Healthy breakfast ideas for children, as nutritious as they are delicious

Properly fuelling children for the busy day ahead is an important first step in the morning, with nutritious choices leading to big benefits throughout the day.

This story is part of a four-part series titled A Healthy Start and is sponsored by Breakfast Club of Canada, reaching 500,000 children in more than 3,000 programs in school and community settings each day.

Properly fuelling children for the busy day ahead is an important first step in the morning, with nutritious choices leading to big benefits throughout the day, something that Breakfast Club of Canada witnesses firsthand in school communities. The organization provides healthy breakfasts to over 3,300 programs across the country, with healthy ingredients being a primary focus.

Jane Dummer, registered dietician and president of Jane Dummer Consulting, has been extolling the virtues of a healthy breakfast for over 25 years, explaining that breakfast quite literally breaks the fast from the previous night, jumpstarting a child’s metabolism for the upcoming school day.