My girls have been eating the same few things for breakfast for a while now, and I can tell they are losing interest. I want to come up with some new ideas before heading to the grocery store on Friday. I prefer easy things, mornings are full of crankiness from my oldest so getting food in her quickly is a must.
Any ideas that are different than: dry cereal, toast, toasted plain waffles and bagels?
eggplant / 11861 posts
I recently made little egg fritatas in a cupcake pan
Whipped up 9 eggs, sausage and spinach pour into tin
Top with cheese and bake
DD didn't like it, but they are so good, and keep well for the week!
wonderful clementine / 24134 posts
Cup of Yogurt
Cheese on Toast
Cheese Cubes
Frozen Breakfast sandwich (jimmie dean or home made)
Sausage links.
Carnation instant breakfast is a treat as "chocolate milk"
wonderful clementine / 24134 posts
@FaithFertility: I know I'm bummed my kids dont really like them either!
hostess / cantaloupe / 6486 posts
It's usually a frozen waffle with pb, frozen blueberries (cheaper right now) and yogurt. But DD1 is getting bored also. She used to slam her waffle, now she will take an hour to eat it.
hostess / papaya / 10219 posts
@FaithFertility: we've tried these and I thought the eggs reheated a bit funny in texture...
Muffins? Hard boiled egg?
We need ideas too...
GOLD / wonderful coconut / 33402 posts
My LO eats frozen mini pancakes, most days no syrup, pretty much every day. Otherwise she wants French toast sticks, cereal, turkey sausage, or doughnuts(weekends). She will eat eggs at school for breakfast but not at home.
persimmon / 1111 posts
I make overnight oats with fruit, freeze them in giant ice cube trays, and defrost them in the microwave each morning. It takes a minute.
pear / 1614 posts
Oatmeal - overnight in the refrigerator, overnight in the slow cooker, or cooked up in the morning. My kids love it all.
If your kids will eat eggs (mine won't consistently) there are tons of different ways you can prepare them and freeze in advance so you can just warm them up in the morning - breakfast burritos, muffin tins, etc, and that's a good way to get veggies in them.
Another consistent fave at my house is plain yogurt with granola.
Cottage cheese, mixed with fruit or jam.
nectarine / 2085 posts
We do a lot of plain oatmeal. I mostly microwave it with water and then add some frozen blueberries or whatever frozen fruit is in the freezer, which cools it down. Top with a little milk or cream, if we've got any.
If I'm really on top of things, I make Bircher muesli the night before. The quick version of this is to get some packaged muesli and mix it with plain yogurt, but packaged muesli is pretty expensive and the kind I like best--Alpen--has some sugar that is not from the fruit.
LO also really likes a banana and peanut/almond butter.
pear / 1737 posts
My picky toddler and daycare toddler have really been loving oatmeal lately. So it's on the menu 3 mornings a week. Takes about 5 minutes to boil.
Rolled oats, water, a couple of apricots, a prune or date, hemp hearts, cinnamon, and water. I boil and stir for 5 minutes tops and blend with a stick blender. Cool for a few minutes and serve. They need their food fast too!
Our other quick breakfast is smoothies. They're kind of picky about breakfast food.
nectarine / 2180 posts
I like my frozen waffles with pb and honey or pb and j. As a kid I was a big fan of bananas with pb.
pomelo / 5084 posts
@Bao: It's weird but we often make our toddler a whole wheat pbj for breakfast. He eats it and it's relatively healthy and filling? He also likes bananas a lot and mandarin oranges and yogurt.
pomelo / 5866 posts
besides what has already been posted, egg quesadilla (tortilla with scrambled egg and cheese-wrapped like a burrrito...hmm maybe we should change the name), french toast and lots of fruit and. berry options.
pomelo / 5220 posts
We do cereal, PBJ toast or a waffle usually. Sometimes he gets on oatmeal kicks. Usually fruit of some sort too - berries or a banana. He really just prefers cereal most of the time, so that's fine since we get pretty healthy/boring ones.
cantaloupe / 6131 posts
DS1 has been on a smoothie kick. We also do Greek yogurt with rainbow sprinkles, ham omelet with ketchup to dip, cereal and milk, and pancakes (although he mostly eats like one bite of pancake and just goes for the turkey sausage). Sometimes I also do breakfast fried rice - rice fried up with an egg and some chopped ham, bacon, or sausage, with some ketchup drizzled on top.
wonderful pear / 26210 posts
@gingerbebe: Oh, breakfast fried rice is interesting to me...I might try that for myself!
I eat a lot of savory foods for breakfast myself, so I am wondering why not go the same route for kids? You don't need to stick to breakfast or morning foods.
honeydew / 7444 posts
I make steel cut oatmeal the night before and just reheat it in the morning. Super easy! I'll also make pancakes the night before and reheat them as well.
