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Ok.. let's talk breakfast now!
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We’ve discussed dinner and acutally in that department I’m doing ok. I have more than enough good or mostly good meals to make months of lists. Though I did like the summer chart with the simplier ideas.
But I get sick of cereal (though it’s from Kashi), oatmeal/cream of wheat, and toast. Do you have any new twists on what to do with breakfast? (Then again maybe it’s just me who gets sick of it and not the kids??LOL) Misty
Muffins, eggs and fruit of choice.
Waffles – homemade ones are filling.
I dislike pancakes, but our kids love them. Sausages and syrup to go with.
Plain yogurt is good to fill the protein gap if you need to. We like a yogurt shake – 1 large container yogurt, two or three bananas, frozen berries, a bit of brown sugar and peanut butter to taste. Add cream or milk to fill the blender and blend away!
Crepes are delicious in my opinion.
That’s all I’ve got.
Here is what we do for breakfast: Monday is Banana Bread that was baked on Saturday and refrigerated to lock in flavor. Tuesday is Homemade Granola Cereal that was baked overnight on Sunday Night. Wednesday is Baked Oatmeal with chocolate or carob chips that was prepared on Tuesday night and refrigerated. (it just needs to be baked on Wed. morning). Thursday is Toasted Cinnamon Swirl bread that I make on Wednesday during my bread baking session. Friday is Granola Cereal again. My kids love it. Saturday is Homemade Breakfast Pizza. Sunday is Sausage Cheese Biscuits Balls. If something happens and I wake up without anything prepared, scrambled egg sandwiches are a quick fix. I also make up a whole wheat pancake mix and keep in the fridge. We all love biscuits and tomato gravy, cream gravy, or chocolate gravy, with grits and fried eggs… But we are trying to eat healthier and this meal did not make the cut. We easily add a homemade protein smoothie and fruit to our breakfast to round it out a bit. Lorrie Flem at TEACH magazine has some great little breakfast cookbooks called Sanity Saving Breakfast Ideas that have lots of great recipes. Martha @ Marmee Dear has a cookbook called Martha’s Family Cookery Book that is excellent. I love having breakfast prepared ahead of time. It makes a world of difference in my day… and I need all the help I can get!! ;0). Alana
We try to limit the amount of carbs we take in due to health/ allergy issues in our home, though we do eat them (or at least the children do). Here’s my list of items:
Sauted apples and sausage links (YUM)
High protein smoothies
Oatmeal (soaked and made the NT way) with nuts, almond butter, coconut flakes or oil, and some type of milk (goat, nut, or coconut) over it – sometimes a raw egg from our friend’s farm gets mixed in if I leave out some of the other ingredients
Scrambled egg roll-ups -usually I make these with water in the eggs which results is VERY light and fluffy scrambled eggs and use sprouted grain or whole grain tortillas
Quiche
Apples and nut butter
Flourless pancakes (or waffles, though pc is the preferred product)
Homemade granola – I doctor this as much as possible to add protein/ slow the breakdown of the carbs
Protein muffins w/ fruit
Poached, fried, or scrambled eggs w/ sausage or bacon
French toast
Cheese tortilla and fresh fruit is very tasty in summer
Tortillas w/ a nice spread of nut butter and banana or thinly sliced apples and rolled up
Some days we grab the previous night’s leftovers as well
Some things we do that weren’t mentioned yet:
yogurt with fruit and/or toasted wheat germ or granola
oatmeal (with real maple syrup and nuts and raisins)
whole wheat muffins (I have a six week muffin recipe we like to use. We just scoop out what we need for that morning)
I’m the opposite. I could eat oatmeal every day and not get tired of it. lol We do some form of hot cereal or eggs & toast M-F. We only have fun breakfasts on the weekends. Not helpful huh?
Most of the things we eat have already been mentioned. We do make rice pudding or “egg rice” which is just rice scrambled with eggs. We also make One-Eyed Susans (aka Toad in the Hole). And breakfast burritos. I have 8 or so pancake recipes and the same for muffins so we rotate through those and they don’t get too boring.
