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14.01.2011, 15:19
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| | Re: breakfast for kids-what do you do? | Quote: | |  | | | Hubby and I eat oatmeal most mornings. 1 cup of cut rolled oats, 1 cup of water, 1 cup of milk in the rice cooker for 15 minutes. I either add brown sugar and cinnamon, raisins and chopped dried apricots, or grated apple and cinnamon. And we always crumble a few walnuts on top.
The kids only want cereal, and of course they want the crap cereals. In the interest of moderation, they are allowed to alternate mornings of having crap cereal (cookie crisp or cinniminis) and Cherrios, which at least has less sugar and a good oatmeal content.
If you're into bread, but don't like it stale, you can always make fabulous french toast with stale bread. Just slice it up and put it in a casserole dish, beat up some eggs, milk, a tiny bit of sugar and some cinnamon and pour that on top. Leave it covered over night in the fridge and cook it up the next morning (or midday - it makes a great lunch too). | | | | | We do make french toast on weekends, from leftover eggs, but I can't see it as a weekday morning breakfast...maple syrup + desire to fingerpaint = oh no...OH NO!
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14.01.2011, 15:24
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| | Re: breakfast for kids-what do you do? | Quote: | |  | | | No, but the ideas are good, why not introduce those foods to kids. It can take 15 or 20 times before a kid will like a food. | | | | | Yes, but that's for foods like green beans or scrambled eggs. I wouldn't eat pickles or olives for breakfast, so I can't see forcing my picky toddler to do so!
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14.01.2011, 15:26
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| | Re: breakfast for kids-what do you do? | Quote: | |  | | | Not too bad, but I would lay off the juice for the kids. Better for them to eat the fruit whole. The juice is mainly sugar. | | | | | Sorry, but what is so terrible about sugar? I understand not feeding them candy, but a bit of juice doesn't seem so bad. Then again, I'm so desperate to feed this child calories that I will, on occasion, let her eat straight-up butter. | 
14.01.2011, 15:27
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| | Re: breakfast for kids-what do you do? | Quote: | |  | | | We do make french toast on weekends, from leftover eggs, but I can't see it as a weekday morning breakfast...maple syrup + desire to fingerpaint = oh no...OH NO! | | | | | You can have it with jam or sprinkled with powdered sugar instead. That is how my eldest son likes his. But honestly for us it's a weekend thing too. I'm not a morning person.
That's why we have oatmeal (and also for the health benefit). I throw the ingredients in the rice cooker, go back upstairs to get ready, and when I come back down it's ready. I love my rice cooker. It cooks WAY more than rice. | This user would like to thank Serafina for this useful post: | | 
14.01.2011, 15:31
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| | Re: breakfast for kids-what do you do? | Quote: | |  | | | You can have it with jam or sprinkled with powdered sugar instead. That is how my eldest son likes his. But honestly for us it's a weekend thing too. I'm not a morning person.
That's why we have oatmeal (and also for the health benefit). I throw the ingredients in the rice cooker, go back upstairs to get ready, and when I come back down it's ready. I love my rice cooker. It cooks WAY more than rice.  | | | | | Maybe I need to make friends with my rice cooker. I would like to be friends with at least one piece of kitchen equipment...
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14.01.2011, 15:40
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| | Re: breakfast for kids-what do you do? | Quote: | |  | | | Maybe I need to make friends with my rice cooker. I would like to be friends with at least one piece of kitchen equipment... | | | | | WTF!?! You have room for a rice cooker but not a toaster... sheesh. | Quote: | |  | | | Sorry, but what is so terrible about sugar? I understand not feeding them candy, but a bit of juice doesn't seem so bad. Then again, I'm so desperate to feed this child calories that I will, on occasion, let her eat straight-up butter.  | | | | | Child murderer. | Quote: | |  | | | No, but the ideas are good, why not introduce those foods to kids. It can take 15 or 20 times before a kid will like a food. | | | | | That must be it then. Our eldest must be stuck on try #19... permanently...
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14.01.2011, 16:23
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| | Re: breakfast for kids-what do you do? | Quote: | |  | | | Black olives, tomato, pickled gurken, block of feta, hard boiled egg, glass of juice diluted with water. A great start to the day, without sugar/refined carbs, keeps em going till lunch. You can add Greek yoghurt or some smoked mackerel too. | | | | | Nah, they'd be demanding Znuni at 08.30 if they ate that.
Carbs are what kids need for breakfast!
Ours have weetabix or something else with low or no sugar, a glass of milk, yoghurt and sometimes fruit (half a grapefruit) or fruit salad.
We ought to get up five minutes early and make porridge more often.
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14.01.2011, 17:01
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| | Re: breakfast for kids-what do you do?
If you have the space get a sandwich iron, it is nice and warm, throw a slice of ham in it and cheese, butter both of the inside bread sides. Or, we make an oatmeal, with sprinkled chocolate powder, a bit of cinnemon and sugar and butter. Or I bake her a croissant, or pain au lait that one gets prebaked here. Hot chocolate, OJ, petit fromage fraiche, etc. Melons, raspberries, pears, apples. Toast and marmite.
As for being non breakfast person, everyone would be, if you go like this for while. It's a matter of habit, than a disposition. It's fab you decided to change your habits to teach your child good eating routine.
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14.01.2011, 17:11
| | Re: breakfast for kids-what do you do? | Quote: | |  | | |
Carbs are what kids need for breakfast!
| | | | | I'd like to respectfully disagree with that. Most carbs will be burnt off by kids on the journey to school, slow cook oats - perhaps but kids need a good whack of protein and fat in the morning, with fruit (carbs) as energy snacks mid afternoon.
