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I pushed the knob thingy on the toaster all the way down so their Pop Tarts wouldn't be cold.
Ha! Love it. Sometimes I wonder if I'm taking this food thing too seriously.
I cook a big breakfast most days. My reasoning is two-fold. I have two slightly underweight kids who eat best in the morning, so bacon, eggs, toast with butter, is all good stuff for them.
Secondly my mom was a SAHM (as am I) and a great one but she never made me breakfast, drove me nuts, so I do.
I could probably get more calories in them if I stuck to Pop Tarts right Dew?
Ha! Love it. Sometimes I wonder if I'm taking this food thing too seriously.
I cook a big breakfast most days. My reasoning is two-fold. I have two slightly underweight kids who eat best in the morning, so bacon, eggs, toast with butter, is all good stuff for them.
Secondly my mom was a SAHM (as am I) and a great one but she never made me breakfast, drove me nuts, so I do.
I could probably get more calories in them if I stuck to Pop Tarts right Dew?
I would say that if breakfast is their best meal of the day, give them a big one. If I made that in the morning, they would nibble on a piece of bacon and maybe eat an egg.
I could probably get more calories in them if I stuck to Pop Tarts right Dew?
I had a wonderful Polish grandmother who made everything from scratch. She'd get up at 4am to make bread for the day. She was into healthy eating and organic produce. Canned vegetables she grew in her own garden. One morning, while she was visiting us, she saw the Pop Tarts in the cupboard and said, "I wish we'd had these when I was a young mother. It would have been so much easier."
I had a wonderful Polish grandmother who made everything from scratch. She'd get up at 4am to make bread for the day. She was into healthy eating and organic produce. Canned vegetables she grew in her own garden. One morning, while she was visiting us, she saw the Pop Tarts in the cupboard and said, "I wish we'd had these when I was a young mother. It would have been so much easier."
I stopped feeling guilty after that.
Sounds like my mom. Even as a teenager, when I was more than old enough to get up and make myself something to eat, I would come down to a full, hot breakfast every morning before school. My own poor kid is lucky to get Eggo waffles, cereal, or oatmeal in the morning.
Timely thread as I have just started a low carb (Atkins) diet and I asked doc if low carb was healthy for my children. he said definitely. So I have started frying bacon, scramble eggs and half piece of toast for my two 9 year old skinny girls. I usually make a big carb heavy breakfast at least once on the weekends and they usually eat cold cereal, bagel or toast on week day mornings.
When I started with the bacon/egg breakfast I asked them to be especially aware of any difference in how they feel at school, especially before lunch. Both reported they had more energy and were not as sleepy. I found that fascinating.
They were certainly not sleepy due to not enough sleep as they are usually in bed by 8 p.m. and up by 6:30 a.m. on school days.
But I am having a hard time with frying bacon in the morning. Microwave bacon is such a big mess with multiple paper towel soaks to be changed and in the skillet is a big mess too. I have never baked or broiled bacon in the oven but know I will need something to drain the fat that is for sure.
Also one of my daughters has braces and she says citrus fruit is bad and not allowed. I must have missed that. So one girls gets a clementine for breakfast and braces girl gets milk. Now they both enjoy decaf tea and hot choc which they can make themselves.
Timely thread as I have just started a low carb (Atkins) diet and I asked doc if low carb was healthy for my children. he said definitely. So I have started frying bacon, scramble eggs and half piece of toast for my two 9 year old skinny girls. I usually make a big carb heavy breakfast at least once on the weekends and they usually eat cold cereal, bagel or toast on week day mornings.
When I started with the bacon/egg breakfast I asked them to be especially aware of any difference in how they feel at school, especially before lunch. Both reported they had more energy and were not as sleepy. I found that fascinating.
I have IBS and frequently I feel a little nauseated in the mornings. I typically can only handle an English muffin or a few pieces of toast. When I get to work half an hour later, I end up RAVENOUSLY hungry- I feel like I could chew my own arm off. If I manage to eat a little bit of scrambled eggs instead, it keeps me fuller much longer. Protein does make a different, especially at breakfast when you're struggling to wake up.
Both my husband and I work, and we love breakfast, so we wake up a bit earlier to make breakfast for all of us to order. Mostly it's scrambled/boiled/fried eggs or omelettes, cereal, toast, oj, lattes, even smoothies.
We freeze choc chip pancakes from the weekend, and also buy the frozen sausage muffins. Instant oatmeal (Dinousaur Eggs) or bagels. We make eggs and bacon/sausage about twice a week. Ours eat in the morning best as well.
My oldest is 13 and is not a big breakfast eater. She will eat something very light if I make a fuss with her. Some of her favorites are yogurt, 1/2 an English muffin with peanut butter or a slice of cheese, a strawberry smoothie, toast with Nutella, applesauce, a cheese stick or a handful of trail mix.
Her school starts at 8 and her lunch is at 10:15. When she gets home at 3:15 that is when she is really hungry
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