Breakfast poll (your kids)

ghm

I highly doubt that the majority of nesties only feed their children homemade steel cut oats for breakfast, so...

 

 

(you know how I love clicky polls and create one every chance I get!) 

[Poll]

kevschickee2

I would say it say it is 50/50 in my house.  Halee is my great eater so she will eat what I give her but Danica is a whole other story lol

AnnapolisLari

I used your WTF SS.

Most days, they get stuff like multigrain pancakes with real maple syrup OR 12 grain toast with poached or scrambled eggs OR real oatmeal with cranraisins and walnuts OR something like that.

Then there's the box of Cocoa Puffs that DS asked for. Or the days that I let them eat blueberry cobbler or sour cream pound cake for breakfast. No poptarts, though. I think they don't have enough filling.

Mominator

I guess I'm SS. Some days it's cereal (and gasp, I have Cookie Crisp in my house LOL), some days eggs, some days home made waffles/pancakes, some days it's whatever. My kids are like me and don't really like breakfast, so I'll take what I can get.

ghm

AnnapolisLari:

I used your WTF SS.

Most days, they get stuff like multigrain pancakes with real maple syrup OR 12 grain toast with poached or scrambled eggs OR real oatmeal with cranraisins and walnuts OR something like that.

Then there's the box of Cocoa Puffs that DS asked for. Or the days that I let them eat blueberry cobbler or sour cream pound cake for breakfast. No poptarts, though. I think they don't have enough filling.

 

I guess this is more us...MOST days they have a nestie-approved breakfast. But days like tomorrow (we'll be up and out really early), we'll be having whatever horrible creation Jon brings home from walmart for breakfast on the way home from work...most likely doughnuts or something.  

Zenya

christopher eats a 1/4-1/2 of a dry bagel every morning.

Sara has yogurt or eggs or toast or a cereal bar or cereal if we have cows milk in the house (not often).

are dry bagels approved?  Probably not.  Protein!  Fresh fruit!!

ready2go

most days it's an Eggo whole grain waffle.  I tell myself the whole grain part makes it ok.  Does it???

(no syrup - not quite sure why - they like it on their pancakes but I guess I just never put it on waffles.  I just now realized that is odd.  1 has it completely dry, the other has it with butter)

sometimes they'll have some fresh fruit too, but I admit that's not the norm. 

katie277s

During the week, he eats either cereal or toast with jelly.  We go back and forth between healthy cereal and kid cereal.  Right now, L is eating Multigrain Cheerios.  He loves them!  

penguingrrl

It varies a bit. There is always fresh fruit out. Some mornings they aren't starving so there's time to make a hot breakfast. Other days they roll out of bed and need to eat NOW and fruit won't cut it, so then they get cheerios or bran flakes and milk. We also used to do TJs version of rice krispies, but they made too much mess so I banned them from my house (I really am a PITA, but they wouldn't sweep well while wet and required heavy scrubbing once to come off our wood floors) DH is such a tightwad at times that he noticed that at Trader Joe's it's cheaper to buy bran flakes and put in your own raisins than to buy raisin bran, so he does that a lot lol!

Angela814

She generally eats things like cereal (fruit loops, cheerios, apple jacks, etc) with milk, gogurt (pretty sure extra sugary yogurt isn't nestie approved), toast with jelly or peanut butter, instant oatmeal (the sugary kind), or a bagel with cream cheese. If I have fresh fruit, I'll sometimes get some out, depending on how late we're running in the morning.

Temp970088312507122

Yes, breakfast is the one meal a day that's consistently healthy. They'll usually have eggs, Cheerios or oatmeal. Sometimes I buy multigrain frozen waffles but there's not really anything bad in them (no HFCS, artificial dye/color). During the school year, DD1 will sometimes drink a Carnation Instant Bfast because she's not hungry as soon as she wakes and she is the slowest eater ever.

happy_momma

I don't cook for breakfast during the week, so not likely.   Cereal (and I'm not as particular as I should be about what kind it is), granola bars, cereal bars, etc. - quick easy stuff is the norm for us for breakfast.  Poptarts are not a regular thing, but they do show up in my house once in a while (less than monthly).  And donuts might be used as a "let mommy and daddy sleep in" bribe on the weekends now and then.

shopgirl78

They usually chose between quite a few things:

fresh fruit (banana, watermelon, grapes, apples), cereal bars, cereal (including rice krispies, cheerios, corn pops, and frosted flakes--sometimes we have cocca puffs or captain crunch), frozen waffles, yogurt/gogurt, toast with jelly or peanut butter, sometimes eggs, instant oatmeal and yes, we do have a box of poptarts : )

Oh and sometimes I make cinnamon rolls or buy donuts.  YUM!!  

