Breakfast ....what to Serve for Breakfast!!

Try Migas - They are super easy. Take Corn tortillas and either tear them into small squares. I just stack a few and cut them into strips and then cut them again into small squares. Brown/fry the squares in a little bit of oil. They do not need to be completely submerged in oil just enough to get them crispy then scramble in some eggs. Sometimes I add cheese on top. But you can add anything you like sometimes I add tomatoes or onions. Very easy and quick if it is just corn tortillas, eggs, and cheese. Enjoy!

Microwave scambled eggs! I am on a diabetic diet and was not a breakfast person at all!

I put one egg in a tupperware bowl, some chopped up canadian bacon, and some shredded cheese. Zap for 30 seconds stir and zap for 20-30 more seconds.

I have found that the Velveta shredded cheese is wonderful in these!!!

Also, I found packages of fig newtons that are 100% whole grain and they are also bite size. I love the Strawberry ones!!

I have two that my kids absolutely love. They are all casseroles that you make the night before and let them sit in the refrigerator and pop them in the oven the next morning. The leftovers are good re-heated also.

Apple cinnamon French Toast
1 loaf of French bread pre-sliced 1 t. vanilla
6 eggs 1/8 t. salt
1 1/2 c. milk 1 1/2 t. ground cinnamon
8 T. sugar, divided 4 granny smith apples
2 T. butter

Spray a 9x13 dish. Put slices on the bottom squeeze in as many as possible in a single layer. Beat eggs, whisk in milk, 3T. sugar, vanilla, and salt. Pour over bread. Peel, core and thinly slice apples. Place half over bread then combine 5T. sugar and cinnamon and sprinkle half over the apples. Then place the rest of apples and the sprinkle the rest of the sugar/cinnamon mixture. Next morning put the butter on top and place in 400 degree oven, uncovered for about 30-35 min. or until set.

The other recipe is from an Amish Cookbook it is Overnight Caramel French Toast:

1 c. brown sugar 1 t. cinnamon, divided
1/2 c. butter 6 eggs
2 T. light corn syrup 1 1/2 c. milk
12 slices of bread 1 t. vanilla
1/4 c. sugar

In a saucepan combine brown, sugar, butter and corn syrup to a boil. Pour sauce in a greased 9x 13 pan. Top with 6 slices of bread. Combine sugar and 1/2 t. cinnamon and sprinkle half of mixture over bread. Place remaining bread on top and sprinkle with remaining sugar/cinnamon mixture. In a bowl, beat eggs, milk, vanilla, and remaining 1/2 t. cinnamon. Pour over bread. Next morning cook uncovered in 350 degrees for 30-35 min. When I serve on plates I flip it over so the carmamel is on top.

I hope this helped you to break out of the same old thing for breakfast! Enjoy!

My husband got my girls stuck on Cheese Toast and they want that every day. I sometimes agree because it's so easy: cheese on bread in the toaster oven, although I always add some fruit. These are some other ideas we've come up with:
*cheese eggs & shreaded cheese (they add the cheese and sometimes ham)
*oatmeal w/ rasins
*yogurt
*FRUIT, my girls would eat fruit for every meal too! I've started letting my daughters pick out the fruit and put it in the bags at the store that seems to help steer them away from the ever popular bananas! Blueberries, strawberries, grapes, apples, pears, cantelope, kewi, mangos, and pinapples are their favorites!
*Sometimes I bake a large batch of mini muffins or pancakes w/ real fruit and it lasts several days. No need for syrup if you add the fruit in the mix or afterwards.
*Wheat toast with fruit (I love the painted toast idea!)
It is really hard to not get into a rut when you are trying to stay away from cereal & the frozen stuff! I'd love to find more breakfast ideas that are fast & that don't end with a sink full of dishes and that are fairly healthy.

My kids love yogurt. Especially if they think it is the ones I buy for myself. I get different flavors that way no one gets bored.

Also I make up enough pancake batter for a few days. Each day I add a different item to some batter before I cook them. Fresh chopped fruit or chocolate chips by themselves or with nuts or coconut.

Somedays we might switch to waffles made with the same extras.

I use electric skillet as it is easier/faster to clean.

Eggs are another good item to use for making breakfast.

Scrambled plain or with veggies and cheese.
One of our favorite dishes uses hash potatos browned and chopped onions with shredded veggies of choice then add a couple of eggs and scramble away. Can sprinkle on cheese add sour cream and picante sauce or eat plain. I switch up cheeses too.

If I plan on serving bacon I try to cook up several days worth ahead of time also. That way all I need to do is warm it up.

