I'm referring to the boxes of cold cereal, not boxes of hot cereal. You know, the colorful boxes, the ones that you pour into a cereal bowl in the morning and pour milk over. Those are the ones I'm talking about. Now I know that you can get great coupons for this stuff and end up paying very little but since I refuse to be the coupon queen I was buying cereal full priced. BUT, it's terrible stuff anyway so in the eating healthy efforts I couldn't in my right mind keep buying it anyway.
Regardless, cooking from scratch breakfast every morning is not only way more enjoyable (I should write a post about how healthy cooking has helped us to enjoy our meals so much more!) it also saves a lot of money.
Typically we eat oatmeal and ricemeal (I know that's not a word, my kids made it up) most mornings. They are easy to make, super healthy, and an easy way to get detoxing food down the kids.
Other mornings we might mix it up by having:
homemade granola and yogurt
fried egg sandwiches
pancakes
bagel and cream cheese
applesauce and toast (applesauce recipe coming next month)
scrambled eggs
baked french toast
These are the basic things we work into our breakfast menu but sometimes we throw in something special like:
waffles
German pancake
breakfast strata
quiche or fritatta
6 comments:
We rarely buy cereal. I have never been a fan. My husband eats oats and homemade granola every morning. He actually prefers it, so he is easy. Our son will have fruit, homemade granola, whole wheat pancakes, yogurt, whole wheat waffles, toast,etc. I make breakfast on the weekend, but I am not home in the mornings on the weekdays, so the boys do this on their own. I just make sure that they are provided for (food wise), and they eat healthy.
I quit using cold cereal for breakfast about 7 years ago- back then it saved me $80/month. I can't imagine what it would cost now with more kids, bigger eaters and groceries just costing more. I was pleasently surprised at how much longer we stayed full with a homemade breakfast. Good for you guys!
I think Kashi is a good brand for those not willing to "kick the habit!"
My husband won't touch it (scientific proof that it must be healthy :), but my kids love it.
If I do buy boxed cereal, I definitely don't buy the sugary kind. We try to stick with Grape Nuts, Cheerios or Shredded Wheat. However, most mornings we either have homemade granola, oatmeal, Bob's Red Mill ten grain, toast with peanut butter, bagels and cream cheese, lots of fruit, smoothies, cinnamon rolls, homemade yogurt, etc.
BTW: Do I HAVE to wait until next month for your applesauce recipe?? I've got apples I just bought that I want to use RIGHT NOW for applesauce. ***sigh*** I'll be good and wait patiently! *smile*
I'm glad you shared these suggestions. Breakfast is one of the harder meals to plan and actually follow through with the plan!! :-)
Thanks for all of the quick links on some of your prior breakfast recipe posts. I always have so many eggs to use up!
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