I’d love the Cinnamon Swirl bread recipe and any granola ones. We’re about to venture into making our own cereals now.
Heather
The only other thing that we eat for breakfast that I didn’t see is arroz con leche. Basically hot rice (fresh or rewarmed) with milk, cinnamon and some sweetener (maple syrup, honey or ???). My kids love this!
Personally, I don’t like breakfast foods much (except eggs, which can get old) so I will frequently eat dinner leftovers for breakfast. Just another thought.
Rebecca
Thanks everyone you have really broadened my breakfast horizans. Now I have to ask what or how do you make:
Homemade Granola Cereal, Cinnamon Swirl bread, Sauted apples and sausage links. I think my family would love these reciepes.
Thanks everyone Misty
I use Jennifer’s Granola recipe off http://www.allrecipes.com for our homemade granola. I really like some of these suggestions and can’t wait to get a little more organized with my breakfast menu.
I haven’t tried these recipes yet, but they look FAB and they follow the Nurishing Traditions – soaking grains etc…. http://www.passionatehomemaking.com/recipe-index Just a great blog in general – TONS of useful information.
We try to follow a Traditional Foods diet here. It’s easy after a while. Some of the breakfasts that we enjoy are:
Nitrate-free bacon
waffles
homemade turkey sausage patties
LOTS of eggs (we have chickens)
baked oatmeal
pancakes
muffins
banana bread
plain yogurt
french toast
homemade granola
We add lots of fruit and or milk to each breakfast so it’s filling and satisfying.
There are so many great and EASY recipes out there for breakfast ideas. If it’s a bread or pancake type, I double the batch and freeze extras.I found this old thread in a search, as I am planning our breakfast menu. I really like the ideas from Adamsfamily & blue j above. I have spent much time lately on getting my day and week more organized. Last summer I put together a monthly menu for dinner. I am working on one for winter now. A few months ago, I made a bi-weekly M-F lunch menu. Now I am ready for improving the most important meal of the day. I am open to more breakfast ideas. Not being a morning person, I do not plan to “cook” in the morning. For too long we have eaten cold cereal. My healthy improvement on cereal a few years back was to stop buying sugary, colored kid cereal. We are used to Cheerios, Kix, Rice Chex or Krispies, and Raisin Bran now. Occasionally we have some oatmeal, yogurt, eggs, or toast.
The light bulb went off for me when I was reading Teri Maxwell’s Managers of Their Homes on page 100 from Ellen, “Anyway, I recently discovered make-ahead breakfasts! Easy, cost-effective recipes that can sit in the fridge overnight and be popped in the oven the next morning!” She goes on to give some examples, “We’ve had strata, Mexican casserole, baked oatmeal, and French toast. English muffin pizzas, refrigerator bran muffins, breakfast burritos, and crock pot cobbler are soon to come! The children can wake up to a hot, filling tasty meal instead of boring, expensive cereal, and I can feel like I’m really doing something for breakfast!”
This is exactly how I feel and I am searching for yummy, healthy breakfasts I can make ahead the night before. This book, along with Large Family Logistics, are really helping me get a good schedule and menu set up. This is so important to accomplishing what God wants you to. There are great breakfast ideas on this thread I will use too. Thanks ladies! Please share, if you have ideas to add.
We love http://www.thenourishinghome.com for all meal ideas, including breakfasts. 🙂
We have two breakfast times which has always worked well for us. When we come downstairs at 7:30 we eat cereal during the week and oatmeal in the crockpot on the weekends. Then the kids play and I do laundry and other chores and we have a bigger breakfast at 8:30. Usually waffles, pancakes, or muffins, eggs and fruit. This is when we do our family read alouds so it is nice to have a more substantial meal to enjoy.
It works because everyone is pretty hungry right when they wake (especially me because I am nursing!) but I’m not ready to cook a big breakfast yet.
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