Breakfast ideas?

[ClareC]

My daughter is getting fed up with weetabix and cheerios which are the cereals we tend to have. Any suggestions of alternatives that are not packed with sugar but which children like?

She also eats yogurt, toast and fruit but that's about the extent of our breakfast menu and I think she would welcome a change!

Clare

[Belle]

Shreddies?

Egg-based breakfast a big hit here - if can be bothered e.g. at weekends I try to do french toast/eggy bread, or boiled egg and soldiers. Occasionally I give honey on toast as a treat.

[Pickle]

My kids tend to have a selection of shreddies, rice krispies, cornflakes, cheerios & weetabix. Porridge always goes down well, I put raisins in it for them. They never have just one of those options, always two, and they tend to both choose different combinations which is sometimes a bit much for my brain to cope with early in the morning! But I figure if it means they'll eat a decent amount of breakfast I'll do it.

As a "special weekend treat" last weekend I gave them cocoa pops and neither one liked them, they both asked for "normal" rice krispies. Oh well, looks like Mummy will have to finish the box then... :)

[zeban]

My Mum always had a range of cereals on offer for us. French toast was a treat every now and then which we all loved

[EDmummy]

English muffins (not the sugar packed American ones), crumpets, toasted bagels, baked beans or spaghetti hoops (we go for the low sugar/low salt variety). Our kids also reject sugary cereals (for treats), even though they like the look of them if they see an ad. Funnily enough I have one that will only eat rice crispies for breakfast even though he is offered a choice.

[guest1]

I've started making Bircher muesli and my 2 year old loves it. Dead easy; soak whole oats in good quality apple juice overnight in the fridge then top with fruit (grated apple, fruit purees, blueberries or whatever) and a dollop of yoghurt. I make a big batch and we eat it all week. Yum.

[Ruth_Baldock]

Toasted bagels a hit here; cinnamon and raisin ones especially. Anything egg based, if I can be bothered (ahem). Sometimes I make pancakes with cut up fruit on 'the side' and Seb goes mad for them.

Current obsession is cheerios though. Sigh.

[Fuschia]

Buy frozen summer fruits - tesco and sains both do

Microwave Hslf a pack with a squirt of honey and eat with Greek yoghurt

[Moos]

Grating fruit (apples, pears etc.) a good tip which a friend gave me, makes oats or rice pops more interesting. Son 1 likes bran flakes but I try to mix with other cereals so not too much refined sugar.

[Belle]

oh yes muffins are great - we do a bacon muffin brunch as a kind of second breakfast for him sometimes at weekends and seems to go down well.

[womanofdulwich]

pancakes are lovely too. althought my au pairs always made much nicer ones than I ever could.

[sanity girl]

Blackbird bakery do a fantastic american pancake mix. Unfortunately my daughter won't touch them (or most other things for breakfast - cereal, toast, english muffins, crumpets etc etc - used to eat them but just won't any more *sigh*)

[Fuschia]

Croissants are nice

[Otta]

We often use the "Oat so simple" sachets, and either add a bit of honey to sweeten it up a bit, or chuck in some blue berries.

[chantelle]

porridge - cheap fast and easy.

i don't believe in giving too many choices, i think it encourages fussiness. it's pretty much weetabix or porridge in my house.

[Helen GV]

pancakes, with nutella (thinly spread for him, not so thinly for mummy...)

[sanity girl]

the one and only time my daughter tried porridge she spat it straight out half way across the table! Can't blame her, hate the stuff myself! She doesn't even want toast with nutella any more. Just dairy and fruit. Guess that's not so bad?

[nylonmeals]

Another vote for porridge but with tons of mashed up fruit like bananas and chopped up dried fruit like dates, figs or apricots. Goes down a treat wit our 14 month old.

[njc97]

Other cereal - oatibix, special k, rice crispies, all favourites in our house. As our weetabix minis with raisins in, but surprisingly sugary.

I tend not to worry so much about variety at breakfast though, and just try to vary stuff later on.

[ClareC]

Thx all :-)

Some brilliant suggestions, we are trying them out and so far all have been a success with baby I :-)