Breakfast Tips -

As with anything, start slow. If you currently eat no breakfast at all during the week, aim for serving it once or twice and work you way up from there as you get comfortable with it and as you get more practice.
Clean your kitchen the night before.
Set the table the night before. Set the bowls, cereal, sugar and other breakfast items out on the table.
Get lunches ready the night before so you aren’t trying to fix two meals at once in the morning.

Have everyone pitch in and clean up. Even the youngest child can clear off his cereal bowl and silverware. Older ones can rinse theirs and put them in the dishwasher or rinse and stack so they’re ready to wash.
Prepare as much as you can the night before:
- Mix juice so it is ready in the morning.
- Mix dry ingredients for pancakes or waffles and leave in a covered bowl. Mix wet ingredients and store them in a container in the fridge, ready to add in the morning.
- Prepare griddles and pans and set them out wherer you will use them so they’re ready to go in the morning.
- Set out small condiments like the butter so they’re ready to use.
Keep your fridge and pantry organized. That way when you tell the kids to grab the syrup, they don’t have to spend 15 minutes looking for it before they call you to search for it, too. Put things in the same spot each time and teach your family to do it.
Think out of the box. There is nothing wrong with having a leftover bean burrito for breakfast. You don’t always have to eat “breakfast” foods.
Keep it simple. You don’t have to have a 10 course meal.
Use some pre-made things. There is nothing wrong with the kids eating a pop tart with their scrambled eggs. Don’t feel compelled to make homemade muffins every day if you don’t have time.

Simple fast menus:

Have fruit cups ready in the fridge. In the morning, take them out, add some yogurt and serve with an English muffin or bagel and some scrambled eggs. You can even have the eggs in the fridge cracked and stored in a bowl ready to pour into the pan. This can be done in 10 minutes or less.
Place some frozen fruit, milk and yogurt in a blender and put in the fridge. The next morning, blend it and serve with peanut butter on toast or a healthy muffin.
Keep hard boiled eggs in the fridge ready to eat with toast and a glass of juice. For the big eaters in your family, add a bowl of cereal.
Make your own egg muffins. Wrap and have them ready to warm in the morning.
Make oatmeal in a thermos and take it when you’re on the go. The night before, warm up a thermos by pouring hot water in it. Bring 1 cup of water to boil. Then dump out the water you used to warm the thermos, put 1/4 cup oats in it, add boiling water and salt and seal. It will be ready to eat first thing in the morning (or you can make it in the morning and eat it for lunch).

Breakfast Tips