Breakfast Ideas???

My daughter likes peanut butter and honey on raisin ezekial bread, cut with an "x." This is one of my favorites when part of it has to be finished in the car. She also likes almond butter with grape jelly. We always have fruit, too, and it can travel either in the form of a banana or in a sealed gladware bowl. I hate that we eat in the car, but mornings are short and we happen to commute 20 minutes to school. I'd way rather have her sleep 20 more minutes. =-)

We also make extra pancakes on the weekend, freeze them and pop them in the toaster. She eats them with morningstar fake sausage.

Deanna, for some inspirational ideas...you'll love these 2 websites (my favorites):

http://weelicious.com/

AND http://wholesomebabyfood.com/

DELICIOUSLY YUMMY!!!

ENJOY!!! : )))

LOL,
L. (MAMA to 13 month old Dylan Orion....29 September 2007). : )))

As a working mom too, I found that making breakfast "puffs" was a great way to go quickly and helathy in the morning! Do this one evening and you'll have breakfast for several days: Heat your oven to 350 degrees. Spray a cupcake pan with Pam; sprinkle in each section little chunks of meat (sausage, ham, bacon - whatever he likes), then sprinkle shredded cheese into it. You can add tater tots or hash browns too for a little variety. In a separate bowl, mix 6-8 eggs and about 1 cup milk. Add a little seasoning salt and pepper to taste if you like. Pour the egg mixture right into the little cups of your pan. Bake for about 25 minutes - or until a toothpick or knife inserted into the middle of one comes out clean.
You can refrigerate these and heat them up on the run and they're really easy! You can play with other ingredients - spinach and swiss cheese for a Florentine twist, mushrooms, green onions - you name it!
Accompany with fruit and toast and you have a full breakfast! Good luck!

Cottage Cheese Pancakes (packed with protein and yummy!)
4 eggs
1/3 C. flour
1 c. cottage cheese
pinch of salt

blend together in blender and cook like regular pancakes. Batter can be stored for a couple of days.

Good morning! My kids love tortilla roll-ups. We put mayo, grated cheese, and ham or turkey or whatever (layer it on half the tortilla and roll 'em up from that end. The mayo on the tip/other end "holds" it together). Also, check out Kraft.com. They have an entire section of quick and easy, breaksfast and kid friendly recipes.

We do Vans whole grain toaster waffles. Instead of syrup, put a spoon of yogurt, then a spoon of (frozen) berries (warmed in microwave for a few seconds)you may need to add a bit of sugar to the berries so the juice is sweet. Then he can still pick it up and eat it. This is actually really good and healthy for adults too! Another thing is -crescent rolls with a half slice of deli turkey and some cheese, roll up and bake as usual. This can also be baked the night before - just reheat in morning. Yum! (btw these are a fave of my kids anytime...you can also do pizza ones, anything you can think up really can go in there!)Then there's the old stand-by instant oatmeal, they make organic "healthy" ones in the packets now, so easy and good for you! That's all I could think of right now. :-)

He sounds like an good eater, so that makes this easy (picky eaters are WAY more of a challenge). Try peanut-butter-and-banana sandwiches with a glass of milk; hard boiled egg, cut in half so it looks like giant eyeballs (you can put a blueberry on each yolk and it REALLY looks like eyes); whole-wheat mini-bagels, either served plain or with a smear of peanut butter or thick yogurt. I'm a big fan of smoothies you make yourself. In the blender combine some banana, frozen fruit of any kind, and either milk, yogurt or kefir, plus egg white (the pasteurized kind that comes in a carton) if you want to add protein. I personally like smoothies made with frozen berries (they're yummy and purple!) but my kids actually prefer a recipe I made up for them: vanilla yogurt, a banana, 1/4 cup of peanut butter (melted gently in the microwave first), 1/4 cup of egg white, some cinnamon and sometimes some ground flax seed (adds lots of fiber). If you only have plain yogurt or plain kefir, you can use it, then add a few drops of vanilla extract to take the edge off the yogurt's tartness. My kids also like scrambled eggs (you can mix them the night before and store in the fridge, just pop them into a pan in the morning or even cook in a bowl in the microwave). So far I haven't gotten them to eat scrambled eggs w/ any veggies in them, but they do like a bit of cheese in there so that's extra protein and calcium. Celery or apple slices dipped in peanut butter, toast or whole-wheat English muffins spread with peanut butter -- the kids like how the peanut butter melts on the warm toast -- (yes we are really big fans of peanut butter in my house) ... if you put out a small bowl of cut-up fruit or grapes your son may nibble on them while you're making eggs or toast. Any of these things are quick and very nutritious. We also go through a lot of quick-cooking oatmeal (I buy it in bulk at Winco. I avoid the packets of instant oatmeal because they have too much sugar in them). I cook 1/4 cup of bulk oatmeal in water in the microwave, 1 minute, then add some milk and a tiny drizzle of maple syrup -- the real kind, not the kind that's just dressed-up corn syrup -- plus a sprinkle of cinnamon. My daughter LOVES this. If your son is willing you could even add fresh or frozen berries to his oatmeal, or banana slices. I love all these foods, and so do my kids, so I find breakfast is the easiest, fastest meal to get into them. Have fun with it and enjoy your little guy.

Batter Blaster is an organic pancake mix that comes in a whip cream can. You should check it out. Makes GREAT pancakes or waffles without the mess of mixing, stirring, etc. Just squirt out what you need and put it back in the fridge. You can get it at Gelsons, Ralphs, Costco...

