toddler breakfast question

Bridezookie · November 2010

Hello! My son recently started to refuse eating his infant oatmeal for breakfast (we were using HappyBellies organic oatmeal and he loved it for months). Now I don't know what to send to daycare for a healthy easy breakfast for him. Would love to know what you're giving your LO for breakfast that is nutritious! Thanks!

TSD · November 2010

He eats frozen waffles every morning. If he doesn't finish them, I just put all the pieces in a baggie and take them on the go.

I like Van's- https://www.vansfoods.com/The_Goods/#/all_products

Cityplanner · November 2010

DD will usually have applesauce or cottage cheese (I let her pick) and a pecs of whole grain toast with butter or peanut butter. Some mornings she eats a lot and some barely anything. I'm trying to get her interested in steel cut oatmeal, but so far she wants nothing to do with it.

haleymay18 · November 2010

I give earth's best blueberry mini waffles. That with a banana and cheerios.

bethCT · November 2010

at home with me dd has cheerios, half a bagel (she mostly eats off the cream cheese) and hopefully some fruit. Occasioanlly cheese. Often dried peas. Then at school she has cereal with milk, yogurt and fruit. I got oatmeal to mix with fruit but she was not into it... on the weekends she likes more bagels, or pancakes, or waffles, and fruit.

IEtoLA · November 2010

DD has yogurt every morning with some fruit added and either a whole grain waffle, some Cherios or oatmeal added to it.

PinkeLLe2 · November 2010

DS loves frozen blueberry waffles (we get Earth's Best) with fruit, or toast and fruit, he really likes oatmeal with applesauce and cut up banana mixed in with a little cinnamon sprinkled on top. Those are our main ones during the week when we're in a rush.

gumiberg · November 2010

they always have grapes + 1-2 other fruits (today it was pear slices and some plum...i just cut up all the fruits from the market and put them in tupperwear. we also have apples, persmimmons, kiwi, pineappple and blackberries in the fridge...'tis the season!). if its a day i go to work, they also have a frozen waffle (vans brand) topped w/apple sauce and spinach puree. if its a day i dont work, they have a bagel thin w/ whipped cream cheese in the jogging stroller.

RD'sgirl · November 2010

you could give your LO real oatmeal with some fresh fruit in it. I switch up my dd's breakfasts alternating from scrambled eggs and toast/english muffin, english muffin/toast and some fresh fruit or pancakes with fresh fruit mixed in the batter (I make about 7 of them at the beginning of the week and wrap individually and freeze for the week)

KathrynMD · November 2010

waffle or a rice cake and yogurt, lately DD has been eating some grapes too.

jannv11 · November 2010

Toast with cream ch, peanut butter sandwich, cereal bar, yogurt, scrambled eggs

H4'sFan · November 2010

She eats 1-2 servings of fruit with a 1/2 cup of Cheerios. Sometimes it is toast with Almond Butter instead of the Cheerios. She also drinks a sippy of milk while I am cutting up her fruit. She has never really cared for oatmeal.

lewis514 · November 2010

DD eats for breakfast any combo of the following: yogurt, fruit (pears, peaches, grapes, watermelon, applesauce, apple, banana), waffles, pancakes, toast with butter or jam, mini bagel, grammy sammy, eggs or turkey sausage.

I usually vary based on what's packed for lunch to keep it balanced. So if she has a lower protein lunch, I will offer the eggs or sausage.

She also always gets milk with breakfast but usually drinks it on the way to daycare or when she gets there.

m0132 · November 2010

DD loves toast with a little bit of butter and cinnamon. I give her that almost every morning with either scrambled eggs with cheese or fruit or yogurt. I make breakfast muffins sometimes for DH to bring to work that DD loves..I make them in a muffin tin and they have Stovetop chicken stuffing on the bottom, sausage and a cracked egg over top with grated cheddar cheese and green onions...the egg cooks fully once its baked and DD inhaled them but I don't particularly want her to eat that every day, just something to change it up every once in a while.

Lopo · November 2010

Organic blueberry waffles, scrambled egg, strawberries/blueberries, Morning Star breakfast sausage links. (He doesn't eat all of this, just giving you ideas of what we offer him) Stick out tongue

oscarkat · November 2010

Here's some examples ofwhat I send in the mornings...DS has been having constapation issues, so he gets 1 activia yogurt every day, along with medicine. Because of the constipation he wasn't eating great, and wasn't gaining weight like he should have been last month, so I try to give a lot of variety. I make a lot of loafs, etc, on the weekend, then freeze them to use throughout the week. The extra early mornings now are getting a little bit rough though.

I send it to daycare with DS in the mornings (I actually get it ready and DH brings it because I leave the house around 6, and they leave at 8).

1 - banana bread, yogurt, grapes

2- Oatmeal pancakes with blue berries, yogurt, fresh blue berries and raspberries

3- apple spice breakfast cake, fruit bar, yogurt

4 - waffle, pear, yogurt

5 - pumpkin oat loaf, yogurt, cheerios

6 - hard boil egg, home made breakfast bar, yogurt

7 - zuccini bread (regular or chocolate for a treat), yogurt, apple slices

8 - cinnamon pancakes, sauteed apples, yogurt

9 - puffy oven apple pancakes, yogurt, arrowroot cookie

I'll eventually get all the recipes up on the blog (see siggy) if you're interested, I just haven't had time to type them all out yet. The banana bread is there now though.

oscarkat · November 2010

m0132:
DD loves toast with a little bit of butter and cinnamon. I give her that almost every morning with either scrambled eggs with cheese or fruit or yogurt. I make breakfast muffins sometimes for DH to bring to work that DD loves..I make them in a muffin tin and they have Stovetop chicken stuffing on the bottom, sausage and a cracked egg over top with grated cheddar cheese and green onions...the egg cooks fully once its baked and DD inhaled them but I don't particularly want her to eat that every day, just something to change it up every once in a while.

OMG love the idea of the breakfast muffin, I'll be trying it this weekend

Couple of questions:

Do you pre-cook the susage (I'm assuming so)

what temp / how long to bake?

Awesome idea!

ToBeMrsC6907 · November 2010

He always has a banana and sippy of whole milk.

Then it varies- he likes Cheerios, whole wheat mini bagels, whole wheat toast, frozen whole grain waffles with applesauce, whole wheat mini muffins (I make all different kinds), english muffins.

On the weekends, whole wheat pancakes and french toast, sausage, canadian bacon.

He does not like eggs, yet.

ToBeMrsC6907 · November 2010

Also he loves oatmeal- I make steel cut for him with whole milk, some butter, and maple syrup for a little sweetness, and add dried cherries or cranberries or raisins- he gobbles that up!

Bridezookie · November 2010

Wow--thank you all for the wonderful ideas! Sounds like I need to whip up a few recipes on the weekends and then I'll be all set.

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