Breakfast question?

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Registered: 10-12-2005
Breakfast question?
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Fri, 02-23-2007 - 8:00am
I was wondering what, if anything, that you cook your kids for breakfast. I am not much of a breakfast eater and neither are the girls. They usually have cereal, waffles, instant oatmeal or something frozen like cinnamon toast or french toast sticks. They also love maltomeal which is the only thing that I cook them. Dalia will often have a yogurt and a piece of fruit. One the weekends, I sometimes make pancakes or french toast. My dh has eggs almost every single day or regular oatmeal on the days that he doesn't have eggs. He gets upset because I don't get up and make the girls a "real breakfast". I say that they are old enough to get their own breakfast most days. I remember having cereal every single day when I was a kid so I don't see what the big deal is.
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Registered: 01-06-2006
Fri, 02-23-2007 - 8:30pm

When I was little my mom gave me Carnation Instant Breakfast. It was the only thing she could get me to eat. I'm not a breakfast eater. My kids always have been (thank goodness). I make them most of the things mentioned - oatmeal, eggs and Canadian Bacon, bagels and cream cheese or jelly, eggs and toast, pancakes, french toast once in a great while. I try to get them a carb, fruit, and a protein of some sort.

Evan can make pancakes, toast, oatmeal, cereal, bagels, and anything that can be nuked.

Once in a while we go to Dunkin' Donuts on the way to church if we're running late.

My secret indulgent breakfast is a sausage biscuit from McDs. This only happens 3-4 times a year.

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Registered: 01-06-2000
Sat, 02-24-2007 - 8:15am

Your girls are eating a perfectly healthy breakfast.
Frankly, your husband is not!

What is a 'real' breakfast?
One that provides fuel for the day.
Some carbohydrates, some protein.
The fruit and yogurt is a GREAT healthy breakfast.
Cereal with milk is a great healthy breakfast.

Eggs, bacon, and hash browns is a fat laden breakfast that should be an occasional treat - not every day fair.

If your girls want an egg, beat it in a cup with a fork, and 1 minute in the microwave makes an easy scramble egg.

My 10 year old makes her own breakfast on school days and has for several years.
She generally has whole wheat toast, a piece of fruit and skim milk.
Or cereal with milk. Or drinkable yogurt with the toast and a fruit.

Hubby is off on this one.
I thought you were going to say the girls didn't eat at all - which would be a problem.
But they are eating, and generally eating healthy things.
I think you are doing fine.

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Registered: 04-14-2003
Sat, 02-24-2007 - 9:54am
I'm with you at 13&11 if my girls can't make themselves something to eat then there is a problem. Our two usually have cereal, toast,a piece or a muffin and a glass of milk. Breakfast is done by 8 and they have their first NAB at 10:40.
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Sat, 02-24-2007 - 1:40pm

I'll admit that I do make a hot breakfast most weekday mornings, Saturdays the kids do cold cereal and let us sleep in usually.

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Sat, 02-24-2007 - 2:45pm

We go through phases...


During the week it is usually cereal or toast and orange juice


Weekends:

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Sat, 02-24-2007 - 8:48pm

Chiming in late here, but I don't make a "cooked" breakfast during the week. On occasion, I'll make my 7 y/o DS a "popeye egg" (which is a piece of bread with a hole in the middle, put in the pan with melted butter, and you crack an egg into the hole, cook and flip until both sides are done). My 11 y/o eats bagels, frozen waffles, french toast sticks, english muffins, and if he's really desperate, cereal. If my youngest doesn't have an egg, he eats cereal.

I was never a breakfast eater as a kid, so as long as they eat *something*, I'm happy. I wouldn't send them to school on an empty stomach, but they do have something in them!

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Sun, 02-25-2007 - 9:16am
LOL at our house we call those eggs Robinson Crusoe eggs or toad in a hole - they are one of my kids all time faves!
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Sun, 02-25-2007 - 3:30pm
Every now and then I'll make hannah scrambled eggs. I usually have homemade muffins and coffee cakes on hand and of course, lots of fruit.
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Registered: 09-01-2006
Sun, 02-25-2007 - 3:32pm
i use to drink those Carnation instant breakfasts. I loved them.
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