat Eggo waffles when I buy them. Sad that these are considered "healthy" for them. They get tired of that after a while and go back to the sugarry cereal. I've tried shakes/smoothies with no luck.
My breakfast every morning is pancakes made with egg whites, cottage cheese, and oats. I've never even been able to get them (dh included) to eat those...drowned in syrup, they wont eat it. Help!
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RE: Kids and breakfast - 10/11/2008 7:10:50 PM
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manda59
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Well, maybe we're simpler here in the UK, but my two have always had either cereal or toast and a piece of fruit for breakfast. If the toast or cereal isn't wanted, then they just have a banana and a glass of orange juice. My two are 19 and 15, and that's all they've had for breakfast all their lives except when we've stayed at a hotel.
To me, fruit is the easiest, most palatable and most easily digested breakfast for a child to eat - cutting it into pieces makes it even easier. Some chunks of banana, slices of apple and some grapes - an excellent way to start the day.
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RE: Kids and breakfast - 10/11/2008 7:19:41 PM
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We always have breakfast, and it's not often that the kids complain. They don't care for eggs, especially if we've put onions or peppers in them, but we don't cater to pickiness in our house so if it's eggs we're having, they eat eggs. They can pick the onions and peppers out if they want, but I don't want to hear a lot of complaining.
We have a lot of variety in our breakfasts, and they are almost always homemade. We are homeschoolers, though, so we have more time to make breakfast in the morning.
Here's what we have on our 2-week menu for breakfast: Fried potatoes, cereal (3 times) pancakes and sausage, strawberry shortcake, blackberry cobbler, eggs and toast, biscuits and gravy, fruit shakes and pop tarts, coffeecake, peach cobbler, cinnamon rolls, and french breakfast muffins.
We also have things like pumpkin bread, breakfast casseroles, cinnamon toast, bagels, banana bread, etc. We
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RE: Kids and breakfast - 10/11/2008 7:32:13 PM
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manda59
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Here's what we have on our 2-week menu for breakfast: Fried potatoes, cereal (3 times) pancakes and sausage, strawberry shortcake, blackberry cobbler, eggs and toast, biscuits and gravy, fruit shakes and pop tarts, coffeecake, peach cobbler, cinnamon rolls, and french breakfast muffins.
We also have things like pumpkin bread, breakfast casseroles, cinnamon toast, bagels, banana bread, etc.
Oh my life.
Definitely something cultural. That sounds like a lunch- or teatime menu to me, not breakfast!
No way could I imagine even looking at any those things at 7 or 8 in the morning, probably not till at least midday.
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RE: Kids and breakfast - 10/11/2008 7:49:41 PM
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I have never been a breakfast eater. Sometimes not a lunch eater either. Many times, I eat just a meal a day with a few snacks.
Eating breakfast in particular actually gives me a stomachache throughout the rest of the morning, so I typically just don't do it. At most, I'll grab a granola bar on my way to class.
It's probably not the healthiest. I think it's good that you want your kids to eat. I don't know how old they are, but at some age, I think it's okay to let them be "not hungry" and decide on their own about breakfast.
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RE: Kids and breakfast - 10/11/2008 8:01:08 PM
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I've never been much of a breakfast eater. My parents used to force me to eat it, and I would feel sick. Didn't matter what it was, my body just did not want food first thing in the morning. Thank goodness my parents got over the breakfast-is-necessary thing and I started feeling much better in the mornings when I was allowed to eat when my body told me it was hungry instead. I'm now 28 and my body hasn't changed in that regard.
Sometimes breakfast isn't what's best. It depends on each person's body. The only thing I can handle in the morning is a little bit of beverage and maybe a small granola bar, but really, I do better not eating until around lunch time or late morning at best. My husband does better with a large protein-filled breakfast. Each person is different. I'm not a parent, but I urge you to listen to your children... maybe their bodies really don't need or want breakfast right now.
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RE: Kids and breakfast - 10/11/2008 8:16:04 PM
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I'm not a real big breakfast person either. I don't eat till I've been up for a couple hours and then it's something like a toaster strudel or something. My kids all vary.
DD2 gets up at 6:30 and comes to work with me and eats 2 bagels dry on the way and then maybe something else when we get home.
DD1 will maybe eat a bowl of cereal or a bagel or something similar
DS will eat a bagel or cereal or maybe nothing at all.
I don't usually cook a group meal: it tends to be Fend For Yourself. I'm just not that coherent in the AM
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RE: Kids and breakfast - 10/11/2008 11:41:19 PM
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Many mornings when a big breakfast sounds like just too much, a granola bar is just enough to get me through until my stomach wakes up for real. Would your kids be willing to take one to school and eat it on the bus, or even during a break between classes?
