Fast forward 2 years and now I am always trying to get him to eat a nutritious breakfast which does not involve opening a cardboard box. He will NOT eat the oats I make, no matter how many yummy add-ins I put on it. Sometimes he will eat scrambled eggs and lox if the eggs are smothered in cheese. Sometimes he just wants an apple, with a side of cheese. Lately I have been trying my hand at making sourdough pancakes, which he liked at first but then he started rejecting them. So I made them into letters and numbers. He declared that the numbers and letters tasted better than the circles. Which is fine by me, as long as I don't have to start adding cheese to the pancakes.
As you can see, they don't even need to look nice.
And sometimes they really don't look nice.
Once I accidentally cut them up before he had a chance to see them on his plate. He lost it. I had to cut a circle pancake into a "5" before he could settle down.
I know there are all sorts of cute pancake molds out there, but I can't deal with Teflon and I really don't need another gadget taking up precious drawer space in my tiny kitchen.
I'm curious, am I the only one who doesn't open a dry cereal box? What do you feed you children for breakfast?
I've never liked cereal, and I don't think it makes a good breakfast anyway. I've tried and tried with the oats too, but they don't fly:(
ReplyDeleteI'm always trying to push protein in the morning, so I make lots of eggs. Fried, scrambled (with spinach added in) and even hard boiled. Interestingly PBug won't eat an omelette with cheese because she thinks they stink!
In the summer we have lots and lots of fruit smoothies for breakfast, and I can even sneak in some leafy greens. Sometimes she eats apple slices or toast with peanut butter. She loves pancakes but I haven't tried sourdough. She also loves these whole wheat mini bagels I get with cream cheese.
Bottom line, I always feel good sending her off to school if she has some eggs in her. In my opinion, they're a superfood. If anything will get you through your morning, it's eggs.
We mix our own cereal - it includes raw oatmeal, almonds, sunflower seeds and cranberries. We mix seed-cranberry mix for Anna in the Magic Bullet since she refuses to eat nuts otherwise. We are completely non-imaginative with breakfast and have the same thing every day except Sundays. We have a breakfast with our best friend in a local eatery, and Anna devours pancakes there. Amusingly, breakfast is the only thing that she consistently eats without any fussing.
ReplyDeleteWe like oatmeal bake and soaked granola or a kefir smoothie (you want some grains?)
ReplyDeleteBen has never liked cereal. When he was an infant I used to make him a bizarre combo of infant rice cereal, prune juice & applesauce...he LOVED it.
ReplyDeleteFor about the last 3 years, though, he's been more of a 1/2 a bagel and small container of yogurt sort of guy.
I swear his yogurt regimen is the reason he's never sick [as she knocks on wood].
I don't mind if my kids eat cereal, as long as it's a healthy kind (I don't buy organic--too expensive on one salary--but I only buy low-sugar whole-grain kinds like shredded wheat and Cheerios). But they don't want it. They eat--every single day, for YEARS AND YEARS--whole-grain toast spread with all-natural peanut butter and honey. Plus half a banana and skim milk to drink. Every single day.
ReplyDeleteCute idea! I don't do cereal either. It's too expensive and fills my kiddo up for about a minute. I don't really do traditional breakfast foods. I usually give her hummus with veggies, apples dipped in peanut butter, ants on a log, sometimes quinoa "oatmeal" and protein packed smoothies. She's not a big eater so I have to get protein and fat into her any chance I get!
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Thanks for the link. I have made lots of pancakes that didn't come out looking great and I agree with you about Teflon and pancake molds. If you use a squeeze bottle (or a turkey baster) you can somewhat control the design of the pancakes better, but that doesn't always work either.
ReplyDeleteMy kids rarely eat cereal. They like oatmeal, waffles, fruit, or yogurt for breakfast. I eat cereal more than they do - I grew up eating Cheerios and I still love them. We also like to make granola and I usually eat most of it. Smoothies are popular here too.
I also mix my own cereal with the different grains, fruits and nuts. It works well rather than those commercialized expensive cereals.
ReplyDeleteLove the unique cute pancakes tho! (: