My 3 year old isn't a big breakfast eater, but i encourage it every morning. Usually she just has a yogurt or a piece of toast, and then wants a bigger snack around 10 am. Now that it's getting colder I've been doing oatmeal. What do you serve for breakfast?
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We usually do oatmeal with fruit, waffles or English muffins. Sometimes I'll make French toast or scrambled eggs (but I'll usually give eggs for lunch and sneak in some veggies).
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Scrambled eggs, cereal, baked oatmeal, regular oatmeal, yogurt & cereal bars... At least we had some variety but the past 2 weeks DS has been asking for oatmeal every day!
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Usually we do cereal and yogurt. Sometimes he'll ask for toast with peanut butter and jam instead. On weekends I'll make waffles or pancakes, and I try to make extra so I can freeze them and we can just pop them in the toaster on days when there's no time to make them from scratch.
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Weetbix (wheat biscuit cereal) with prunes and milk, followed by a cup of yogurt, and a piece of fruit is the normal breakfast during the week. On weekends, we usually have French toast or waffles, and bacon.
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Eggs, bagel, fruit, yogurt, waffle, oatmeal. We rotate through those.
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Usually a smoothie. Today it had: milk, one yogurt cup, mixed berries (frozen) and a banana.
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pancakes and yogurt, typically. Easy to eat on the way to daycare. I know she gets a heavier breakfast snack there, too.
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Oh it is SUCH a battle! Usually porridge or toast or omelette. Today she had a bowl of frozen mango (still frozen). She's a snacker, not into meals.
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a banana, toast with PB and yogurt usually. Sometimes more, sometimes less. Today, not even half a banana and a few bites of toast.
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On days my mom watches him, he has rice porridge with veggies and meat minced into it. Then he as fruit as a snack a little later.
On days with DH and I, lately he's been getting silver dollar pancakes with butter and a tiny bit of syrup, a sausage patty, and fruit. And he might sneak some of my eggs.
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E wants the same thing on the weekend: blueberry waffle with peanut butter (he likes to fold it into a taco), some sort of fruit yogurt, fresh fruit and milk. Occasionally he'll ask for scrambled eggs and toast. On the week days he has a blueberry waffle and applesauce pouch in the car on the way to preschool, and then they have breakfast there.
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Lately, it's been eggs, pbj toast, bagel & cream cheese, steel cut oatmeal with raisins, paleo pumpkin pancakes
I usually try to make the last two items the night before so i only have to reheat it in the morning.
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Eggs pretty much every morning. Whatever fruit we have on hand (usually grapes or bananas), yogurt, and a slice of bread (my kids prefer it untoasted). On weekends we usually do pancakes once and sometimes french toast.
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We rotate muffins, pancakes, yogurt, eggs, Cream of Wheat, oatmeal and cereal (Kix, raisin bran, Life or Cheerios) during the week. They always have a fruit with whatever. On the weekend I make a bigger family breakfast.
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@rattles: super mom!!
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@LuLu Mom: ha, hardly. The weekday pancakes are the TJ silver dollar ones from the frozen section. I make the muffins a couple dozen at a time and freeze them so we can nuke them. My kid wakes me up demanding breakfast.
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i just wanted to bump this thread. i'm having a hard time finding something my 3yo will eat in the mornings. i need something that he won't spill on himself or the couch (i.e. yogurt, oatmeal, cereal) and that's easy to make (i.e. i'm not going to make eggs or an omelette at 6 am when i'm taking care of the baby and getting myself ready).
we've been giving him french toast sticks, nutrigrain bars, the occasional poptart, pancakes, sometimes he'll eat toast. but i feel like these aren't very nutritious and i'm starting to get mom guilt. i've tried making egg/omelettes in muffin form ahead of time and just heating them up, but he wasn't feeling it. he's kind of picky. any suggestions of what else we could try?
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My toddler loves breakfast.
He usually asks for oatmeal, cream of wheat, french toast or pancakes (both of which I usually pre-make and freeze so I can just reheat).
He would eat breakfast for every meal if I let him.
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Yogurt, smoothies, fruit, pb&j, eggs.
