9 Great Breakfast Ideas for Kids of All Ages
"Consumer Reports" finds that many cereals are more sugary than doughnuts. What to do?
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Another kid-friendly breakfast idea
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Missing the Mark
What seems to be a greater and more important challenge than feeding children fewer calories is getting them to be more active. You feed them nothing but whole grains and fiber, and then you'll see them want to sit through recess instead of playing basketball or running. Kids need sugars, carbs, caltories, fats and proteins to promote their energy levels for sustainable physical activity much like adults. If they're starved on any of these fronts, they'll tire out quickly and end up hating the healthy lifestyle that will sustainably keep them fit. Training the human body how to use up what foods it takes in is far more important than starving it of what it needs to train it. It's better to be healthy and fit with any given weight than to be within ANY weight limit and be malnutritioned. They should be eating cinnamon toast crunch if that's more likely to get them off the couch and outside than cheerios -- but they need to be eating cheerios and other healthier cereals if cinnamon toast crunch won't get them off the couch.
good breakfast
Since most people are over weight and your kids eat what you eat, it is a good idea to promote healthier cereals that the general population will at least give a try! Converting the whole US to raw, no sugar is beyond monumental, so be real and start with realistic goals. I applaud the cereal companies for making higher fiber cereals that are quick, taste good and that their children will eat eagerly! Add some fresh fruit with your breakfast and get the children off to school on time with tummies full and minds ready to learn. It has to be easy for the vast majority for it to be effective! Next encourage your school system to have fruits and veggies, along with more ground turkey and chicken for their protein and monitoring which foods the children actually consume so they can eliminate the ones that get trashed! I noticed that some schools and colleges have replaced their fats with Z-Trim fat substitute with no taste difference and no bad side effects as the Z-Trim is made with grain hulls! There is so much today that we can do to make childrens food consumption good for the body, mind and palate!
Flaxseed Meal
Since I've been eating Flasxeed meal in the form of pancakes, my cholesterol has gone down form 185 to 78. Google Flaxseed meal pancakes to read how.
Cereals like these are HORRIBLE
All of the recommended cereals are made with processed and artificial ingredients! HORRIBLE HORRIBLE HORRIBLE.
EAT REAL FOOD! Read labels, inform yourselves.
Girls
Being the mom of 4 teenage girls I dont care what they eat for Breakfast. Cereal, poptarts, pizza, egg wrap, fruit & yogurt last nights dessert. Just as long as they EAT Breakfast kids skip this meal more that any other,Girls esspecially tring to diet and look like the next super model.
why buy boxed cereals
Would you trust an industry that"replaces sugar with artificial sweeteners so they can say their product has less sugar"
Don't be stupid
Box cereals are usually just candy disguised as breakfast foods.
I can't remember the last time we got suckered into buying a 4 dollar box of cereal.
