As a Kid, What Did You Have For Breakfast?

[Hertervillian]

Early on it was Captain Crunch or something similar. Around 5th grade I was pretty much done with sugar cereal, Corn Flakes and Cheerios, and the occasional bowl of Raisin Bran. By HS toast , English muffins and bagels ruled, as did bacon and eggs when I got myself up in time to cook.

 

[Dan in MI]

Do not remember. I do however remember I had to walk a mile to school. Yes, I even googled my old home and the school that still stands. One mile and it was the best part of the day. I lived in Northern Virginia and I remember the snows we had. Yes, I loved walking to school. IT made me feel alive! Now kids cry if the bus does not pick them up in front of the house. Parents complain if the kid has to walk 20 yds.

PS I do remember watching Capt. Kangaroo each morning.

At my school the bus didn't pick you up until you were a mile away. My next door neighbor rode the bus. I was a "walker." You wouldn't think 50 feet would matter. K-6 grade I walked or rode my bike to and from. In nice weather I went home for lunch too.

 

[RugerForMe]

Cap'n Crunch, Grape Nuts, Cheerios, Frosted Flakes & Snap Crackle Pop - Rice Krispies

 

[WV460hunter]

Oatmeal,Cream of wheat or Eggs and toast 90% of the time some times cereal, like cheerios,cornflakes

 

[MaxMan]

Sunday morning either cereal (Cheerios or Corn Flakes) or coffee cake. Had to get to church. School days Usually bacon and eggs and toast. Saturday's dad made breakfast and let mom sleep. Ok sailors time to get up 7 o clock and not a shot fired.

 

[davevabch]

Do not remember. I do however remember I had to walk a mile to school. Yes, I even googled my old home and the school that still stands. One mile and it was the best part of the day. I lived in Northern Virginia and I remember the snows we had. Yes, I loved walking to school. IT made me feel alive! Now kids cry if the bus does not pick them up in front of the house. Parents complain if the kid has to walk 20 yds.

PS I do remember watching Capt. Kangaroo each morning.

I will add. I will never forget the day I forgot my lunch. A knock on the class room door and My Mom was there with it. One mile to school, one mile back. Thanks Mom. (95 years old now and going strong. May God bless Moms)

PS My Little Brother passed away a few days before Christmas a couple of years ago. Damn I miss him.

 

[WV460hunter]

I went to school 5 miles from the house at Sardis Elementary had to walk uphill 3/4 of a mile up a skinny road to get to the school and walk back down in the evening. It had a hairpin turn right near the top and the newer busses couldn't get around it especially after the road started giving way. The literally closed down the school at the end of my 5th grade year and I had to go my 6th grade year at Wilsonburg Elementary another 6 miles further toward Clarksburg,WV. ( Birthplace of General Stonewall Jackson). I now live 1 mile from Stonewalls boyhood home that belonged to his Uncle Clint Jackson. Jackson Mills. We walked up that hill in the rain, ice,snow, wind, heat etc.. Kids aren't tough anymore.
Moms 80 Dad passed 3.5yrs.ago.

 

[Ale-8(1)]

If you lived "in town" you didn't ride a bus, so some had it easy and others didn't. My walk wasn't too bad. Then they built the new Junior High out at the farthest corner of town, and I walked a mile and a half both ways every day. Some had it even worse. I had a perfectly good bicycle, but in seventh and eighth grades that wasn't "cool" transportation.

High school was about the same distance, but of course, no biking. Fortunately I got my driver's license in my junior year and sometimes had the use of the "other" car.

 

[SP101x3]

it varied. Eggs, bacon, pancakes, French toast, sausage, oatmeal, cereal, fruit, grapefruit, scrapple, toast, orange or apple juice - my mom was well educated, including the importance of good nutrition. I didn't really appreciate it then, but I understand now how lucky I was.

 

[Crockett12]

I was born in 1946 and my parents & grandparents were a product of the depression. We all lived in the same house and both my father and grandfather had jobs on the railroad but supplemented our income by hanging wallpaper for a second job! I think the depression affected them deeply because money was tight. When I was very young I used to sit on my grandfathers lap in the morning while he gave me toast & tea! Breakfast was a piece of toast in a bowl with tea poured on the toast and some sugar sprinkled over it! As I got older it was corn flakes because that was the least expensive cereal!