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i would love to do yogurt or oatmeal, but he pretty much has to eat by himself (while i'm feeding the baby and getting everything ready for daycare and work) and he'll spill it all over himself or the couch if i don't watch. probably for attention.
i'll keep trying to push toast with PB or something else. maybe bagels with cream cheese?
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She eats 1x yobaby yofurt, some puff cereal, and then a fruit.
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On weekdays, we do a green shake every day and eggs most days or else oatmeal. On weekends, we usually do a brunch type meal on at least one day.
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Blueberries and sometimes toast. None of us are big on fancy breakfasts over here, and we all eat something simple.
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M-F we do oatmeal or yogurt. On weekends, we might do pancakes or hashbrowns too. I should try french toast with her! She won't eat eggs (alone), but maybe she would eat french toast.
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My kids hate eating breakfast, and to be honest they really only like "snacks" first thing in the morning. So their usual first food of the day is something like fishy crackers and raisins, or apple slices and bunny crackers, or yogurt, cheese sticks, etc. Then some time around 10:00 (or 11:45 on school days for my 3-year old) they will have a bowl of cereal or eggs or "jelly toast."
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Toast, eggs, yogurt, bananas, pancakes, and cereal. She starts every morning with a fruit pouch and OJ.
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Mine is obsessed with eating the same thing every morning: mini pancakes, sausage, strawberries. (Occasionally a banana too).
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@megjay18: what about a yogurt pouch? My LO loves the Chobani kids Greek yogurt pouches. Maybe more expensive than pots of yogurt but certainly less messy!
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@jhd: love pouches. he actually eats one in the car on the way to daycare.
i think tomorrow i'm going to try PB toast, banana and string cheese. we'll see what kind of tantrums this leads to
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This morning she had cereal with milk, raspberries, a yogurt drink, and a cheesestring.
Most days it's scrambled eggs, cottage cheese, some fruit and toast or pancakes/waffles.
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The same thing every week day: sausage, a tiny bit of cereal, yogurt, and milk. I don't feel guilty about the lack of variety because they feed her second breakfast at daycare.
On weekends, we go all out with eggs, cheese grits, fruit, bacon, toast, etc. Kiddo loves breakfast!
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He loves oatmeal, like he's obsessed. So he eats that a lot, I try to serve it with a fruit.
He also likes scrambled eggs and chicken sausage, and toast
I will also give him yogurt and granola with a banana and he's a fan of that. I think breakfast foods are his favorites, cause we typically have no problem getting him to eat breakfast.
On the weekend, DH will sometimes do something like pancakes.
Dinner, on the other hand...
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Toast with either honey or homemade jam for my 2.5 year old and usually some cheese and rice waffle for my nearly 11m old. Eggs on the weekend but not during the week.
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Toast or a mini bagel with fruit and yogurt
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@megjay18: Can he manage a smoothie out of a straw cup? I make mine thinner so they can be sucked out of a straw pretty easily (think Odwalla smoothie thickness) made with yogurt, a splash of OJ or a whole peeled clementine, milk, banana, berries, and usually some kind of frozen veg like spinach or peas or carrots that can't really be detected. You can make a batch every 2-3 days and just pour it out in the morning (just shake up the bottle) since its not frozen and it can be a nice drink to have with a waffle or something. Another thing you can do is bake pancake batter in mini muffin tins with a bite of breakfast sausage or ham in the middle and freeze them in big batches. That way he gets a pancake with a little bit of protein in each bite.
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Every morning I make the same breakfast
LO1 - steel cut oats, fruit, and breakfast sausage
LO2 - gf oats, fruit, breakfast sausage, avocado and sometimes coconut yogurtI have a lot of food restrictions due to allergies, and unfortunately many of the easy go to breakfast items don't work for us.
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@gingerbebe: smoothies might be a good idea. he literally changes his mind everyday so i honestly have no idea what to expect.
today we did string cheese, a banana and toast with PB. he ate all of the string cheese and banana and literally one bite of the toast. there are some great ideas on here though - so i'm confident we'll have some options now! thanks everyone!
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I'm the world's best mom, and literally just go back and forth between oatmeal + a banana or a waffle with peanut butter + a banana. We do include smoothies each morning, and I cook better breakfasts on the weekends.
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