I got this picture off the internet. Too busy feeding my family to stage this.
Feed your family a nice warm breakfast full of mommy love and brain building nutrients. Fill their tummies with comfort food that will stick with them a few hours. Save the cold cereal for spring. Get up a few minutes early and make some oatmeal or cream of wheat. It only takes 5 minutes once the water boils.I take mine with honey (and a touch of butter if I have abandoned my "healthy eating program" ) but the boys like brown sugar on theirs. You can add fresh fruit, berries, nuts, raisins, dried cranberries, cinnamon red hots are a fun addition. We rotate rolled oats with steel cut oats (Irish) and Coach's Oats (available at costco). We don't do quick oats - too mushy.
Variety is the spice of life - right? So here are some other easy warm breakfasts:
- French toast - use thick slices of bread and let them soak in the eggs for a minute or two, then cook on medium low heat until done - the inside of the bread will be custard-like. A perfect meal for non-egg eaters.
- Whole wheat pancakes - pancakes are really easy and whole wheat pancakes stick with you for hours. The recipe posted below is delicious. Top pancakes with peanut butter and syrup if you like.
- Scrambled eggs with a bit of shredded cheese
Additional Tip! 2 for 1:
Breakfast isn't haphazard anymore. You are going to implement a routine and standard for breakfast. You will all eat together, at the table, and while the kids eat mom or dad will read aloud. You can read from the scriptures, or a book (Charlie's Monument is good), or magazines (this is how the New Era gets read at our house).
Remind them how good it is at home and prepare them for the day with physical and spiritual nourishment and huge dose of mother love.The point is that you get some safe wholesome family time before you send your kiddos out into the world.
It really is worth getting up 15 minutes earlier to do this.
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Really Good Whole Wheat Pancakes:
2 cups ww flour
2T sugar
2t baking powder
1/2 t soda
1 t salt
2 cups milk
2 eggs
2 T melted butter
I mix the dry ingredients and keep them ready to go. Just add 2 cups of dry mix to the wet ingredients. Quick and easy.
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What are your easy warm breakfast ideas?
9 comments:
One more tip:
Walk your children to the door, kiss them goodbye, and say "I love you!"
You have the best ideas.
Because I love cooking, we do lots of hot, home cooked breakfasts around here. Last week I started doing steel cut oats in the slow cooker: oats, water, salt, craisins, cinnamon, apples, I turn it on around 11 pm on LOW...all hot and ready for my early leavers (Emma has violin at the middle school at 7:15 am).
Great tips and reminders. I agree, it's totally worth it...when I actually do it!
I love breakfast casseroles, especially the ones you make the night before and then pop in the oven in the morning. Sure, you're getting up well before the kids, but then you can get in some "me" time before they wake up.
As always, your parenting tips are one of my favorite things out in the blogosphere. Thanks for sharing them.
Well, it's 3 o'clock in the afternoon and now I'm thinking about cream of wheat for heaven sakes. I had oatmeal for breakfast though with brown sugar and milk. Yummers on a cold and windy winter day.
Di
The Blue Ridge Gal
thick french toast, with powd. cinnamon added to the eggs before cooking, yum!
i see your sidebar now.
we are huge oatmeal eaters, but i will confess i buy the flavored packets of instant. they have dehydrated fruit in them, and the kids love it and can make it themselves. with just me home, trying to get all of us ready for work/school at the same time, i don't have the luxury of slow breakfast. especially if i want the dishes cleaned up before we leave. but we do make a big effort to do this on weekends. i think i'm rambling here. have you ever tried toast in your hot cereal? my fave. butter it and break it into chunks. it's so yummy.
also, FYI, charlie's monument was written with my grandpa's ranch as the original setting. B.Y. was a good friend of our family. and chester, i love you? great story behind that one.
okay. i'm done now.
I concur! I concur with what you've said. Thanks for the whole wheat pancake recipe. I apreciate it.
Love this whole post. We do sit downs every morning and I try to read scriptures with/to the kids... but somedays I am late and need to be doing hair and making lunches (me, need a clone? sure!) so I tell them Bible stories. They are begging for more Old Testament these days. :)
Oatmeal in the crockpot.... I want to like this, but I'm worried it will be all thick and pasty and goooey. I'm a tough sell on Oatmeal, it has to be perfect or I can't take it. I love it when it is *just right* though. :)
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