What's in my kids breakfast?

What are our children getting for breakfast? If the answer is Trix, Reese's Puffs, Corn Pops, Cookie Crisp etc. Cookie crisps? Parents will feed their children Cookie Crisps for breakfast, but would probably protest feeding children regular sized cookies and a glass of milk. At least with a bowl of strawberry ice cream they will getting a fruit, berries are even high in antioxidants which helps to prevent cancer and other illnesses. Sooo is the difference in the size? Why don't we just hand over a bowl of ice cream? Here is a website containing cereal facts directed at children's cereal.It has the top 10 cereals with the poorest nutrition rating that are frequently advertised. Of these top 10 worst cereals, eight of them are also on the top ten most frequently marketed to children on the television. Meaning while watching Saturday morning cartoons, commercials pop up telling the kids how much better life is when they are eating those sweet, delectable, morsels every day. These commercials of course also lead to "Mom! Come look at this! Can we have some please please please?!". General Mills is the worst about catching the kids attention spending 107 million dollars on marketing their children's cereals. Kellogg is next in line spending 39 million dollars. Many of these cereal boxes display misleading phrases such as "better-for-you" or "Smart choices". As we learned in English Comp1, any information may be twisted to sound good or bad. At the top of the children's cereals for healthiness is the Mini Wheats. Good stuff too, I used them as a snack during my last pregnancy; they are very high in fiber compared to calories. A good way to judge if a product has the fiber it is advertising is the fiber-calorie ratio. For 100 calories there needs to be at least 1 gram of fiber. Frosted Mini Wheats has 203 calories and 5.9 grams of fiber.

Back to the ice cream suggestion, there is an actual ice cream for breakfast holiday which is supposed to be held on the first Saturday of every February. It was started by a New York mother who wanted to give her children another thing to look forward to in those long, cold, northern winters. And here are some suggestions to make your ice cream for breakfast a slightly healthier choice.

Breakfast for a child is important for more reasons than one might imagine. A good breakfast gives children the energy they need. A child who eats breakfast is less likely to become tired, irritable, or misbehave in school. Kids who eat their daily breakfast have better scores in math and other areas as opposed to those who get poor or no breakfast. A good breakfast can also assist in weight control and vitamin intake. This site from the Diet Channel also has a good morning routine to help prepare yourself and your child with a good breakfast and start for the day. ahead. It also includes quick healthy on the go breakfast foods for those of us with the "I don't have time" or "I hate breakfast foods" excuses.