CleoKitty

I'm another WTF SS. 

Many mornings it's eggs, steel cut oats, homemade muffins, yogurt or a almond butter/jam sandwich.

On the other hand, there are also mornings where the kids sit on the couch watching cartoons and eat junky cereal (ie: Lucky Charms) straight from the box.

I would say that at least 3 out of 5 weekdays though that they go the almond butter sandwich or yogurt route.  Weekends are usually more of a hot breakfast and then there's a couple days of Cinnamon Toast Crunch to fill in the gaps. ;-)

 ETA: And there's nothing on earth that makes my kids happier than bringing home donuts for breakfast, LOL. Or making a can of Pillsbury-style cinnamon rolls. Chocolate milk to wash it all down, of course. 

CubbyMama

I'm not sure whether the Nest would approve, but the girls usually don't want breakfast until about 10am.  They have "chocolate milk" with Carnation Instant Breakfast (which I *know* is a Nest no-no) and either a bagel with cream cheese, Fruity Cheerios, or pancakes if I'm not feeling lazy.

sunandsand

Fresh fruit every morning.

Half the week a whole grain blueberry waffle covered in peanut butter, the other half the week its whole grain toast and jam.  

buffalo_buckeye

I'm not sure. Dh has to do mornings so it has to be quick and easy. Ds likes mini wheats, oatmeal (instant), fiber one muffins, homemade pancakes (leftovers from the weekend), Bagels, frozen waffles. Most stuff is whole wheat, not too many artificial ingredients. I guess it's not up to nestie standards but I'm ok with that

REOM

Well, with my girls being dairy free, it cuts out a lot of junk food. Most cheap, junky foods use milk as a filler b/c it's cheap in this country.

That said, my girls eat eggs with wheat toast, homemade muffins, Cheerios or Rice Krispies with soy milk, Kashi cereal bars or mini bagels with tofutti cream cheese and jelly and always fruit.

CTFandme

I guess it's pretty terrible that I don't know what my kids eat M-F for breakfast. They eat at daycare. I give them water and a half of a granola bar for the ride there, and have no clue what they eat once they're there.  I know they're given options like fruit, eggos, cereal, etc. Same goes for lunch.  I think they eat a lot of peanut butter sandwiches there.  On the weekend I try to make breakfast both days, like french toast or pancakes or muffins or something mostly healthy, but if the kids are starving, they 'll cereal or yogurt before I get the chance.  It's rare that we have  sugary cereal in the house, but once in a great while we do.  They do make low sugar frosted flakes now, so that's ok right?  wink wink. 

jessicaclare

I'm just honestly happy if I can get them to eat SOMETHING for breakfast. They just aren't big breakfast eaters. Usually its a whole grain eggo with syrup and some fruit, or peanut butter toast, but sometimes if all the want is lucky charms or a poptart, whatever. I don't really care.

KimW

I think breakfast is our healthiest meal of the day, so I voted yes.  I either make pancakes (healthy ones) w/ peanut butter, oatmeal, eggs, fruit, or cheerios.  I don't know what it is about breakfast foods, but my kids just eat them up!  Can't always say the same about lunch and dinner though!

jen5-03

Breakfast varies wildly at my house. Sometimes they just don't want to eat. Sometimes it's oatmeal with raisins and sprinkles (is that nestie approved?)

Once DD just wanted broccoli for breakfast and ate a cereal bowl full of it. cold.

Or toast and jam. But she doesn't want the bread toasted. And no butter. So just a slice of bread with jam. Darn weird kid.

Sometimes it's cinnamon toast crunch.

The only thing I've banned from breakfast is lucky charms because even thought she *promises* to eat all the cereal, they both just eat the marshmallows and that's a too high sugar even for me.

AggieCouple

On school days, I really do try.  For a looooong time, it was cereal or frozen waffles but as TB became older, it became apparent he wasn't getting enough protein to stay full.  He eats very slowly, and even with letting him continue on the way to school, it just wasn't enough.  And I am constantly nagged by the idea that he doesn't get enough fruit and vegetables.  Maybe he is, and I'm just comparing him to ML who will eat almost anything.  But, and it's nothing to do with the nest, I have been on a quest to try to make sure BF is wholesome.  I don't know.  I worry constantly about him, and I have no idea if starting his day with better nutrition will make a difference at all, but at least I don't feel as guilty.

