Green Eggs and Ham

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The cereal aisle can be a daunting place. Amidst all the brightly colored boxes lies a serious choice: which cereal should you feed your family?

Unfortunately there’s no real winner – the “healthy” cereal options can have just as much – or more – sugar than the ones that are obviously loaded with the sweet stuff, it’s just not as obvious.

The point of breakfast is to start your day right and if you have kids, to get them ready for a day of school and learning. A bowl of sugary cereal won’t help that, but a high-protein, low-sugar breakfast can. Research shows that a protein-rich breakfast, such as an egg breakfast, improves appetite control and helps you feel full. This makes it easier for children to focus and learn in school.

As part of the American Egg Board’s Breakfast Swap Challenge, I switched my son’s breakfast to eggs for 10 days. A rather hysterical experiment given his flip-flopping, love-hate relationship with certain foods depending on the day. By the end of the 10 days he was pulling eggs out of the fridge for me –yes, there were a few disasters—and asking for them for breakfast. Of course, that doesn’t mean he always actually ate all of them. But I took care of the leftovers for him.

In addition to being easy to make, eggs are the most affordable source of high-quality protein per serving, making them a great choice for families on a budget. I’m often shocked by the price on a single small box of cereal, and depending on the cereal, you may not be getting any great nutritional benefits from it.

I tried to mix up how I fixed eggs each day so we didn’t get bored. I was a big fan of the 3 minute breakfast hash, so I often turned to similar recipes. A favorite of the little man’s was my green eggs and ham variation of this 1 minute microwave egg cup. {Broccoli instead of cheese.}

I was also a big fan of this French toast recipe, which really mixes up the day to day variety!

Visit IncredibleEgg.org for more kid friendly breakfast recipes and tips.

Eggs provide a number of excellent dietary benefits, can be easily cooked in a variety of ways, and are very cost effective. The American Egg Board highlights the many benefits of eating eggs in addition to providing tips and delicious recipes. For more information, please visit http://IncredibleEgg.org/.

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What do you typically eat for breakfast? Your kids?

The Incredible Edible Egg

Breakfast

The Incredible Edible Egg

{you’re singing that now, aren’t you?}

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It’s hard not to get caught up in the excitement of back to school this year since I actually have a kid going back to “school”. Plus all the tax-free shopping signs at Target keep drawing me into the pens and paper aisle. I wish I had a reason to need all new notebooks!

I know most kids hate getting dragged out of bed in the morning, usually scrambling at the last minute to shove something down their throat and make it out the door on time for the school bus. Not me. I was always up early enough to down not one, but several giant bowls of cereal before I headed out for the day. Despite the massive amounts of cereal I went through, I was always starving a few hours later, with lunchtime nowhere in sight.

I don’t know why I never thought of eating something else for breakfast that might keep me full longer. Kabes is always hungry so I accepted the American Egg Board challenge of switching his breakfast to eggs for 10 days, since research shows protein-rich breakfasts help with appetite control {and focus in school to boot}. I’m a little nervous he’ll get sick of them. I’m a lot nervous I’ll get sick of them. But we’ll see how it goes!

I don’t have time to whip up elaborate breakfasts in the am, as I’m sure many of you don’t either, so I’m sticking with the fast and simple ones. That’s one of the reasons eggs can be a good back to school breakfast option- you can make them ahead of time, zap them in the microwave, or hard boil them to have breakfast on the go. Plus eggs are a cheap and fabulous source of protein: 6g of protein for 15 cents. Not bad.

For breakfast this morning I went with a simple pop-in-the-microwave meal of hashbrown potatoes, eggs, and salsa; the Microwave 3 Minute Breakfast Hash. Kabes scarfed it down like there was no tomorrow. I was rather surprised considering he’s not huge fan of eggs- it’s always hit or miss. Today was a hit!

We’ll see how the next 9 days go.:)

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Sunday Snippets

Writing

I know I’m probably supposed to have some sort of cute Easter-food related post today.

Spoiler alert: I don’t.

I’m pretty sure it’s all been done, thanks to Pinterest. {Love/hate much?} Although I do deserve pats on the back for actually dyeing Easter eggs this year. Even better, I baked my eggs instead of hardboiling them. Why isn’t this a better known trick?