I'm providing simple meal plans on the blog this week. You can read the introduction here. Previous posts in the series: Dinner Week One, Dinner Week Two, Dinner Week Three, Dinner Week Four.
Monday:
- Steel cut oatmeal
- Banana (Applesauce)
- Coffee / milk / water
Tuesday:
- Multigrain pancakes with fruit
- Banana
- Coffee / milk / water
Wednesday:
- Smoothies
- Toast with almond butter and nutella
- Coffee / milk / water
Thursday:
- Eggs
- Toast
- Banana
- Coffee / milk / water
Friday:
- Steel cut oatmeal
- Banana (Applesauce)
- Coffee / milk / water
Saturday:
- Multigrain pancakes with fruit
- Banana
- Coffee / milk / water
Sunday:
- Smoothies
- Toast with almond butter and nutella
- Coffee / milk / water
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Oatmeal add-ons:
- berries (blueberries, strawberries, blackberries, raspberries)
- peaches
- baked apples / cinnamon
- nuts
- honey
- milk
- butter
- raisins
* Cheerios can substitute on oatmeal mornings.
Pancake toppers:
- fruit (listed above)
- nuts
Smoothie ideas:
- mango
- banana
- peaches
- berry mixture
- apples
- lemon
- honey
- spinach
- kale
- greek yogurt (unless you want to be vegan, in which case, no yogurt)
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Grocery List:
- coffee
- steel cut oatmeal
- bananas (28 a week for our family)
- organic milk
- almond butter
- berries
- applesauce
- pancake batter (We buy Trader Joes Multigrain)
- almond milk
- spinach
- nutella
- eggs
- sprout bread (Ezekiel bread)
- cream
- frozen fruit
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Tip 1: Breakfast is super important. Make sure you and your kids eat it!
Tip 2: My favorite smoothie is mango / banana / spinach. Yum!
Lesson Learned: Even though this meal plan looks really basic, we have found that alternating the order of our breakfast options means that we are more likely to enjoy each option, which means we will want to eat it more. And as I said in Tip 1, eating breakfast is super important!
How do you fix your steel cut oats? I have some but they take so long to cook compared to "quick cooking" or the "old fashioned" I have been afraid to start them in the morning afraid everyone would be cranky and starving by the time they were soft enough to eat.
ReplyDeleteWe buy the Food Lion brand of the steel cut oatmeal. It's called Nature's Place "all matural" Steel Cut Quick Cook Oats. So, I have not investigated whether or not they have hidden terrible things in them. They are the only kind of steel cut oatmeal we can get at our grocery store.
DeleteOk, so that being said ... the directions on the back only require 5-7 minutes stove top or 2-3 minutes microwave.
They are a little dry for me, so I usually mush a whole banana in, cinnamon, a sprinkle of suger (you could probably do honey or something) and then, a little milk. I like this for breakfast, because it is so filling!
So, my answer is ... maybe we aren't buying the right Steel Cut, b/c I've heard they should take longer to cook. But for whatever reason, ours do not take that long.
Ok, so I definitely read the directions wrong. It probably takes a total of 10 minutes either way.
DeleteUsually, Mark gets up and makes them. He'll just leave them in the pot with a lid, and then we all eat them when we get up.
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Delete10 minutes isn't too long. I will have to try them and see. A friend moved and gave me a bag from a health food place that doesn't have directions on them, it was like a pay by the poundage type thing.
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