Weekday Breakfast Ideas

During my pregnancy and maternity leave, I was spoiled with frequent home-cooked breakfasts. My husband started cooking breakfast because:

1. He works out of the home and doesn't have to rush around in the morning.
2. I was starving and bowl of cereal simply didn't cut it anymore.
3. I had zero energy to cook and pleaded with him to learn a few go-to meals before Ingrid arrived.

Two plus years later and he's still making breakfast regularly. With odd work and school schedules, breakfast is one meal that we eat as a family, most mornings.

Dan typically whips up eggs with spinach or whatever else is in the fridge. Beyond eggs, here are some family favoritess:

1. Healthy Morning Glory Muffins

2. Carrot, Mango and Herb Smoothie 

3. Brown Rice Breakfast 

4. Baked Pumpkin Steel Cut Oatmeal

Muffins, smoothies and oatmeal are pretty standard breakfast affair but, brown rice? I was skeptical too - but Bethenny Frankel delivers. Treat it like oatmeal, doctor it up with almond milk, dried fruit (and maybe...chocolate chips). Just eyeball the ingredients for a few minutes over the stove on medium heat and enjoy.

Typically, I'll use left over rice for this dish, as I don't have 40 minutes to wait for brown rice to cook. Recently, I was asked to try Minute Ready to Serve Rice: portable, portion-controlled, fully cooked rice. I'll be honest with you - I wasn't too excited to try this dish as I had sampled "fully cooked" brown rice a few years earlier. Back then, the rice was really oily and the consistency was off. This rice cooked quickly and was close to the consistency of real brown rice - chewy and filling. I whipped this up in about 5 minutes - perfect for weekday mornings.

Even though Dan is the breakfast cook in the house - I plan on serving these healthy breakfasts on weekdays.

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