Healthy Breakfasts for Kids

Healthy breakfasts for kids is an essential way to begin your child's day. Not only does it fuel their bodies, but their minds as well, preparing them for a eventful day whether they're at school or not. As a natural food advocate, I have implemented some good whole food choices for healthy breakfasts for kids over the years that I feel good about and would enjoy sharing with you.

Whole Grain Pancakes

Putting together a batch of buckwheat or whole wheat pancakes for my family on Saturday mornings is among one of my many routine breakfast patterns. Buckwheat or whole wheat are great food choices for the kids. Those whole grains have good B vitamin content for the kids and the fiber to match. Top them with pure maple syrup combined with some sliced fruit on the side and let the good times roll!

Whole Wheat Toast

Whole grains toast topped with a good nut butter, perhaps nutella, or possibly sunflower or cashew butter is a quality breakfast that will keep the kids running strong for hours. Not only do you have the good fats from the nut butters that the body will slowly burn over time, but you have the whole grains from the whole wheat which are slower to digest as well, resulting in no big sugar spikes that peak and drop quickly resulting in a crash type of effect.

Whole Grain Breakfast Wrap

Using whole grain tortillas to create great healthy breakfasts for kids is a good way to feed your family well in the morning too. You can warm these up and spread nut butters across them, along with some apple or banana slices, then rolling them for easy eating, or you can whip up some eggs and fill the whole grain tortillas with those too.

Oatmeal and Toppings

Often times I've cooked up a large pot of oatmeal and adorned the table with toppers like raisins, chopped unprocessed nuts, honey, slices of fruit chunks and cinnamon. Once I found out about the great taste of coconut oil mixed into hot oatmeal, I began to make that part of this breakfast entrée as well.

Healthy breakfasts for kids are always at your fingertips when you incorporate nutrient rich whole foods that sustain for the long term.