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Breakfast ideas
Tell me your quick on-the-go breakfast ideas! I normally scarf a cup of yogurt or a homemade granola bar while I'm checking my email, but I could stand to switch it up a little.
Twin boys due 7/25/12
Re: Breakfast ideas
Oatmeal, toast, and cereal are usually mine. How about a banana or making some banana bread one day and having a slice in the morning?
The Dogs and Us
http://thenoshery.com/2009/03/29/a-two-bite-breakfast/
You could make these and then pop them in the microwave for a second. We baked our eggs all the way through because we don't really like runny eggs and we also used turkey bacon.
I've recently gotten hooked on eating Special K cereal, but that's not really on-the-go.
My old standby for on-the-go and super high protein is a Boca burger in a whole wheat wrap. If I want extra flavor or a different texture, I spread some light cream cheese on the wrap first, or a Laughing Cow cheese wedge. It doesn't really scream "breakfast" but it's really filling, and lasts for a really long time.
I boycotted bananas for environmental reasons, but oatmeal is going back on the menu!
I also have a random opposition to toasters. They gross me out, LOL. Oh! I could bake some cinnamon raisin bread this weekend! WINNING, KS.
GENIUS.
I tried doing scrambled egg muffins (mix eggs, spinach, cheese, dump in muffin tins) and it was a flop. The muffins wouldn't release from the pan despite the coating of olive oil, so it was a scrambled mess. I ended up throwing away the muffin pan because despite all my scrubbing and two go-rounds through the dishwasher, I couldn't get it clean.
Lol. What are the environmental issues you have with bananas? I don't usually eat them unless in banana bread but H eats them. Oh and everytime I spell bananas i think of the gwen stefani singing the sh*t is bananas b-a-n-a-n-a-s.
The Dogs and Us
Well since toast is out I won't say throw a waffle in your toaster and put some peanut butter on it. I eat it one handed on my way down to my car.
I also hard boil a bunch of eggs over the weekend and package them up in little baggies of 2. Some days if I have time or am feeling spunky I mix a little mustard or something in for a little egg salad on the go. I also peel them before hand so I can eat them on my commute without peeling.
The key(for me) is eat something with protein, otherwise I'm starving an hour later.
Weird. I'm down for stuff in a whole wheat wrap though and I almost always have them on hand. I can work with that.
They can't be grown locally. Combined ramifications of pesticides, bananas coming from outside the US, workers not being paid a fair wage, then the cost and resources to import them. I've purchased bananas once in the last year. Three of them are still in my freezer.
Eggselent idea.
I will do this.
I made something similar: western omlette mini quiches. I lined the muffin tins w/ tortillas (large tortillas cut into triangles, 2/cup). Then poured in a mixture of scrambled eggs, sauteed peppers and onions, diced ham and cheese. Bake at 400* until the eggs are set up.
I do this for E. We actually bought an egg cooker so that if he decides he wants poached or soft boiled or even hard boiled and I haven't cooked them he can do it in just a few minutes in the morning. You can do up to 7 eggs in ours I believe.
My go to breakfast is a nutri-grain bar and a glass of milk or toast and nutella. But I am not a big breakfast person and I pretty much eat it just to appease E.
I like toast with PB and an apple or an HB egg.
Otherwise I have granola cereal and black coffee.
You people are brilliant.
Let's pretend I make those little mini quiches/eggs in a cup things on a Sunday. Will the eggs still be okay by the time I need them for breakfast on Friday, or should I freeze a couple for the ones I need at the end of the week?
Those look delicious
Leave the ones for Monday and Tuesday in the fridge and freeze the rest. My college roommate used to do this and it works great.
Also if you can't get them out of the muffin pans an idea would be to get a silicone pan just for that purpose. I have one and it works great for things that stick.
I do that too, and my H also thinks it's gross. It's basically like an egg McMuffin though, and delicious. I just don't do the mayo or butter on it, and usually always do a piece of cheese.
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I do this too. Then, when we start running low on to-go breakfast foods, I take a day to prep and cook some more up.
Bacon (used to be turkey, now full fat) and whole grain toast with honey.
I also get the plain oatmeal pkgs and heat them up at work with dried fruit (cranberries usually) and a sprinkle of brown sugar.
Fruit.
Protein powder smoothie.
This was going to be my suggestion. One I like is 6 oz yogurt, 1 peach, 1/2 cup raspberries, 1/4 t vanilla, and sugar to taste. You could easily increases the amounts to make it for multiple days.
I have always liked this WW quiche recipe too.
I don't mind microwaved eggs, although I don't do it. It's what they do for egg sandwiches at places like einstein, so I have no problem with it when someone else does it.
Recently, I've been spreading plain yogurt on waffles.
I used to freeze the Costco chicken and cheese burritos that they have in the refrigerated section. I'd just move one to the fridge the night before so that I could have breakfast in the morning. However, they don't have them at Hawaii Costco, so I can't tell you what brand it was since I forget.
I've tried to make my own breakfast burritos and freeze them, but that hasn't been successful yet. I'm open to suggestions.
I keep meaning to do oatmeal like this but didn't, until a month ago, live in a place with steel cut oats.
http://www.thekitchn.com/thekitchn/tips-techniques/oatmeal-in-jars-a-week-of-steelcut-oats-in-5-minutes-143623