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Feed Me Friday: Overnight Waffles


 Brayden recently competed in a mile race run with 9 other elementary schools in our valley. The night before the big race, I wondered what would be best to feed him for breakfast the next morning. Brayden is a swimmer, and I know all about what to feed him for swim racing, but I wasn't sure how that would compare to land racing. So I asked one of my closest friends whose husband also happens to be a major marathon runner. Her suggestion was waffles.
Waffles? Ugh. Waffles are delicious and all. But waffles take time to make (unless you have an industrial waffle maker that makes a lot at once, which is nothing to snuff your nose at!). Not only would I need to make the batter, I would need to stand at the waffle iron for approximately a million hours cooking waffles. 

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But I turned to my trusty Better Homes Cookbook and found an Overnight Waffles recipe. Hooray! I had never tried the recipe because typically when I am making waffles, I want them now, not tomorrow. On this day, however, I was thinking about the next day. This would cut down on the batter-making time the next morning.

"What about the million hours at the waffle iron?" I know! It didn't solve everything. Until it did! When I made the waffles the next morning, the recipe made 7-8 Belgian style waffles. The good news is that the waffles were so filling that just one per person was more than enough for most of us. So this recipe can be done the night before and isn't so big that you will spend all morning cooking the waffles. I have since doubled this recipe and it doubled well, so if you need more than 7ish waffles, you can double it. 


With a Belgian waffle, you can cater to your indecisive side. 
Ingredients:
  • 2 1/4 cups flour
  • 2 Tablespoons sugar
  • 1 package active dry yeast (I use this kind, which isn't in packages. One package is 2.5 teaspoons)
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla (optional)
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1 3/4 cups milk
  • 2 eggs
  • 1-3 cup melted butter or cooking oil
Method:
  1. In a large bowl, whisk together flour, sugar, yeast, and salt. 
  2. Add vanilla, milk, eggs, and butter/oil.
  3. Beat with an electric mixer until thoroughly combined.
  4. Cover bowl loosely and chill overnight or up to 24 hours (this batter will rise some overnight, so that is why you need a bigger bowl).
  5. Stir the batter.
  6. Pour about 3/4 cup batter onto a preheated, lightly greased waffle iron.
  7. Close lid quickly. Do not open lid until waffle is done. Cook according to manufacturer's instructions. 
  8. When done, lift out using a fork.
  9. Repeat until done.
  10. Serve warm.
 

 

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Easy Breakfast Meals


For a long, long time, my children had cereal and yogurt for breakfast each morning. Fruit was also available. Despite the fact that they loved it, I always felt like that was something I wanted to change. It was difficult, however, when I was pregnant because I am super sick when pregnant. I am also not a big breakfast eater--I get sick when I eat too early (which is, again, difficult with the whole pregnant thing). I prefer eating "breakfast foods" at dinner time. It was also difficult when I had a nursing baby because nursing babies can be unpredictable and I can be tired in the morning when nursing a baby at night, so the easy cereal and yogurt thing worked well.

This school year, I decided I wanted to change the breakfast thing at our house. I am not pregnant and my youngest is two. But I wanted breakfast to still be something that could be simple and quick. I didn't want to take away from any of our favorite breakfast for dinner meals. My children all like routine, so I figured I could pick five breakfasts for school days and stick with those. Then they could have a cereal day on the weekend and we already have the tradition of homemade muffins on one weekend day.

Our breakfasts have been working really well. I wanted to share our ideas so you could get some ideas. If you have any simple and quick breakfasts, please share!

Monday--Pancake Day
Brayden loves to cook and really wanted to have a morning he made pancakes each week. Each Monday, he makes pancakes. 

Tuesday--Yogurt and Granola Day
I make yogurt using this yogurt maker: Euro Cuisine YM80 Yogurt Maker. It works well. I wish it made more so I could have more than one week's worth for my family at a time, but the flavor and texture are good. I also wish it would automatically turn off rather than you having to turn it off, so it isn't the perfect yogurt maker.

I also make our granola. I use the recipe I found here. It is delicious and very healthy. The ingredients are expensive, but I priced it against the cheap stuff at the store and it is the exact same price ounce for ounce. It tastes better and is healthier. It is very simple to make. I double it and it lasts us three weeks. Yogurt and granola day is hands down Brinley's favorite. 

Wednesday--Cereal Day
My children love their cereal. So I left a cereal day there for them. There are only certain cereals they are allowed to have on a school day.

Thursday--Smoothie or Oatmeal Day
On Thursday, the kids can choose to have either a smoothie for breakfast or oatmeal and hot chocolate. Brayden always chooses smoothie and the girls choose oatmeal.

Friday--Eggs Day
Friday is the day we have eggs. Brayden likes to cook scrambled eggs for himself. He usually makes a breakfast burrito. The girls prefer eggs over easy with toast. 

Saturday and Sunday
We like to do muffins one day and cereal another. For cereal day on a weekend, they can have any kind they want. 

Caveat
I want to caveat and say this post isn't intended to make you feel guilty or like you are a bad parent if your kids eat cereal every day for breakfast. I ate cereal almost every day of my life and came out okay. Until recently, my children did, too. I like the idea of more variety in the diet, cereal is expensive, and I also think cereal doesn't have the best "staying power" in the system. I shared this with you so you know if you want to have variety for breakfast, too, there are easy and quick options for you.

Do you have any quick and easy breakfast foods your family likes?


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Breakfast and Morning Wake Time

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Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, and this is true for more reasons than just giving you the energy you need for the day. The time you eat breakfast every day impacts the time you wake up in the morning. This is true no matter what your age is. 

If you eat breakfast every day at 7:30, most days you will wake up by 7:30--ready for food. 

This is an important point to remember when you are establishing morning wake time.

Does your baby wake earlier than you want her to? Try slowly moving breakfast to the time you want to eat. If she wakes at 7:00 and you would prefer 7:15, get her up when she wakes if she needs you to, but distract her for at least 5 minutes. A few days later, try for 10 minutes. Then eventually get to where you feed her at 7:15.

Consistent breakfast time is also very important if you have night wakings that you want to stop. I have posts with more on this, so see:
This concept is also true for older children. If you feed your toddler, preschooler, or child at the same time each morning, your child will tend to wake up closer to that time.

Now, there are of course more factors than the time of breakfast in morning wake time. We have the sun (Early Morning Waking and the Sun). We also have being too hot or too cold. We have what time the child went to bed the night before. The time you eat breakfast, however, is a very important part of the equation. Babywise book one cautions to not underestimate the power of starting the day at the same time each day in getting your baby to sleep through the night.

Keep breakfast time consistent, and you will have a consistent morning wake-up child.

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