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RE: Kids and breakfast - 10/12/2008 1:24:50 AM
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Would your kids be willing to take one to school and eat it on the bus, or even during a break between classes?
I totally agree with this....something like a granola or cereal bar, fruit, muffins, stuff like that that they could take with them. I was sorta the same in high school, so I would just wait until morning break to eat.
I've never read the nutrition lable on Carnation Instant Breakfast, but you just mix it with milk, and I think it tastes like chocolate milk. You think your kids would be willing to drink one before school? I'd check the lable first though and make sure it's worth it.
Do the kids like Frosted Mini Wheats? They are disguised as a sugary cereal, but the sugar content isn't too bad. It's one of those cold cereals that actually keeps you full until lunchtime.
Just take a walk down the cereal aisle at your store...there's all kinds of stuff out there these days like Quaker Breakfast Cookies, Muffin Bars, oatmeal squares and a bunch of stuff like that.
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RE: Kids and breakfast - 10/12/2008 2:05:42 AM
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my kids are really lucky that they can get breakfast at school. once in a while my son thinks he needs something b4 school. but on the w/e they like to eat cold cereals of what i have on hand, toast, eggs, or sometimes sausage. my oldest isn't a big bkfst eater until she has a little time to wake up so sometimes she will skip bkfst. but i'm like you csl7037 i just can't get started until i've eaten something or i'll start to feel kind of blah.
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RE: Kids and breakfast - 10/12/2008 2:05:56 AM
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csl7037,
There are compromise cereals out there which are the basic reasonably healthy cereal with a sugary coating. My list:
Sugar Smacks
Frosted Mini Wheats
Honey Nut Cheerios.
Apple Cinnamon Cheerios
Low Fat Granola
There are others, but it's late. That's all I can think of.
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RE: Kids and breakfast - 10/12/2008 8:02:02 AM
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csl7037
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We've tried the Carnation Instant. They say they're not hungry but if you put Captain Crunch in front of them it disappears.
I think the not hungry in the morning thing is conditioning or a problem with the overall diet. It really is so much better for our bodies to eat well to start the day and then eat small snack-meals often. They're only 7 and 9 - old enough that I regret not reigning this in earlier (and blame my MIL for dh getting to 36 eating like this) but young enough that I still think it's my job to teach them better.
Today I mixed my pancake recipe with the regular pancake recipe half and half. Nobody complained. So it looked something like: 3 egg whites, 6 T oats, 3 T cottage cheese, cinnamon and vanilla, 1/2 c yogurt, 1/2 c flour, 2 t sugar, 1 t baking powder, 1/8 t salt, 1/2 egg (2T egg beaters), and 1 T oil. So I feel OK with that. Next I'll sneak in whole wheat flour! ;-)
I put this in the category with not having a TV in their bedrooms to fall asleep with at night. There are a couple things they are going to grow up with as foundational...
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5738848
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/117205.php
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/food-and-nutrition/AN01119
This is interesting...there is at least as much sugar in a serving of Kellogg's Honey Smacks and 10 other rated cereals as there is in a glazed doughnut from Dunkin' Donuts, which contains 12 grams.
And the possible links to ADHD with sugarry breakfast cereals and other junk food is very interesting to me. Dd has never been (will never be) diagnosed with ADD but she's, by all accounts, unfocused and in her own world. It's a personality thing and it's the way God made her but I can't let her continue on a diet that will only exacerbate her difficulties in focusing when she needs to in school. I've got to be responsible with these little people God has entrusted to me. And I've got to reign this one in before they get any older.
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RE: Kids and breakfast - 10/12/2008 8:08:37 AM
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My son is only 1.5 so I don't have much experience in this area. But, right now his breakfast are either a waffle, pancakes, french toast sticks, or muffin w/ fruit on the side. We just had company visiting who have 3 children under the age of 4 and she was amazed that Hunter had never had cereal. I don't mind if he eats the "healthy" stuff, but I do not want to get into the habit of him eating the sugary cereal so I don't buy it. As he gets older I am sure breakfast will change for us, but right now we do mainly hot breakfasts not cold.
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RE: Kids and breakfast - 10/12/2008 8:14:32 AM
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Here's what we have on our 2-week menu for breakfast: Fried potatoes, cereal (3 times) pancakes and sausage, strawberry shortcake, blackberry cobbler, eggs and toast, biscuits and gravy, fruit shakes and pop tarts, coffeecake, peach cobbler, cinnamon rolls, and french breakfast muffins.
