Quick, Easy and Healthy Breakfast Ideas for Toddlers
by Beatrice Adams on Aug 12, 2006 with 11 Comments
Delicious breakfast ideas that moms can easily prepare and toddlers will love to eat.
Morning is often the busiest time of the day, and breakfast is the day’s most important meal.
So how can busy moms—or dads—prepare healthy breakfasts for their toddlers while rushing to get to work?
Here are a few great breakfasts that take only a few minutes to prepare and your toddler will love to eat!
Instant Oatmeal
Pour some oatmeal into your toddler’s bowl, then add hot milk and a little sugar. Add a little cold water to cool. Top with sliced bananas. Serve with a glass of orange juice.
Cereal
Some kids don’t like cereal with milk. If that’s the case, you can serve it without milk, as finger food. Many kids like cereal with fun shapes, or those flavored with chocolate or honey. For fruit, add prunes or strawberries in the bowl. You can serve the milk in a cup, as your toddler’s drink.
Sliced Toast and Cheese
Of course, cheese sandwich is also a good option, but if your toddler prefers finger food, you can slice the toast and the cheese into bite-size pieces and pile them topsy-turvy into your child’s bowl. Fruit juice goes well with this too.
Scrambled Eggs
Eggs are terrific, healthy food for toddlers. Scramble an egg, do not add salt, pour into a lightly greased frying pan, and cover. Prepare his juice. Take the cover off the pan. The egg should look like a pancake by now. If the top is still runny, flip it over and wait 3 seconds. Slice into bite-size bits. If your baby likes ketchup, put some on the egg. Make sure the egg is cool before you serve it with juice. Better serve with a fork, as this can be rather messy on his hands.
Pancakes
It’s best to prepare the pancake mix the night before. Use as much milk as you can in making the mix. You can also add grated cheese into the batter. Next morning, it would be a simple matter of frying a pancake as big as your child’s appetite and letting it cool. Cut into bite-size pieces and serve with juice.
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Angel | Oct 27, 2007 | Reply
hi i love your recipes they are so cool my kids love them
Judy Sheldon | Nov 4, 2007 | Reply
Good tips – sure to be a hit with many children. Thank you.
Alison | May 24, 2008 | Reply
Toddlers should have water or milk, not juice, for as long as possible! Flavoured milks are also full of sugar.
Sarah | Sep 19, 2008 | Reply
To poster #3: Juice is fine as long as the toddler is receiving enough milk and is still getting nutritious calories from healthy foods as well. Juice is full of vitamin C and antioxidants and as long as it’s not all you’re giving them, it’s not going to hurt anything.
Lori | Oct 28, 2008 | Reply
I agree that a little juice is fine as long as they are not getting it more than once a day. I also agree about the flavored milks being full of sugar. One also needs to be careful of the cereal they buy. I saw a little girl with Fruit Loops and strawberry milk for breakfast. I can see it as an occasional treat, but not as a normal breakfast!
anon | Dec 8, 2008 | Reply
These aren’t different at all. I do this with my child a lot and I want something different. I agree that she loves it, but I was looking for something that was different.
clive | Apr 11, 2009 | Reply
Please describe the ‘juice’ you are all so scared of. Do you mean cordial (that awful stuff you mix with water)? Or that cheap’n'nasty juice from the supermarket that is full of chemicals, sugar and water but is labelled 100% juice? Or the good old-fashioned home-squeezed juice from fresh fruit?
Any peaditrician will tell you the later can be drunk in abundance by toddlers!
Enjoy!!
maggie | May 20, 2009 | Reply
I was looking for some different breakfast item ideas too.
alisha | May 30, 2009 | Reply
Finally something that doesnt take 45 mins at 7am Thanksssss
MB | Jul 2, 2009 | Reply
Juice is full of sugar no matter how you put it, Clive. When you take the juice out of the fruit or vegetable, you remove the pulp and instead of having fiber and making it something your body has to break down, it’s all quick and ready for you. It’s good to serve some juice, only a few ounces a day, but water it down. Babies/toddlers need to vitamin c in order to help with iron absorption, among other things. But you cannot fool yourself into thinking that just because you squeeze it and it’s not from a can/jar that you can have as much as you want (you, babies, whomever) there is such a thing as too much of a good thing.
KK | Jul 7, 2009 | Reply
I agree with MB regarding the juice. My son’s pediatrician said he should drink milk or water.