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Cottage cheese or yogurt with fruit and granola, or oatmeal are favorites of lo's.

DS likes toast and jam, scrambled eggs and ham, cheerios or any other small cereal he can snack on. Big winners are still fruit in our house, grapes, watermelon and bananas.

Baked oatmeal a plethora of ways, homemade fresh ground whole wheat banana pancakes, homemade waffles, sprouted high protein bagels, scrambled eggs, biscuits and gravy, quichaladas, egg casserole, quiche, homemade muffins or scones, whole unsweetened yogurt mixed with applesauce, fried egg sandwiches, overnight oats, "Snickers" oatmeal, overnight french toast casserole (healthy)....one of the above usually served with a side of fresh fruit.

right now instant oatmeal with some fruit is working. i'm sure it will change soon because nothing is ever easy.

LO1 has eggs is some form almost every day (sometimes with fruit, sometimes with breakfast sausage, sometimes with toast). If we mix it up, we do cheerios and almond milk with fruit, or oatmeal with blueberries.

LO2 has fruit and cheerios most days, sometimes eggs but she's not super into eggs yet.

I will sometimes offer last night's leftovers as breakfast. This morning she had Mac N Cheese and sausage patties.

He usually has a banana, cheerios or frozen waffle. Or some combination of those items. I need him to eat something quick in the morning, and it makes my life easier to give him just 2 choices. Or, I just say, "want some cheerios?!" lol.

Most weekends we do oatmeal with different toppings (jam, honey, condensed milk, fruit). Sometimes I make an omelette with sausage, but then DS picks out all the sausage and leaves the rest, and DH complains because he likes oatmeal so much Or we do cereal if we're in a hurry.

DD usually eats one of the following: yogurt + fruit, homemade healthy muffin+ fruit+ protein (sausage/ egg/ cheese), peanut butter toast + fruit, bagel with cream cheese + fruit. I also occasionally switch out the fruit for avocado slices or a smoothie. I find that muffins and smoothies are a great way to add in whatever food groups DD isn't eating enough of at the moment. For smoothies, I will add squash, spinach, or avocado if she needs veggies or some yogurt and nut butter if she needs protein. I also make nut muffins with pumpkin or zucchini to sneak those food groups in there!

Wow now I'm craving a chocolate zucchini muffin. Very nice breakfast treat!

We only feed LO breakfast on weekends since on weekdays she arrives at daycare by 7:15 and they give her breakfast then. But on weekends we give her Cheerios, whatever fresh fruit we have (grapes, cherries, pineapple, and oranges are huge hits), Greek yogurt, maybe a hard-boiled egg (she isn't a fan of scrambled but hard-boiled seems to be a superior choice). Sometimes we make pancakes. And a sippy cup of cow milk.

@BabyTsMom: Oooo.... thank you so much! I must try this - I love that it has zucchini in it!

Try sweet potato zucchini pancakes too. I got it right here from hellobee, have been batch making /freezing it for 3.5 years now (LO is 4.5 years old) and he still eats them. He doesn't eat sweet potato or zucchini as is but he gets both in his pancakes I must say he is getting tired of it a little but it is nice to have something healthy in rotation. With that I add an extra 3/4 cups of milk (play with it) so it thins the batter otherwise it was too thick to cook.

ETA: Oh the link! http://www.hellobee.com/2013/01/11/zucchini-sweet-potato-pancakes/
Also did you try making egg muffins? I know mine wouldn't eat it (well, I tried when he was 1.5 years old) but I heard you can make and freeze them too ahead of time. Also you can make 3-4 hard boiled eggs and keep them in the fridge and they are good for a few days. If your LO eats them you can just take one out from the fridge and warm them up in the morning.

@BabyTsMom: Have you tried using cookie cutters to shape his normal breakfast foods? I do this for our 2.5 yr old, and its made it so much easier to get her excited about whole wheat toast :).

Nothing fancy: cereal with whole milk, toast topped w/ peanut butter and fresh fruit, pancakes/waffles/french toast with sausage, scrambled eggs with sausage (or in breakfast sandwich form with cheese), or oatmeal with peanut butter & mixed berries. Most everyday with milk & fresh fruit.

On the weekends, I'll make a big batch of pancakes with whatever fruit we have hanging around getting over-ripe and then freeze the leftovers for quick defrost during the week.

My kids LOVE breakfast foods and would eat them all day/every day if I'd let them, though. If in a rut, maybe just try some left overs or other non-breakfast foods that he typically likes?

Yogurt smoothies (Dannon's), Eggo Wafflers (brown sugar cinnamon roll; no syrup needed), mini muffins (we get the big box from Costco), bananas.

Porridge or pikelets

Oh man my kid doesn't get much variety. He gets granola and yogurt or a waffle. If he starts getting bored with those I'll buy chex and give him chex and yogurt or muffins. But DH and I eat almost the same thing every morning too.