Low sugar whole grain cereal and milk.

Anonymous wrote:Breakfast sandwiches. Eggs and/or meat with cheese on an English muffin. Good option for on-the-go protein.

this is our go to also-we have tweens and teens...a bagel with pb or salmon also works. They all drink something with calcium every morning-smoothie oj milk and a fruit of some sort

Pancakes or waffles with some berries
Scrambled egg and toast (veggie breakfast sausage if I'm not running late)
Half a bagel with cream cheese
Avocado toast
Frosted mini wheats
Homemade banana bread (a.k.a. "cake") & milk

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:HOmecooked oatmeal. every. schoolday of his life - 7th gr now. I cook it (sprouted organic oats) with organic raisins, serve it with cinnamon, honey, Kerrygold butter and sprouted walnuts. AND home squeezed oj. every freaking schoolday. Started in preschool.

I was raised on junky cereals. i have bad skin, tooth problems, and gut issues. I am doing this for my child. For whatever reason, he has none of these. I cook a few cups of it, leave the leftovers in the fridge and he usually goes for it for his afterschool snack (i'm not home).

OK- I get that you're trying to do better for your child and that is excellent but really, you are annoying with this organic this and kerrygold that.

exactly. Just say raisins and butter.

I don't even know what sprouted walnuts are.

You are not the only one! I just googled it to find out they are soaked nuts and then left to sprout? So, basically soggy walnuts. I guess I have to taste it before making judgement. It seems like that pp was really poor and now is nouveau riche, hence can afford kerrygold butter and has plenty of time to squeeze oranges, yet her use of "every freaking school day" makes me wonder how high strung is she/he?

Come on. She's doing a great job. Let her boast a little.

Anonymous wrote:What do you put in the smoothies for those of you whose kids have smoothies? My DS has to be out the door by 6:25. What time are you waking up to do this or do your kids make their own breakfast/lunch?

I'm the PP with the child who needs to gain weight and has chewing issues. Preparing his smoothie takes me 10 minutes. A Vitamix blender is in our future, but for right now, I buy the (expensive!) sachets of smoothie powder at Whole Foods. Bought a whole variety so that he could try them all, tell me which one he likes best, and perhaps I will buy a bulk jar of that. They contain complete protein (either vegan or milk-based), minerals and vitamins. I mix them by hand with a half-banana, spoonful of soynut butter (he's allergic to peanuts and treenuts), 200 calories of heavy whipping cream, and top it off with whole milk. He drinks it down in 10 minutes (because he can't drink it in one minute like you and I) and is ready to go. When I get a blender, I will be able to blend raw veggies and fruit, as well as tofu, and won't have to buy the powders.

DS is 7 and 50th percentile for h and w. He is not a big breakfast eater so we make sure he at least eats milk and fruit.

- glass of milk
- small glass of juice
- fruit (blueberrries or strawberries or oranges usually)
- something else such as dry cereal or pancakes or a few mini muffins or sometimes an egg or bacon
- multivitamins and calcium/magnesium vitamins

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mine do smoothies too. They (ages 7, 11, & 14) make it themselves. Gives me more time to get ready.

Here's what's in ours:
frozen blueberries
cream
plain whey
xylitol

Isn't xylitol an artificial sweetener? Just out of curiosity, why do they add that? Aren't the blueberries sweet enough?

The blueberries aren't sweet enough. We use plain (naked) whey with no added sugars. I think sugar is toxic. Xylitol is a safe, natural alternative.

Hardboiled egg, naan bread, handful of raspberries
Omlet with ham, toast, mandarin orange
Breakfast quesadilla (scrambled egg and cheese), kiwi slices
Bacon on toasted dark rye, strawberries
Homemade french toast, apple slices
On days when we sleep in - maybe once in a fortnight - a bowl of Cinnamon toast crunch with milk

Usually frozen waffles, mini pancakes or bagel with cream cheese. Then either scrambled eggs or hard boiled eggs.

My oldest will also have a banana.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:HOmecooked oatmeal. every. schoolday of his life - 7th gr now. I cook it (sprouted organic oats) with organic raisins, serve it with cinnamon, honey, Kerrygold butter and sprouted walnuts. AND home squeezed oj. every freaking schoolday. Started in preschool.

I was raised on junky cereals. i have bad skin, tooth problems, and gut issues. I am doing this for my child. For whatever reason, he has none of these. I cook a few cups of it, leave the leftovers in the fridge and he usually goes for it for his afterschool snack (i'm not home).

OK- I get that you're trying to do better for your child and that is excellent but really, you are annoying with this organic this and kerrygold that.

exactly. Just say raisins and butter.

I don't even know what sprouted walnuts are.

You are not the only one! I just googled it to find out they are soaked nuts and then left to sprout? So, basically soggy walnuts. I guess I have to taste it before making judgement. It seems like that pp was really poor and now is nouveau riche, hence can afford kerrygold butter and has plenty of time to squeeze oranges, yet her use of "every freaking school day" makes me wonder how high strung is she/he?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:HOmecooked oatmeal. every. schoolday of his life - 7th gr now. I cook it (sprouted organic oats) with organic raisins, serve it with cinnamon, honey, Kerrygold butter and sprouted walnuts. AND home squeezed oj. every freaking schoolday. Started in preschool.

I was raised on junky cereals. i have bad skin, tooth problems, and gut issues. I am doing this for my child. For whatever reason, he has none of these. I cook a few cups of it, leave the leftovers in the fridge and he usually goes for it for his afterschool snack (i'm not home).

OK- I get that you're trying to do better for your child and that is excellent but really, you are annoying with this organic this and kerrygold that.

exactly. Just say raisins and butter.

I don't even know what sprouted walnuts are.

Bagels with cream cheese/pb
oatmeal with raisins and bananas and nuts, or whatever I have that would be good in it. We eat this probably 3 times a week in winter. Just plain old whole oats.
pb banana toast
dippy eggs (one egg in cut out hole of bread)
smoothies ~ frozen bananas, spinach, almond milk, flax seed and protein powder

not a thing. None of us are big breakfast eaters. I feel nauseated when I eat in the mornings and none of my kids like to eat in the morning, either, so I don't push it. I always have option in the house if they are hungry - yogurt, cereal, waffles, fruit, etc., but I can count on one hand the number of times they've eaten in the morning, after about 3rd grade.

Anonymous wrote:Mine do smoothies too. They (ages 7, 11, & 14) make it themselves. Gives me more time to get ready.

Here's what's in ours:
frozen blueberries
cream
plain whey
xylitol

Isn't xylitol an artificial sweetener? Just out of curiosity, why do they add that? Aren't the blueberries sweet enough?

Mine do smoothies too. They (ages 7, 11, & 14) make it themselves. Gives me more time to get ready.

Here's what's in ours:
frozen blueberries
cream
plain whey
xylitol