Fast Food

[Meyou]

This is what I was going to suggest. You can hide grated carrot and zuchini in muffins/breakfast loaves and serve them with cream cheese and a side of fruit. I think Its a fabulous idea. Also the pancakes you can use buckwheat flour, or some other kind of preferred flour to make the pancakes and grate veggies into a banana, blueberry, or strawberry pancake. You can freeze by serving just pull and warm in the oven on low until your set to actually feed the bunch. I personally am not a huge fan of microwaves due to some research I did on the subject. If you wrap in foil and freeze you can pop it into the oven when you wake up on low and be good to go when youre ready for it. Super simple. Between muffins, pancakes, french toast, and breakfast bread you could pretty much be completely ready to go all week long in a snap. This is my plan also.

The pancakes (and french toast) can be reheated from frozen in the toaster. My kids live on them. I use a recipe with all ww flour and very little sugar. I normally make plain and 2 kinds with fruit since my recipe makes 36 toaster sized pancakes.

[Meyou]

what is a breakfast calzone?? that sounds interesting.....

It's basically a breakfast pizza pocket. You take a ball of pizza dough and divide it into 12. Roll each piece out into a circle and place some of your mix in the middle. Fold it over and pinch the sides and bake for 20 minutes or so at 350. We eat them ALL the time but not just breakfast ones.

Fillings we've tried include:

scrambled eggs, bacon, cheese, salsa, peppers
scrambled eggs, feta, tomato, peppers and onion
leftover meatloaf with grated carrot, onion, zucchini, sauce and cheese
mixed veggies with salsa
chicken, broccoli, and cheese
pepperoni (nitrate free), veggies, pizza sauce and cheese
leftover chili, brown rice and cheese

They freeze well and reheat in the oven or microwave. I make them with leftovers all the time too. You need about 1/4-1/3 cup of mix for each one.

ETA: Here is my pizza dough recipe.

Freezer Pizza Dough

2 cups warm water (110-115 F)
2 tbsp yeast
1 tbsp sugar
2 tsp salt
4 tbsp olive oil
5-6 cups ww flour


Mix water, yeast and sugar in mixing bowl. Wait 10 minutes until yeast is foamy. Add oil and salt. Add flour gradually until a soft ball is formed and dough is no longer sticky. Knead for 3 minutes and let rise for 20 minutes to 1 hour. Punch down and shape into two balls. The dough can now be used or frozen in a ziploc baggie. Seal baggie well as dough will expand a little.

[Blackcat31]

I think dck gets up and comes directly to me. I really don't mind. I just need to find easier food that is still high protein. I'm happy with the arrangement, I was at a loss for good quick food.

K

Oh ok..I gottcha now I have had kids like that before too but luckily for us here, they just go to school and eat breakfast there.

I guess every kid needs an appropriate amount of time to eat but sometimes part of our job is helping them to learn to eat faster since once they do get to school they will only have a short time to eat. I think lunches in our schools are only 20 minutes so the kids have to learn to be quick.

[daycare]

Oh ok..I gottcha now I have had kids like that before too but luckily for us here, they just go to school and eat breakfast there.

I guess every kid needs an appropriate amount of time to eat but sometimes part of our job is helping them to learn to eat faster since once they do get to school they will only have a short time to eat. I think lunches in our schools are only 20 minutes so the kids have to learn to be quick.

our schools also only give 20 min for lunch, so that is what I base my meal time off of. I have had a few that eat really slow and had to implement a timer for them. Once timer went off, food went off the table too. I know that might sound mean, but I had kids that were sat in front of the TV at home and would take an hour to eat a bowl of cheerios.
The timer did the trick.

[Cat Herder]

Fruit, granola and roasted nuts.

I have "to go" bags in a bowl by the door for my teens to grab on the way out the door.

Mine use them for morning snacks since we eat at 5am and lunch isn't intil 12:40. I think they'd work for breakfast, too.

This morning was a tangerine, granola thin, water bottle (only thing allowed at school, now) and a baggie of cashews. happyface

[SunshineMama]

I'm looking for foods for breakfast that are quick, high protein and clean. Something other than eggs and yogurt. What do you do when you only have 20 minutes to get them fed and out the door?

K

I know you said no eggs, but I make breakfast sandwiches ahead of time. Take a muffin tin and spray with pam, put 1 egg in each tin and bake for 12-15 minutes. Add a slice of cheese and turkey sausage if desired and put on an english muffin. Wrap each individually and you have breakfast sandwiches for the week.

I do the same thing with turkey sausage, egg, and cheese breakfast burritos.

You can also make quinoa, egg, and cheese breakfast "muffins," ahead of time and wrap in individual containers.

[My3cents]

I know you said no eggs, but I make breakfast sandwiches ahead of time. Take a muffin tin and spray with pam, put 1 egg in each tin and bake for 12-15 minutes. Add a slice of cheese and turkey sausage if desired and put on an english muffin. Wrap each individually and you have breakfast sandwiches for the week.

I do the same thing with turkey sausage, egg, and cheese breakfast burritos.

You can also make quinoa, egg, and cheese breakfast "muffins," ahead of time and wrap in individual containers.

Quinoa-love this stuff. love Trader Joe's

Do you freeze your sandwiches?

[SquirrellyMama]

I know you said no eggs, but I make breakfast sandwiches ahead of time. Take a muffin tin and spray with pam, put 1 egg in each tin and bake for 12-15 minutes. Add a slice of cheese and turkey sausage if desired and put on an english muffin. Wrap each individually and you have breakfast sandwiches for the week.

I do the same thing with turkey sausage, egg, and cheese breakfast burritos.

You can also make quinoa, egg, and cheese breakfast "muffins," ahead of time and wrap in individual containers.

The only reason I said no eggs is because I don't like reheated eggs and most of the kids don't either. So, when I make eggs I wait until I see them pull in. The other reason is this dck is so slow at eating. There is no way a breakfast sandwich would make it. I had 10 minutes to get dck to eat this morning. I made raisin toast w/pb, grapes, sausage and milk. The toast had to be finished on the way to school.

I love breakfast sandwiches but I prefer them fresh. I have lots of breakfast recipes which are many of the one shared in this thread but I need something so quick and easy to eat for this dck. Most of the time it must be portable also. I think toast, english muffins with cream cheese, etc... will have to do so dck can eat before school. I might try some type of mini quiche since those are quick and portable and high in protein.

I'm leaving eggs and other fun stuff for Wednesdays when there is no school.

K