What's for breakfast?

[mommy212]

I love the "what's for dinner?" thread on here but I find it harder to come up with breakfast options than dinner ones! 4-5 days or more a week we eat soaked oatmeal w/ fresh flaxseed meal and raw sugar, sometimes walnuts or raisins, or apples and cinnamon. On the weekends I usually make something tasty on Saturdays and something healthy but tasty on Sunday. Saturday is often pancake day. My go-to recipe is soaked oatmeal pancakes, but we also really love pumpkin pancakes lately, and DH loves chocolate chip. On Sunday we had spinach eggs (cooked in a wide-mouth jar band to make it round- worked great!) on English muffins with cheese, and apple slices. What are you all eating for breakfast? :)

[kitchensqueen]

Another great food thread. :-)

Our usual standbys are pancakes with maple syrup or scrambled eggs with bacon, sometimes toast or biscuits. Every once in a great while we'll make oatmeal or a crumb coffee cake. 

A great breakfast I like to have if we have leftover pulled pork is pulled pork over jalepeno cornbread with oven roasted breakfast potatoes. Seriously one of my favorites of all time, but it's a little more involved so that's usually reserved for Sunday brunch. 

Today - we had home made walnut chocolate chip cookies with tea for me and coffee for husband... I know, I know... it was a little hectic around here today. :-) Tomorrow, not sure what we're doing yet, though I should probably think about it. Cookies two days in a row is probably not the breakfast of champions. 

[ashleyhaugh]

grits has been a staple for us lately. i never really liked them growing up, but ds was born in georgia, and thats what i got with every breakfast at the hospital, and i was so hungry i would eat anything, lol.

pancakes and waffles are always a hit here, i really want to get a waffle maker. and ds is a total egg head, he'll eat eggs all day every day if i let him, along with bacon or sausage. hes just starting to enjoy fried potatoes too, as long as i peel his first. occasionally he'll eat some dry cereal, but not often, and our cereal shelf is over flowing from wic, cuz i dont eat much either. i've been donating our 2 boxes a month to the food bank lately.

oh, he loves muffins too.

[ollyoxenfree]

• Breakfast risotto. It's a nice change from oatmeal, but the disadvantage is that it takes a while to make. I usually make it for brunch. It's similar to a typical risotto, but uses milk instead of stock. It also has chopped apples, cinnamon and nutmeg, vanilla and a little sugar. 

• French toast is a nice way to use up stale bread and to get some protein. I like it with a little cinnamon or cardamom and butter, rather than drowning in maple syrup (although I do love maple syrup, just trying to control the sugar factor....) 

• Muffins are also popular here. 

[kitchensqueen]

Today husband made pancakes, but instead of maple syrup he made a blackberry syrup to go with them. Pretty good. He's a big fan of fruit with pancakes, so we do that from time to time. He's been on a big blackberry/raspberry kick lately. 

[skreader]

We're quite boring

Typical breakfasts

Toast - with jam or peanut butter or butter  + tea or coffee (usual for my teenage daughter)

Yoghurt & fruit + coffee  (usual w/ DH and me)

Cereal + peanut butter & cocoa (usual for my teenage son)

Savory oatmeal  (usual w/ my DH and me) - DS sometimes shares this

Eggs (boiled or scrambled) (occasional for all of us)

We have pancakes and muffins very rarely, maybe 3 or 4 times a year.

[katelove]

DH is a sweet breakfast person, usually muesli or weetbix with fruit and yoghurt. I am a savory breakfast person, toast or a roll with butter and cheese, dinner leftovers, a chicken sandwich, sometimes toast with peanut butter or vegemite and always a glass of juice mixed with mineral water.

Our 18mo usually has breakfast with DH and eats the same as him.

Every Saturday we have breakfast at my parents place - bacon and eggs +/- beans, tomatoes, mushrooms.

Other than that we don't really do any special weekend breakfasts but there is a Whole Foods recipe for a baked German Pear Pancake which I'm keen to try... maybe tomorrow.

[cristeen]

During the week, DH eats crockpot steel cut oatmeal cooked with dried fruit.  I cook it with half milk and half water, since it's the only way we get through our cow share.  After the first day, I pack it into wide mouth pint jars into the fridge, and fill the crock pot with water, so at night all he has to do is pop a jar into the crock pot, turn it on and it's nice and hot by breakfast time.  He cracks an egg into it, adds milk and a spoonful of rapadura.  I'm not fond of oatmeal though. 

