Breakfast ideas?

singingsea · February 2014

What are you feeding your toddler for breakfast?

I work so it needs to be something snappy. Little dude is tired of scrambled eggs and fruit.

Thanks!

twinkletoes3126 · February 2014

Earths best makes frozen waffles and French toast sticks. I can only find them at target, but they are easy and my son loves them. Also, they are high in iron.

Also, Trader Joes has organic silver dollar pancakes which are quick and good.

Bagels or English muffin with cream cheese.

Oatmeal.

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singingsea · February 2014

JandACoffee said:

https://weelicious.com/?s=breakfast&cat=7260

Um I want all that just for myself!

Drool

EMOmamma · February 2014

My kids are in a breakfast burrito phase (I like it b/c I can add veggies easily). They also like oatmeal, cereal w/ milk, yogurt, and muffins.
You can add just about any veggie and/or fruit purée to a basic muffin recpie. We do green, red, orange, and yellow. Green have spinach and apples, red/purple have beet purée and blueberries, orange are carrot, and yellow are banana. I've done zucchini w/ mini chocolate chips before as a more special one. And strawberry when they're in season.
If they get to pick the color of muffin I find they're much more likely to eat it. They can also help you make a big batch on the weekend and freeze them.

nanabanana06 · February 2014

Breakfast for us is usually some sort of grsin and a fruit. Sometimes I'll do something like baked french toast or eggs if I'm feeling up to it. Usually it's stuff like pancakes, bagel, cheerios, pumpkin pancakes, english muffin, muffins, or waffles. I usually have things prepped and frozen in advance to quickly heat up.

pb_bride · February 2014

DS always gets a plate of fruit - I usually have 2- 3 kinds of fruit and they change every few days and also depending on season.

In addition to fruit, he gets a grain. Sometimes it's just plain old cheerios, other days he gets homemade muffins (blueberry, or lemon ricotta, or whatever else I have in the freezer), or banana pancakes, or banana/chocolate/oatmeal cups. I bake a batch of his breakfast items once a week and freeze them, so after a few weeks, I have a rotation of 3-4 different things to offer DS. I try not to give him the same food day after day.

He doesn't like scrambled eggs... or I would have made it for him! Have tried many times and he just threw it on the floor.

shannm · February 2014

Kashi instant oatmeal. She also does scrambled eggs and toast. Weekends we do pancakes or dutch babies.

Beth.1212 · February 2014

We do oatmeal with fruit and yogurt with fruit most mornings. Instant oatmeal is more processed and less nutritious, so I tend to cook steal cut oats. You can actually have them cook overnight in a crock pot so they're ready for you in the am. I got the recipe out of "Parent's need to eat too" but this blog recipe looks basically the same (though you do have to skim through a much longer doc than the cookbook recipe!).

shannm · February 2014

Beth.1212 said:
We do oatmeal with fruit and yogurt with fruit most mornings. Instant oatmeal is more processed and less nutritious, so I tend to cook steal cut oats.

OP, if time is an issue for you, there are some fantastic brands of instant oatmeal that pack nearly just as much of a punch as steel cut oats if not more. Try Kashi or Three sisters. Kashi also makes a great frozen waffle.

singingsea · February 2014

Thanks for all the ideas!

Heyjordynhey · February 2014

EMOmamma said:
My kids are in a breakfast burrito phase (I like it b/c I can add veggies easily). They also like oatmeal, cereal w/ milk, yogurt, and muffins.
You can add just about any veggie and/or fruit purée to a basic muffin recpie. We do green, red, orange, and yellow. Green have spinach and apples, red/purple have beet purée and blueberries, orange are carrot, and yellow are banana. I've done zucchini w/ mini chocolate chips before as a more special one. And strawberry when they're in season.
If they get to pick the color of muffin I find they're much more likely to eat it. They can also help you make a big batch on the weekend and freeze them.

Do you have a recipe for these muffins? I feel like this is something ds would like. Esp since he's a picky eater when it comes to fruits and veggies

smileybabyboy · February 2014

I make a batch of pancakes with sweet potato mixed in and we just take those out of the freezer and heat them up on the mornings he goes to DC. You can also make a batch of bran muffins, waffles, breakfast wraps, mini quiches, etc and freeze them.

EMOmamma · February 2014

Heyjordynhey said:

Do you have a recipe for these muffins? I feel like this is something ds would like. Esp since he's a picky eater when it comes to fruits and veggies

I do, but I'm at over 6000' in elevation so it's for high altitude baking.
Your best bet is to start with a banana muffin or pumpkin bread recipe and replace the banana/pumpkin w/ whatever other purée & chunks you want.

I *think this is the original one I started w/ before modifying. Obv pumpkin is another great flavor but we got pumpkined out last fall.

https://www.verybestbaking.com/recipes/144769/LIBBYS-Pumpkin-Muffins/detail.aspx

(If I remember right I halved this then halved the sugar)

skibunny59 · February 2014

Pancakes, french toast, muffins. I work too so I always have a freezer stash of pancakes, french toast, and muffins that I can pull out quickly. I make them homemade myself on weekends when I have more time and then freeze them. They freeze really well and last a long time. Weelicious and happy healthy mama have great muffin recipes.

Eags · February 2014

JandACoffee said:
Cereal made soggy with some milk (DD really likes Life and any oat/flake cereal), fruit is always in there, muffins, leftover pancakes from the weekend, waffles, toast with peanut butter, english muffins or bagels with cream cheese.

This website has some neat ideas including a ham/cheese muffin that I want to try making that is supposed to freeze well so all you have to do is warm it up in the microwave. https://weelicious.com/?s=breakfast&cat=7260

I love weelicious. I know it's not breakfast, but I made the cheesy turkey meatballs (and added shredded zucchini for more nutrition) and they were amazing!

We're in a plain Greek yogurt with fruit phase now. On the weekends we'll do eggs and biscuits/pancakes.

singingsea · February 2014

So we tried french toast sticks with strawberries and pineapple this morning. He wasn't sure about the sticks. Ate half of one. I served them plain cause he'd never had them before. Maybe I''ll try it again with a little butter. He was all about the fruit though! He slammed it