Healthy car food.

[13m]

Mrs 13M is back at work for a few weeks and needs to feed the children breakfast in the car. They like sausage rolls, but as we are trying not to raise them porky we need some quick, healthy food that can be consumed easily in the car.

Anyy ideas chaps please?

[anonymous-user]

Bananas?

[dimots]

Fruit, nuts, yogurt in pouches, homemade flapjacks/cereal bars.

[dimots]

Fruit, nuts, yogurt in pouches, homemade flapjacks/cereal bars.

[Tickle]

biltong, keeps them quiet whilst chewing too.

[sgrimshaw]

Surely the healthiest and best solution is to set the alarm clock for 20mins earlier and give them breakfast at home properly.

[deckster]

sgrimshaw said:

Surely the healthiest and best solution is to set the alarm clock for 20mins earlier and give them breakfast at home properly.

Bingo. Good eating is about far more than the food itself, and actually eating with your parents around a table is a very important habit to get into. Setting the expectation that eating breakfast in the car is either normal or acceptable is not a good way to start.

[13m]

sgrimshaw said:

Surely the healthiest and best solution is to set the alarm clock for 20mins earlier and give them breakfast at home properly.

That would mean getting up before 06:00 some mornings, so no, that would not be the healthiest or best solution.

[Chainsaw Rebuild]

deckster said:

sgrimshaw said:

Surely the healthiest and best solution is to set the alarm clock for 20mins earlier and give them breakfast at home properly.

Bingo. Good eating is about far more than the food itself, and actually eating with your parents around a table is a very important habit to get into. Setting the expectation that eating breakfast in the car is either normal or acceptable is not a good way to start.

Absolutely agree.

[anonymous-user]

Chainsaw Rebuild said:

deckster said:

sgrimshaw said:

Surely the healthiest and best solution is to set the alarm clock for 20mins earlier and give them breakfast at home properly.

Bingo. Good eating is about far more than the food itself, and actually eating with your parents around a table is a very important habit to get into. Setting the expectation that eating breakfast in the car is either normal or acceptable is not a good way to start.

Absolutely agree.

Meanwhile, in the real world st happens sometimes.

A couple of pieces of fruit and a bottle of water in the back of the car every so often won't do any harm.

[sgrimshaw]

13m said:

That would mean getting up before 06:00 some mornings, so no, that would not be the healthiest or best solution.

For who

On these mornings then, how much earlier are they going to school?

Presumably they have breakfast at home when mum's not working and then they get taken to school.

If the trip to school is that much earlier, is there a breakfast club they can attend?

Edited by sgrimshaw on Sunday 22 January 11:06

[227bhp]

You have to ask what to feed your own kids? Dear me.
Carrots, fruit.

[DonkeyApple]

13m said:

sgrimshaw said:

Surely the healthiest and best solution is to set the alarm clock for 20mins earlier and give them breakfast at home properly.

That would mean getting up before 06:00 some mornings, so no, that would not be the healthiest or best solution.

What's unhealthy about that?

[DonkeyApple]

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Not sure cereal bars are even suitable for dogs, let alone children.

[Robertj21a]

Carrots, bananas or apples, with water.

Though, as others have said, far better to get up just a little earlier and give them a proper breakfast.

Edited by Robertj21a on Sunday 22 January 12:00

[Yipper]

There is increasing evidence that breakfast is not healthy and contributing to the obesity epidemic. Cortisol (stress) soars between 6-10am and the body cannot digest food properly. Ancestors would hunt and gather in the morning and eat the pickings in the afternoon.

If breakfast must be taken in the car, a banana, <10 nuts, and bottled water is a good start to the day.

Edited by Yipper on Sunday 22 January 11:57

[jas xjr]

good quality dried fruit works for me

[anonymous-user]

DonkeyApple said:

13m said:

sgrimshaw said:

Surely the healthiest and best solution is to set the alarm clock for 20mins earlier and give them breakfast at home properly.

That would mean getting up before 06:00 some mornings, so no, that would not be the healthiest or best solution.

What's unhealthy about that?

Jeeves: [waking him up] Good morning, Mr. Wooster.
Bertie Wooster: What? What's the time?
Jeeves: Ten past nine, sir.
Bertie Wooster: [irritated] Ten past nine!? Is the building on fire?
Jeeves: Not that I've been informed, sir, no.

[Riley Blue]

I must get my eyes tested, I read the title as 'Healthy cat food'.

[condor]

I'll suggest ham and cheese sandwiches, can be made the night before. Could do some hard boiled eggs, or buy a jar of pickled eggs to go with it.
Though porridge is easy and quick to make in the microwave and doesn't take too long to eat -which would be preferred choice.