Ideas for Self-Help Breakfast for Toddler

[leenaomi]

Hi everyone!

I posted in the sleep/settling section about my idea of leaving breakfast out for my almost 3yo DD to eat by herself when she wakes up at an un-godly hour in the morning. But I'm quickly running out of ideas for food to give her. So far I've been leaving out things like a banana, a mandarin, bowl of dry cereal or dry weetbix (both without milk). The novelty of these has worn off and now I need some ideas!!

People in the other thread mentioned breakfast bars and yoghurt left in the fridge. Does anyone have any other ideas that I can use as well? It has to be something that can either be left out on her table all night (can be covered or wrapped if necessary) or eaten cold straight out of the fridge because she can help herself to the fridge.

Thanks everyone!

Naomi

[Fuchsia!]

sometimes i cut up strawberries and leave them in the fridge, other than that i wrap some arrowroot biscuits in a freezer bag and he enjoys them. What about leaving a little mug of milk and let her pour it in? Or would she make a big mess?

[DivinelySophistimicated]

I gave you the ideas yesterday about the breakfast bar and yoghurt!

As Jaxcoop said about the nilk, I was thinking with my daughter i was going to put milk in a drink botlle, like one of the pop top ones and she can pour it in...

Sometimes i get like the tinned fruit salad and put it in a bowl in the fridge and then she gets a yoghurt and pours it on top!!

Ill be watching this thread as i want more ideas too!
Dont you just get so proud when thye get up themselves?? Theyre such big girls, arent they hehe

[leenaomi]

That's not a bad idea Jaxcoop! I could certainly give it a go. She much prefers her cereal with milk and I think she'd get a kick out of pouring it herself. The worst that could happen is that she makes a mess...oh hang on.....she does that anyway!!

Thanks for your input!

[leenaomi]

That's right Kirbyd87, it was you!!! They were both great ideas and are both on my shopping list for this week.

A pop top for the milk!! That's brilliant. Yes, I feel like my baby's all grown up when she gets her own breakfast...sniff...sniff... I am very proud.

[Fuchsia!]

that's good! my little man gets himself up in the morining and always looks forward to what i have put out the bench for him, sometimes im naughty and leave something there like a lcm or a cheese and biscuit snack! But only occasionally! The only other thing i ca think of is bake some yummy fruit muffins or pancakes and butter them and put what ever topping on. You can eat these cold so she may like them too! Good luck! I will be looking back to this post too for ideas for myself:D

[DivinelySophistimicated]

Little pikelets are a great idea, I think im going to make some for breakfast!!!

Yum!

My daughter loves buttering her own bread etc so maybe we could get the little single serves like at motels, you can get them at woolies and she can butter them with a plastic butter knife!!

or even just dollop some butter and jam on a plate, leave it in the fridge and she can get it out in the morning and put it on her pikelets!!

Maybe thats trusting her a little too much, but i have confidence she can do it!!

[DivinelySophistimicated]

Gee, next ill be letting her cook her own bacon and eggs LOL

[kirstenriley]

fruit salad?

[Fuchsia!]

Gee, next ill be letting her cook her own bacon and eggs LOL
yeah why not!!:laughing: :laughing:

[cwsmum]

I used to leave food out for my DS all the time (from the time he was about 2yrs old actually). I kinda just swapped his breakfast & morning tea times around and left out the kinds of things I would normally give for morning tea, then at around 9-9:30am (whenever he got hungry) he would have breakfast.

I used to leave things like sandwiches, corn thins (plain or with vegemite), fruit (he loves two fruits), cheese & crackers, sultanas, fruit sticks, musli bars, pikelets (jam already on them), dry cereal...I'm sure there was more but I've forgotten. DS used to wake up between 5-6am, but now he usually sleeps til around 7am so I don't need to leave stuff out for him anymore.

Just something to think about...be careful what you leave out is not something easy to choke on if they are playing while they are eating. DS always sits at the table when he eats, but I know that when I was leaving food out for him he never sat in one place to eat...I found food left in all kinds of places. I posted a thread about this same thing ages ago and didn't get a very good response :( I'm glad to see people are being nice to you :yes:

[DivinelySophistimicated]

Pfft to the people who werent nice to you!!

Of course well make sure they arent chokeable things, DD sits at her table in front of the tele anyways!

Thanks for the ideas!

[leenaomi]

These are all very good ideas! Thank you so much to everyone for their contributions.

That's a very good point Cwsmum, I'll be sure to give her things that aren't choking hazards or anything that could go off out of the fridge. I'm glad people are being nice to me as well!! Obviously anyone using these ideas will also use their common sense.

Thanks again everyone!