Do your teens eat breakfast?

[Anonymous]

I have two boys in high school and they skip breakfast daily. They are both athletes. They wake up and barely make it to school.

When they were in elementary school, we had breakfast daily. They would wake up 1-2 hours earlier than school. Now they may wake up 30 min early.

I know I used to also skip breakfast as a teen.

[Anonymous]

Athletes need to eat breakfast. They need calories. They need protein. Healthy fats. Fruit. etc. They need to hydrate as well. If my kids are playing sports and don't want to eat breakfast then that's a sign to me that they are not serious about being an athlete and I won't be serious when it comes to paying for anything for it. It's some times an argument. Sometimes I let them win but it's rare. Athletes eat breakfast at our house.

[Anonymous]

I never skipped breakfast as a teen.

My teens have the choice of dressing first or breakfast first. But both have to happen.

[Anonymous]

My 13yo is an athlete. She eats breakfast every day unless she’s sick. Usually 2 eggs on nanny bread with cheese and fruit. If she sats she’s not hungry I’ll make her a smoothie.
She doesn’t eat lunch because she takes Ritalin and it suppresses her appetite.
Next year in HS the drive will be 15-20 mins so she may well eat breakfast in the car.

[Anonymous]

Naan bread. Above.

[Anonymous]

My high schooler eats maybe a 1/2 cup of cereal and my middle schooler needs to leave at 7:25 and will get out of bed at 7:15, so no.

[Anonymous]

My 18 yo eats breakfast every day. My 13 yo usually eats only if I make it for her, which I do when I can. Her beautifying process takes too much time! (eye roll)

[Anonymous]

My senior doesn't eat breakfast and hasn't in years. My sophomore eats a hearty breakfast- it's his favorite meal.

[Anonymous]

It's a challenge, because sleep beats out every other choice including breakfast as far as teens go. Try to have things they can grab and go. When I'm organized, I try to make a tray of egg bites for them on Sunday for the week (mini-quiches in a cupcake pan), some spinach, some ham, etc., that they can grab from the refrigerator and take with them. And when I'm not, there's always some kind of granola bar/protein bar in the house they can grab

[Anonymous]

My Junior doesn't usually but did up until about the past year.

They take various fruits and protein bars and bagels and drinks to school and sometimes eat them. Sometimes they get food with friends. They eat when they get home at 2:30 almost daily.

[Anonymous]

Not really. A bar or a bag of mini muffins.

[Anonymous]

Both my teens eat before school. My older one is an athlete with a lot of practices, so she really needs the calories.

I make them food for breakfast still, since I’d rather they not skip it. Which means only waking up 10 minutes earlier than if they skipped it.

[Anonymous]

Mine do and did not. One is an athlete. I don’t worry for two reasons. Their eating schedule is really different than mine and they eat well and enough. Like they eat meals late in the evening and I’m done by like 6 pm. And if they are hungry they can grab something at school. I always keep money in their lunch account.

[Anonymous]

In the off-season when the team is in the gym, 17 yr old DS occasionally eats breakfast. During the season, he eats breakfast more often but not every day.

[Anonymous]

My kids are both athletes and neither one eats breakfast, or much of a breakfast. And it’s fine (for them, at least).

They aren’t hungry. I’m not a breakfast eater either, it’s just now how my body is.