BTW, I love your breadmaking lessons!

The fruit is a good idea for the summer…thanks! We all love fruit. I make muffins sometimes, if I remember to mix things up the night before.

I hardly ever make pancakes for breakfast, although I might consider doing that. The butter/syrup mess on the younger two is off-putting to me, but perhaps that will get better as they age a bit. lol

For other breakfast ideas (I can’t deal w/ the texture of oatmeal, though I wish I could!):

- scones w/ homemade jams and/or curd. I’m really into this recipe right now, though I use dried bergamot orange peel instead of fresh lemon: http://smittenkitchen.com/2008/11/meyer-lemon-and-fresh-cranberry-scones/
- biscuits and gravy (plus if you do the gravy for another meal, at least you’ll have a use for it later so you don’t have to chuck it later on down the road)
- For warmer weather, I love making a huge container of fruit salad (sometimes w/ a bit of mint, honey and sweeter vinegar dressing) and eating it for breakfast. The upside is it goes well w/ other breakfast items if you want more than just fruit
- Massive, family-sized omelets. These are great because you make it once, then cut slices for everyone
- Frittatas w/ leftover pasta or whatever else, and a lot of eggs.
- Quiche (bacon and potato w/ cheddar quiche?). Upside of this is you can make it the day before.
- matzo brei (I use matzo for this, though you could use saltines to make it cheaper) – mix up eggs and wetted-then-drained matzo (I do 2 matzo per egg), spices, and fry in butter or oil
- Bran muffins. This recipe is a LOT of bran, but they’re really tasty: http://www.muffinrecipes.net/bran-muffins.html
- And of course, pancakes. These I sometimes make ahead, freeze, and reheat in the toaster. Kind of like the Egg-O’s ones. But not lately, because my pancake mojo has disappeared and now I am incapable of making a pancake come out right.
- Crepes, too. These also you can make ahead, freeze then reheat. Add fruit, cream cheese, or whatever you like.
- Ooo, I almost forgot about surprise eggs. Slice of bread w/ the middle torn out. Butter one side, put in the frying pan, crack an egg into the hole in the center of the bread slice, fry. Flip at some point and finish frying. These are awesome. We used to eat them a lot when I was little.
- Homemade breakfast jacks. Fried egg, slice of cheese, thin slice of sandwich ham on a bun (or bread).

Oh, and yes, we don’t have any debt aside from our home mortgage. No credit card debt, no car loans, no loans to family, etc. I would REALLY love to be mortgage free, but that’s a ways in the future for us, I think.

We’re trying to avoid cereal as much as possible, as well. Partly because it’s expensive, but also because it just doesn’t seem to fill any of us up very well. Thomas especially will be asking for food an hour later after a bowl of cereal. Sean goes through phases where he gets into a breakfast-making mood and will make up and make us eggs and hash browns and/or bacon, which is great, but I don’t really count on that. I like whole wheat English muffins with peanut butter, smoothies, and bagels. I’d like to start making more omelettes, because we always have a ton of eggs, and it could be a good way to sneak some veggies into our morning meal.

Thomas and Sean both loves oatmeal, but I don’t like the consistency. I do like cream of wheat a lot, though, so we eat that in the winter. I’ve been wanting to try congee, which is apparently just rice cooked in lots and lots of water for a long time. You can throw in fruits or spices or whatever you want. I’m a little afraid of it, though.

I would assume by the things you post about, you and your husband don’t have any debt, do you?