Easy breakfast, meal ideas? Need to change diet…

Well, I guess it is good to have chickens then.. 🙂  We have tons.  Love chickens. If you want to know more about chickens let me know. They are pretty fun. Great for kids too.   We just hate it when they die. 🙁 They become beloved pets after awhile. They lay 1 a day unless you change the their feed or sometimes the weather can stop production. If they are molting then they will stop also. but other than that it is 1 egg a day.

Chickens are outlawed in my city.  Which I personally feel is stupid, but they’ve been fighting it for years and haven’t made any progress.  When we move next time I’ll be very careful to choose a chicken-friendly area!

We have friends with chickens, but they are not legal in our area (though I know two families with them). I would need 6-12 chickens and there is no space for it, sadly. I hear you on the raw milk, too. I pay $8-9 a gallon for that, too. I guess I need a farm. 😉

Here is our menu from this week:

Homemade Sausage & apples – I buy ground pork and add the seasonings we can have whilet his is browning, we slice apples and add them to the sausage; stir gently or the apples will fall apart. If you can have it, you can sprinkle cinnamon and a bit of maple syrup – though we skip the cinnamon and sub agave nectar for the ones that just need to have a bit of something drizzled over it.

Pork Patties & Waffles – I use the ground pork and make patties ala burgers.  We make either almond meal, buckwheat, or chickpea flour waffles.

Soaked Oatmeal – This was cooked in the crockpot overnight. It smells heavenly in the morning.

BLT Biscuts – We made chickpea biscuts and placed bacon, avocado, lettuce, & tomatoes (for those who can eat them).

This sounds gross, but we love cottage cheese pancakes for high protein. Use a blender for the batter and you won’t have stringy melted cheese in your pancakes. I’ll try to give the recipe. I never measure anything any more–too much trouble since we have to make everything from scratch.

I put in about a cup of cottage cheese, 3 eggs, sometimes some greek yogurt, 1 Tbsp oil, sometimes some pumpkin puree (add cinnamon and pie spice if you use pumpkin–and they’re more wet inside when they’re cooked like pie) then I use a couple cups of freshly ground oat groats or you can use whole other grain flour I’m sure. We have to use oat flour if all our allergic people are eating it (if you use white flour, they aren’t nearly as good) also I use 2tsp cream of tartar mixed with 1 tsp baking soda since we can’t use baking powder because of corn starch. I think that’s it. Oh, a little water so the blender can run, but not so much that it’s too thin–maybe 1/4 cup? They are really yummy and all the protein is in there in case your family only wants the pancakes.

Maybe I should simplify the recipe:

1 cup cottage cheese

3 eggs

1/2 c pumpkin if you want–also add cinnamon and pumpkin pie spice

yogurt optional maybe 1/3 c

1 Tbsp oil

2 c whole oat flour

2 tsp cream of tartar mixed with 1 tsp baking soda or about 3 tsp baking powder

1/4 water (or enough to make your blender run)

I hope that’s it in case anyone tries it!

We especially love the pumpkin version.

Also, my adult son that has to avoid feeding his candida eats 3 eggs every morning and he puts left over dinner in it–veggies or meat or whatever and cheese. It makes his eggs more interesting.

And I second whoever said it gets easier after you start eating healthier!

BTW I love to pancake idea as well! to make dairy-free cottage cheese, blend firm silken tofu with a little lemon juice and a little salt. I’ve never tried it in anything like this, so I hope it will work. 

Not to brag but I pay $2.50/gallon for raw milk and $1.50/dozen for farm fresh eggs! These come from my sister, who lives just down the road and has helped us to raise our own chickens for butchering this year. Two weeks to go and we will have lots of chicken dishes!

Sorry to get off track! But I love all the new breakfast ideas.