 

[wproct]

I was born in 1945. My breakfast was always cereal. Wheaties, corn flakes, cheerios, with a spoon full of sugar. Once in a blue moon sugar smacks, but that was a treat. Actually I loved cereal, and reading what was on the box was my favorite activity while eating. I learned rather early on that if my mom made something for dinner or supper that I didn't like I could go get the cereal and have it. If I said nothing, mom was cool with that, but if I said "Yuck, I don't like that", then I had to eat what she had fixed for us. One of those things I hated was we lived on a farm and at least once or twice a year dad wanted mom to gather dandeloin leaves and boil them in water. He called them "greens", and oh man, that would turn my stomach.

 

[Larryburford]

Mom cooked all kinds of stuff. Mostly bacon, sausage, fried or scrambled eggs and usually buttered toast. Sometimes homemade biscuits, cinnamon or chocolate toast or oatmeal.

 

[WV460hunter]

I was born in 1945. My breakfast was always cereal. Wheaties, corn flakes, cheerios, with a spoon full of sugar. Once in a blue moon sugar smacks, but that was a treat. Actually I loved cereal, and reading what was on the box was my favorite activity while eating. I learned rather early on that if my mom made something for dinner or supper that I didn't like I could go get the cereal and have it. If I said nothing, mom was cool with that, but if I said "Yuck, I don't like that", then I had to eat what she had fixed for us. One of those things I hated was we lived on a farm and at least once or twice a year dad wanted mom to gather dandeloin leaves and boil them in water. He called them "greens", and oh man, that would turn my stomach.

There is any 82 yr. Old Lady that goes to my Church and She always makes a mess of dandelion greens every year and eats 'em.. I have to agree with you totally gross. She asked me once if I ever had any.. I looked at her and said That aint people food

 

[SamV]

Breakfast? Not much. It was a constant battle for my mom to get me to eat breakfast before school. The thought of eating first thing in the morning actually made me really queasy. My stomach just wasn't ready for it. Non school days were fine because I could eat breakfast a couple of hours later. Actually I am still this way after 66 years. A glass of water when I wake up. A large cup of coffee about a half hour later, then a normal breakfast meal a couple of hours later.
So as a grade schooler, I did the best I could before leaving for school, maybe a small piece of buttered toast, maybe a little juice or coffee with milk. My poor mom tried everything.

 

[dadstillsurfs]

My Dad grew up a Sacramento Valley country boy but became a diabetic due to trauma in World War 2.
Because diabetes was not as well understood and controlled, my Dad had to follow a regimented eating schedule. You could set your watch by mealtime at my house. 7 AM Breakfast, 12 noon Lunch and Dinner at 6 PM on the dot.
Our breakfasts typically were a glass of juice, a bowl of whatever fruit was in season, fried or scrambled eggs, toast, milk or coffee (if you were an adult). French toast sometimes, oatmeal and cereal less often (too many carbs for my Dad). The only exception to that rule was if we had breakfast at one of his lodge brother's home. THEN Mary Inez would pull out all the stops and make "my Mamma's" biscuits. Still the benchmark I use for good biscuits after all these years.
Lunches were generally brown bag (mine) lunch basket (Dad's) affairs.
Dinners were typical American cuisine, unless my Mom got a wild hair from reading Sunset magazine and trying new recipes. Actually that's not fair, my Mom had a number of well-used cookbooks and a stash of recipe cards (remember those?). So I suppose we had more variety in our diet than some.Lots of fresh food options in the Santa Clara Valley in the 50s. There were still farms, dairies and tons of orchards still.
Kids in my neighborhood never went home during the day for food on Saturday. If you couldn't find something ripe to eat, you just weren't trying.

 

[Patriot_Precision]

Pterodactyl eggs and mammoth jerky.

 

[Watertender]

Pterodactyl eggs and mammoth jerky.

Bronto burgers for lunch?

 

[Patriot_Precision]

Lol.. maybe on my birthday.

 

[6GUNSONLY]

My mom taught school and had a pretty good drive to work. She and some other teacher friends carpooled and left pretty early. My paternal grandmother (we called her Nanny) lived 2 blocks away and would come down to our house, get me up and ready for school (I walked). She fixed me breakfast -usually biscuits and honey. Sometimes an egg. Hardly ever ate cereal till much later.

 

[John in WYO]

Fried eggs and malt-o-meal.
Fried Spam sandwich for lunch.
Baked Spam/Armour Treat with cloves and orange marmalade for dinner.
It was the 50s.
Lots of Swanson tv dinners in the 60s…
Mom wasn't real creative.