What in general is your go-to breakfast for your kids? Do you cook a full meal every day? Or do cereal? Grab and go? Do you do the same every day or is it different each day?
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Our go tos at home are either frozen waffles with peanut butter or eggs and turkey sausage. My husband does 90% of weekday breakfasts though so it's really up to him.
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We make him old fashioned oats with a little bit of sweetened yogurt, sometimes with berries or chia seeds or wheat germ. Then he will have like 1 scrambled egg with coconut oil like an hour later.
We do the same thing pretty much every day. Weekends I make banana pancakes- 3 ingredients, banana, ground oats, and egg. -
@pachamama: on weekends I do banana pancakes too! Banana, egg, peanut or almond butter! Do you make the oats ahead of time or every morning?
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We rotate through yogurt/ fruit, toast/ turkey sausage/ fruit, oatmeal/ fruit, cereal/ fruit most of the time- basically anything I can get on the table in under 10 minutes. When DH is off he likes to make a big breakfast with eggs and waffles or pancakes.
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During the week, we generally just do frozen waffles, granola bar, and a pouch (and then they get a bigger breakfast at daycare). On weekends, I'll make them bagels with fresh fruit and sausage, or cereal and fruit, or we'll go out to eat.
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@pachamama: your oats sound like ours. We do pumpkin and sesame seeds, hemp hearts, chia seeds, peanut butter and milk.
She will also have berries with her oatmeal - on the side.
Other mornings she will have a snack platter - cheese, pickles, part of a muffin, fruit and a hard boiled egg.
And if we have nothing in the house - cereal.
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Pretty much the same thing every day - cereal (we keep a pre-mixed bin of Shreddies, Cheerios, Rice Krispies, and a bit of a lightly sweetened one like multigrain Cheerios) and yogurt. On weekends I'll make waffles or pancakes and freeze the leftovers so if they don't feel like cereal we can throw one of those in the toaster.
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I try to mix it up but he's a cereal monster. Usually half cheerios, half bran flakes. I give him berries too but he barely ever eats them. Pancakes on weekends he's good with. Yogurt pouch if he's cranky on a weekday and gets snack about half hour after arriving at daycare.
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We are in a rut. The kids like toast, my DD eats toast with almond butter, my DS eats toast with cheese. I used to make baked oatmeal pretty often, but haven't made it in awhile.
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DS gets his choice of cheerios or eggo pancakes or waffles. Baby gets cheerios and banana and some of what I'm eating (cottage cheese/yogurt/cereal).
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Weekdays there is a choice of: Egg on a tortilla, oatmeal, or cereal (usually Cheerios, Raisin Bran or Puffins). Often but not always there is a side of fruit. Often but not always there is either milk or orange juice.
Weekends are usually either eggs scrambled with veggies and/or cheese accompanied with toast and fruit; or pancakes. Or we go out for brunch.
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Weekdays it's a pouch while I assemble fruit (mangoes, blueberries, strawberries, peaches, blackberries, cherries, whatever we have), a cup of Siggis Icelandic skyr, and trader joes organic silver dollar pancakes.
Weekends can be the same, or DH makes pancakes, bacon, eggs, etc. I don't cook breakfast, I just gather / assemble!
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Go-tos:
- frozen waffles
- yogurt
- fruit
- turkey bacon or sausage
- cereal (usually with milk but sometimes he asks for it dry)
- toast
- veggie muffinsI've tried eggs and oatmeal countless times. He used to love eggs as a baby/young toddler. But now for some reason he only wants to eat eggs at a restaurant off of our plates. Oatmeal he's never touched except the baby stuff as his first food. I wish he'd eat both at home.
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It depends - waffles, English muffins, scrambled eggs, oatmeal. We always serve fruit alongside.
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Weekday breakfasts are mostly carb-y as we usually have to get 2 ready for daycare so we don't try to cook. So frozen waffles/pancakes/granola bar with yougrt/smoothie/fruit.
Weekends is when we do eggs/sausages etc.
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Both my kids think oatmeal is an abomination before God. Even the pouches with oatmeal and yogurt and fruit they are like what the hell is this?
On the weekdays, I usually give DS1 a yogurt pouch in the car on the way to school and he eats breakfast there (they usually get cereal and milk or mini pancakes). DS2 I have to pack all his food so he usually gets a straw cup of milk on the way to school and he gets banana/Cheerios or yogurt once he arrives.
On the weekends, DS1 is like a lady who brunches. He eats soooo slowly for sooooo long and wants ALL THE THINGS. He want cereal in a bowl, he wants milk in a cup, ice water, he wants fruit, which doesnt include bananas, but if his brother is eating one, he wants one too, he wants eggs, he wants ham, he wants pancakes, he wants donuts - and he'll sit there like its a continental breakfast at the Holiday Inn and just chatter and nibble for like an HOUR. I don't blame him per se, since its the weekend and we have nothing better to do, but good grief, I'm like a crazy omelet station chef on Saturday mornings. Sundays we usually keep it to cereal and fruit before church.
