What do your kids eat for breakfast? I am feeling bored with our routine. I’ve borrowed an awesome breakfast cookbook, which I really like, but I find 1) I am tired, lazy and uninspired in the morning and 2) a lot of the foods in there are a kind of a hard sell — my kids are very stuck in a breakfast rut (at least the preschooler is)!
Usually they have cold cereal or toast/english muffin/bagels with cream cheese and some kind of fruit (pears, bananas, apple slices, canned peaches, applesauce). Sometimes I add in yogurt or eggs (Emma rarely will touch either, the babies LOVE the yogurt and sometimes the eggs). Waffles and pancakes go over well fresh, but are not as popular frozen and reheated (RATS!). Oatmeal used to be a favorite of the little ones, but no longer…
I’ve found my kids start out with a light breakfast (babies nurse before that) and then have one or two substantial snacks in the AM. I’d much rather they eat a big breakfast and skip one of those snacks!
Here are my breakfasters today. Delia (in red) was in an awesome mood and was just so goofy and happy and grown up I just had to get the camera…
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My kids eat the same thing for breakfast every morning. Occasionally I stress over the fact that they don’t want to broaden their food horizons but then I remember that I pretty much ate the same breakfast and lunch until I was a teenager. It’s a balanced menu – just a monotonous one!
We’re yogurt and cereal here, all the time. If I left him, Elliot would live off yogurt and cereal. We usually follow up with a piece of toast. Henry sometimes like hard-boiled eggs, but if he’s not into them it just turns into a big mess.
I haven’t found any easy breakfast meals that work for us; day old pancakes get four big thumbs down here.