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Champion Breakfast

The word ‘breakfast’ means, quite literally, to break your night time fast.

After ten or twelve hours without food, your reserves of energy are low and your mind and body need ‘topping up’ with the essential minerals, vitamins and nutrients you need to perform at your best.

That’s why experts tell us it’s the most important meal of the day and the one you should not skip.

Read our handy hints on preparing a breakfast to ‘kick start’ your day and ensure your family is on top of everything from the word go:

  • Don’t skimp on the milk: A single serving of milk on breakfast cereal can help towards your daily calcium requirement.
  • Add sliced fruit on to the top of your breakfast cereal – not only does it taste great, it also adds more fibre and vitamin C.
  • As well as eating a healthy bowl of Kellogg’s cereal in the morning, make sure you drink plenty of water and eat fruit and veg throughout the day to help you to stay healthy.
  • In the summer, pick lots of fruit and freeze it. Blackberries are tasty and free when you pick them from hedgerows, and a handful on your breakfast cereal in the winter will bring the taste of summer right back.
  • Make a fruit smoothie out of banana yoghurt and honey, frozen berries and a little apple juice. The kids will love it… and it counts towards their ‘five a day’ of fruit and veg!
  • Mums and dads need to look after themselves, so make sure you have a good breakfast as well.
  • Vary things by trying something new from time to time: a new cereal, bagels, muffins or a different spread on your toast.
  • Some children don’t have a very big appetite in the morning, so getting them to eat even a little is a good start. Make sure they have a suitable snack on hand for when they do get hungry, such a piece of fruit, dried fruit, half a sandwich, a cereal bar or a yoghurt.
  • In the winter, use warm milk on cereal. It’s comforting and makes a tasty change.
  • Most kids in the UK don’t get enough iron – cereal is fortified with iron, and plays a big role in providing iron to the UK population.