Breakfast Menu or the Week

[sharlan]

What is your breakfast menu for the week?

I have one with texture and color issues. He doesn't eat things like oatmeal, watermelon, or anything green. They make him gag.

[daycare]

Oh boy one of those! Lol
What about cherrios and peeled apples
Eggs and toast fruit
Strawberries yogurt toast?

[Rachel]

Not opening until Sept, but starting to plan menus based on what I see other providers doing at my observations.

Bread, of some sort, with spreads (here that is standard breakfast food, lunch is hot)
Hard boiled eggs, egg salad, omelets, quiche (we are required some type of egg 2x a week)
Pancakes
French Toast

[heyhun77]

This week is a little harry because I ran a 1/2 marathon last weekend and I didn't have a lot of time for shopping and prepping. Here's what our menu rotation has planned (and what we'll probably have just not in the order on the rotation):

muffins/yogurt/fresh fruit
scrambled eggs/toast/fresh fruit
cereal choice (life, cheerios, rice krispees)/cheese cubes/fresh fruit
breakfastables (hard boiled egg slices, toast squares and ham slices that they stack however they like similar to lunchables but homemade)/fresh fruit
pancakes/turkey sausage links/fresh fruit

I usually would have the fruits assigned by Monday morning so I can have them prepped and cleaned as much as possible for the week but I'm playing catch up this week since I ran the half marathon on Saturday and recovered on Sunday.

Do the parents have any meal suggestions for you? Also, what if you changed the texture of oatmeal from mush to cakelike by making baked oatmeal?

[SilverSabre25]

HeyHun, the "Breakfastables thing is AWESOME! I love it! What a neat idea!

[sharlan]

I haven't made muffins in quite awhile. I have a silicon pan that makes bite size muffins. He loves those.

[heyhun77]

HeyHun, the "Breakfastables thing is AWESOME! I love it! What a neat idea!

It came from their love for mommy mcdonalds (basically an egg mcmuffin but homemade) but kids that couldn't hold onto and take bites of it. The best part is that they LOVE to slice the eggs and I can let them do it becuase of a $1 egg slicer from walmart. You'd think I was using magic!

[heyhun77]

I haven't made muffins in quite awhile. I have a silicon pan that makes bite size muffins. He loves those.

We did muffins this morning. I found that I can sneak in super healthy muffins if I offset it a tiny bit by sprinkling the tops with large sugar crystals. The ones today were zero sugar but they ate them all up.

[Kaddidle Care]

It came from their love for mommy mcdonalds (basically an egg mcmuffin but homemade) but kids that couldn't hold onto and take bites of it.

Try breakfast burritos with or without cheese! YUM!

[kcnjason]

Breakfast

My own daughter is the same way. I am not a fan of cereal though, because it is very hard for the younger ones to eat and I don't think that it is a very filling meal and therefore they are asking for something to eat within an hour of finishing their cereal. My daughter will not eat oatmeal, not a big egg fan, however I suggest waffles, pancakes, toast with pb/honey, toast with cin/sugar( light on the sugar) French toast is always good. I am also not a huge muffin fan, it seems my kids make a larger mess with muffins than they do eating it. Good luck!

[heyhun77]

The kids' new favorite hot breakfast is waffle bites. I just make up a big batch on the weekend, cut them into bite size pieces and flash freeze them then put them in a big container back into the freezer. I just put them on a cookie sheet that morning and warm them in the oven.

They each get a washed milk cover with syrup to dunk their waffle bites. When we're done, the messy syrup just goes in the garbage (where the lid would have probably gone anyway) and I just have a plate to wash.

[SilverSabre25]

The kids' new favorite hot breakfast is waffle bites. I just make up a big batch on the weekend, cut them into bite size pieces and flash freeze them then put them in a big container back into the freezer. I just put them on a cookie sheet that morning and warm them in the oven.

They each get a washed milk cover with syrup to dunk their waffle bites. When we're done, the messy syrup just goes in the garbage (where the lid would have probably gone anyway) and I just have a plate to wash.

For that kind of dipping I love the little restaurant-style dip cups you can get, either the paper ones (like ketchup cups) or stainless steel ones you can get places like Sam's Club.

[meganlavonnesmommy]

Our breakfasts are pretty boring. I dont have a huge bkfast crowd, most are later. And I serve am snack at 9am, so our breakfasts are not big. Each meal has a fruit and milk and one of these:

Every friday is junk food day, so donuts, pop tarts or muffins
Tuesday and thursday is cereal.
Monday and wednesdays are:
pancakes, waffles, english muffins with american cheese, cinnamon toast, french toast sticks, scrambled eggs, yogurt parfait's (clear disposable cups layered with strawberries, bananas, vanilla yogurt and kix cereal), breakfast cups (grands biscuits stuffed into a muffin cup and baked with chopped ham, cheese and scrambled egg inside) they can pick them up and eat them, turkey sausage wrapped with cresent rolls and baked.

We also do breakfast everyother week for lunch, its one of their favorite meals. We usually do hashbrowns, turkey sausage, pancakes or waffles and oranges or strawberries.

[Pammie]

I can't stand sticky syrup all over everywhere, so I give the kids a dollop of non-fat cool whip to dip their waffles, pancakes in. They think it's extra special and I don't have sticky syrup all over kids or all over my house

My breakfasts are a bread/grain, fruit and fluid milk.

Mondays thru Thursdays I rotate through: Oatmeal, English Muffins, French Toast, Muffins, Toast, Waffles, Cold Cereal, Homemade Granola Bars, Yogurt/Granola Parfaits, Baked Oatmeal, Bagels, Biscuits, Croissants.

Fridays is always pancake day

[blueclouds29]

i know this is an old post but i'm working on to better my breakfasts...
do you guys always serve a fruit with breakfast. Like when you have cereal, pancakes or waffles? Also do you have fruits at lunch too? Everyday they have fruit with breakfast and lunch? Just wondering cause i feel i'm giving to much fruit.. is that possible?