DS eats toast, sausage and an egg with whatever fruit I have on hand most days for breakfast.  Sometimes a banana, this week it was a mandarin and raspberries. 

For me, breakfast is tough, since most of the time nothing is the slightest bit appealing, but I really need to eat something (I'm pg and picky right now).  If I have (homemade) pudding in the fridge, I'll often eat that with some fruit.  This week was rice pudding with dried cherries (had a LOT of extra milk this week).  I'll sometimes have a scrambled egg sandwich on toast.  Some days it's cold cereal, some days it's french toast with PB (DS gets french toast on those days too).  If DS requests it before i start cooking, I'll make GF pancakes or GF sweet potato pancakes (sweet potato pie filling plus GF pancake mix - yum!).  Some days I'll make cornmeal mush (similar to grits/polenta, but I eat it sweet like oatmeal). 

Weekends tend to be a bit more elaborate.  Often times will include bacon (takes too long during the week), sometimes it'll mean I'm up early baking or we eat brunch.  It all depends on what I'm/DH is feeling like.  Muffins or coffee cake being the big ones (both rarities, though).  Most weekends it's a big omelet that we split.  Today it was fried potatoes/sweet potatoes, and a goose frittata (we had goose, not turkey yesterday).  If I'm feeling really energetic, and have been to the bakery (for the english muffins), I'll sometimes make eggs benedict (or a variation) from scratch. 

And on those days when I planned ahead or I really have a craving, I might make crumpets from scratch, or yeast raised pancakes (Russian blini), or even crepes (Russian blinchiki).  Eaten with lots of butter and whatever else I might have in the house (I'll often plan ahead and get DH some smoked salmon). 

And when all else fails, chiliquillas are something I usually have the ingredients for on hand (tortillas, eggs, maybe some salsa or green chiles). 

[mommy212]

Great ideas guys! Recently we had pancakes with blueberry syrup (1 cup blueberries, 1 cup water, 1/2 cup sugar and cornstarch w/water to thicken)- Very tasty!

[catnip]

I usually have toast and fried tofu with nutritional yeast and spinach sauteed with lemon juice. My daughter is currently on a kick of fruit and toast spread with homemade chocolate peanut butter - about 2 parts PB to one part melted chocolate, mixed together.

[mommy212]

Pumpkin Blender Pancakes

3/4 cup oats

1/2 cup cottage cheese OR 1/4 buttermilk or yogurt

2 eggs

1/2 tsp baking soda

1 tsp pumpkin pie spice

pinch salt

1/2 cup fresh or canned pumpkin puree

Blend in a blender and cook like normal pancakes :) You can also soak the oats in the buttermilk or yogurt overnight if desired.

[becoming]

We are in a breakfast rut & have been having dry cereal every single morning for over a month (I'm pregnant and have been really, really sick for weeks). Now that I'm feeling somewhat better, I want to get back into my normal rotation:

Homemade pancakes, waffles, or French toast
Scrambled egg sandwiches on toast
Oatmeal with fruit (usually sliced strawberries or blueberries, sometimes banana for my daughter)
Potato, sausage, and egg skillet (usually reserved for weekends)
Homemade muffins
"Sun in a window" -- cut a hole out of the center of a slice of bread & fry an egg in the hole, my kids love this.

All of this is so easy, and most can be made in a big batch and frozen/reheated or kept in the fridge as batter, so there's really no excuse for me slacking on breakfast. Making a "sun in a window" is just as easy as pouring a bowl of dry cereal & milk and lots healthier.

[mommy212]

Originally Posted by becoming 

We are in a breakfast rut & have been having dry cereal every single morning for over a month (I'm pregnant and have been really, really sick for weeks). Now that I'm feeling somewhat better, I want to get back into my normal rotation:
Homemade pancakes, waffles, or French toast
Scrambled egg sandwiches on toast
Oatmeal with fruit (usually sliced strawberries or blueberries, sometimes banana for my daughter)
Potato, sausage, and egg skillet (usually reserved for weekends)
Homemade muffins
"Sun in a window" -- cut a hole out of the center of a slice of bread & fry an egg in the hole, my kids love this.
All of this is so easy, and most can be made in a big batch and frozen/reheated or kept in the fridge as batter, so there's really no excuse for me slacking on breakfast. Making a "sun in a window" is just as easy as pouring a bowl of dry cereal & milk and lots healthier.

My mom made these for us, too- we called them Eagle's Nests :) I don't make them that often though...