Breakfast — with food from the Milk, Grains, Vegetable, Fruit, and/or Meat and Beans Groups — can set your child or teen in a healthful nutrition direction for the day. What's for breakfast? Even if kids are on their own in the morning, most can make these easy breakfasts. And they go down even "healthier" with juice or milk!
- Cheese slices served with — or melted on — whole-wheat toast; fruit juice
- Iron-fortified cereal and milk, with banana slices
- Peanut butter spread on toasted whole grain bread or a waffle, or rolled inside a wheat tortilla; tangerine
- Fruit — bananas, strawberries, raisins — and milk on instant oatmeal
- Cold pizza
- Leftover spaghetti or macaroni and cheese; banana
- Apple and cheese slices between whole-wheat or graham crackers
- Breakfast cereal topped with fresh fruit and a scoop of frozen yogurt