mealplanning

Whatever the controversy with nutritionist about whether or not breakfast is the most important meal of the day, there is no denying the fact that kids need food to kick start their day and their brain. I do too.

Breakfast has always improved my boys academic attention.

5 Easy and Quick Breakfasts Kids Will Eat

The problem is that I also like my morning time and want to spend it in a less stressful way like reading, looking over lessons for the day or doing a bit of blogging and I also want my kids to eat well.

Too, you remember I shared with you how I plan my dinners for 31 days and not breakfast.  Look at that article here Free 31 Days of Dinner and Editable Menu Planner.

The reason I don’t plan breakfast is that I rotate a handful of quick, but delicious ideas that have worked for us through the years.

Keeping breakfast simple and not preparing extravagant breakfasts that kids won’t eat is the key to a morning that gets booted up quickly, which leaves more time to wake up and start school on time.

Look at these 5 breakfast ideas that make my morning run smoother and keep it relaxed.

1. Egg McMuffins, Breakfast Sandwiches or whatever you want to call them.

This morning I spent about a little more than an hour preparing 30 egg mcmuffins.

After Tiny started school, I stayed in the kitchen and worked on the egg mcmuffins until I needed Tiny for the assembly line, but again, I made these later in the morning, not first thing.

Look at what you need:

• eggs. 1 egg for each muffin. So grab as many eggs as breakfast sandwiches you are going to make.
• meat (if any, of your choice) I rotate between ham, Canadian bacon, bacon and sausage patties.
• English muffins. Grab as many packages as you are going to make. I normally grab two packages (which makes 6) and don’t make less than two packages, but sometimes I make enough for a month.
• Pam spray
• cheese. If your family likes it. This morning I am trying Monterrey Jack cheese because Tiny and I love a bit of spice.
• muffin pan (if you bake your eggs in the oven like I do)
• diced up onions if you’re eggs are scrambled.

When the boys were little, this would last us a full month or longer.

But I have mean eating machines over here now and 30 sandwiches will go us maybe 2 weeks, but then again they can eat two or more at a time.

Decide right away if your family prefers scrambled eggs or baked in the oven.

Now, I cook my eggs in the oven because I love the taste.

However, for years, I did scrambled eggs because the boys were little and knew what was in their sandwich. Look at this post, Homeschool Organization – Forget Once a Month Cooking When Meal Planning, I did a few years ago where I scrambled the eggs and would freeze only one package.

I prepared this quick breakfast like this:

First, I started cooking my ham slices or bacon. While that is cooking, I heated up the oven to 275 degrees.

Next, it’s true, like most recipes call for that you have to spray the heck out of the muffin pan if you want your eggs to not stick.

Spray it some more for good measure and then do it again. Then I start cracking the eggs in the muffin tin.

I put the ham or meat aside now and let it cool.Then I start toasting the muffins.

Depending on how many I am making, I will stick the pan in the oven right away with a bit of butter to let it start browning.

This morning though, I used my 4 slice toaster and toasted the muffins while the meat cooked and I cracked eggs. By the way, I add butter the muffins slightly after they were toasted.

After the eggs are cracked, take a fork and break the yoke and add salt and pepper.

Then stick the muffin pan in the preheated oven and cook for about 12 to 15 minutes depending on your oven.

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You want the white cooked, but the yellow doesn’t have to be all the way cooked. It finishes cooking in the microwave when you heat it up. Look at my picture below.

Then I let the eggs cool off and set up firm before I lift them out and build the muffins.

Add your meat, cheese of choice if any and egg.

Then I wrap them in saran wrap and stick them back in the same muffin bag and in the freezer they go.

Heat them up in the morning for about a minute.

Then here is another quick break that I do.

2. Toasted English muffin + 2 tablespoons peanut butter = Done.

Then, normally, in the winter, I love hot oatmeal and not the quick kind, but the slow and healthy kind of oats.

BUT, when I know I want to get a start on the day earlier, I often make Overnight Oatmeal in a Jar.

3. Cold oatmeal in the winter?

Believe me, they are to die for delicious when you make them right.

I make them while I cook supper and stick those babies in the refrigerator and they are ready to go the next morning.

You can make them different ways, but mine always include; regular steel cut oats, cinnamon, greek yogurt, chia seeds, organic maple syrup, blueberries or strawberries, some walnuts or pecans and coconut milk.

It’s such an easy and great tasting breakfast. I can eat out the jar and read.

The hardest part is chopping the strawberries and I if I get real lazy short on time, I use blueberries. Besides, I prefer blueberries a bit more than I do strawberries.

(pic attribution: The Yummy Life. Reminder pin from original sources.)

Check out Monica over at The Yummy Life because she has a super easy step by step how to make them. I just throw all mine in and stir. (yum)

4. Blueberry banana deliciousness.

Then talking about blueberries, that brings me to another family favorite, which is blueberry banana smoothies.

• 1 cup frozen blueberries
• 1/2 banana
• 1 cup yogurt (I use low sugar or sugar free).

It’s quick and I blend it up in a snap and ready to go.

Too, I can put several batches of this in the blender and just whip it up in the morning.

5. Apple and cheese for the boys, but for me avocado toast.

Then another one that Mr. Senior 2013 loved was apple and cubes of cheese.

For me, I love mashed avocado on toast or another go to for me in the morning is cottage cheese and peaches.

Finding more time for mom and not compromising on a great start to the day always starts the previous day for me by knowing what we will eat.

We have many other go to choices, but these five quick and uncomplicated breakfasts have always helped us to kick off our day and stick to our homeschool schedule. Did I mention picky kids will eat them?

Do you have any quick and fast breakfast favorites?

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