Childhood breakfasts

[amaranth]

What did you eat for breakfast as a kid? Let's say preschool through 5th grade range.


I just remembered an old discussion with a coworker. She cooks her son a several course breakfast each day and was shocked that my mom let us eat cereal or make our own oatmeal. Lol. I was shocked how dedicated she was.

[HoneySpider]

I think we had cereal most of the time.

[Deleted]

In elem school I pretty much had no breakfast, but in middle school and high school I'd have some variation of oatmeal, toast, boiled eggs, fruit, juice, milk, sometimes a handful of nuts. On a normal day, for instance, I'd have 2 eggs, a piece of toast, and a glass of orange juice. As a kid I didn't like cereal with milk, but I see no problem with that.

[mac08]

Almost always cereal.  I don't remember my parents ever cooking breakfast.  Usually we got bagels on Sundays, and there might have been a few times pancakes were made on a Saturday, but that was rare. 

[Deleted]

Toast with peanut butter or dry cereal. I didn't start liking milk with cereal until I was older.

[estrellita]

Cereal mostly. My favorites were PB crunch (I still eat this, lol) and Alphabits!

[estrellita]

Oh, and pancakes, waffles, or French Toast on the weekends. We never really had eggs because my mom doesn't like them.

[bk1]

Cereal.

[amaranth]

Did anyone eat those nesquick balls? They were like mini cocoa puffs that actually made your milk chocolatey. It was amazing but they discontinued it in the US. Next time I go to Europe I am totally bringing some home.

[MrsMB]

Cereal mostly. We would usually eat on the run with pop tarts or hand-held items.

[grover]

Frosted flakes, fruity pebbles, lucky charms (though I'd only eat out the marshmallows), chocolate pop tarts and scrambled eggs.

My mom would cook sit down breakfasts on the weekends.

[wanderingenough]

Cereal or poptarts. My parents both worked crazy retail hours, so there wasn't much major cooking going on.

[Deleted]

Cereal, bagels or pop tarts. If I was lucky, toaster strudels.

[rockinrobyn]

Cereal or a bagel with peanut butter and jelly. On the weekends we got sausage or bacon.

[christy082]

Cereal, toast, pop tarts or toaster strudel. On weekends sometimes we'd have eggs and toast or blueberry muffins.

[wanderingenough]

Oh yeah, on the way to preschool I remember getting lots of cheese danishes from the gas station. It's a wonder I wasn't like 300lbs as a kid!

[tacocat]

Mainly cereal and pop tarts. Sometimes we would have cinnamon rolls on Sunday morning and it was a fight to see who got the middle one.

[anyastroud]

I really can't remember. That being said my 7 & 6 yo get cereal most mornings some times oatmeal or yogurt with fruit just depends on what I have on hand and what they want. I will say usually Sat. or Sun. every week we will sit down and have a big brunch with eggs and biscuits gravy and bacon and stuff. 

[lindsaymg]

Cereal, strawberry flavored oatmeal, or Eggo waffles.

[katespade]

Is it weird that I don't remember? Because I really don't.

[grover]

Ooh I forgot about the toaster strudels! The plain cream cheese filled ones with the icing you could draw with were my favorites. They stopped selling those by me though.

[pooh8402]

Cereal

[katespade]

I think I remember! I always ate breakfast at school. We lived out in the country so we had to catch the bus super early and then had a bunch of extra time after the bus dropped us off, so I had whatever the school was serving that morning.

[agteach08]

Mostly cereal but also pop tarts, frozen waffles, toast...

[amaranth]

Jul 29, 2015 7:00:58 GMT -5 grover said:

Ooh I forgot about the toaster strudels! The plain cream cheese filled ones with the icing you could draw with were my favorites. They stopped selling those by me though.

Do they sell the flavored ones near you? They do here. I got those on birthdays and am tempted to buy them again. They're just so unhealthy. But delicious. Absolutely delicious.

[grover]

Jul 29, 2015 22:48:41 GMT -5 amaranth said:

Jul 29, 2015 7:00:58 GMT -5 grover said:

Ooh I forgot about the toaster strudels! The plain cream cheese filled ones with the icing you could draw with were my favorites. They stopped selling those by me though.

Do they sell the flavored ones near you? They do here. I got those on birthdays and am tempted to buy them again. They're just so unhealthy. But delicious. Absolutely delicious.

Yes but because I'm extremely picky, I don't like the flavored ones. RIP plain cream cheese toaster strudels.