Another meat item is the cubed ham. My kids love the finger food idea sometimes and I will serve everythin cubed. Fruit cubed, some cubed carrots or sliced carrots, strips of different color bell peppers, pinapple chuncks, grapes halved. Just a few of different items. If they ask for yogurt to dip them in I use the vanilla so it doesnt mask the other flavors.

Toast spred with peanut butter or Soy substitute. I have one in the household who is allergic to peanuts.

Another favorite is egg pizza without the sauce. Stir egg(s) in a bowl. Pour into pan to cook. While it is cooking add chopped items to cooking egg. We use shredded pepperoni, minced pepper and onion, minced carrots, minced squash among a few different itmes.

Growing up we used to make Breakfast Pizza. We would take the pizza crust you buy in the can or make our own if we had time. Then, roll it out & put it on the big pizza dish. Make sure you butter the crust before adding the toppings. You can then add any breakfast ingredient you would like & put it in the over for 25-30 minutes & cook at 350 degrees. Depending on your oven you may have to cook it a little more or a little less. Just make sure your eggs are not runny. Hope this helps.

Hi D.,

My daughter (age 3 and picky!) likes frozen mixed berries (thawed a bit in microwave) on top of vanilla yogurt for breakfast. It's fast and healthy.

Also, she will eat cinnamon toast (quick and easy) - bread, butter, cinnamon, sugar, and broil in oven for just a couple of minutes until toasted.

Another hit in my house is smoothies for breakfast. We take vanilla yogurt, frozen fruit (we like berries), honey, milk until smoothie consistency in blender. My kids love these.

Two words- French Toast!!! This is my lifesaver. It is soooo easy.
Three eggs
1/4 cup milk
1/4tsp vanilla
dash of cinnamon-no sugar
6 slices of bread
mix it together with a fork in a pie pan
dip both sides of the bread in and throw it in a skillet(med) or on a griddle(350 degrees)
takes about 2 minutes of each side.
I have four kids so I don't have a lot of time but we don't buy cereal. Sometimes I make waffles of pancakes at night and put them in the fridge so that I can throw them in the micro in the morning.

Try cream of wheat or grits, you can also make french toast easily.

My daughter likes to make painted toast. You put milk in a bowl and add a drop of food coloring. Put bread in the toaster. Use paint brushes and paint a picture. It dries pretty much instanly. Then can top with what ever you want to.

My daughter likes a piece of bread and tops w/ flavored applesauce spread over it and sometimes adds peanut butter on it too. Pretty much anything that they can make they will eat. Minin Muffins are also a big hit.

You can get a little bowl and put an egg in it. Put in microwave and cook about 1 min or so until not runny. Top on toasted bread w/ pepper. That is something else they can make.

Stoffers has a chopped beef w/ gravy in the frozen food isle. You microwave that and top on toast too.

Make homemade donuts. Cut hole in middle of biscuit. Put into fryer until light brown. Then roll in sugar, powered sugar, chocolate powder or what ever topping you would like. My hubby even loves these. They make the donuthole cutters you can buy but I just use a knife and make them myself.

Honestly, we eat cereal most days for breakfast. It's the one meal in our house that lacks variety. Even the kids eat Kashi and Cascadian Farm organic, whole grain, high fiber cereals (they have "Clifford Crunch" and "Mighty Bites" for kids, but mine will eat the "grown-up" stuff too). I figure there's no need to alter it much because they're getting some essential things in that bowl of cereal! We do top it with berries often.
However, some other things they've enjoyed:
yogurt -- it's especially fun to put out a bowl of granola and bowl of blueberries or dried fruit and let them add their own toppings to their yogurt
cereal bars/granola bars -- mainly because it's a compact way to eat on the run (though just last week I handed them each a warm pancake and a sippy cup of milk on our way out the door because we were running late! We thanked Daddy later for making pancakes for us before he left for work). The Cascadian Farm brand harvest berry and chocolate chip flavors are our favorites.

Peanut butter toast
Eggs -- use cookie cutters to make fun shapes

That's all I can think of. Of course, 4 or 5 days a week it's a bowl of cereal. These things are typically weekend fare or something I do about once a week.

I have some delicious breakfast meals that my family loves and their quick, delicious and easy.

1. Bisquits and Gravy w/scrambled eggs & sausage.
We use the Pillsbury Golden Homestyle butter flavored bisquits and a great new delicious sausage they have come out with is Jimmy Dean already cooked sausage patties. So all you have to do is heat up the sausage in the microwave! (No grease splatter burns)
The gravy I use is McCormick (red package) sausage flavored gravy.
Approx 15 minute meal.

