Healthy Breakfast Ideas For Kids

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day to anyone especially children. They have to get up and go to school in the morning. If they do not eat something they tend to lag the rest of the day, have that tired and no energy feeling. Think about it after a child has eaten dinner and gone to bed by the time they get up in the morning it has been roughly 10 hours or more since they have gotten something in their systems. So now all the food from dinner is digesting and blood sugar may be low. They may be groggy and their brain function will be off. Some kids sleep late and do not have time to eat something before they leave for school. This is why it is good to have them keep a snack in their book bags that is healthy and you know will give them the safe and healthy energy to get through the day. I am going to give you some healthy breakfast ideas for kids, they will thank you when at the end of the day they do not feel like they have just ran 5 miles due to lack of food.

Breakfast Foods For Kids

1. A bowl of cream of wheat with bananas and a cup of milk.
2. Eggs, toast and orange juice.
3. Cereal, milk and a cup of juice with a piece of fruit.
4. Pancakes or waffles with turkey sausage or bacon, juice or milk and fruit.
5. If the child is running late you can give them a cereal bar, granola bar, ziploc bag of cut fruit, or you can make trail mix by mixing raisins, cheerios, nuts, dried fruit together.
6. Yogurt with a bag of dried fruit and granola in it so they can mix it together.
7. You can get them small containers of orange juice or other healthy juices so they can take them on the go. String cheeses are another great source of food for energy.
8. You can toast up an English muffin and put peanut butter and jelly on that for them with a cup of milk or juice.
9. If the child wants leftovers from the night before then who is to tell them that they can not. At least they are getting something in to their systems.

I hope some of these ideas will change your child's mind about eating breakfast in the morning. Or if they are running late you can hand them off any one of the healthy breakfast ideas for kids listed above and it will keep their energy levels up just fine. They will be energized and happy throughout the day.