HELP... I need new breakfast ideas for my kid (10yr old), she is tired of......?

What a nice parent! Ignore everyone who is giving you a hard time just because you are trying to add variety and fun to your daughter's diet. I think it's nice of you and my mom always made sure we had a good breakfast and that is one memory I cherish. It was nice to come down to a nice smelling kitchen on dreary school days!

Here are some tried and true ideas. I have an only child who is now 16 so she makes her own breakfast most days. But because of my examples she always fixes herself something delicious.

Smoothies! MMMM. If you have a blender, dust it off and get ready for endless possibilities. You can buy protein powder too and mix it in the smoothies to give her an extra bit of protein.

Try mixing some ice cubes with milk, a banana, a squirt of chocolate syrup and some protein powder.

Or yogurt, frozen berries and a dash of fruit juice.

Or fresh fruit chunks, ice, milk or juice and ice.

Or the store sells pre-made smoothie mixes that you just pop into the blender but they are pretty expensive.

How about a sandwich? As long as my daughter eats something filling and not sugar or fat laden, I think that is a healthy breakfast.

1/2 a turkey sandwich with some cut up strawberries and a glass of regular or chocolate milk.

1/2 a salami sandwich with some grapes and a glass of juice.

Breakfast pizza is good and she can help you make it the night before. Get a refridgerator biscuit and flatten it out/roll it out. Top it with some scrambled eggs, some shredded cheese, small pieces of ham or bacon and bake it for 15 minutes until the crust is cooked and the toppings hot.

Or, make a frittata or a quiche. Let your daughter pick her favorite veggies. Even if it's just diced cooked potatoes but hopefully she likes more than one veggie! Sautee the veggies then mix them in with 6 or 8 eggs that you beat together and a cup of shredded cheese. Spray a pie tin with non-stick cooking spray and pour the entire mix into the pie tin. Bake at 350 for about 30 minutes. Cut in wedges and then eat.

You could make bowls of noodle soup or split pea or whatever soup your daugher likes.

For a change try a snacky breakfast. Have cheese and crackers and small pieces of cut up fruit.

Once every couple of weeks try going out for breakfast! That's always fun and is different too.

My daughter also likes the frozen hot pretzels with a slice of American cheese melted on top.

Or, go to a book store on the weekend and look at all the kid cookbooks and pick recipes together. Let her help make stuff. She'll love to eat what she helps prepare.

French Doughnuts

INGREDIENTS

500 g (3 cups) of flour

100 g (1/2 cup) sugar

200g (7 oz) sour cream

4 eggs

pinch of salt

1 tsp baking powder

SERVES

6 connoisseurs

DIFFICULTY

easy

Mix all the ingredients together, until the dough isn't sticky anymore. Add a little more flour if necessary. Using a rollpin, roll the dough to reach a thickness of 5-6 mm (1/4 inch). Cut the dough in a variety of shapes (squares, losanges or rounds).

Heat the oil, and fry the doughnuts until brown.

French doughnuts are delicious with a variety of sides: jams, chocolate spread, fruit, creams...

Raspberry Muffins

Ingredients:

2 cups flour

1/2 cup sugar

1 teaspoon baking powder

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

2 eggs, lightly beaten

1 cup plain yogurt

1/4 cup melted butter

1 teaspoon vanilla

1 1/2 cups fresh or frozen raspberries

Directions:

In a large bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt.

In another bowl, combine eggs, yogurt, butter and vanilla. Pour over the dry ingredients and stir just to moisten. Fold in raspberries.

Pour batter into greased or paper lined muffin cups. Bake at 400 degrees F. for 18 to 20 minutes.

Biscuits

3 cups all purpose flour

3 teaspoons baking powder

3/4 cups buttermilk

1 teaspoon salt

3/4 teaspoon baking soda

3/4 cup Crisco shortening

Sift the flour to make sure there are no lumps. Add in

the baking powder, salt, and baking soda. Add the

Crisco slowly, working it into the dry ingredients.

You can use a large spatula or spoon, but I preferred

using my hands.

Next add the buttermilk, working it into the mixture

too. After everything is thoroughly mixed, plop it

down on a floured counter top or cutting board.

Turn you oven to 450 to allow it to preheat. While

it's heating up knead your dough until it is about

the consistency of clay that kids play with in

grade school. You can make it a little dryer

if need be by sprinkling more flour on your

counter or cutting board. As you knead your dough

it will pick up more of the flour.

After you have it the right consistency you can

shape your biscuits by hand or using a cookie

cutter. I preferred pinching off a chunk, rolling

it into a ball, and then patting it a little flat.

It takes a little practice to get you biscuits all

about the same size. If you want them more perfect,

you can roll out your dough using a rolling pin and

then cut them with a round cookie cutter. That

would look neater when you have company over.

Anyway, place you biscuits on a cookie sheet that

is either lightly greased or lightly sprinkled with

flour. If you use the flour option, be sure not to

put too much.

Bake these biscuits for rougly 18 minutes on the

middle rack in your oven (depends upon how hot

your oven is and how far this rack is from the

top). If the rack is too low you can move the

biscuits to the top rack the last minute of so

to get them browned just the way you want. Leave

them on the middle rack and thy should turn out

lightly browned.

