What do you make your kids for Breakfast?

KellyOsu23 · July 2011

I make the kids a balanced lunch/dinner every day, but I will admit the kids get up at 7:00, which wakes me up (I am not much of a morning person) so with 2 immediately wanting there milk, and me wanting my coffee I usually just do toast or fruit or a cereal bar.

Then I was thinking this morning, how I usually am hungry too which I usually just wait it out until lunch and perhaps I should start making eggs/pancakes/waffles/bacon/sausage (obviously not in one day!) but REAL breakfasts now that the kids are older and it would be 3 of us eating.

Whats normal breakfasts in your house?

Dh is out the door before 7, so he fends for himself.

cmh06 · July 2011

DD usually gets yogurt and milk. Then she has a waffle, french toast sticks, pancakes, or a bowl of cereal. She also sometimes has toast, english muffin, or bagel.

Mrs.JLC · July 2011

My DD is really into cereal right now. She also loves toast and english muffins. She enjoys pancakes, waffles, and french toast as well but I work so we generally do that on the weekends. However recently she will decline a big homemade breakfast for a quick bowl of cereal.

Spin313 · July 2011

DS almost always has a bowl of mixed fruit with something else (cereal, toast, a toaster waffle, yogurt cup, half a bagel, etc).

ppants · July 2011

I make breakfast for my twins every morning. My mom was a SAHM and made up breakfast every morning so I wanted to be able to do the same for my kids.

Every other day, they eat scrambled eggs. I actually make them in the microwave since it's faster. The days that they aren't getting eggs, I make pancakes, french toast, or an eggo waffle. I also give a cereal, fruit, and sometimes a muffin, nutri-grain bar, or yogurt with the hot items.

KL777 · July 2011

Really basic;

variety of cereal
oatmeal
Cream of Wheat
waffles
pancakes

DS is allergic to eggs.

For myself, I typically eat whatever I'm in the mood to eat for breakfast.

Pesky · July 2011

They usually get breakfast at DC unless it's something I know one of them won't eat and then I cart along yogurt or a bagel with cream cheese and some fruit. Weekends vary widely -- from homemade pancakes, eggs and bacon to eggos and cereal. Depends on what the kids want and what we want.

KristinKD · July 2011

Most days, DD1 asks for oatmeal, so that's what I make both girls; I make it with quick oats and milk and mash a banana into it after cooking. Otherwise, she might ask for pancakes (either plain, blueberry, banana, or cottage cheese*) or blueberry waffles (I always make extra to keep in the freezer), with applesauce on the side instead of syrup. Occasionally she'll ask for cereal with milk and sliced banana; we always have Cheerios, Puffins, and Shredded Spoonfuls. Another breakfast food they like, but we usually have for lunch, is what I grew up calling "eggs and bears": soft-boiled eggs mashed together with toast. Yogurt is also usually a lunch thing at our house.

* I like the cottage cheese pancakes because they're a complete meal, with whole grains, protein, and fruit. To make: In a blender, combine 1 cup oats, 1/2 cup low-fat cottage cheese, 8 egg whites, one ripe banana, and a generous sprinkling of cinnamon; blend until smooth, then cook like regular pancakes.

I rarely eat breakfast with them and usually eat my own thing on my own time.

MrsHughesNC · July 2011

DD's breakfasts are usually a carb (waffles, pancakes, mini bagel, small PB& J sandwich, etc), a protein (a scrambled egg, piece of turkey sausage, cheese), and some kind of fruit.

DH and I fend for ourselves.

franciscaz · July 2011

They all get Yogurt and a fresh fruit bowl most mornings (although today I was lazy and did yogurt breakfast bars for everyone

).

brightning · July 2011

A lot of the time, she chooses cereal.

Many breakfast foods I make and freeze for later. I really like Martha Stewart's cornmeal pancakes - I make a whole batch of silver dollar sized pancakes and freeze them, then just pop off a few and microwave them in the morning. I also make batches of waffles and freeze them (you reheat them in the toaster on low). Steel-cut oats with fruit, then I freeze them in individual portions.

She usually has a side of fruit or Greek yogurt with her breakfast. I also make scrambled eggs, crepes, French toast, chicken in a basket (a fried egg cooked inside toast) and fried eggs on top of rice. Scrambled eggs turn my stomach lately, so she doesn't get much of those.

lilone_06 · July 2011

The girls each get a cup of milk first thing, then they usually have cereal or toast & jam, honey, or vegemite, depending on their mood. sometimes Dd2 will have eggs, but DD1 won't eat them.

TRMomma · July 2011

We do nonfat vanilla yogurt with fresh berries and almond or walnuts, cereal, granola, oatmeal, and peanut butter and bananas on toast.

Mrs Manners · July 2011

If we are eating at home, he typically gets some version of eggs and meat and possibly fruit. Scrambled eggs, boiled eggs, omlet (with veggies), fritatta (with meat and veggies), bacon, sausage, ham, steak and berries, apples or some other fruits. Dh and I eat paleo and so ds eats that way at home too. If he's going to eat at school that day, I may fix and send one of the above with him or occassionally will send a homemade waffle with greek yogurt for dipping. The fritattas I make in a muffin pan on the weekend and we reheat and eat during the week. Waffles I make ahead and pull out of the freezer. Fruit and meat are often prepped the night before (and meat reheated in the morning). We have to leave by 7:15 for me to be at work on time usually.

VTbride05 · July 2011

We often have a 1/2 an English Muffin and a yogurt and some fresh fruit. A few days a week I make eggs. Sometimes we have pancakes.

OH, and we have steel cut oatmeal a few times a week. I'm obsessed with it and DS loves it!

lite-bright · July 2011

It depends on the morning. Right now, DD1 is in summer preschool, and we have to be out the door by 7:30 a.m. On those days, we do fresh fruit and either a cereal bar or a waffle with flavored cream cheese (I like the frozen waffles from Van's Naturals, the eight-grain ones are so much more substantial than Eggos).

If we have a morning where we don't have to be anywhere right away, I make scrambled eggs or maybe pancakes to go along with the fruit. We really only do sausage/bacon we're doing breakfast-for-dinner. If I have time, I might bake muffins from bananas or some other fruit some night and have those stocked away for breakfasts.

triplea1819 · July 2011

DS always asks for oatmeal, or cereal. he wants 2 packets of oatmeal. I make 2, give DD half of 1 and he eats the rest.

I eat after I drop him off at preschool. usually PB crackers or something like that.

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