Easy Breakfast Ideas Part 4 - Submitted by Blog Readers

Well, I can't say we have breakfast together very often. 5 teenagers plus a 22 year old living at home, and the tradition never established, we just fend for our selves most of the time. Mom likes to make scrabbled eggs with onions and green peppers for breakfast burritos, then she just heats a stack of tortillas and sets out sour cream, tomatoes and hot sauce, buffet style. This is good, because we don't all get up at the same time.

Our all time favorite breakfast recipe is Swedish Pancakes. (We use to use 36 eggs when there were 11 of us) I just have to share it!

Swedish pancakes

6 eggs
equal amount water to eggs
1/4 tsp salt
1 cup flour
1/3 cup oil

Beat together with a wire whisk until mostly lump free or mix in a blender.

Oil and heat 2 skillets to about medium. (This part varies a little, so you may need to adjust the heat depending on the pan.) Use a ladle or measuring cup to pour a small amount of batter into one of the pans, lifting it to let the batter flow to the sides. It should be very thinly spread. When it is cooked through on the one side, it will come out of the pan easily and you will flip it into the other pan to cook the other side. I like to flip the pan, but using a spatula works as well. Once you have used all of your batter you will have a nice stack of pancakes. :) We like to eat them rolled up with Apple Sauce, Peach Puree or Butter & Syrup. -Fyara

I'm not a morning person, so breakfast is always a struggle for me too. (Not getting much sleep might have something to do with that. LOL I'm pregnant w/ number nine and still waking with two other little ones occasionally.) But anyway, here's a few ideas that I love and haven't seen mentioned yet:

Whole wheat toast w/ egg salad

Sprouted wheat Bagels w/ chicken salad

(egg/chicken salads can be made ahead)

I also make up quiches ahead in pie shells and then reheat.

My dh loves homemade granola w/ milk too. I have a recipe that tastes like peanut butter cookies. It's not the healthiest thing in the world, but he loves it. And it is better than store bought cereals etc...

Granola:

1 1/2 cups butter
2 cups peanut butter (smooth or crunchy)
2 1/2 cups brown sugar
1 tbsp. vanilla
12 cups rolled oats
3 cups coconut
optional fruits and nuts (my dh likes raisins)

Melt first 4 ingred. in large pot. Mix oats and coconut together and then pour butter mixture over oats. Mix well. Allow to cool and then add optionals. Yum!!

On a really rushed morning I've occasionally given these cookies along w/ milk and fruit to my kids. They are very healthy.

Gingerbread People

By Peggy O'Mara

Preheat oven to 375 degrees
2 teaspoons powdered ginger or 1 tablespoon grated fresh ginger
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
2 teaspoons ground cloves
5 cups flour (use whole wheat pastry, spelt, or white flour)
1 ½ teaspoon baking soda
1-teaspoon salt
1 egg
1-cup butter
2/3-cup honey
2/3-cup molasses

Mix the ginger, cinnamon, clove, baking soda and salt with the flour. Set aside.
Mix the honey and molasses together. Cream in the butter. Add the eggs. Mix well.
Add the dry ingredients to the honey molasses mixture in three batches. Mix well after each addition.
Chill the dough.
Roll out the dough and cut out gingerbread people with cookie cutters or freestyle. Decorate with raisins and nuts.
Bake for ten minutes or until slightly brown.

Here is my breakfast idea list:

Banana French Toast- blend bananas, milk, vanilla & sm. amount nutritional yeast together. Soak sturdy bread strips & fry untill golden.
Banana Cereal- Mix 2 cups oats, cinnamon, wheat germ, mashed banana and favorite juice (mango, apple cider etc...).
Blueberry Oatmeal- 1 c oatmeal, 2 c boiling water, 1/2 cup bluberries and 1 T cinnamon. Cook 5 minutes, drizzle w/ honey & milk.
Easy Breakfast- Slice bananas, drizzle w/ tahini and cinnamon. May add honey.
Granola w/ milk
Granola w/ yogurt and fruit
Toast- regular, cheese, PB and cinnamon
Sausage & Biscuits
Millet or Oatmeal w/ fruit and or cream
Raw rolled oats w/ cooked apples, maple sugar, pecans and cream
Waffles w/ honey butter
Pancakes w/ cooked sweetened apples and whip cream
Grits
Breakfast Burritos
Good Bread, cheese & apple cider or fruit
Yogurt & muffins
Eggs- scrambled, boiled, deviled or in omelets
Egg Fritatas
Quick Bread (banana, pumkin, orange yogurte etc...)
Fried Cornbread
Fruit salad
Smoothies
Bagels w/ butter or cream cheese
Sweet Rolls- homemade
Apple or Pumkin Pie (healthy versions)
Egg Salad on toast
Cereal w/ fruit & milk
Buttermilk Biscuits

Sorry for the LONG post. I hope something helps you out here a bit.

Aileen