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14.01.2011, 17:12
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| | Re: breakfast for kids-what do you do? | Quote: | |  | | | A croissant for a snack most days? Didn't their kinski tell them about foods and appropiate snacks? Actually the peanut butter in moderation is better than the Nutella | | | | | What do you mean? Croissants are bad for a snack? or are you talking about the fillings?  i thought i was giving them a better option than crisps and biscuits
(this is at home btw when they get in from school around 2.30)
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14.01.2011, 17:14
| | Re: breakfast for kids-what do you do? | Quote: | |  | | | What do you mean? Croissants are bad for a snack? or are you talking about the fillings? i thought i was giving them a better option than crisps and biscuits
(this is at home btw when they get in from school around 2.30) | | | | | Croissants are terrible, and nutritionally, identical to a biscuit. The type of flour is T45 (type 45) which is the most refined wheat flour in existence. This is combined with equal parts butter making it the nutritional equivalent of a Marlboro Red. Yum. Give your kids an apple.
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14.01.2011, 17:18
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| | Re: breakfast for kids-what do you do? | Quote: | |  | | | Black olives, tomato, pickled gurken, block of feta, hard boiled egg, glass of juice diluted with water. A great start to the day, without sugar/refined carbs, keeps em going till lunch. You can add Greek yoghurt or some smoked mackerel too. | | | | | You are so TURK!
My two years old loves all of that and more (except for the mackerel). I'll make some menemen, sucuk (spicy turkish sausage), sausage, etc.
In the week days, she is a peanut butter huge fan. Do not take the Peanut butter away or you'll get into trouble!
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14.01.2011, 17:19
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| | Re: breakfast for kids-what do you do? | Quote: | |  | | | Croissants are terrible, and nutritionally, identical to a biscuit. The type of flour is T45 (type 45) which is the most refined wheat flour in existence. This is combined with equal parts butter making it the nutritional equivalent of a Marlboro Red. Yum. Give your kids an apple. | | | | | It's true. Just a really fatty biscuits, in fact. Simple fatty pastry dough. Unless you need to fatten your kiddo up. Ours don't even like them, unless I spread something on it. It flakes off and makes a mess, too easily.
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14.01.2011, 17:20
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| | Re: breakfast for kids-what do you do? | Quote: | |  | | | I'd like to respectfully disagree with that. Most carbs will be burnt off by kids on the journey to school, slow cook oats - perhaps but kids need a good whack of protein and fat in the morning, with fruit (carbs) as energy snacks mid afternoon. | | | | | I did list a glass of milk and milk on the non-sugar cereal.
How much more protein is feta cheese going to give? (With all respect, do you have any idea of how little cheese a young child can actually eat in one go?)
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14.01.2011, 17:20
| | Re: breakfast for kids-what do you do? | Quote: | |  | | | You are so TURK!
My two years old loves all of that and more (except for the mackerel). I'll make some menemen, sucuk (spicy turkish sausage), sausage, etc.
In the week days, she is a peanut butter huge fan. Do not take the Peanut butter away or you'll get into trouble! | | | | | Make my own hummus and peynir too. IMO peanut butter is very healthy in moderation. Even healthier, you can get peanut butter made with the peanut skins, without sugar. Kids probably won't even tell the difference.
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14.01.2011, 17:21
| | Re: breakfast for kids-what do you do? | Quote: | |  | | | I did list a glass of milk and milk on the non-sugar cereal.
How much more protein is feta cheese going to give? (With all respect, do you have any idea of how little cheese a young child can actually eat in one go?) | | | | | No no sure it's going to be a little block, and I'd also give em some fish or meat in the morning, but the principle is that refined carbs aren't what people really need in the morning to keep them going longest. Milk is great.
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14.01.2011, 17:22
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| | Re: breakfast for kids-what do you do? | Quote: | |  | | | Croissants are terrible, and nutritionally, identical to a biscuit. The type of flour is T45 (type 45) which is the most refined wheat flour in existence. This is combined with equal parts butter making it the nutritional equivalent of a Marlboro Red. Yum. Give your kids an apple. | | | | |  Jesus! well thanks for the info, I didnt realise....Its so hard sometimes getting the 'good' food into kids. My boy loves to eat apples infact he would eat one after another all day, but thats all he would eat if I let him 
My girl loves to eat all sorts so she is no problem, but just as you 'think' you have found something good and easy to get the kids to eat, you find out its devil food. well back to the drawing board then....
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14.01.2011, 17:23
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| | Re: breakfast for kids-what do you do? | Quote: | |  | | | I did list a glass of milk and milk on the non-sugar cereal.
How much more protein is feta cheese going to give? (With all respect, do you have any idea of how little cheese a young child can actually eat in one go?) | | | | | Well, about 300gr ours. Ugh.
Feta is a lot more valuable than simple milk, for calcium content. I think more proteins, too.
I actually do agree with feta, dark bread and egg with some fruits or veggies to be the perfect breakfast, but cannot really see a 2yr old buying into this.
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14.01.2011, 17:23
| | Re: breakfast for kids-what do you do? | Quote: | |  | | | Jesus! well thanks for the info, I didnt realise....Its so hard sometimes getting the 'good' food into kids. My boy loves to eat apples infact he would eat one after another all day, but thats all he would eat if I let him
My girl loves to eat all sorts so she is no problem, but just as you 'think' you have found something good and easy to get the kids to eat, you find out its devil food. well back to the drawing board then.... | | | | | Your kid could do a lot worse than overeat apples! try this as a sweet snack:
Get plate:
2 tablespoons plain greek yoghurt
handful of dried fruit
handful of walnuts
2 teaspoons of honey.
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Economisto, we are so alike!! Fantastic food sense, love the Greek salad in the morning, if ever I could be assed to make it. I eat organic peanut butter straight from the jar, which I think is one of the healthiest things ever. Oh, make my own hummus also ;-)
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