Primary Schoolers Breakfast

Primary Schoolers Breakfast

• Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Children need food so they can concentrate and work at school and have lots of energy. Surveys suggest that over 50 percent of Australian children go to school with a poor breakfast or no breakfast at all.
• A good breakfast should have three of the five main food groups:
  • bread and other cereals
  • meat, egg or substitute
  • milk or milk products such as cheese or yoghurt
  • butter or margarine
  • fruit and vegetables.
• Parents can show their children how to eat well by eating a healthy breakfast themselves.
• Parents can do simple things such as putting out a selection of healthy things for children to choose from or setting up the toaster so children can prepare their own food. Baked beans on toast makes an excellent breakfast.
• Encourage children to think about what they like to eat. Let them help with the preparation and the cleaning up afterwards.
• Breakfast need not be a stressful, rushed event. Plan the evening before, set the table, put out cereals and fruit.

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