What do you feed your kids for breakfast?

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Please help!!

My kids love breakfast that I order from the Schwan's home delivery. This is really not the healthy way to go. Please share with me your healthy breakfast ideas for your kids. I am trying to turnmy kids' diets into healthy ones, but it has been so easy to just give them the bad stuff that they really like. Sometimes I think I must be the worst mother on the planet for giving them french toast sticks, and breakfast pizzas. I want to get them on a healthy start this year. Please, I need your healthy ideas!!! :)

Thank You !!!
 
Well, french toast sticks and breakfast pizzas really aren't bad IF you make them yourself. I make french toast for my DD, but I use whole grain bread, a non-stick pan to cook it, and she uses only a teeny bit of syrup, or she has fruit and yogurt with it. She also likes egg whites and toast. You could make a breakfast pizza healthy by using a whole wheat pita as the crust, and go easy on the cheese and throw some veggies on it. Scrambled eggs wrapped up in a tortilla with some veggies and salsa is good too.
 
Stick to the basic food pyramid: make sure their breakfast consists of protein and healthy carbs.

Obviously, french toast sticks and sugar coated cereals don't fit into that scheme but the occassional french toast sticks or pancakes along with a protein such as sausage, canadian bacon or breakfast ham helps the quick breads become a healthier choice.

Oatmeal. We all eat it so why not start this healthy habit when your kids are young? Let them put brown sugar on it to sweeten it if necessary.

Smoothies made with yogurt and fruit.

Banana bread with sliced cheddar cheese and a fruit.

Kids aren't generally very hungry early in the morning so they don't eat much anyway so it's so very important that what they do eat is good for them and not just a huge serving of sugar.

EDIT: Forgot to put eggs on the menu. My kids like a fried egg on a slice of toast for breakfast. Or a hard cooked egg is always easy to keep on hand.
 
I just made a big batch of whole wheat waffles to keep in freezer. My girls love b-fast wraps, cheese/eggs/sausage; oatmeal is almost always popular; peanut butter on ww toast; smoothies; one of my daughters really loves shredded wheat cereal and the other morning my littlest asked for and ate Go Lean!! :)

Good Luck!!
Mary
 
Kashi protein waffles most of the time. They also like oatmeal on ocassions....well, my son does. My dd will eat chinese food or whatever. Schwanns? Oh, please don't!!!!!!

Charlotte~~
 
I make toast, homemade pancakes, french toast, oatmeal, scrambled eggs, and if we are in a hurry they have a bowl of pretty healthy cereal along with some fruit (bananas, clementines, oranges, grapes, etc.). On Saturday mornings, we have m&m or chocolate chip pancakes or cinnamon rolls for fun. :) It does take more work, but it is most definitely worth it, especially if you try to make it fun for them. DD loves turning pancakes, DS loves to crack eggs... I just make sure that I include them when I make it so they appreciate the work and learn how to cook and can be proud of themselves at the same time... though I don't know how old your kids are. Mine are 9 and 7 so they love it :D
 
Usually they eat cold cereal (like raisen bran or wheat chex) with milk or oatmeal. On Saturdays we usually make something more special like eggs or waffles or pancakes or french toast.

Maggie
 
My son loves fruit in the morning. He also loves it when I make him an egg sandwich. I just make scrambled eggs and put them on whole wheat toast with a little imitation butter on the toast. And he also really likes to have cinnamon toast, once again on whole wheat toast. I never buy white bread.
For cold cereal he likes frosted mini wheats, and the he also likes to have cheerios with the berries and bananas already in it.

Hope that this helps give you more ideas.

Kathy
 
I make homemade pancakes on the weekend, and my DS will have those with fruit throughout the week. He also loves waffles and eggs, sometimes oatmeal or Farina.
 
How about natural peanut butter on whole wheat toast? My husband (a big kid himself!) recently broke his morning Tastycake habit by switching to this.
 
Most of the time I feed them oatmeal with fruit mixed in or WW pancakes(with cinnamon/nutmeg and pecans) or if we are in a rush yogurt with a piece of fruit(my 3yr old's favorite meal anytime). If you are rushed in the morning it sometimes works to make a big stack of ww pancakes then freeze them and take them out as needed. I have one of those foodsaver machines with the pulse mode for delicate foods so this works well. My kids also like plain old cherrios with skim milk and berries.
 
I probably have one of the pickiest kids on earth, so I am limited in what I give him. Aiden likes cereal a lot. I tend to stick with the whole grain varieties and not too much sugar. He also likes pancakes and waffles with a dab of syrup. Also peaches/pear fruit cups or applesauce or Dannon Light n' Fit yogurt any flavor. That about does it. Way exciting, I know.


