Ok.. let's talk breakfast now!

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

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)

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

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.

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 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.