Think outside of the box if you need to, OP. My DD13 really dislikes breakfast food. Her choices skew to nachos (black beans, cheese, onions) and leftover pizza when we have it.

DS11 has more traditional breakfast preferences. He will do a bowl of cereal, a yogurt or a mini bagel with cream cheese. I have a sneaking suspicion that this one double dips on the free breakfasts they serve in MCPS this year (when they appeal to him).

DS16 is a swimmer with several weekday AM practices. He'll come home and eat 3 eggs plus a peanut butter english muffin. Or half a box of cereal. Or the PB english muffin and two apples. He'll also fill his hoodie pouch with snacks for the commute to school -- pb crackers, cheez its, peanuts, another apple, or some pineapple.

I do find that if I cut up fruit at 6 am and just leave it on the island, it is gone by the time we all leave.

As a dad, with a wife who is a working medical professional and out by 6:30 a.m. and I'm an attorney at work by 8:30. I prepare meals for my twin 10 year old boys. Not pretty, but here are the meals they will eat:

1. Omelet with seasoned salt, crumbled real bacon, cheese
2. Frozen Pancake and sausage on a stick
3. Mini-frozen waffles in the toaster, with mini-sausage patties served with maple syrup.
4. Mini Croissants with bacon and sliced cheese.
5. Small yogurt served with all meals
6. Toasted cinnamon and raisin bread with butter
7. Cereal mix of Whole Grain Cheerios with a mix of unhealthier flavors as 1/4 of the big box they can eat as needed.
8. Mini-bagels with Cream Cheese

4 yo and 2 yo: always lots of fresh fruits; they usually eat that on their own as the rest of us are getting ready (berries, bananas, pears, apples). Good finger food they can eat by themselves.
Then later after I'm ready (we have a baby too so need time with her) if they are still hungry we will eat oatmeal.
Sometimes mornings are such a rush that I'm really thankful that my DH always has bowls of fruit ready for them! If that's all they eat before school, I don't feel too bad!

In order of how much time I have to feed them:

1) Omelette, toast, fruit
2) plain Greek yogurt with berries and nuts, toast
3) PB & J on a toaster waffle and an apple
4) Granola bars and bananas in the car

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Above PP . We are vegetarian

How do you classify "eggs" as vegetarian? They're animals given enough time.

Would PP be eating unfertilized eggs?

Almost certainly.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Above PP . We are vegetarian

How do you classify "eggs" as vegetarian? They're animals given enough time.

Would PP be eating unfertilized eggs?

Anonymous wrote:Above PP . We are vegetarian

How do you classify "eggs" as vegetarian? They're animals given enough time.

Tween boy.

Always milk and fruit (orange, or berries, or melon)

1-2 of: cereal (likes it dry), toast and jam, half bagel with butter, chocolate crossaints, fried egg, 2-3 pieces of bacon.

Anonymous wrote:Always fresh fruit. Sliced pears, bananas, berries usually
Always a glass of whole milk


-eggs over hard fried in olive oil (edges get crispy)
-toast with olive oil
-TJ blueberry toaster waffle
-plain Cheerios
-steel cut oatmeal with nuts

Plus homemade pancakes or a Dutch baby on the weekends.

Always fresh fruit. Sliced pears, bananas, berries usually
Always a glass of whole milk


-eggs over hard fried in olive oil (edges get crispy)
-toast with olive oil
-TJ blueberry toaster waffle
-plain Cheerios
-steel cut oatmeal with nuts

We are also veg. This morning was just yogurt. She eats best if we make something with eggs - she loves grits which we sometimes make with eggs and cheese. She also loves breakfast burritos - just a tortilla with veggie bacon, a fried egg and slice of cheese.

Above PP . We are vegetarian

I would say 5 days a week my 9yo has an egg ( over easy) on a toasted mini bagel with fruit on the side. Once a week oatmeal…… from a packet, not a crockpot. On either Sat or Sun she has a Trader Joe’s almond croissant with cashews and fruit.

I have tween/teen boy athlete whoa are always starving. During the week, my kids almost always have a smoothie with fruit, spinach, and Greek yogurt

and then one of the following:

Scrambled egg with toast

Toaster waffle with seed butter (would be peanut butter, but there are allergies)

Oatmeal with stuff added, could be baked, overnight, or warm from the crockpot.

I need some healthy and filling breakfast ideas, please! Thanks!