Breakfast Hacks For Moms
17 Breakfast Hacks to Ensure a Smooth Morning With Your Family
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Breakfast before kids was a breeze — you either grabbed something quick to take on the go or made a fancy spread at home (or, let's be real, someone else made it for you at your favorite weekend spot). Breakfast after kids, well, that's a whole other story — a messy story. Trying to get kids to eat is hard enough, but throw in the fact that it's the morning and you haven't had your coffee yet . . . disaster.
If your mornings are a touch chaotic but you want to fill up those little bellies, scroll through for 17 breakfast hacks that will change the way you make the first meal of the day for your family.
1 Make bacon in the oven.
2 Revolutionize Peanut Butter Banana Toast
3 Save an old ketchup bottle for pancake mix.
4 Freeze any extra pancakes.
5 Cut pancakes with a pizza cutter.
6 Freeze banana slices as the "ice" for smoothies.
7 Freeze yogurt cups for on-the-go breakfast popsicles.
8 Add a half teaspoon of baking soda into the water when boiling eggs.
9 Hull strawberries with a straw.
10 Make eggs in a panini press.
11 Bake mini omelets in a muffin tin.
12 Or throw them into a waffle maker.
13 And while you're at it, make hash browns in the waffle maker as well.
14 If you have a cake pop maker, they create the easiest pancake bites for little hands.
15 Remove egg yolks from the whites with an empty water bottle.
16 Bake oatmeal in muffin cups for easy on-the-go eating.
17 Use the bottom of a muffin tin to make granola "cups."
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