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I’ve been following along with the Coles 7 Day Breakfast challenge, I was away for a few days during the week so I started the challenge a little earlier. As I mentioned before the challenge started the kids and I typically have cereal for breakfast and only have something hot on special occasions, so this was a definate change to our regular routine.
I must admit it was nice to have a variety of different meals for breakfast. The meals we chose weren’t too filling and were just enough to give us a boost of energy for our day. The benefits to eating a good balance breakfast are:
- give you the energy and nutrients your body needs to start the day
- increased concentration and helps focused thinking
- healthy breakfast will help maintain a healthy body weight
- eating breakfast will help prevent unhealthy snacking before lunch
Here was our 7 Day Breakfast Meal Plan
Banana Pikelets
These pikelets were really easy to make, simply make the batter, then place a spoonful of the batter into the frying pan, top with a slice or two of banana, then flip and serve!
Coconut Porridge
We always enjoy porridge in the cooler months, this recipe had a delicious coconut flavour and we topped it with banana and brown sugar… noms!
Ham, Vegetable and Haloumi Frittata
Simple add in some vegetables left over from dinner the night before, some ham and egg.
Scrambled Egg Toasties
We love scrambled eggs for breakfast, lunch and dinner. So it’s always nice to come up with a different variation. The toastie is a great alternative for an on-the-go breakfast.
Scrambled Egg Toasties
Prep Time | Cook Time | Total Time |
20 mins | 10 mins | 30 mins |
- 10-14 slices of bread
- 6 eggs
- 4 slices shortcut bacon, finely diced
- 1/4 cup milk
- Salt and pepper, to taste
Instructions
- Add eggs and milk to a bowl, season eggs with salt and pepper and lightly whisk
- Heat a nonstick frying pan to medium-high heat
- Brown bacon in a nonstick frying pan to your liking
- Reduce frying pan to medium heat and add in eggs, with a wooden spoon gently stir for 2 minutes or until eggs are just set
- Remove eggs from pan
- Remove crusts from bread
- Add in 1/4 cup of scrambled egg into the centre of 1/2 the slices
- Top with a piece of bread and seal (I used the edge of a small chopping board to squish the slices together).
- Place under griller for 2-3 minutes or until browned
By Kat – The Organised Housewife
Banana and Blueberry Breakfast muffins
Another great breakfast for when you are on the go, these muffins can be made the day before or fresh for breakfast. Delicious flavours of banana, blueberry, coconut oil, maple syrup instead of sugar and some oats!
Banana & Blueberry Breakfast Muffins
Prep Time | Cook Time | Total Time |
10 mins | 15 mins | 25 mins |
- 1/4 cup maple syrup
- 3 tablespoons coconut oil
- 1 egg
- 1/3 cup milk
- 1/2 cup rolled oats
- 1 1/2 cups Self Raising Wholemeal Flour
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon lemon zest
- 2 overripe bananas, mashed
- 1 cup blueberries
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 180C fan forced
- Line 12 cup muffin tray with muffin cases
- In a mixing bowl add maple syrup, coconut oil, egg and milk, stir well
- Add in oats, flour, cinnamon, lemon zest and banana, mix to combine, but do not overmix
- Gentle fold in blueberries
- Spoon batter evenly between muffin holes
- Bake for 15 minutes or until golden
By Kat – The Organised Housewife
Strawberry Jam on toast with Milk
A very simple breakfast that we don’t have often, mainly because the kids have bread for lunch I don’t want them having it for breakfast as well. But during school holidays it’s much easier to balance. My little Miss always enjoys some toast and milk.
Raspberry Yoghurt Smoothie
A deliciously refreshing and easy fruity smoothly
Raspberry Yoghurt Smoothie
Prep Time | Total Time | |
5 mins | 5 mins |
- 300g frozen raspberries
- 200g vanilla yoghurt
- 2 cups milk
- 8 ice cubes
- extra raspberries to serve
Instructions
- Combine raspberries, yoghurt, milk and ice into food processor, blend until smooth
- Pour into glasses and serve.
By Kat – The Organised Housewife
What is your child’s favourite breakfast apart from cereal?
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9 comments
One kid has toast or bread and fruit with milk almost every day. The other has cereal. We’re generally creatures of habit during the week as three days out of five we have to be out the door by eight am. The other two days are changeable, but it depends on wake up times and who’s in charge on the other days. Sir Reg is keen on a cooked breakfast so will often cook when he’s in charge.
A brilliant compilation of breakfast ideas. These come just at the right time as I’m desperately trying to get an increasingly fussy baby to eat breakfast!
Coconut porridge looks AMAZING!!! Must try.
We are very similar to you Kat, we only eat cereal, it’s easy and inexpensive. But there are days that I do get a little bored and feel like something different, this is a great selection you have chosen here, the breakfast muffins sound great I look forward to making them up. Thank you Kat for everything you do.
Those banana pikelets look really good, my kids are monkey’s and love anything with banana in it, so they will love these.
My big girl likes baked beans and toast and the small one usually has porridge with mashed banana or grated pear 🙂
Nice recipe outline
wow, looks like very delicious recipe collection you got in here and differently i’m going to try all of these recipes and thank you for the article. keep up the good work.
That’s great Aruni. Glad you like these recipes. There are certainly many alternatives to the usual bowl of cereal