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Now the holidays are over, it’s time to get back into a routine with
your family’s meals. HILARY SCOTT has some great ideas for healthy
breakfasts and healthy teatime recipes which will also save you time.
And if on some days teatime is just too stressful at home, here’s
what to choose if you take the children out for some fast food
PORRIDGE
Apple porridge – grate an apple into porridge
instead of using syrup or sugar to sweeten.
Fruit and nut porridge – try kiwi fruit and
cashews or walnuts and pomegranate seeds.
Blueberry porridge – sprinkle blueberries on top
and for little ones make faces with the berries.
TOAST
Peanut butter and banana
Toasted brioche with bananas and
blueberries with a drizzle of maple syrup
Marmite on top of cream cheese or
with melted cheddar
Smashed avocado and a squeeze
of lemon or lime
Hummus scattered with seeds
Honey butter (whip butter with a little honey)
Smashed soft boiled eggs on toast
(a change from poached)
Cream cheese and cucumber
Beans on toast
A healthy breakfast for children should be about 25-30 per cent of their daily calorie intake.
For girls, this is 1,200 calories aged 4-8 and 1,600 for 9-13-year-olds. So about 300-400
calories is a good breakfast.
It’s so easy to fall in to the trap of sugary cereals, but good old-fashioned wholemeal toast with
a healthy topping, granola and yogurt and porridge will fill them up, give them slow-released
energy and be better for them. So here are some quick, easy and good-for-them ideas
Cereal with warm peanut butter – if they have to have cereal go for the lowest sugar and then
warm some peanut butter in the microwave until it is pourable consistency
Back to school
and back to
healthy eating
BREAKFASTS
GRANOLA
POTS
Layer raspberry yogurt,
granola and fresh
raspberries
Strawberry yogurt,
granola and fresh
strawberries
Vanilla yogurt,
granola and
passion fruit