Need Breakfast Ideas

Frozen waffles?
New cereals?
Cream of wheat - the ones that are flavored?
toast/jelly (I usually give fruit, too)
french toast?
Nutri grain bars?

I'm about tapped out after that...

Well, not so healthy, but my kids LOVE cinnamon rolls. They also like to help...when they help, it makes it not so boring. You could do a fruit salad, fruit smoothies, Nutra Grain bars, etc. Maybe take them to the store and let them pick some things :o).

I asked this same question about a year ago& got several great ideas But the one I used the most & was the easiest was what I call egg mukfins. Mix 6 eggs w/some milk & spices you like, spray a 12 muffin tin w/PAM, put a slice or 2 of lunchmeat in each muffin part, a chunk of cheese ( to hold down the meat) pour in the uncooked eggs & bake at 350 for,mmmm, I can't remember now, about 15 mintes or until eggs look done. I'd then put them in the fridge. Re-heat in the morning about 30 seconds, & voila, breakfast is served! Both my boys love them!

what about breakfast smoothies. they are great when its hot like this and there are endless ideas of what you can add (alot of kids like peanut butter and banana smoothies.) my 11mnth old loves smoothies. he run into the kitchen when he hears the blender and then crawls into my lap with him mouth open lol!

My kids like ' Hole in Ones'. Butter a piece of bread. Take a hole out of the center of it. Put it butter side down in pan. Break egg so yoke is right in the whole. Cook and flip and cook like you are cooking a sunnyside up egg. Just cut in pieces. Egg will run out when you cook it. I kind of just mix it all together then.

They also really like breakfast pizza. This is nice because you can cook a big one and then have it for a couple days.
Just use crescent roll on a pizza pan. Top with cheese and any other toppings you like (ham, sausage, veggies). Then pour scrambeld eggs all over. You do not need to cover entire pizza with the egg mixture as it will expand when cooking. Maybe about 6 or so eggs should do it. Bake in oven until eggs are set and dough is browned. You can prepare this the night before too and just add the eggs in the morning.

We do muffins that I have baked the night before, fruit smoothies, taco shells filled with scrambled eggs and ham, I also will once in a while color the pancakes with pink or purple food coloring to make it fun. We have done buiscuts and gravy, breakfast pizza with veggies on it, egg bake in the croc pot over night, waffles, bagel with cream cheese, cottage cheese, string cheese, malto meal. I think the key is to prepare it the night before as much as possible. My kids usually have yogurt twice or three times a day cause they like it so much, we even throw it in the freezer so they can have that instead of frozen popcycles. Try asking them the night before what they would like for breakfast.

You can also add to the list of already GREAT ideas…

Toasted honey oat bread, spread earth balance on top and sprinkle with cinnamon. Sometimes my kids add raisins. Also, added with a side of fruit salad and chocolate soy milk.

Scrambled eggs with avocado and salsa
Potatoes, cut up and baked with cheese sprinkled on top
Yogurt with granola and blueberries
Flax seed oatmeal mixed with maple syrup

bagels and cream cheese
french toast

As far as healthy choices...
-Cocoa Wheats or Malt O Meal for cool days. Mmmm.

-Whole grain homemade muffins (our faves are blueberry or banana)

-I enjoy making breads from scratch (not with a bread maker...) I use a LOAF PAN, in the oven. Not difficult really. I do an Apple Cinnamon Bread or a Banana Nut Bread (eliminate nuts if there are allergies). I prefer to use almonds over walnuts.

-Whole grain toast, egg whites, and red skin potatoes (seasoned)

On occasion for a not so healthy breakfast...

-Sausage gravy, biscuits, and fried potatoes.

-Orange Sweet Rolls

We're a smoothy family! We use greek yogurt (twice the protein as regular) and a small banana, then we switch up the rest of the ingredients. Frozen berries, peanut butter, frozen mangos, etc. For flavors that do not use other frozen fruit, I freeze the bananas in pieces so they serve as the 'chiller'. My younger daughter likes chocolate orange. I use the frozen banana pieces, a spoon full of frozen orange juice concentrate and some Ovaltine. Yum!

