beyond eggs and oats - warm winter breakfast ideas needed!

[bigknitwit]

Can anyone help out with some nourishing ideas for breakfast? My kids are somewhat sensitive to eggs, so they can't eat too much of them. Also ds2 is celiac, and oats are not an option. For some reason even GF oats bother him... Help - I am in a serious breafast rut (read cereal - is there such a thing as a GF, TFish cereal?)

[Chouette]

Do they like grits? I love grits with a little bit of warmed pinto beans and some cheese. A warmed or fried corn tortilla would be a good sub. Oh, wait, that's not gluten free, is it? I'm not sure about corn...sorry!

Leftover soup makes a warm and hearty breakfast, and it's a good way to get your bone broth (of course the bone broth part is new to me, so this is a suggestion for my household, too.)

Sometimes we just have bacon and sourdough toast (sprouted wheat for me, when I'm eating grains).

I know some folks make granola out of soaked and dehydrated oats and other grains and nuts and seeds. Also, quinoa makes a great breakfast grain.

Smoothies aren't warm, but they are our most common breakfast, especially on rushed mornings.

[philomom]

My kids like beef stew for breakfast. I set it up in the crockpot and they eat two bowls before the bus comes. I know it sounds weird but I really wanted my kids to have a hearty breakfast... they are both light lunchtime eaters... so much socializing to do at school you know?

[Callimom]

Some favourites from our house:

sweet things:
warmed applesause with toast and cheese
baked apples topped with granola
fruit crisp made with granola
oatmeal of all types/add ins (lovely made with apple or plum sauce)
oven pancakes with warm berry sauce

not sweet things:
breakfast pizzas (on english muffins or pita bread)
eggs/omlets
breakfast tortillias
breakfast burritos

hth

[sweetjasmine]

Originally Posted by Chouette

Do they like grits? I love grits with a little bit of warmed pinto beans and some cheese. A warmed or fried corn tortilla would be a good sub. Oh, wait, that's not gluten free, is it? I'm not sure about corn...sorry!

Leftover soup makes a warm and hearty breakfast, and it's a good way to get your bone broth (of course the bone broth part is new to me, so this is a suggestion for my household, too.)

Sometimes we just have bacon and sourdough toast (sprouted wheat for me, when I'm eating grains).

I know some folks make granola out of soaked and dehydrated oats and other grains and nuts and seeds. Also, quinoa makes a great breakfast grain.

Smoothies aren't warm, but they are our most common breakfast, especially on rushed mornings.

Are grits TF? I like my grits with lots of butter. I'm interested in this thread because since I work outside of the house I would like to incorporate some new ideas for breakfast, specifically some quick meals. I am trying to get away from cold, conventional breakfast cereals but I need something fast and good. I have a recipe for baked oatmeal which I haven't tried yet. I plan on starting out by soaking the oatmeal and then using it in this recipe which keeps in the fridge for several days and only needs to be warmed up.

Bacon and sourdough toast sounds like an excellent idea!

[Peacemamalove]

Here are some ideas ...We are GLuten free as well :

Quinoa Porridge
3 cups water or a combination of dairy and water
2 or more Tbs coconut oil, butter or ghee
¼ cup natural raw sugar
½ tsp cinnamon
1 cup quinoa flakes
½ cup coconut flakes, optional

Place the water, oil, sugar and cinnamon in a saucepan and bring to a boil. Stir in the quinoa and coconut flakes and stir for a minute. Remove from heat and let stand until thickened.

My kids love Larabars and we make our our all you need is a food processor cashews and dates blend all ingredients and put on wax paper.

Potato Hash all you need to do is peel and shred (with a cheese shredder ) a few potatoes fry them up in Bacon grease,coconut oil etc.

[kjbrown92]

My DS can't do eggs or gluten (or oats). We're not strictly TF, but a lot, but these are the things we eat:
sweet potato-bacon hash
Bob's Red Mill Creamy Buckwheat cereal (it's hot)
curried chickpeas
sometimes he has meatsauce on steamed cauliflower
buckwheat pancakes (I don't soak my buckwheat though)
smoothies (coconut milk, bananas, frozen strawberries, pineapple juice)
millet porridge

DD2 also eats Rice Chex with rice milk, which I'm sure isn't TF.
I also make sandwich bread which DS has with peanut butter on it or palm shortening and cinnamon-sugar

[Aubergine68]

Do you have a gf pancake recipe or mix? You could use an egg sub. too.

I always make up my buttermilk pancake batter the night before at least, subbing whole grain flour into a standard recipe and using soured raw milk instead of buttermilk. I find that the pancakes are even better after another day or two. Just give the batter a stir and its good to go -- soaking grains is pretty TF

[captivatedlife]

My current favorite right now: soup. Ok, well soup with a poached or baked egg, but still it's different!

to bake:
Place 1 cup or so soup in a personal ramekin (14 oz or so)
Crack an egg or 2 on top
Toss in a 350 oven for 10 minutes or so - check at 8 to see if it's as done as you want.

I've done: Chicken, no grain soup; sweet potato soup, and a yummy spicy tomato soup (southwestern), so far this winter with a bean soup planned for next week (spicy).

To poach -

Place 1 cup or so soup in a small (5 inch or so) pot
Heat over meadium till warm and lightly bubbling
Crack an egg or 2 into soup.
Turn heat down slightly.
Cover with a tight fitting lid and let cook for 8-12 minutes. Ilike my egg yolks still a little runny

[LauraLoo]

We do a TF version of this Quinoa Pudding, by soaking the quinoa overnight first and sustituting honey for the 2 Tbs. sugar.

[Metasequoia]

We like stews, the thicker, the better. Beef stew, goat stew, chicken, turkey, sausage, whatever. Goat & beef are the faves around here, much richer.

