Try cooking kid-friendly breakfast recipes with your little ones during the weekend or long school breaks! Doing this encourages your children to develop love and a healthy relationship with food. This also works as a great bonding activity with your kids while away from work and school.
Breakfast food usually features meals that boost our energy for the day. Because of this, cooking breakfast with your kids works as a fun way to start your day. It also provides parents and kids with enough energy to finish their tasks for the day.
Additionally, learning about kid-friendly breakfast recipes encourages your kids to try cooking by themselves. The recipes we compiled include the right amount of ingredients and procedures to keep your young ones from being overwhelmed. Start with our list before you try out other recipes with them.
7 Easy Kid-friendly Breakfast Recipes To Cook With Your Kids
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Following kid-friendly recipes at home allows your kids to learn and love cooking food. We listed quick and easy recipes that parents and kids can do. Once you get used to the ones we compiled below, you can add more ingredients or try other breakfast recipes with your kids.
Try out kid-friendly breakfast recipes with your kids this upcoming weekend! Here are 7 easy-to-make breakfast ideas for the kids and the whole family on busy mornings:
Overnight Oats
Many online people share how they make their easy recipes for overnight oats. You can enjoy doing it with your child as it is fun, enjoyable, and easy to make.
Oats are full of fibre, which can benefit every family member’s health—from kids to adults. They also help lower your cholesterol to improve your heart’s health. Moreover, adding a few scoops of chia seeds also helps your gut health.
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- Oats (1/2 cup)
- Chia Seeds (1-2 teaspoons)
- Peanut butter (1 tablespoon)
- Maple Syrup (1 teaspoon) or Honey (1 tablespoon)
- Your preferred milk (1/2 cup)
- Refrigerator-safe container with lid
- Choice of fruits or toppings (we suggest dried fruits like strawberries and toppings like chocolate chips)
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- Combine the oats and chia seeds in your refrigerator-safe container
- Mix wet and sticky ingredients (milk, peanut butter, and syrup or honey) in a separate bowl
- Incorporate the wet ingredients into the dry mix in your refrigerator-safe container
- Cover the container with its lid and refrigerate it overnight
- Add your choice of fruit or toppings when you open it in the morning
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Waffles or Pancakes
Another easy food to make with your child every morning can be waffles or pancakes. You can either cook with ready-made frozen waffles or pancakes or cook with a box mix. Regardless of the brand, you can make it more healthy and delicious depending on the toppings you would like to use!
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Once you get used to this recipe, we encourage you to challenge your kids by making waffles or pancakes from scratch! You can make the dough the night before and refrigerate it overnight. Now, before we complicate things, here are the ingredients and steps to cooking easy waffles and pancakes.
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- 1 Waffle or Pancake Box Mix or 1 Pack of their frozen counterparts
- Butter (1 tablespoon)
- Choice of Syrups (fruits or maple) or Honey
- Other fruit or sweet toppings (optional)
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- Follow the instructions on the box mix or the frozen pack
- While still hot, place butter on top and let it melt
- Add your choice of syrup or topping
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Banana Bread
Banana bread may seem challenging to be a part of our kid-friendly breakfast recipes list but hear us out! This recipe can be done at any time of the day, not just at breakfast. It also gets keeps you from throwing away your overripe bananas in the kitchen.
With this recipe, you don’t need to stop yourself from purchasing ripe bananas on sale. Try cooking banana bread with your kids and enjoy it with your family for breakfast. Moreover, you can top include your choice of chocolate chips to make the flavour more enjoyable for the picky eaters in your family.
Meanwhile, we encourage busy parents can bake banana bread with the kids during the weekend. This makes it easier for them to prepare and enjoy breakfast with their kids before heading off to work and school.
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- Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F
- Combine bananas, sugar, egg, and butter in a bowl
- Mix flour and baking soda in a separate bowl
- Mix it all and our in the loaf pan
- Bake for 45 minutes or 1 hour
- Take it out of the oven after a successful toothpick test
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Yoghurt Cups
Kids can make a simple yoghurt cup, even for breakfast, every morning. Yoghurt is already healthy, but to make it healthier, you might want to choose a less sugar brand!
Meanwhile, this simple breakfast matches well with busy parents and students. Just prep and combine the ingredients and you’re done! To encourage picky-eaters to try these out, we suggest parents try and serve yoghurt with an ice cream scooper.
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- Yoghurt (plain or fruit-flavoured)
- Toppings of your choice (fruits or syrups)
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- Pick a yoghurt brand with less sugar
- Add toppings that you and your kids love
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Smoothies
One of the best easy-to-make breakfast recipes every morning must be smoothies! You can always put what you want and what’s available sweet in your freezer.
This simple recipe also encourages your kids to eat healthy food for breakfast or as snacks. On the other hand, we suggest parents subtly urge their kids to make smoothies without ice cream or substitute milk with yoghurt.
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- Frozen fruit
- Yoghurt, Ice cream, or Choice of Milk
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- Mix all the ingredients in a blender
- Add more toppings if you want to enhance the flavour
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Breakfast Burritos
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Burritos may look complicated, but you can always make it ahead of time. You and your kids may prepare it ahead of time so that it will be easier for you to prepare it during breakfast.
You may do it with the family, not necessarily during the weekend, but when you have spare time during the afternoons. Moreover, you don’t necessarily need to follow our suggested ingredients. Instead, just follow the steps about cooking the tortillas and just add the breakfast ingredients you and your kids like.
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- Chopped greens (spinach or cilantro)
- 4 whole-wheat or corn tortillas (crunchy or not)
- Black beans or refried beans (1 cup)
- Shredded Cheese of Choice (1⁄2 cup )
- 1 Avocado
- Olive oil (1⁄2 tablespoon)
- Meat (Chicken, sausage links, or ground meat of choice)
- 1 red onion
- 6 eggs
- Salt and black pepper to taste
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- Heat the oil in a pan over medium heat.
- Add the meat and onion. Cook for five minutes, then turn the heat low.
- On a separate pan, pour the egg and cook it slowly until it becomes firm. After that, remove from the heat, then season with salt and pepper. (You can scramble them or roll them l into an omelette)
- Wrap the tortillas in damp paper towels, then heat them in the microwave for 45 seconds.
- Divide the eggs, beans, cheese, and avocado among the tortillas.
- Roll into tight packages, and top each burrito with salsa, and more cilantro.
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