2. Pigs in a blanket
We use the Eggo microwave pancakes (in the frozen breakfast isle) and the Jimmy Dean already cooked sausage links.
After cooked, roll the pancakes around the sausage and give your children a small dipping cup of syrup to dip the piggys in.
They'll love it!
Approx 5-10 minute meal.

3. Sausage egg and cheese burritos.
Very simple, just scramble some eggs, scramble up a roll of sausage and mix the eggs and sausage together. Add the sausage and eggs with a slice of cheese to a tortilla and you have a delicious sausage egg and cheese burrito.
Approx 15 minute meal.

Hope some of my ideas help....I love those fast, delicious and easy breakfast meals to make.

www.kraftfoods.com - AWESOME site for ALL sorts of ideas! :)

Hi D.,
Have you tried instant grits? They're so easy and quick. I make them on the stove according to the box directions, then add some Smart Balance light butter, a little salt, and shredded Mexi-blend cheese...my girls love it. So cheesy and warm and filling.

And another surprisingly tasty hot cereal I recently discovered is oat bran. It's like a cross between oatmeal and cream of wheat. I also make it on the stove according to the box directions, then add some maple syrup to taste and frozen berries (blueberries are our fave). If you set the berries out in advance or even micorwave them for a few seconds, still leaving them a bit cold, they cool the cereal down immediately so the kids can start eating without having to wait for it to cool off. The oat bran gets really creamy. I like it better than cream of wheat and it's sooo healthy.

The french toast idea is a winner, too. And with french toast, you can totally use whole wheat bread (not sure if your kids like that or not, I hear some don't especially if they're not used to eating it...). But when you soak it and add all that flavor, you really can't tell. And actually whole wheat breads can be firmer, which helps it stand up better in all the soaking.

Another cool thing is to cook big batches of french toast and homemade pancakes when you have the time, then freeze them in individual zip lock freezer bags and reheat them in the toaster on busy mornings. Throwing berries and bananas in the pancake batter is really yummy, too.

Oh and hey, I say let them eat all the bananas they will...as power packed with nutrition as they are, I think it's safe to call them God's perfect food! My girls are probably on their way to becoming monkeys, too, ;o). (They certainly act like it! haha)
Hope this helps!
Thanks, also, moms for all the other great ideas!
K.

When I was little every Sunday we would make homemade sausage biscuits and then freeze those and microwave when needed. You can use turkey sausage to make them healty and add cheese too. It was always fun to help make them as a kid. Something we liked also were yogurt "sundaes" with fruit and granola. We would go to the store pick the yogurt flavor we wanted, my mom would either cut up fresh fruit or thaw frozen (depending on the season) and we would top with granola (or cereal) and we had yogurt "sundaes" for breakfast. Sometimes we would even put it on top of a waffle for real "sundae". Another idea was egg rolls...we would take a piece of toast put a slice of cheese down, then put some egg down and maybe a piece of bacon (but not always) and then roll it up and put a toothpick in it to keep it rolled. It was easy to eat with little fingers!! Another variation to this is toast, peanut butter and banana slices rolled up...again easy to eat with fingers and full of protein! Good luck!

My son and I love scrambled eggs with just salt and pepper on a slice of bread with Miracle Whip. You have to fold it over though or it just isn't the same. Another thing I tried the other day was PB&J french toast. You just mix eggs, milk and vanilla in a pie plate and then make a PB&J sandwich. Dip the sandwich in the eggs and then fry it in a skillet with a little butter. It didn't need syrup or powdered sugar! Pretty fast too! I loved everyones ideas. Thanks for sharing!
S.

We've done nutrigrain bars (talk about fast) and peanut butter and jelly toast. Pampered Chef makes a cut-n-seal bread thingy that turns any sandwich into a pocket without the crusts!

My little one (2 years) loves eggs with cheese. She gets to put the shredded cheese on the "omelet" (scrambled eggs with zucchini or some other veggie). She also likes to have a slice of turkey lunch meat for breakfast. She makes a sandwich out of it with toast. These are fast for me - mornings are busy enough!

Mine's kind of a picky eater though. Good luck!
R.

Hi - I found that my kids LOVE "Cowboy Cookies" - find any Oatmeal Cookie receipe, use only about 1/2 to 2/3's of the white sugar that it calls for. Add 2-3 tablesp's of milk (no skim) and 1-2 tablesps of pumpkin puree, add 1/2 bag of chocolate chips, some raisons. It's truly not as sweet as some of the cereals and my kids will ask for them throughout the day as snacks too! PS-I've tried adding Peanut Butter but the cookies get really dried out that way. Good Luck!

How about yogurt and fruit (my favorite is blueberry, strawberry and raspberry) parfaits? These are so easy to make and seem like a sundae. I like to top mine with granola.