Help me brainstorm some easy breakfast ideas, please

[charla]

The catch is that they need to be egg-free, not sweet and easy preparation. I'm totally open to non-traditional breakfast items, too.

[houseforjoy]

muffins? there are eggless recipes, and you control how sweet it is

[mamaKristin]

I do steel cut oats in the crock pot a LOT these days. Warm, and easy to control added sugars.

[charla]

for more ideas

[mommy2abigail]

My kids love the flatbread breakfast sandwiches at our local coffee shop, so I started making the same type of thing at home...I buy those flat, round sandwich bread things (kwim? I can't remember the name brand, but I can look it up in the am) a slice of cheese, two slices of bacon (we use the pre cooked stuff, it's WAY easier, not a fatty, and about the same price when I get it from Sams or Costco) and a slice of turkey. I stick it in the convection oven (could use a toaster oven or do it in a pan on the stove tip) just long enough to melt the cheese a bit and Voila! A home made breakfast flat bread sandwich! Sincenothing really needs to be cooked, it takes about 30 seconds to put together and a minute or two to heat. Alternately, you could make one with ham and cheese too.

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Oh and cheesy grits have been a hit around here too. Yogurt with granola? Fresh fruit? Breakfast potatoes? (I've done these in a bigger batch, they reheat well, so you could do them the night before) Ham/turkey and cheese croissant rolls? Those are easy, just buy the tube of croissants, and roll the ham and cheese up inside and bake as directed. We've also been known to eat hummus and pita in the morning. I try to get some protien into them, and this is something I can get them while also holding the baby.

[charla]

Okay so I think I need some recipes.

We haven't eaten oatmeal. In fact, I don't know if any of us like it, but I'm willing to try it. I don't know the first thing about making it so please share your crockpot recipe. What do you top your oatmeal with?

I looked for some eggless muffin recipes and am coming up short. Do you have any recipes for eggless muffins?

The flatbread and croissant sandwiches would be lovely. Great ideas.

And again, I've never had grits, so could you share the recipe for that, please? Is it like polenta?

Are the breakfast potatoes you mentioned like hashbrowns?

I loooove hummus. Hummus and pita would be so easy and yummy.



Okay now it's confession time. These are ideas for me. My kids eat breakfast just fine. I, on the other hand, can't stand breakfast. I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that I don't tolerate sweet foods well, especially as the first meal of the day and I'm allergic to eggs.

[jenny_islander]

Japanese Farmhouse Breakfast

Easy and Cheap Miso Soup
Fluffy Brown Rice with Optional Meat Garnish * Pickles

For Easy and Cheap Miso Soup, you need a bag of boiler onions (small yellow onions), a bag of light miso, and a spoonful of diced cooked vegetables per person if desired. You can replace the vegetables with one or two small cubes of tofu if you wish, but I have never tried it. Allow one or one half onion per person. Cut it into slivers. Check the miso package for the amount of dashi to heat for each serving. Instead of dashi, use water and/or leftover broth from cooked vegetables and/or leftover meat or fish broth. Throw in the onion while the water is heating and follow the package directions for adding the miso. You can put in the leftover vegetables right at the end.

For Fluffy Brown Rice, soak the rice all day or overnight before cooking; when cooking, follow the package directions, using the maximum amount of water. Do not use precooked or instant rice. Cook a big pot of rice when you are not in a hurry and use it up over 3 days. You can reheat it gently on the stove or use a microwave. The Optional Meat Garnish can be an ounce or two of neat slices of leftover meat, such as a leftover pork chop, or perhaps lunchmeat cut into shapes with small cookie cutters for a Japanese touch. Or use a portion of cooked or canned fish. In any case, put it on top of the rice while the rice reheats.

The Pickles can be right out of a jar. Or look up some recipes for quick Japanese pickles and make a batch to last a week or so--many Japanese "pickles" are really just marinated veggies.

[Mollycurls]

I make large batches of granola every few weeks and store it in large glass containers. This is the recipe I use ( instead of honey I use maple syrup and instead of oil I use coconut oil) I like to add coconut and any kind of dried fruit that suits my fancy to it as well.

http://www.food.com/recipe/vanilla-s...-granola-23108


I eat this most mornings with yougurt and fruit. Usually blueberries.