Breakfast is important. It is important for overall health, brain power and focus. Beyond nourishing, including breakfast in your family’s morning routine offers many secondary benefits including:

• Beginning your day together as family
• Conversing with your family
• We do life together, encouraging each other for our day’s activities

Study after study reveals the benefits of breakfast. Make breakfast work for you and your family. If you have a picture of an ideal setting – erase it. It may be messy, it may be somewhat chaotic, yet the benefits can and will outweigh your less than perfect.  In our family, we had a limited number of breakfasts to serve, offering them on rotation.

Our breakfasts served on school days:

• cinnamon toast or bagels and smoothies (a protein source with milk and Greek yogurt)
• English muffin egg sandwiches + fruit
• waffles, sausage and fruit
• yogurt and granola + fruit toppings
• scrambled eggs and toast + fruit
• oatmeal and fruit + a protein
• breakfast burritos

Added tips:

• Offer milk at each breakfast; Milk offers additional protein and longer satiety throughout their morning
• Make your mornings easier by preparing as much as possible the night before:
  • Put smoothie ingredients in the blender, store in the fridge, add ice in the morning
  • Mix dry ingredients for waffles or pancakes the night before
  • Set out any equipment you need (sometimes we are as tired as the kids)
• Remember this: You can’t control what or if they eat. You can control what you offer and the opportunity to eat breakfast.
• Make it a family mantra, “In our family, we begin our day together at the table”

Choose to set your kids up for success. Providing breakfast every day is one of many ways you structure their day and ready their brains for learning.

Happy Back to School season. Be intentional.

For the love of your family,