Hands down, the kids' favorite is scrapple, sliced thin & fried until almost crispy on the outside. Then I drizzle just a *hint* of maple syrup on top.

I have a recipe for buckwheat pancakes. We, as a family, don't do well with grains, even GF oats or other GF grains. I know buckwheat isn't technically a grain, but if we eat something other than meat for breakfast (any meal, really, but breakfast especially), we get achy bellies & feel just generally bad for the rest of the day. For some reason, this seems to apply to buckwheat for us, even though it's technically not a grain. I think for our family, it's carbs. We all tend to need to be pretty Paleo to be at our best, both physically & emotionally.

Anyway, here it is:

1 cup brown rice (you can skip the rice & double the buckwheat groats, or vice versa)
1 cup buckwheat groats
2 cups milk (cow's or coconut or even water.)
1 tsp vanilla (optional)
1 tsp cinnamon (I use a lot more)
2 TBSP oil (I use coconut oil)
1/2 tsp salt
1 egg (optional!)
1 TBSP baking powder

Soak grains overnight. Drain. Pour into blender. Add milk & blend for 3 minutes. Add vanilla, cinnamon, oil, salt & egg & blend for 20 seconds. Add baking powder & pulse for 20 seconds.
Cook as per normal for pancakes, turning when bubbles form & edges look a little dry.

*The first batch in the pan is often flat, but the remaining batches are puffier & yummier. The recipe calls for 1-2 TBSP sweetener, like honey, but I don't use any sweetener. I prefer to gob some raw butter on top with a little drizzle of maple syrup. These also pack well for "sandwiches" with some nut butter in between.

[sweetjasmine]

Originally Posted by Metasequoia

Hands down, the kids' favorite is scrapple, sliced thin & fried until almost crispy on the outside. Then I drizzle just a *hint* of maple syrup on top.

What is scrapple?

[Metasequoia]

Originally Posted by sweetjasmine

What is scrapple?

Why, you've asked the million dollar question!

[Metasequoia]

Originally Posted by sweetjasmine

What is scrapple?

Everything but the oink.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrapple

The scrapple we get is from a local farmer. The pigs are pasture raised & the only "flour" in it is buckwheat, then salt & pepper. It's pretty darned hard to find grain free scrapple - most has corn or wheat or both. For this reason alone, I don't think we can ever move away from here.

[Koalamom]

Subbing because we are allergic to eggs and oats, the very common breakfasts.

We sometimes have:
homemade sourdough bread
apple sauce (apple picking season, yay!!)
this moring is amaranth cooked in bone broth and loads of veggies
We don't ike to do really sweet breakfast all the time, but sometimes have bulgar with berries
raw yogurt

[mamakah]

Originally Posted by Peacemamalove

Here are some ideas ...We are GLuten free as well :

Quinoa Porridge
3 cups water or a combination of dairy and water
2 or more Tbs coconut oil, butter or ghee
¼ cup natural raw sugar
½ tsp cinnamon
1 cup quinoa flakes
½ cup coconut flakes, optional

Place the water, oil, sugar and cinnamon in a saucepan and bring to a boil. Stir in the quinoa and coconut flakes and stir for a minute. Remove from heat and let stand until thickened.

My kids love Larabars and we make our our all you need is a food processor cashews and dates blend all ingredients and put on wax paper.

Potato Hash all you need to do is peel and shred (with a cheese shredder ) a few potatoes fry them up in Bacon grease,coconut oil etc.

[Chicky2]

Originally Posted by Metasequoia

Everything but the oink.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrapple

The scrapple we get is from a local farmer. The pigs are pasture raised & the only "flour" in it is buckwheat, then salt & pepper. It's pretty darned hard to find grain free scrapple - most has corn or wheat or both. For this reason alone, I don't think we can ever move away from here.

I've seen scrapple on the Food Network before. Looked good! It's definitely not well-heard of here in Texas!

I will totally remember this when we have pig butchering this winter!! Doesn't sound tons different than making barbacoa from cow heads, except that the offal is used in scrapple. I have some issues w/eating organ meats myself, but I could pick and choose if I'm making it myself! We are not grain free or GF. Knowing that it would be made from feral pigs makes it even more appealing.

[sweetjasmine]

Originally Posted by Metasequoia

Everything but the oink.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrapple

The scrapple we get is from a local farmer. The pigs are pasture raised & the only "flour" in it is buckwheat, then salt & pepper. It's pretty darned hard to find grain free scrapple - most has corn or wheat or both. For this reason alone, I don't think we can ever move away from here.

Oh my!!! lol!! I'm with Chicky2, never heard of it in Texas. Don't know what to think of it. I guess if I ever travel up yonder and am offered a bite I'd be polite and try it.

[Teenytoona]

IF you want a TF mimic of the grits texture, amaranth does very well. I love it cooked in bone broth with some butter in it too. My kids would love it, well they would if they didn't know about the bone broth. Nice and warm and amaranth does not take too long to cook, especially if it's been soaked overnight - a day or so.

[Vaquitita]

lately we've been eating sausage and pumpkin muffins.

sausage recipe (got off mdc last year, don't remember who posted it)
1 lb. ground meat 1/2 tsp sage, 1/2 tsp marjoram, 1/3 tsp summer savory, dash nutmeg, 1 tsp salt, 1/4 tsp pepper. mix, form into patties and fry.

for the pumpkin muffins (though i just made a big 9x12 pan and cut it into squares) check out this allergen free cake recipe. i used 1/2 the amount of sugar called for, and 1 cup pumpkin plus 1 tsp pumpkin pie seasoning. (i soaked the flour overnight in 1 cup kefir)