Egg n Cheese Croissants

4 Croissants, Sliced Open

8 - 10 Eggs

Sliced Cheese (American melts the best)

Directions:

Soft scramble the eggs in a pan. When almost done open up croissants and lay the eggs to cover. Place the cheese slice on top and put in microwave for 45 seconds or so - until the cheese is melted. If you do not have access to a microwave, you can wrap the croissants in aluminum foil and place in oven at 325° for about 10 minutes.

First of all, breakfast is for stopping hunger and being healthy... not for being amused. She's 10. She needs to just eat and not feel the need to be entertained by her food. If you rotate her diet, she shouldn't be "tired" of anything at this point. There are a limited number of foods on the planet...

I'm going to assume she's an only child - lol

That being said...

Some of the "different" foods I've made over the years for breakfast include omelettes, peanut butter and jelly waffle sandwiches, french toast sticks, chocolate chip pancakes, breakfast pizzas, pigs in blankets using refrigerator biscuit dough and Brown and Serve sausages, and yogurt parfaits (layering vanilla or flavored yogurt in glasses with fruit and cereal (you can even use chocolate or fruity Pebbles for this if they don't eat granola)

My kids also like sausage biscuits, and those microwavable breakfast Hot Pockets (you can get a Lean Pocket version) and other freezer convenience breakfast foods. I give them a glass of juice or piece of fruit to reduce my own guilt :)

Consider getting a variety of cereal bars (Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Honey Nut Cheerios, etc) plus NutriGrain bars in several flavors, Special K bars etc and just let her choose one of those and a piece of fruit.

I didn't see instant oatmeal on your list... but I'm assuming you've done all the obvious stuff...

When I was a kid I would eat grilled cheese sandwich and tomato soup for breakfast, still do sometimes. I also like leftover spaghetti and pizza and Chinese food. I think the purpose is to make sure she eats something without giving her too much Princess Treatment. But I know if I eat sugary foods for breakfast, I'm sick by 10a.m. My mother kept offering me sugary foods and I wanted what was going in my lunch box - lol

As a parent, it's okay to be flexible, but don't let her make you crazy. It's perfectly okay to say "This is breakfast. These are the choices. Take it or leave it."

Oven-baked French Toast

My 3 yr old daughter loves this recipe! Because it's so simple, she can even help me make it. Also, since you bake many slices at once, there's no standing over a hot stove watching the food, leaving plenty of mom-daughter time to chat and have fun

crushed corn flakes (approx. 2-3 cups)

French Toast batter: eggs, milk, vanilla, sugar, cinnamon, maple syrup

Sliced bread

Dip bread in batter, then coat completely with corn flakes

Bake in oven at 375 for about 20 minutes or until crisp. Serve with syrup and enjoy!

You need to tell her to eat her breakfast and stop spoiling her first off. All ten year olds get bored with breakfast foods for a while but you can't let her control the situation. You give her what you know is good for her and she will adapt to it just fine, Mine did. One recipe she likes is smoked sauage and onions in scambled eggs. Sautee the onions (sweet onions work best but white is ok too)till carmelized then add diced sausage (try hot links for a kick Hillshire farms are not too hot for kids) and add to onions cook for couple of minutes then add eggs and scamble together with salt and pepper to taste. You can add cheese if you like grated over the top is good. A glass of milk and some toast and your good to go.

Have you tried flavored pancakes or waffles, like Egg Nog, gingerbread, etc? What about Corned Beef Hash? You could also make scones in different flavors and top with Clotted or Devon Cream. When I was younger, I used to get bored with breakfasts, my mom actually made me creme brulee for breakfast a couple of times....

Oatmeal - can stir in a little bit of peanut butter with it

English Muffins - add eggs, bacon, cheese

Kringla - regular or lemon poppy seed are good

Muffins - triple berry with blue, rasp and strawberries

Breakfast Pizza - with eggs, cheese and sausage

Breakfast Casserole - with hashbrowns, eggs, hamburger

Pita Bread - add eggs and salsa or peanut butter and jelly

Chocolate Chip Pancakes - drizzle chocolate syrup on top

Cinnamon Rolls or Caramel Rolls

egg mcmuffins using canned biscuits or english muffins with sausage patties, ham slices or fried baloney or meatless; french toast sticks (bread coated with one beaten egg on both sides, fried and then cut into 4ths after cooking) with powdered sugar and/or syrup or jelly; a 1/4 waffle or a lrage thick pancake with a scoop of her favorite ice cream on top, even hamburgers or cheeseburgers or a hotdog on a bun works. You dont have to have "breakfast food" to have breakfast. I haven't since I was 11. Good luck!

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jeez, she's lucky! when i was ten, i just had cereal as an option. parents were too busy to make me anything. make her spend a week or two with having to make herself cereal and no other options. she'll be happy to have eggs or waffles or something. honestly, i know you're being a good mom, giving her a good breakfast, but she needs to learn to be grateful for what she has and not complain that it's not good enough.