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Our kids eat oatmeal 90% of the time for breakfast. We do the regular Quaker oats (not instant, but also not steel cut because steel cut takes way too long). It takes about 5-7 minutes on the stove top in a little saucepan. Just water and oats but I know some people make their oats with milk.

For toppings we do dried cranberries and slivered almonds which are already stored in containers in the fridge, or a spoonful of peanut butter and banana slices. This is a great go-to if your kids like oatmeal. If they do, it's so easy, fast and healthy!

If they are vocal about not eating oatmeal from the get go, we have a few other options for breakfast. These can also be made ahead, stored in the fridge and warmed in the toaster oven but they really only a few mins in the mornings:

- mini cocktail wieners cut in half, fried so they're a little cripsy, toast with jam or butter, few slices of cheese
- Grilled cheese in our panini maker (SO easy)
- scrambled egg with toast

- DD (10) = Cereal, cut fruit, milk / DS (3.5) = dry cereal (he loathes milk), cut fruit, yogurt
- DD = egg, premade bacon or Canadian bacon on toast with fruit/ DS = egg with bacon and toast slices with fruit
- DD and DS = silver dollar pancakes (premade in bulk so I just have to microwave), fruit, and choice of syrup, pb, hazelnut, or jam
- DD and DS = grilled cheese breakfast sandwiches (make "panini style" and toss in bacon, or chopped sausage along with chopped veggies. YUM!)
- DS = Breakfast quesadillas served with a side of tomatoes and avocado. DD = Tortillas wrapped around tomatoes and avocado.
-DD and DS = mini bagels topped with cream cheese, jam, or flavored hummus.

We do silver dollar pancakes a lot. Like, almost every day a lot. Those might be a good alternative/variety option to french toast sticks. You can make a bunch from scratch and freeze them to reheat in the toaster oven or you can buy boxes frozen (Trader Joe's and Eggo both make 'em).

Would they do a breakfast casserole? You can make on the weekend and eat off of it for a few days. Or I sometimes do a batch of egg muffins which are easy reheats.

We do eggo nutrigrain waffles with peanut butter a LOT. Or just with syrup on the extra lazy days or if I know they are having Pb for lunch. Mini bagels with cream cheese or English muffins (mine love the raisin English muffins with cream cheese and a sprinkle of cinnamon.) that’s pretty much it. I can’t even handle eggs in the morning.
Oh and my older one loves plain Greek yogurt with honey drizzled on it.

We always have -
Yogurt/smoothie
Cheese
Fruit already washed/cut up
Hard boiled eggs

So we usually make a carb in the morning, 90% mini pankcakes or waffles or french toast sticks.

Cereal or yogurt. I'd add hot dogs + tomato slices to the rotation, but DH always grumps about that - admittedly, with reason because the kids don't know where to stop with hot dogs!

Sandwiches are a total fail, DS will sit there staring at the sandwich for ten minutes, pick it up, drop part of it, stare some more, and end up almost being late to school. He's not a morning person...

Greek yogurt and fresh fruit almost every day. Sometimes a smoothie. Sometimes a pancake and fruit.

@Mrs D: Probably not something you aim to copy but every single morning, 7 days a week, our 2.5 year old DS gets milk, a cereal bar (whole foods brand so ok but not great), and either a banana or a bowl of berries. No change, haha. Because it’s what he likes and eats and well ... toddler. Lol

@catgirl:
https://www.familyfoodonthetable.com/spinach-banana-mini-muffins/

https://www.bakedbyrachel.com/applesauce-carrot-cake-muffins/
I make the applesauce myself and add spinach to it, and I sub in oatmeal for 1/3 of the flour.

Our go to easy breakfast is a toaster waffle with peanut butter and turkey sausages (frozen pre cooked kind that take 1 minute in the microwave).

We have been doing microwave bacon and a toaster waffle.

We do a lot of cereal bars and granola bars. Sometimes we don't even have time for oatmeal and really that doesn't take that long. I usually batch cook a ton of french toast and pancakes. I use the kodiak pancake mix and make with whole milk and eggs so that they have a lot of protein. I just pop them in the microwave for less than a minute and we're ready to go.

My kids aren't big breakfast eaters so we don't go big. Plus, DS1 usually supplements at before school care and DS2 gets a morning snack at daycare.

I like to make sure my son has a filling breakfast because he doesn't always eat his lunch.

So, we do frozen waffles or pancakes, oatmeal with banana (I freeze them when they get really brown so we always have them on hand), cereal with milk or toast with cream cheese. I can't cook eggs in the morning, but if my son ate them, I would make egg cups in biscuit dough. Freeze and warm in the toaster oven.