Breakfast ideas (apart from toast or cereal).

pookienoodle

how about american style pancakes?
very nice with fruit,syrup or yougurt.
very easy and cheap to make.

Miss_Kitty_Fantastico

thanks for more replies

i will definately need to get on the case

cold porridge sounds yummy and quick/easy

the biggest prob at moment is finding time to cook as dd is very demanding :rotfl:

Treacle_2-2

Well my favourite is cold porridge - oats soaked in evaporated milk for 10 mins with chopped nuts, and whatever fruit is around esp blueberries - scrum!

tiff

My kids currently have cereal and milk everyday for breakfast but cereal has got really expensive. There are certain types they wont eat too, such as weetabix. I've recently started buying oats for porridge but they dont want that every day and I need options that they can help themselves to if we are running late. At weekends they have eggs on toast, cooked breakfasts etc but not during the week when we have less time.

I was browsing an American forum last night and reading some old threads about this and one suggestion was to make a batch of pancakes and freeze, reheat in microwave (can reheat in toaster too) which I thought was a great idea.

My two also have toast sometimes, or toasted fruit bread.

Any other suggestions?

Hawthorn

Yes! Make crumpets. Absolutely, easy peasy, and last for a couple of days.

On cold days, mine like hot cakes too (not especially healthy, but delicious and warming and fine for a treat now and then)

Here is the recipe I use. Very little work involved - the majority of the time it's just 'standing'
http://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/home-made-crumpets,1587,RC.html

Penny-Pincher!!

tiff wrote: »

My kids currently have cereal and milk everyday for breakfast but cereal has got really expensive. There are certain types they wont eat too, such as weetabix. I've recently started buying oats for porridge but they dont want that every day and I need options that they can help themselves to if we are running late. At weekends they have eggs on toast, cooked breakfasts etc but not during the week when we have less time.

I was browsing an American forum last night and reading some old threads about this and one suggestion was to make a batch of pancakes and freeze, reheat in microwave (can reheat in toaster too) which I thought was a great idea.

My two also have toast sometimes, or toasted fruit bread.

Any other suggestions?

Hiya!

I think the USA have the right idea with the heavier pancakes. Usually they do serve some sort of protein with it, being either scrambled eggs or bacon.

How many children do you have and what are their ages?

Cereal has really increased in price hasnt it the last few months. I do sometimes stock up when they are on super special deals. DD likes Special K and Asda had the big boxes for £1 2 weeks ago and they do about 10 servings with a banana chopped on top, so I grabbed 3 boxes.

What about beans on toast?

DD 14 has things such as:

Porridge, Fruit, Toast, Eggs, Cereal, Bacon Butty on WE, Beans, Yogurt, Pancakes with banana and maple, etc etc.

HTH

PP
xx

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As a little girl we had two options at breakfast time .In the winter it was porridge,made with water and on top a little milk and a sprinkle of salt .In the summer it was cornflakes with milk. There were few cereals available apart from Cornflakes ,maybe weetabix or shedded wheat but mainly it was cornflakes,accompanied with a slice of toast and a drink of milk or cocoa in the winter .This we were given with the next option, which was easier .Take it or go hungry.I remember visiting my half-sisters house, and she only had one little boy about 5 years younger than me and being facinated as his Mum had bought a packet of variety cereals this must have been in the late 1950s and he actually was allowed to choose what he wanted to eat at breakfast time. My Mum wasn't that soft .You ate what you were given or went to school hungry.Soon sorted out any of the 'I don't want that' nonsence.Different ideas 55 years ago.
Today I still have porridge in the winter and cornflakes in the summer with some fresh fruit afterwards, a banana or an orange.

Ballymackeonan

How about affing some dried fruit into the porridge to make it a bit different? A handful of raisins, for instance.. A time-saving tip is to mis the porrifge with boiliing water the night before, mix and cover - then it takes much less time to cook in the morning. If you put the dried fruit in at the soaking stage, it will plump up nicely and and release the flavour.

tim_n

A bit of cinamon makes it taste nice - especially with saltanas/raisins...

angie_baby

Hi,

Our main breakies are either porridge / fruit / toast (sometime a fruit bread toast) something on toast - eggs or beans - both done in the micro - either scrambled or kind of fried.

For porridge i soak the oats overnight in milk ready for DS to pop in the micro - DS usually gets his own breakie Mon - Fri as its a rush as it is. DS has also started making his own scrambled eggs in the micro. Not sure how old your kids are? DS is only 7 but loves cooking basic things. Must admit its easier with 1 as theres no fighting over who does what. The only problem with this is that DS has to butter the toast perfectly and this is taking about 5 mins for one slice at the moment!