Monday, September 20, 2010

healthy breakfast

Breakfast for Erin is always a challenge. She doesn't always like to eat unless. She does like pancakes and waffles but not the frozen kind and I don't have time to make them often. Did I mention that she is not a fan of fruits and veggies. We started the school year with a new agreement. She needed to find healthy breakfasts with fruit that she could make herself and would eat. She did a great job. Last week she made Pumpkin waffles. Made the batter at night cooked up a big batch, froze the extras and has been eating them all week. Last night she mixed up Mary Fran’s scones using mixed dried fruit, she not a fan of raisins but likes dried cherries and strawberries. I think she still has plans for some pumpkin pancakes. We'll see what else she comes up with.
To make it easier I am editing the post to add to more links, thanks Bridget, Katie and Caitlin.

3 comments:

  1. Evan's always been the same, not great about breakfast if it's not a great breakfast. He'd usually appease me by grabbing a granola bar or power bar. We've been on a smoothie kick this school year, but that requires discipline on my part, because he doesn't have time to make it.

    Jude said his friend made a PB&J sandwich smoothie ("he just liquefied it.") I can't vouch for that one.

    Grace has been interested in making her own cream cheese and jelly sandwiches for lunch on her school days. The other day she said it looked so good that she had to eat it for breakfast, then she made another one for lunch.

    Is she not an egg eater? Scrambled eggs in the microwave are so-so quick and easy, either as is or on a tortilla or toast as a burrito or sandwich.

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  2. She is an egg fan but not fond of them cooked in the microwave. So the others kind of fall in my list of a breakfast that requires more effort on my part. Also wondering - I remember when we heard eggs were not good for us should we still be limiting the number of eggs we eat a week. That said
    she loved your baked eggs in a ham cup. I was thinking of trying it in a custard cup with only one egg instead of for a group.

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  3. Check out this healthy breakfast cookie recipe: http://www.grouprecipes.com/1360/breakfast-cookie.html

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