Breakfast

My friend Tara is a breakfast connoisseur. Omelets, pancakes, smoothies...her children eat awesome breakfasts, which if course, is the MOST important meal of the day, everyone says. Sam eats a breakfast bar and some milk. Ted eats 1 waffle and about half his glass of milk. They aren't into breakfast. Lunch, mind you, is an all-out food frenzy. Ted has been known to eat 3 full soy butter and jelly sandwiches. He LOVES crazy healthy, thick bread so a sandwich for him is a good meal. He also is guilty of stealing fruit from the kitchen and hiding somewhere to eat it (4 apples a day? 5 plums? no fair!) Sam isn't as great an eater but he does well with the soy meat products. I sent him with a soy brat today...he'll be psyched. Anyway, an issue of Family Fun (or some such magazine) arrived yesterday. I never expect much from these, always eager for my Vegetarian Times to arrive...but when was the last time I fixed a recipe? Hmm...) FF had FABULOUS breakfast ideas. Really good. I am going to try them all, one at a time of course, and report back. Here they are, since school is approaching and we are in PRE-K now! Woo hoo!

• Smoothie (frozen fruit, yogurt, milk & juice + wheat germ)
• Banana Dog w/milk (whole grain hot dog bun or tortilla spread with soy butter & wheat germ, whole banan with squiggle of jam like ketchup)
• Gorp w/ milk (nuts, dried fruit & cereal-we are going to try almond, dried cherries & Puffins)
• Double batch of French Toast/waffles etc from the weekend, just toast in am (we do this with French Toast and it works well)
• Pancake Letters (pour batter into a bottle and squeeze out the letters of their name...this might be really cute and I can make one healthy pancake!)

I'll let you know how it goes!