Walk and Bike to School after eating a Healthy Breakfast
Eating breakfast everyday is important and especially important on days your kids walk or bike to school. Any breakfast is better than no breakfast, but provided a healthy breakfast provides to ensure kids get the nutrients and fuel they need to walk or bike to school.
Some traditional breakfast ideas are:
- Eggs
- French toast or pancakes (try wheat or whole-grain varieties)
- Cold cereal (5g of sugar or less per serving) and 1% or less milk
- Hot cereal, such as oatmeal or cream of wheat (try some dried fruit or nuts on top)
- Whole-grain toast, bagel, or English muffin with cheese
- Yogurt with fruit or nuts
- Cottage cheese and canned fruit (canned fruit mixed with cottage cheese)
- Frozen whole-grain waffles, toasted and topped with peanut butter & jelly
- Quick-cook or regular instant oatmeal – add your own raisins and nuts
For those in a hurry prepare some breakfasts the can be grabbed on the way out the door:
- Remember, breakfast goes well with a glass (or single-serving box) of 100% fruit juice, and low-fat or nonfat milk.
- Hard-boiled eggs
- String cheese or cheese cubes
- Small yogurt cups or “yogurt-to-go” tubes
- Fresh fruit or single-serving cups of natural applesauce
- Mini bagels with slices of turkey, ham or cheese
- Grilled cheese sandwich or a cheese quesadilla with sliced apples
- Banana Dog – spread peanut butter on a whole-grain hot dog bun, plop in a banana and sprinkle with raisins
- Trail Mix – snack-size baggies filled with favorite low-sugar cereal, dried fruit, nuts and a few chocolate chips
- Single servings of whole-grain, low-sugar cereal
- Whole-grain muffin
- Trail mix of nuts, dried fruits, pretzels, crackers, and dry cereal
- Low-fat granola bars
And for those that don’t enjoy traditional breakfast foods:
- leftovers from dinner
- breakfast quesadilla (shredded cheese on a tortilla, folded in half and micro-waved; top with salsa)
- sandwich - peanut butter and jelly, ham, turkey or another favorite