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Weekdays she gets breakfast at daycare so we just do a little snack at home first since we leave very early. Usually cheerios/raisins, a banana, a pouch, or berries/cheese. But she's only 15 mo.
Weekends we usually do french toast/pancakes, or a big egg scramble with meat/veggies.
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Usually oatmeal or cereal with fruit. Sometimes toast with PB and jelly. He also asks for yogurt sometimes. I've also been making smoothies so I can get a lot of healthy stuff in him like chia seeds, hemp, spinach, bee pollen etc.
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Cook a full meal? That only happens on the weekends, which is when we'll soft boil eggs, maybe make pancakes or waffles. During the week, it's cereal with milk, a mini bagel or toast with cream cheese, maybe oatmeal with a banana (but only if I have time)!
I'd love to do an overnight bake of some kind, but we're too rushed in the morning and no one wants to eat at that hour anyway.
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Usually frozen waffles or pancakes, side of fruit and yogurt. Recently DS has been on an oatmeal kick.
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Eggs, fruit, half a piece of buttered bread 80% of the time. Sometimes oatmeal and fruit or cheerios, milk, and fruit.
Very occasional something special like homemade pancakes.
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Right now, it's cut fruit and some sort of grain (Cheerios, graham crackers, toast, bagels, waffles). Anything he can feed himself that doesn't involve cooking, haha. I like yogurt but it is too messy for self-serve at 18m. Great ideas above, though.
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Smoothie every day. Banana, frozen mixed fruit, yogurt. Sometimes avacodo if we have it.
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D (4.5yo) usually gets a bowl of cereal and 1/2 yogurt tube. A (17mo) usually gets dry cereal and a yogurt pouch. Occasionally they'll get frozen waffles instead, but that's breakfast most weekdays. Weekends is usually the same for A, unless we make pancakes or French toast. D gets 1/2 bagel instead of cereal, unless, like I said, we make pancakes or French toast.
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She wants mini frozen pancakes every single morning. If we have donuts she will take those. On days I take the kids, she brings a little cereal or a Nutri Grain bar to school since we get there at 7 and breakfast isn't till 8:15 or so.
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Everyday is different and my toddler doesn't really like or eat much for breakfast. Today she asked for broccoli so I cooked a bit and she ate a little of that, a few bites of a boiled egg, a few bites of pineapple, and drank some milk.
I like making cottage cheese pancakes. They're really quick and easy and tasty. 3 eggs, 1 cup cottage cheese, 1/2 cup flour, 1tsp baking powder, 1 tsp. vanilla, 1 tbsp honey or sweetener and 1/4 tsp. salt. Mix wet and then add dry and cook on each side for 2-3 minutes.
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I only cook a hot meal once a day at dinner. DD wants to eat the second she gets up so I need something I can grab for her quickly. She rotates through these things:
-dry Cheerios and fruit
-cottage cheese and fruit
-yogurt
-frozen waffle and fruit or yogurt
-muffins and fruitSometimes I will fry an egg. I don't really feel like that's cooking since it takes a couple minutes. More often though she has a egg for lunch instead.
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Avocado toast, PB toast, eggs and fruit, pancakes or waffles (make on Sunday and then heated up), oatmeal, yogurt and fruit, every once in awhile I'll do banana bread, zucchini bread or a homemade muffin
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I don't cook for breakfast unless I feel like it, which happens a few days a week, and when I do I'll make extra so we can eat leftovers for several more breakfasts (like a huge batch of pancakes, a big pan of baked oatmeal, a whole package of bacon). When I'm having a hard time functioning in the morning, frozen waffles are my go to. (Used to be cereal and milk, but my 2 year old makes such a mess with it that we are taking a break from that for now!) I usually always add fruit and a protein (leftover bacon, chicken sausage, scrambled eggs or Greek yogurt) to whatever we're eating. We will eat the same thing for usually only a couple days in a row - I like variety.
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Mine are creatures of habit so they always ask for a granola bar (we buy the kids Cliff ones). They then have fruit or yogurt later on in the morning, sometimes piece of toast or a waffle.
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During the week (before school) we go back and forth between oatmeal (oats + nut butter + hemp hearts + maple syrup + cinnamon + fruit) or a chia waffle (topped with nut butter).
On the weekends, I make 1 big breakfast (usually a breakfast hash) and we go out once and LO always orders a corn cake + tempeh bacon.
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My older son likes to eat the same thing every day, total creature of habit:
mini frozen pancakes (or homemade if i have time)
sausage links
strawberriesevery. single. day. for like, years. ha.
my younger son likes to mix it up - so he usually gets yogurt with granola & berries, oatmeal, scrambled eggs, sausage or ham, fruit, or toast with cream cheese.
I can't eat only cereal for breakfast, or I'm hungry by 10... so it's rubbing off on the kids and we usually eat a pretty big breakfast.
Weekends we usually do french toast/pancakes, or a big egg scramble with meat/veggies.
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