We also have things like pumpkin bread, breakfast casseroles, cinnamon toast, bagels, banana bread, etc.
Oh my life.
Definitely something cultural. That sounds like a lunch- or teatime menu to me, not breakfast!
No way could I imagine even looking at any those things at 7 or 8 in the morning, probably not till at least midday.
Well, we don't have tea here.  Just three meals a day--breakfast, lunch, and dinner (or supper). Sometimes, like on a holiday with a big afternoon dinner, it's better to have just a mid-morning brunch instead of breakfast and lunch, though.
I always cook my breakfasts with whole wheat flour. My husband usually gets them started or often cooks the whole thing, depending on how early he's up. He is usually hungry by 6:00am and prefers to have meat or some kind of protein at every breakfast. I'm not hungry until eight-ish, myself, which is why he often starts breakfast earlier. If the menu meal is a starch, he'll fix himself an egg to go with it.
If we have leftovers from breakfast, such as a few muffins or leftover pancakes, I'll put them on a plate on the counter and the kids will snack on them throughout the morning. They're always gone by lunchtime.
We don't have any weight problems in our house, either.
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RE: Kids and breakfast - 10/12/2008 8:39:52 AM
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I think the not hungry in the morning thing is conditioning or a problem with the overall diet. It really is so much better for our bodies to eat well to start the day and then eat small snack-meals often.
Personally I think it depends on the metabolism. If I force myself to eat a big breakfast (and I mean force), I find myself hungrier through the day than if I just have a small breakfast.
My body definitely functions better on a smaller breakfast. And bananas and apples have a low glycaemic index so they are good for the system.
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RE: Kids and breakfast - 10/12/2008 8:42:37 AM
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Consecrated2God
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Isn't tea in the afternoon?
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RE: Kids and breakfast - 10/12/2008 8:44:48 AM
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Originally yes - when "high tea" was a popular tradition. But that doesn't happen ao often nowadays, and we tend to just use tea and dinner interchangeably. My daughter will be asking "What's for tea?" from anything from 5pm till 7pm! (or even later if I am having a very disorganised day!)
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RE: Kids and breakfast - 10/12/2008 8:50:11 AM
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Consecrated2God
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So you guys eat coffeecake and stuff for...dinner? Wow, that's different!
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RE: Kids and breakfast - 10/12/2008 8:53:54 AM
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For dessert, sure!
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RE: Kids and breakfast - 10/12/2008 9:01:07 AM
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Well, I guess for dessert it might make more sense. I could see that.
We had eggs and toast today for breakfast, and no one even complained about the eggs! When I do eggs and toast I usually just fix the eggs, and then let everyone make their own toast. They do enjoy it when they get to do it themselves.
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RE: Kids and breakfast - 10/12/2008 9:54:18 AM
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Personally, I think it is usually a bad idea to make a big deal out of how other people (even family members) choose to eat. As has been noted here, different people have different needs when it comes to eating in the morning.
I usually grab a banana, but sometimes I don't want to eat it before I leave for work (I leave very early and have a long commute) and don't eat it until I get to work (or on the way).
I DO agree, however, that it is important to limit junk food and offer healthy options.
In my house, junk cereals are a rare treat, typically eaten as a snack or dessert. We all get up at different times and everyone has always fended for themselves for breakfast. We always have a variety of healthy cereals they can choose from, as well as things like toast, bagels, english muffins, and fruit- fresh, frozen, and canned (w/o sugar). Sometimes my kids will make things like a tortilla with cheese or a sandwich. It needn't be traditional breakfast food. In fact, yesterday, I had curried chicken for breakfast!
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RE: Kids and breakfast - 10/12/2008 10:58:23 AM
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csl7037
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My son is only 1.5 so I don't have much experience in this area. But, right now his breakfast are either a waffle, pancakes, french toast sticks, or muffin w/ fruit on the side. We just had company visiting who have 3 children under the age of 4 and she was amazed that Hunter had never had cereal. I don't mind if he eats the "healthy" stuff, but I do not want to get into the habit of him eating the sugary cereal so I don't buy it. As he gets older I am sure breakfast will change for us, but right now we do mainly hot breakfasts not cold.
No, stick to your guns. It doesn't have to change as he gets older. Breakfast is too important to get sucked into the bright boxes with toys in them. Let your kid grow up thinking that's an extension of the cookie aisle. Don't let bad habits undo your good foundation and find yourself where I am when he's 9.
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) My current preferred breakfast is a SlimFast bar and a cup of black coffee, so I second the granola bar idea.