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Don’t let children skip breakfast
Children who skip breakfast generally have below average nutrition. Their diets contain less:

* Calcium
* Iron
* Dietary fibre
* Vitamins such as riboflavin and niacin.

Skipping breakfast becomes more common as children get older. Some schools have introduced breakfast programs because they were concerned about children who skip breakfast. Children did better in school once the program was introduced.

Tips for easy breakfasts
Here are some easy-to-prepare, healthy breakfast ideas:

* Fresh fruit with wholegrain breakfast cereal and reduced fat milk. Toast with a thin spread of margarine (polyunsaturated or mono-unsaturated).
* Toast with cheese and tomato. Hot or cold reduced fat milk.
* Rolled oats with sultanas and reduced fat milk. Toast with a thin spread of margarine (polyunsaturated or mono-unsaturated). Orange juice.
* Baked beans on toast. Orange juice.

blueshiver

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, I agree.