Zucchini Carrot Bread at Trader Joe's is another favorite of my daughters.

Trader Joes has varieties of foods thats preservative FREE & organic.
1.French toast - from TrRader Joes & just heat up - serve with green & red grapes
2.waffles from Trder Joes with Blueberry & raspberry

3. english muffin peanut butter with honey . Let your kid make it for fun . served with sliced oranges
4. dollar pancakes from trader joes with sliced apples .
good luck ...

or his favorite cereals

Hi Deanna,

I like Jessica Seinfeld's cookbook "Deceptively Delicious."

My son likes yogurt in the morning followed by dry cereal. He's eaten that every day for almost three years in a row.

You could always pre-do pancake batter and keep it in the fridge, so all you have to do is cook up a couple in the morning--that's pretty fast. Jessica Seinfeld's recipe calls for sweet potato puree, but my family likes it with pumpkin (you know, as in out of a can).

:-) D.

Hi! My 9 year old daughter just taught this one to me: Butter both sides of a piece of bread. Heat a pan and use a cup or cookie cutter to cut the center of the bread out. Now put the bread on the hot pant then crack an egg into the center of the bread/hole. Once the egg is cooked fairly well then turn the entire egg/bread combination over and continue to cook! I usually cook whatever bread shape we cut from the center as well. Voila! You now have the egg and "toast" in one, and your little one helps by doing the "cookie cutter" part.

Hope you like it!

--L. M

We love Trader Joes! We use their frozen Pancakes, frozen French Toast, and frozen Waffles and stick them in the toaster oven. They also have a frozen Oatmeal that we sometimes use. Our favorite oatmeal is McCann's Maple and Brown Sugar which the kids love and isn't as high in sugar as many of the other brands. Trader Joes used to carry it, but they don't anymore, however we found it on Amazon.com and we now get automatic bulk deliveries at our home, making it really easy and cheaper. We use these as the base of the meal and add fruit, juice and protein to make it fast and healthy.

Good Luck.

Toast with cottage cheese and honey drizzled over it. My kids love it and it is healthy.

try putting his favorite fruits in a pancake. if he can use a spoon well give him his choice of cereal. you seem like you feed him a good variety for breakfast. but i hope this helps :)

My little guy will eat instant oatmeal, granola bars and banannas, bagels with cream cheese, cereal, vanilla yogurt with cinnamon sprinkled on it or those drinkable yogurts. For awhile, he stopped being interested in food right when he woke up and wouldn't eat "breakfast" until closer to 10:00 a.m. My little guy is allergic to eggs, but he likes sausage and bacon. If he likes eggs and sausage, you could try making him little breakfast burriots with 1/2 a flour tortila, some scrambled eggs and cut up sausage, and shredded cheese. Mine loves small pancakes and waffles too. Since yours is not allergic to eggs, I bet he'd love french toast strips or something like that too.

Here are a few ideas on this link (one of my favorite websites!)
http://www.wholesometoddlerfood.com/toddlerbreakfast.htm

I like using cookie cutters to make fun shapes out of pancakes, french toast, sandwiches, etc. With the holidays here you could use a gingerbread man, turkey, stocking, star, etc. You can get the cookie cutters really inexpensively and they provide lots of fun!

My son loves waffle sandwiches...I take a whole wheat waffle cut in half and put peanut butter on half and make it a sandwich.

he always loves to dip fruit in to yogurt, just cut up and put yogurt in to bowel.

I too have a short time window for breakfast - here are some quick favorites of my not-picky-either eater (served with milk):

toast with cheese - we sometimes put jam on (sweet and savory like grandpa!). Fruit on side

oatmeal with applesauce or cut up apples in it - bit of maple syrup or brown sugar on, milk poured over

greek or regular yogurt with fruit on the side. greek yogurt is awesome - protein packed and we either put honey in plain yogurt (we happen to eat the 0% fat version from Trader Joes)or pop open a flavored one

a 4 minute boiled egg mashed in bowl with butter, salt & pepper and spread on toast

ocassionally we have leftovers like spaghetti for breakfast! As long as it has enough protein, I don't worry overmuch. It's about having a smooth morning, I think. . . plus, we who have good eaters are lucky, lucky!

Hi there,
we give our little boy scrambled egg and fruit - the fruit is variable every day and depends also on the Farmer's market offer. In the weekends he loves his croissant or a toast with Philadelphia cheese. Cheese is makes a great breakfast addition anyway and now I started to arrange food in a fun way - cutting toast in flower shape or draw a face on it with fruit pieces etc.
Have a nice Thanksgiving - S.

At weelicious we love making cheese omelette's in the microwave (45 seconds), leftover grains (rice, quinoa) with milk, berries, honey, etc.., our version of an Egg-Wee-Muffin, batter for crepes or pancakes that can be made the night before, etc..-www.weelicious.com

How about some oatmeal? I toss craisins or raisins in mine and my daughter loves it! It takes between 5-10 minutes on the stove.

Smoothies! Super easy and fast. Some yogurt, frozen fruit, a banana and a splash of orange juice or soy milk (or whatever liquid you prefer). Toss it all in the blender and in no time you've got a delicious all-in-one breakfast. Sometimes I even put in some liquid egg whites if I want to make sure my daughter's getting enough protein. She loves them and there's something extra fun about getting a smoothie with a straw for breakfast. Then with some cereal or a piece of a toast, the meal is complete!