In the Granola Groove

This morning's creation was home-made granola and home-enhanced yogurt. I made the granola with oats(of course), walnuts, almonds and honey. I usually put dried fruit, like cranberries or raisins, in there but we were out this morning. I made the granola in my iron skillet with some oil. I like to cook granola on the stove top instead of the oven because I think it's easier and it takes less time. I also like to use my iron skillet because I am anemic and hope that some of that iron gets into the food. Anyway...I made the yogurt simply by adding thawed frozen strawberries to plain yogurt. All was yummy.

Another Breakfast Idea...

Here's something else new that I tried today. It is Baked French toast with Sugared Peaches. I still need to perfect the recipe a bit, but I thought it turned out pretty good. The peaches were frozen, so I cooked them in a pot on the stove with a little bit of brown sugar- this is the part I need to perfect- I want the peaches to be sweet enough that they will serve as the syrup for the French Toast, but not so sweet that it's a total sugar overload (which is what I get from regular pancake syrup). These weren't quite sweet enough. The eggs in the French Toast give it protein, though not a lot so I would also serve this with a glass of milk, which would give it a little more protein. I figured the total cost of this meal would be about $6.00- that would be $1.00 per family member and that satisfies my criteria for being reasonably priced. :o)

New Breakfast Ideas

I have been searching for new breakfast ideas, as everyone here is getting tired of scrambled eggs and toast every morning. My dilemma in coming up with new ideas is that I have a few criteria that has to be met...(1)It must have protein!! (2)It has to be whole grain if there are grains (3) It has to be reasonably priced. Well, here is an idea I came up with (from some inspiration I found from google.) This is croissant bread with sliced, boiled egg and cheddar cheese. The kids actually liked it, as did Kenny. Next time I'm going to make it with whole wheat English muffins with the cheese and eggs as well as Canadian bacon. I know, I know the croissants in this picture are not whole grain ( but they were good :o)) That's because I had to do a quick run through Braum's and that was all they had. Also, they may not look quite as tasty as they really were, but the kids had fun making their own. Anyway...please leave a comment and let me know what you eat for breakfast.