My 5 year old claims she likes salad and vegetables...
That usually consists of maybe snacking on 2 baby carrots and a few leaves of lettuce out of her bowl. Sometimes with French dressing, sometimes just plain... That is her view of a salad. She claims to her teachers and her friends that she eats healthy -- That would be her opinion of "healthy".
Both of my kids are very picky eaters. Their meals are very predictable. Once they wake up my oldest usually eats toast, waffles or pancakes before she goes to school. Usually. There are days where she just doesn't want to eat and breakfast is a battle. Occasionally I win the battle, but more often than not I end up just packing her more of a snack and send her off to school. Battling with your kids is exhausting and sometimes you just have to pick your battles.
If she's going to have a snack at 10:30 AM is breakfast that important? Well, yes, but I justify it to myself so I feel better about packing her a heftier snack. (Which most of it usually ends up coming home anyway.)
My youngest usually has a bowl of cereal, waffles or pancakes for breakfast. She is a great breakfast eater and will eat quite a bit, but put eggs on her plate and she'll complain to high heavens about having some protein on her plate. (They will eat bacon. Yum, fatty, fried artery clogging bacon.)
