Tip #24 Making breakfast ahead of time

Cold mornings and the high price of cereal make me want a hot breakfast most mornings.  A teething 6 month old makes me want to not get up early to make a hot breakfast most mornings.  Enter:  the pre-made hot breakfast.  Saturday mornings are all about pancakes around here.  I have started making a double recipe and putting the leftover pancakes in a large ziploc bag to be re-heated later in the week.  This works like a charm.  The girls love a heated up pancake.  Same with french toast.  I usually re-heat them one at time on a small plate for them.  In order to get some fiber and protein for satiety, I try and make whole wheat pancakes.  My favorite recipe is the following:
Whole Wheat Blender Pancakes
1 cup milk
1 cup uncooked whole wheat
Blend in blender for 4 minutes
Add:
1/2 cup milk
Blend for another 4 minutes
Add:
2 eggs 
1/2 cup oil (try using less)
3 teaspoons baking powder
2 tablespoons honey or sugar
½ teaspoon salt

Blend remaining ingredients and cook on hot griddle- batter will be thin.


I also made the baked oatmeal on a weekend night and we enjoyed heating bowls of that up through the week.  I made the recipe with whole oats as I planned and it turned out fine (I made 1 and 1/2 times the recipe for a full 9 x 13).  I don't think instant oats are needed there.  I have also gotten bags of whole wheat English Muffins at the bakery outlets and made lots of egg/cheese (sometimes ham) sandwiches on weekends and wrapped them and froze them to be reheated individually.  This can be tricky - when you reheat them sometimes the English Muffin can get tough.  So I think letting it thaw first is probably the wisest decision.  My mother in law made breakfast burritos for a reunion that we reheated in the oven- they were wrapped in foil.  This works really well compared to the microwave.  My sister makes a huge pot of steel cut oats with a lot of goodies in it- apples, nuts, etc and she and hubby re-warm it by the bowlful throughout the week.  All of these options are great ideas!  Just eat breakfast, whatever you prefer to do.


~Here's to Healthy Eating