Breakfast for School Mornings

Try to make it something protein-based... that lasts a lot longer than carbohydrate based, and doesn't cause the blood sugar spikes and drops.

I like breakfast tacos... I make 2 for myself most school mornings (I work in a local middle school). 2 strips bacon, 2 eggs, picante sauce, cheese, and 2 tortillas. That will keep me nice and level until I eat lunch at 12:30.

First I cook the bacon strips, and while those are cooking, I put two tortillas on a plate, put on a little picante sauce and shredded cheese. I scramble the eggs in a bowl. I then put the bacon on the tortillas, and put the eggs in the skillet. Once they are cooked (I do it omelet style.. not all chopped up), I fold it a bit, cut and slide onto the tortillas. 30 sec. in the microwave to heat it all up, and it is done... maybe 5 minutes total prep/cooking time?

I find that if I have cereal, juice, or toast for breakfast, I'm getting shaky about 11:30 from the blood sugar drop. (I usually eat breakfast at 7:30 am)

When I make pancakes (whole wheat :) I make a double or triple batch. They freeze well and store for days in the fridge as well. To reheat use the oven - the microwave makes them soggy! I put the oven on 350 and just throw them on a cookie sheet and put them in, I don't even wait for the oven to preheat. It only takes me about 5-6min to make scrabmbled eggs and by the time they are done, the pancakes are nice and warm!

Eggs w cheese - these really are very fast
Kashi go lean cereal bars
Rice Krispie treats - homemade, not the store bought yucky kind
Granola in a baggie
String cheese
Waffles
Yogurt
Fruit - pre-slice it and put in separate baggies in fridge so you can grab and go.

I am the queen of fast breakfasts! I could list a million more!

Our daughter has ALWAYS been a reluctant breakfast eater.. she still is..

for about 3 years she would only drink a smoothie.
half of a frozen banana, 1 cup frozen fruit (choose 1 ~ strawberry, mixed berries, pineapple, or mangos) 1 cup apple juice, blend in the blender.. Yogurt can be added..

Even in college she can barely force anything down in the morning.. She says she keeps fruit bars, fresh fruit, or raisin bread in her room and tries to eat eat on the way to class.

I also love breakfast tacos, peanut butter crackers, cheese and crackers, sometimes I bake muffins. Bagels, cream cheese. Biscuits with and egg.
Grits.

Typically both of my boys eat Ego Waffles with fresh fruit or cottage cheese.

My kids love cereal- dry or with milk.
Froasted mini wheats
Cinnamon Cheerios
Raisin Bran
chex
I always have them have a piece of fruit with it.

Like PP I make ahead pancakes and add fruit to them- banana, blueberries, raspberries, etc. You cam also find some recipes for "yogurt" or cottage cheese pancakes.
Oatmeal is also a favorite here.

Poptarts are a midmorning snack (or brought to school for snacktime.

All depends on what your family likes and if there are health concerns...

I make waffles on Sunday or pancakes and freeze them - pop them in the microwave or toaster and viola! done!!

I also make banana muffins with chocolate chips in them - quick and easy.

My kids love the Pillsbury Toaster Strudels - they are 9 and 11 so they can do that themselves as well...my 9 year old LOVES bagels with cream cheese....

I also make up burrito meat mixed with refried beans...then scramble an egg and give a breakfast burrito...since it's prepared in advance - all you have to do is fry the egg and heat the meat...usually done in less than 5 minutes.

Oatmeal packets, I know full of sugar but oatmeal nonetheless
Frozen pancakes
Burritos
Hot pockets
Cereal

My daughter usually drinks a Gatorade at 6 then eats lunch which is at 10:30. At 2:30 she's home and eats a meal of whatever she can find, usually leftovers then dinner at 6ish. She'll be a senior

Oatmeal to go bars and fruit, Jimmy D's by Jimmy Dean for kids - Pancake and turkey sausage on a stick or as my son calls them "breakfast corn dogs", bite size shredded wheat with touch of fruit in the middle, Go-Gurts from the freezer, there is a new fruit and yogurt with granola on top that my son loves, mini muffins, Knudsens cottage cheese doubles

you can cook an egg in a coffee cup (or similar type glass container) in 55-60 seconds (I add a dash of milk and some shredded cheese). heat that up with a pre-made piece of bacon and you have bacon and eggs in 90 seconds.

Leftover pancakes & waffles
bagels with cream cheese, peanut butter, or jelly
waffles with peanut butter
oatmeal
homemade bread such as banana bread
breakfast burrito

French toast (good b/c of all the protein!) - The trick to making it be a quick breakfast is to get it ready the night before. Here's how: Get a sandwich ziplock baggie. Put in one egg, a splash of vanilla, a shake of cinnamon, a shake of nutmeg. Mix it together in the baggie with your hands. Add a piece of wholesome bread. I like to use Ezekiel cinnamon raisin bread found in the frozen aisle. It's healthy and i use it ONLY for french toast, so the $4-$5 loaf lasts a long time. I keep it in the freezer. Mix egg mix around the bread. Put in the fridge. By the morning, the frozen bread has thawed and soaked up all the egg. So all you have to do is put a little butter in a pan, put soggy bread in pan, cook on both sides, top with syrup, maple syrup, or agave syrup.

As for scrambled eggs (protein is soooo good for breakfast!): Crack them the night before. You can add the salt and pepper and whatever the night before, so in the morning, you just have to pour the egg-mix into the skillet.

I always have granola bars on hand in case we're running late somewhere and I need a quick breakfast.

I always want those little Jimmy Dean sausage breakfasts. But I don't buy them. But they'd be great to have on hand for another quick breakfast when you need it.

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Egg and turkey sausage scramble. It's quick to make but you can even make it the night before and just pop it in the microwave to heat in the morning. My daughter is tiny anyway, so I like for her to eat something more substantial in the morning. I'm always a little suspect of how much she eats at lunchtime so I feel better when she eats a bigger breakfast.

I make homemade granola, and sweet bread (banana, pumpkin) with whole wheat flour, wheat germ, flax, honey instead of sugar, and applesauce instead of oil, add fruit (raisins, cherries) and have with a protein (yogurt, string cheese, hard boiled egg).

Eggs are quick, fruit and cottage cheese or fruit and yogurt, I make waffles on sunday and freeze them, cereal (my kids like total, mini wheats, wheaties, special k) English muffin with peanut butter and fruit on the side, oatmeal.

When my kids were little and we were running late I would put dry cereal in a zip baggie and milk in their sippy cups...breakfast to go!!!

Now my son is 8 and sometimes still eats like that! But we have oatmeal when its cold out, bagels with PB or cream chz, bananas or apples with PB, frozen toaster waffles, hard boiled eggs, yogurt, fruit bars. I don't attempt eggs at all in the mornings. I do make a "big" breakfast on the weekends tho. good luck!