Right now they rotate through PBJ on whole wheat pita, oatmeal, milk + rice krispies, and pancakes.
honeydew / 7622 posts
I make a scramble base- potatos and sausage then portion it out and add eggs and cheese. Once the base is cooked it only takes a few minutes to add eggs and cheese in the morning
clementine / 874 posts
DS has recently shown an interest in barely toasted pb sandwiches (warning, if the bread is too warm the pb turns runny!). Since he's allergic to milk, most standard breakfast things are out, but he'll eat tons of dry cereal and juice some mornings 
We're also verrry fond of Bel-Vita breakfast biscuits and pop tarts.
apricot / 307 posts
I'll make breakfast sandwiches with egg, cheese and some deli meat. I'll also make french toast using raisin bread.
pear / 1648 posts
DD (2) lives and dies for oatmeal lately - she would eat it for every meal. I give her the Better Oats brand (because that's what I buy for myself) and it's just the right size for her. She likes to "help" make it and it's ready in 90 seconds.
pomegranate / 3231 posts
I often fry an egg in a small pan -- it takes like a minute to cook -- put it on a small tortilla, and fold it in half. We have a gas stove so we just grill the tortilla on the flame quickly. It is super fast, pretty tasty and easy to clean up.
My son usually has that, yogurt with fruit, or (most often) Cheerios for breakfast. On weekends sometimes we make pancakes or more involved egg dishes.
hostess / papaya / 10540 posts
My LO has been into breakfast burritos and breakfast sandwiches lately. Both are also easy to make in bulk and freeze well!
nectarine / 2813 posts
We do variations of scrambled eggs, potatoes o'brien, bacon, sausage, muffins, toast and sometimes even dinner leftovers if my daughter will eat it. She's 21 months so as long as she eats something relatively healthy, we're happy.
nectarine / 2987 posts
Cheese cubes and fig newtons/nutrigrain bar
Sausage and banana
Smoothie (Greek yogurt and frozen fruit) and dry cereal
Waffle PB sandwich
Egg and cheese quesadilla
Apple and a spoonful of PB
coconut / 8483 posts
Smoothies!
Splash of water
Yogurt
Banana
Frozen fruit blend
Half an avacodo
squash / 13199 posts
@Bao: we do these chicken/turkey sausage pancake sticks and LO loves them. they are frozen
we also do frozen pancakes with different toppings like jelly, nutella, or butter & syrup
fruit cups
yogurt
grapefruit / 4584 posts
We do a lot of plain (unsweetened) oatmeal with different toppings - various types of dried fruit, fresh fruit, nuts, or even preserves swirled through. They'll eat this pretty much daily, other than on the weekends when they sometimes demand pancakes or waffles.
nectarine / 2180 posts
Yogurt, English muffin with cream cheese, scrambled eggs in a mug (microwaved) topped with shredded cheese.
hostess / watermelon / 14932 posts
@Bao: Olivia refuses to touch these with a 10 foot pole, but Charlotte loves them. My mom had them at her house and was eating them and she started begging (sounds like I'm talking about a dog..) so I buy them now! They have the normal quantity box at Target. About 5.99.
blogger / wonderful cherry / 21628 posts
Yogurt, hard boiled eggs, and dried cereal are all I can manage to make DD right now. When I'm not sick I scramble or fry eggs quite a bit and slice up some fruit. DD also loves grits, bacon, bagels, and muffins. A bowl of grits with some scrambled eggs mixed in topped with cheese is her favorite.
blogger / wonderful cherry / 21628 posts
@sorrycharlie: toddlers absolutely beg for food.
grapefruit / 4903 posts
We do a lot of fruit and yogurt parfaits with different toppings. Otherwise, it's mostly the things already discussed here...oatmeal, frozen pancakes, muffins, frittatas, cereal, quiche, etc with cinnamon rolls or kolaches on weekends.
nectarine / 2466 posts
My girls are obsessed with oatmeal right now. I make a big pot and then use that for a few days as it keeps well in the fridge. The girls are obsessed with pomegranates and blueberries on top which I buy from costco. Sometimes we add walnuts too. We usually put a little brown sugar on top as well.
I usually make mini muffins and then freeze them. I try to do fruit or veggie ones. The favs are zucchini with mini chocolate chips, or blueberry raspberry. Sometimes I do a zucchini/apple/carrot which they also like
hostess / cantaloupe / 6486 posts
@gingerbebe: I just had fried rice for breakfast based on your suggestion and it was awesome! I think I may make a huge batch for the family for this week. My kids love rice and eggs and who doesn't love ham or bacon? Great idea!
hostess / wonderful persimmon / 25556 posts
I find sometimes if I am at a complete loss, I'll throw leftovers from the night before on the table and she is thrilled. Like @gingerbee, we do fried rice for breakfast, as well!
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