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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Dh is convinced that our 9yo dd is overweight because she eats unhealthy things for breakfast. While I don’t completely agree, I am committed to finding healthier options and incorporating them into our routine. I’d love advice for healthy breakfast foods - I know there’s no “rule” that you need to eat certain things for breakfast but my kids won’t go for things like leftover dinner food.

Currently they have something from the following -

Eggs (scrambled, sunny side up, hard boiled)
Toast with nut butter or cinnamon toast (multigrain bread)
Cereal - Cheerios or Rice Krispies with 2% milk
Oatmeal 
Sunbutter and jam sandwiches on multigrain slim sandwich rounds 
Occasionally bread with Jason’s chocolate hazelnut butter. 
On weekends we make some sort of baked treat one day and have a simpler breakfast the other

9yo detests all fruit except raspberries, blueberries and applesauce. She also doesn’t like most yogurts and won’t drink smoothies. She has a very sensitive sense of smell.

For snacks I give veggies, healthy muffins that I make, occasionally crackers or snap pea crisps, popcorn, cheese, olives, etc. My other kids eat a lot of fruit for snacks, but again, she’ll only eat a select few.

Since I’ve told dh I will serve healthier breakfasts (he doesn’t think any cereal is healthy), I’m looking for new ideas![/quote]

Looks balanced to me. I find with kids the largest contributor to being overweight is activity levels. I'm a SAHM and still send my youngest to aftercare at a taekwondo place. This way he comes home sweaty after a solid one hour workout. No kids to play with in the street, half the time the weather sucks and they draw towards screens are a very strong.  My son has a little six pack and it is because he has 5 days a week of a hard workout and right now plays 2 sports. Many days he is doubling up on activity. [/quote]

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