Debbie


Peter: Oh my god, Brian, there's a message in my Alphabits. It says, 'Oooooo.'
Brian: Peter, those are Cheerios.
--Family Guy
 
My son isn't that picky but we run up against logistics. I teach at the school he goes to and we have to leave at 7. He also takes medicine in the morning that kills his appetite. I usually let him sleep until 630 and then have to get the food in before the meds kick in and he loses his appetite. (Can't wait too late on the meds or he has trouble in his first class) He is not a big morning eater so this is a small window.

Typically he eats his breakfast in the car so it has to be portable. I feel strongly that breakfast doesn't have to be breakfast food. He will eat chicken nuggets, corn dogs, muffins, yogourt and fish sticks. He also likes the frozen waffles.

I don't think that really hits on the 'healthy' idea, but I slip the fruits and veggies in at lunch and dinner.
 
Thank you all very much for helping me. These are very reasonable breakfast items, that are way better for my 2 kids, than what they have been eating.

Thanks Again!!
 
My kids love muffins w/ scrambled eggs or good ol' cereal. I make all my muffins on the same day, cool them completely and wrap in plastic wrap. I put them in a Ziploc bag and pull them out the night before or put them in the micro for a minute and they love them.
Just another idea!

Nicole

Those who do not find time for exercise will have to find time for illness.
-Earl of Derby-

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My DD is not much of a breakfast eater (or a lunch eater, now that I think about it!!) I typically give her yogurt with juice or milk or whole wheat waffles with sugar free syrup. Good luck!

Debra

Bite off more than you can chew. Then chew it---Ella Williams
 
Oh geez...do you know that I am thrilled that my 12 yo (come Monday) gets up and LOVES to prepare breakfast for himself and his brothers? They may eat Doritos if they like.:p

Actually, it is more like oatmeal, waffles w/honey, toast and all fruit, Cheerios, Shredded Wheat n' Bran (yeah, they actually like that stuff) and always a fruit on the side (apples, bananas, pears, whatever is available). We have a peanut butter allergy in the house, but before that discovery peanut butter toast was a fave.

Since it is almost time for brekkie, I am going to bed now.
 
Well, they all 3 like different things, so one might have a bowl of oatmeal & a banana, another half a cinn. raisin bagel w/ PB, and the other one a bowl of cheerios & an orange. Or they love when I make them egg mcmuffins- light multi-grain Thomas's English muffins w/ an egg & slice of cheese, and they're used to my whole wheat & oat pancakes or pumpkin pancakes or waffles. They eat them w/ some PB (and maybe a little honey or light syrup). I don't buy white bread so they only get whole wheat. They loooove scrambled eggs & they're easy to make w/ a slice of toast for a quick breakfast. I do make them french toast w/ the WW bread & sometimes on weekends they'll get a treat like cinnamon rolls but not often. (my dh makes his mom's homemade caramel/ cinnamon rolls which aren't filled w/ trans fast at least!) I will NOT buy donuts or poptarts, but once in a while they'll get them while at Grandma's or somewhere else. Usually my dh makes muffins on Sunday, they love that!

And you are not a bad mom!! I used to give my kids more junky type stuff til a couple yrs ago when I got a lot healthier & now they just know that Mom doesn't give them junk! LOL Oh, and my 8yo dd will often ask for GoLean Crunch, she loves that cereal! And one more thing, sometimes it helps to let them *make* their own breakfast. I know my 8yo loves to make scrambled eggs (w/ supervision of course!) or spread on their own PB, whatever.

I get some things from Schwan's (love their mediterranean veggies & SF fudge sticks!), but skip a lot of their other unhealthier options!
 
I am a "mean" Mother! I let my kids have cereal on the weekends, but on week-days, I cook. And when I cook it means "brown" everything. I try to make it taste good, though. I have a wheat grinder and fresh-ground wheat is much more delicious and nutritious. We have whole-wheat blueberry pancakes, ww banana waffles, ww crepes topped with their choice of whatever (apples, yogurt, jam, etc), germade cereal, oatmeal & raisins, ww German pancakes, ww french toast, eggs (scrambled, fried, hard/soft cooked), turkey bacon (on occasion), and that's about all we alternate through. I love cracked wheat and millet, but I don't make them have that because I hated cracked wheat cereal when I was young.

Each kid has one thing that they really don't like. My daughter can't do eggs (I don't care for them, either), and my son doesn't like waffles. My other son doesn't like anything, but oh well. When I make the thing they really don't like, they are free to have ww toast or yogurt or something. Otherwise, I make them eat what I make.

As a note, I've had to make some pretty-interesting pancakes to get my kids to eat them when they were little. My hardest request was Obi-Wan fighting Darth Maul. It's a good thing my kids have good imaginations.

Carol F
 
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