If our smoothie is too thick we use V-fusion juice to thin it out. It is 100% fruit and veggie juice that adds great flavor to a smoothie. :)

-other healthy cereals like Cinnamon Life or Crispix
-add cut fruit to any cereal--strawberries, blueberries, peach, raisins ...
-cooked Cream of Wheat, with various toppings--butter, jelly, ???
-cereal bars (Special K, NutriGrain...)
(I'm not much of a cook in the morning :-) I reserve pancakes for dinner)
-ohhh, one more-- add leftovers to scrambled eggs for various flavors--chopped lunchmeat, ground meat, chopped veggies, tater tots, salsa, ... and always lots of cheese--it can be as is, or put in a tortilla for a breakfast burrito

How about cold pizza? Seriously, any food you eat for any meal of the day can be used at breakfast. Sometimes just making a day that you do something that seems a bit strange because it's not the normal breakfast type of food will break the monotony. After a day of that, your kiddos will most likely be ready for a more routine breakfast again. As long as they are getting the nutrition they need, it doesn't really matter what the food is that you give them.

Breakfast quesadillas made with whole wheat tortillas, cheese , turkey breakfast sausage. scrambled eggs

Breakfast tacos, scrambled eggs, hash browns, bacon.

Watermelon slices, Fruit plate
Bagels with cream cheese, jelly, butter, peanut butter

Oatmeal with strawberries, blue berries

Waffle sandwich, warmed waffle filled with scrambled eggs and ham.. top with a little syrup

No one has yet mentioned grilled cheeze sandwiches. Who says they can't be for breakfast???

Cream of Wheat
breakfast burrito
fruit salad
toaster waffles
PB&J w/ bananas a la Elvis :)
smoothies

low fat sausage, ham, smoothie, potato dishes...

Variation on what you do--different cereals and varieties of granola, different breads for toast, different toppings on the toast, cook the eggs in other ways, put something in the pancake mix...

You could also think "brunch" and incorporate some more lunch-y ideas.
Or look into breakfasts from other cultures and adapt them to your family's tastes.

Breakfast is quite boring, indeed! I've had this problem in the past and what helped is delaying breakfast for a little while longer in the morning. This will increase their appetite and you may notice they'll eat more and complain less. Also, try removing one dish from the rotation each week and reintroduce it about two weeks later. Each dish will seem new and inviting again and again.

No one says you have to have a traditional breakfast. Mix the day up, have lunch for breakfast, and breakfast for lunch. Turn the day upside down and start with dinner. If nuts are not a problem, you could always do a peanut butter and banana sandwich. D.

I recently found a website called Weelicious. Great ideas for breakfast, lunch, dinners & snacks. I have been inspired to make healthy foods for my family.

How about fruit - cantalope and berries. You have four things on the list now. i don't see how they could be bored with four things to choose from at this young age. I ate oatmeal for breakfast my entire life and never got "bored" with it. Maybe they're just not that hungry for breakfast - try waiting an extra half hour to an hour before you offer breakfast, if possible.

french toast sticks or you can use cookie cutters to make cute shapes, I use whole wheat bread and egg whites from the carton, it lasts a long time, way better than eggs and sugar free syrup/ or sugar free jelly, I also do, pancakes with blueberries, strawberries almost any type of fruit, roll them up with a bit of I can't believe it's not butter lite...even on occasion, fat free oatmeal cookie patty's, with raisins or blueberries, if you shape them like a cookie, they won't know the difference..."fake" shakes, made with ff vanilla yogurt or any other type and fruit freeze for a 1/2 hour after making them, use a scoop of vanilla protein powder also while blending. If I do any meat in the AM it is "morning star farms", you can add it to scrambled eggs, of course once again the kind in the carton... when I make the eggs I use a tad of "I can't believe it's not butter" lite in a bowl, nuke it just till it's melted, then add eggs, cook 1/2 time use fork to fluff, then add extra stuff , cover and finish cooking in microwave, till fluffy, way better than regular scrambled eggs and healthier...hashbrowns, already pre-made, microwaved, served with homemade salsa or ketchup, whole wheat toast cut in strips served with orange marmalade for dipping...anything they can dip, or use for finger food will make it more fun...very easy and you can make it very healthy...

Breakfast is not a very imaginative meal is it??? I rotate our breakfasts each day of the week so we don't get bored! Plus I really like being on a schedule...helps me out a lot (and helps my husband stay on track too)

Apple cinnamon poptarts (only one without red dye #40)
Chex, Cornpops, Cheerios, Golden Grahams or Cocopops
Egg, biscuit, bacon
Muffin day (we make these together...fun!)
NutriGrain bar (also the only one without red dye #40)
Waffles or Pancakes (try different fruit in them...my son loves craisin pancakes)
Cheesy toast or Cinnamon toast

I always serve a fruit each day and a glass of milk!