On weekends, I make big decadent, artery-clogging BF's.  Cinnamon rolls sometimes with chocolate chips, chocolate chip buttermilk pancakes for the kids, blueberry for me, stuffed pancakes filled with peanut butter/chocolate spread, and usually paired with some really bad-for-you meat like bacon or breakfast sausage.

I don't know if that's approved or not. The words Whole Wheat are not uttered on Saturday and Sunday mornings.

Stellasmom

Kid eats homemade muffins or bread, dry cereal, Quaker breakfast cookies, mOnkey bars, or a bagel with cream cheese, generally speaking. Not sure if those are Bump approved.

wildfloweragain

During the school year, I have to get 3 kids ready and out of the house by 7:10.  There is no making home made hot breakfast and then waiting for them to eat it.

 

They choose from yogurt (switching bakc to dye free, but we were using trix yogurt), cheest stick, banana, and granola bar or cereal bar.  They can have more or any combination of those.  They can also choose whatever cereal we have, and the healthiness of that cereal vaires.

 

Right now we just finished a box of Trix, we're on Cascadian farms O's and have Checks waiting in the wings.

 

In the summer I'll make pancakes or muffins upon request.

About once a month is donut day where I'll let them eat a donut in the shopping cart at wal mart.

AndiG

I voted SS.  They usually have Cheerios (its the only ceral they eat) or frozen pancakes/waffles (not usually whole grain).  There is always fruit - but its not usually organic...so I'm guessing not nestie approved. 

Their other meals are better.

ridesbuttons

Breakfast is just so damn easy to make 'right'.  How hard is it to toast some whole grain bread and scramble a couple of eggs?  Cut up an orange and voila...

Now dinner, dinner is a different story.  This summer has been brutal for pizza, drive thrus and ready made meals.  Just.no.time.

joy143dh

ridesbuttons:

Breakfast is just so damn easy to make 'right'.  How hard is it to toast some whole grain bread and scramble a couple of eggs?  Cut up an orange and voila...

Now dinner, dinner is a different story.  This summer has been brutal for pizza, drive thrus and ready made meals.  Just.no.time.

It's not that it's difficult to make, I just hate having to rush to clean up after making breakfast to get out of the house on weekdays.   We all do Carnation Instant and strawberries or a banana or a fruit bar during the week.  If DS wakes up early, he'll also have a bowl of (not nest approved) cereal.  I make a full breakfast on the weekends when DH is home to clean up.

Dinner, on the other hand, is "easy" and usually "right" 6 out of 7 nights. (so there, RB )

 

ridesbuttons

^^^

Dinner is really easier for you?  I find it hard as the kids are starving the minute we get home (5:00ish) so unless I have something prepared (or give them eggs, lol) asking them to wait 30 minutes for something to cook is a tough sell.  Add to that we are often heading out to the beach/river/lake/soccer field/etc/etc and I've made myself a recipe for non-bump choices.

I'll add that I am a morning person, so getting up and making breakfast just doesn't feel rushed to me.

joy143dh

I enjoy cooking dinner, so yah, for me, it's not difficult. Plus, DS helps me and we pick on raw & frozen veggies while we cook.

I wake up early too.  But DS & DH like to sleep.  So, it's not making the breakfast that is rushed, it's the cleaning up.   I guess we all have our preferences.  

ridesbuttons

Ah, the sleep in crowd does put a damper on things.

Any dinner cooking tips for the uninspired welcome. 

peekaboo716

We really try to get the kids to eat a decent breakfast. It's usually yogurt, fruit, and maybe some granola or some sort of dry cereal. Sometimes it's a frozen waffle in the toaster served with fresh fruit. Sometimes it's an English muffin with PB on it. I would say that we try to pick more nutritious options that are quick since we both work, even though they don't get a "home cooked" breakfast every day. And they don't even get that on the weekends on a regular basis either.

ashleyaugust7

Usually she eats a plain eggo waffle (because she prefers it that way) or a kids clif bar.  If we are out on the weekends she loves Einstein Bros bagels and also on weekends I will do pancakes from time to time.  Her favorite is bacon- I bet should could eat a lb.

 

Starr57

DS eats in the car on the way to DC. He's not a morning person and neither am I, so we throw clothes on and go. He has a cereal bar and chocolate milk every morning. I give him fruit as well, but he never eats it. We've tried to vary the routine with peanut butter, egg burritos, etc., but he will just not eat if it's not a cereal bar. I'd rather him start the day with un-Nest approved crap in his belly than nothing at all.