Inexpensive Fast Breakfast Ideas?

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  • Core12
    Daycare.com Member
    • Oct 2016
    • 160

    Inexpensive Fast Breakfast Ideas?

    Every morning I scramble eggs for my kids and give them fruit, toast and milk.
    I’m wondering if there is anything I can prepare fast and cheap that fits within usda guidelines.
    Thanks
  • Cat Herder
    Advanced Daycare.com Member
    • Dec 2010
    • 13744

    #2
    Oatmeal, cheese cubes, and bananas.

    Muffins, yogurt and apple slices.

    French toast sticks, sausage links, and orange slices.

    Think one whole grain, one protein, and a fruit.

    Etc.
    - Unless otherwise stated, all my posts are personal opinion and worth what you paid for them.

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    • Core12
      Daycare.com Member
      • Oct 2016
      • 160

      #3
      Thanks!!!

      Thanks!

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      • Cat Herder
        Advanced Daycare.com Member
        • Dec 2010
        • 13744

        #4
        Also, don't forget dry cereal like cheerios and cracklin oat bran for the whole grain. My group loves them and they are an invaluable time saver on heavy art days.
        - Unless otherwise stated, all my posts are personal opinion and worth what you paid for them.

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        • Ariana
          Advanced Daycare.com Member
          • Jun 2011
          • 8969

          #5
          You can also premake eggs in muffin tins and just heat up in the morning. You can add the cheese and some veggies to it and make a scramble like mini quiche. Super easy!

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          • DaveA
            Daycare.com Member and Bladesmith
            • Jul 2014
            • 4245

            #6
            Mini bagels or biscuits, sausage patties, hash brown patties, fruit. "Fast food" meal without the fast food. ::

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            • Pestle
              Daycare.com Member
              • May 2016
              • 1729

              #7
              Turkey bacon on the panini grill. (Love my panini grill for grilled cheese sandwiches and turkey melts.)
              Whole wheat bagels with cream cheese.
              Cottage cheese and beets. (So easy! See if your grocery store carries diced canned beets. Rinse them and there isn't much staining. They're soft enough for the young toddlers and already small enough not to be a choking hazard.)
              Triscuits, mozzarella cheese, and dried figs.
              Cantaloupe when it's not too expensive. Ripe cantaloupe, sliced medium-thin with the rind still on, is a favorite here. Invest in a nice, large chef's knife with a full tang and slicing gets faster and safer.
              Quick oats with whole milk. Stir in raisins and a little brown sugar afterward. BAM. One-dish meal.

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              • hwichlaz
                Daycare.com Member
                • May 2013
                • 2064

                #8
                Milk, Cereal, fruit
                Milk, hot cereal, fruit
                Milk, toast, fruit
                Milk, bagel, fruit
                Milk, pancake, fruit
                Milk, egg, fruit

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                • rosieteddy
                  Daycare.com Member
                  • Jan 2014
                  • 1272

                  #9
                  I always went with easy .Toast ,milk and some fruit or pancakes ,milk,. fruit.iI also had children arrive fed .Breakfast at home let parents feed eggs ,cereal or oatmeal.Then I fed breakfast 'snack" at 9 am.Still creditable for food program but let us start downstairs in playroom.Drove me nuts when parents fed them at home and then they wasted breakfast.Or dragged them out of bed and brought infants unfed.My whole week changed for the better when I started this.I always kept it easy.

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                  • knoxmomof2
                    Advanced Daycare.com Member
                    • May 2014
                    • 398

                    #10
                    My go to is Cheerios/ Chex, banana, milk. Easy set up, easy clean up! We eat that like 4 days a week then I cook once or twice a week. Other weeks, I cook several times a week, just depends on what I feel like. I switch out from Chex to Cheerios, so we talk about how they're eating circles or squares. The most exciting day is when I have a little of each left and mix them, then they get.... Circles AND Squares! Haha.. 😉😁 My group of 4 plus my baby is 3 and under so it works. Once they get older, I branch out.

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                    • Jo123ABC
                      Daycare.com Member
                      • Feb 2018
                      • 435

                      #11
                      I rotate too. Every once in a while I'll get crazy and do some sausage, pastries, yogurt, or something but usually it's:
                      Mon-Scrambled eggs, buttered whole wheat toast, cherry tomatoes, milk
                      Tues-either cinnamon raisin toast or peanut butter and jelly on whole wheat toast, fruit, milk
                      Wed-pancakes (I throw mini chocolate chips, peanut butter, or a bit of bannana in there sometimes), fruit, milk
                      Thurs- either oatmeal with brown sugar or cocoa wheats with brown sugar, fruit, milk
                      Fri-either Cheerios or kix cereal, fruit (I go easy fri with either apples or banana), milk

                      I do a menu every week and use whole wheat bread, Scooby snacks, wheat thins, Teddy Grahams, cold and hot cereals to cover my whole grain component. I don't get crazy trying to figure the whole wheat stuff out it's either with breakfast or snack usually because snack is often a fruit and a cracker plus milk to keep it simple.

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                      • jenboo
                        Daycare.com Member
                        • Aug 2013
                        • 3180

                        #12
                        I batch cook my breakfasts to make the morning quick..
                        Pancakes, waffles, granola type bars, protein balls etc. I cook up a bunch at once and then freeze them so all I need to do is reheat and add a fruit or veggie

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