Child's Breakfast

I feel like I'm stuck in a rut when it comes to Niall's breakfasts.  They usually consist of:

a) fruit, toast, cup milk and sometimes yoghurt as well
or
b) Wheetabix with fruit and a cup of milk.

I do mix the toast up a bit: sometimes butter, sometimes peanut butter, perhaps cream cheese. Any suggestions for something a little less routine?

What about scrambled eggs and toast?

Do you put cream cheese and peanut butter together on the toast?  It's LOVELY!!! 

French toast, perhaps?  Aillidh likes it with cinammon and sugar.

How about Ready Brek/porridge?  With custard and some all-fruit jam, or raisins and honey.

I have some shaped rings that I use to fry eggs in - so she gets eggs shaped like stars, hearts, etc.  She really enjoys this - with ketchup, of course.  I also do 'chips' at weekends - cut up potatoes baked in the oven - to go w/the eggs and lots of ketchup.

We do give scrambled eggs at times, but that's usually a weekend treat when daddy's home.

Do you put cream cheese and peanut butter together on the toast?  It's LOVELY!!!

You are kidding, right? 

Oatmeal on cold mornings is always nice, you can mix in raisins, bananas, butter, brown sugar, any number of things. Fills them up.

Eggs, scrambled with tomatoes or bacon or even baco bits, quick and good. Hard boiled eggs are good too (just shared some with my daughter (4) and she loved them).

I put sliced banana in her cereal and call it 'banana surprise' to make it interesting for her. She never knows which spoonful will bring up a bit of banana and she is always pleased to announce when she has found the banana surprise.

Beans on toast works too.

Any amount of sliced fruits are good, oranges, apples, whatever else is in season.

Pancakes, which are handy because you can buy them in packs here already cooked, just pop them in the toaster and slab some butter, jam or syrup on them.

For a treat I pick up donuts from the grocery, or we walk to the corner shop and I let her pick out a fresh pastry and one of those Yahoo milkshake things, which I cut with milk when we get home, and sometimes heat up for 'hot chocolate'.

Just some ideas.

Natural yoghurt with yummies like cut up berries and muesli mixed in goes down well w/Aillidh, too.  I think she's pretty close to Niall's age - she was 2 in June. 

I also have a nice recipe for cheddar cheese scones/cheese straws that she really likes, too, which I can put on this evening. 

We do give scrambled eggs at times, but that's usually a weekend treat when daddy's home.

You are kidding, right?

No, honest - cream cheese & peanut butter on toast.  Yummy!  And filling, too!

In the winter we do ReadyBrek too.  I do have a problem with eggs tho.  Seriously, the smell of any other type of cooked egg except scrambled (liberally dosed with milk) makes me retch.

Yes, could you please post the scones/straws recipe, please?

Sausages and/or bacon would be good, too, if you don't want to mess with eggs. Even get one of those ham steaks and fry that up. Don't know if you eat meat or not.

What is ReadyBrek?

Coby eats redi-brek everyday. Its his favorite thing to eat. Recently I bought some toaster waffles which he enjoys. Also he will have frosted flakes with banana in it once in a while.

Ready Brek is finely milled oats.  Much quicker to fix than regular oatmeal.

French toast, perhaps?  Aillidh likes it with cinammon and sugar.

Kirsty LOVES french toast!!!  Luckily now that she's 9 she's able to fix it herself, as it's something I don't like at all.  Don't mind 'eggy bread' though....like french toast, only savoury instead of sweet.  

I have some shaped rings that I use to fry eggs in - so she gets eggs shaped like stars, hearts, etc.

My mum used to do this with us, and I did it w/my kids as well.  Usually works a charm, although I still remember my little sister (10 years younger than me) asking one morning, "Do I have to eat the WHOLE elephant?"  

I put sliced banana in her cereal and call it 'banana surprise' to make it interesting for her. She never knows which spoonful will bring up a bit of banana and she is always pleased to announce when she has found the banana surprise.

I used to order 'surprise juice' for the kiddos when we went out.  They could never decide what they wanted to drink, so as long as we had a sympathetic looking waitress I'd just ask for 'surprise juice'.  The kids thought it was great, and looked forward to seeing what kind of juice they ended up with!!!  (Of course, that's when they were little.  Now they'd hate anything I ordered for them just on principle!)

We do lots of cereal, oatmeal, toast, etc. during the week.  We're normally running in enough different directions that we don't all sit down to breakfast at the same time.  Kaitlyn starts school an hour earlier than Kirsty, I've got work, sometimes my folks have work as well...it's pretty crazy.  On the weekends, we'll let Kirsty indulge in her french toast fetish at least one morning, or we'll do pancakes or waffles instead.

I used to make Dagmar scrambled eggs all the time, because it only took a couple of minutes for me to make.  I also occasionally used to give her cheesy toast-lightly toast the bread, then put cheese on top and put it in a 350 oven for five minutes or so, until the cheese melted.  It was a little bit of a pain but she really liked it. 

Is he at an age yet where he could eat things like frozen waffles?  I would make her one and put jam on it, she loved it and again, it was very easy and quick. (Like StellaMarie's suggestion about pancakes-it's amazing how easy that stuff really is.  I wouldn't give her syrup though!  I'd be cleaning it up for days!)

When she'd been really good, I'd put Nutella or some other chocolate spread on her toast as a treat.

We also got really into baked potatoes for a while, or I'd make her hash browns or something-you can buy them preshredded here and they cook fairly quickly.  I didn't do it too often, but every once in a while I was in the mood to do something more elaborate for her.  Cheese on baked potatoes was a big hit for a while.

And there's always PopTarts or similar.  Not the best brekkie but good if you're not in the mood to do much.

What about adding a few tasty things to the scrambled eggs? Chopped up tomatoes or peppers or bits of bacon or ham or grated cheese?

Also, what about some fried potato, especially if you have any left over mash - you can mix in a few vegetables and fry  it, have it with poached or fried eggs, lovely.
 

I've just gotten so depressed after reading this thread.  All your suggestions are fabulous, and I couldn't use a single one as my son is allergic to eggs, dairy and nuts. *sigh*  It definitely limits the breakfast menu.

Thanks for letting me rant for a moment.