Anonymous wrote:Wow, you guys really love your cholesterol. Yikes!

I'm really curious. What do you make your kids for breakfast?

My DH makes the kids a soft boiled egg and buttered toast every day. They don't get sick of it but I sure do lol.

My boys aren't big on breakfast on school days. So, its typically a bowl of cereal (sugary cereals are reserved for Saturdays and special occasions), bagel/cream cheese, small breakfast sandwich, english muffin w/ cream cheese or preserves, 2 waffles or pancakes, or oatmeal. I always keep a stash of oatmeal, protein, and whole grain fig bars on hand in case someone is running late or wants something else for breakfast but doesn't have a lot of time. I would love to add yogurt to the selection, but we are in brand transition. I recently switched out yogurt brands because I found out our go to brand has GMO ingredients and too much sugar. So, I'm trying to find a brand that the boys will eat that works for me.

Anonymous wrote:Wow, you guys really love your cholesterol. Yikes!

For the love of all things, is there anything beyond locally grown, organic heirloom kale that is acceptable to eat on this board? No carbs, no milk, no animal products…

It’s food. It shouldn’t cause the level of anxiety it does around here. Okay

Wow, you guys really love your cholesterol. Yikes!

The 8th grader eats leftovers or egg on rice with soy sauce and the ES kiddo eats a fruit and toast with butter.

Middle schooler has a banana, strawberries, half a muffin (or cinnamon swirl bread) and juice.

High school senior has never liked to eat breakfast. In grade school, she would eat a few spoonfuls of dry cold cereal without milk, and maybe take a banana to the bus stop. Starts her day now with lunch. I still try to hand her a chewy granola bar on her way out the door. Sometimes she takes it, sometimes she says no thanks, I'll just wait for lunch. Some kids aren't breakfast people.

Yogurt with jam or scrambled eggs with cheese and some fruit. Pretty much protein heavy. Dd is 5 and gets enough carbs from snacks at school.

Wow that previous post was an autocorrect mess. Sorry!

To make healthier, I double the recipe, and use half butter and half appleSAUCE in place of the butter called for.

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Anonymous wrote:My kids love cereal. I also make waffles every few weeks with whole wheat flour, applesauce, sourdough... keep them in the freezer and my kids LOVE toasted with some nut butter or apple butter.

Do you have a recipe for those waffles? I happen to have some sourdough starter and bunches and bunches of apples to use up

Yes! I use the Food 52 sourdough discard waffle recipe. It’s super good as written, but I make healthier I double the recipe and use half butter, half apples ice for the butter, then half whole wheat flour and half white whole wheat flour for the flour. My homemade applesauce has cinnamon in it, but if the applesauce you use doesn’t, maybe add a little cinnamon to the batter - tastes really good!

egg and bacon sandwich for DC1
greek yogurt or bacon for DC2
fruit for both
pancakes in the weekend - they love the recipe below and I skip the lemon zest

https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/trisha-yearwood/blueberry-pancakes-2120801

My kids (2 and 4) are really not into breakfast either. I serve them breakfast and they eat like one bite. Then I usually pack it up and they will eat it very happily in an hour or two after they've done some playing, so I know it's not that they don't like the food.

My kids are big corn fed Midwestern Nordic giants. Both 99+ percentiles for height, 50s and 90s for weight (girl and boy). They each drink about 16oz of organic grass milk every day. We have to cap it at that because they would probably drink 30 if we let them. Both super healthy and hit all milestones early.

I find the anti milk sentiments on DCUM very odd. If you're not a milk family that's fine, but people act like giving your kids milk is tantamount to giving them pop tarts every morning. Milk is a good source of a lot of things and no it's not some dairy industry conspiracy.

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Anonymous wrote:Those of you giving milk, is it cows milk? Organic? I’m always concerned about the hormones, especially for girls. I don’t think I’d feel comfortable with my kids drinking it every day.

We don't serve milk (but we do serve grass-fed organic yogurt and they eat organic cheese) - this is one of our concerns. Ped is fine with it, our kids get plenty of fat, calcium, protein from other sources. They drink water with meals.

We serve organic whole milk with all meals. It is a great source of protein, calcium, and vit D- plus fat to absorb those vitamins. My kids do eat yogurt and cheese but not nearly enough to have those be the only sources of calcium, plus they don’t contain D. They enjoy milk and will drink 3 glasses per day.

^to add:

Bone density in adulthood is dependent on bone density acquired in adolescence and early 20s. This is why calcium and vit D consumption is so very important, especially for girls. This is real science. This outweighs any pseudo science concerns about hormones in milk causing health problems. No teen is getting enough calcium and vit D from leafy greens and an occasional yogurt

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Anonymous wrote:Those of you giving milk, is it cows milk? Organic? I’m always concerned about the hormones, especially for girls. I don’t think I’d feel comfortable with my kids drinking it every day.

We don't serve milk (but we do serve grass-fed organic yogurt and they eat organic cheese) - this is one of our concerns. Ped is fine with it, our kids get plenty of fat, calcium, protein from other sources. They drink water with meals.

We serve organic whole milk with all meals. It is a great source of protein, calcium, and vit D- plus fat to absorb those vitamins. My kids do eat yogurt and cheese but not nearly enough to have those be the only sources of calcium, plus they don’t contain D. They enjoy milk and will drink 3 glasses per day.