What’s for Breakfast: Our Weekly Menu Plan
Super Easy Way to Make Hard Boiled Eggs
Having the breakfast menu planned out makes a huge difference to the start of our days. This week is a different kind of crazy busy so it is especially important that I stay on top of it with everything else going on. I want to make sure everyone is sent off with a good breakfast. I made some slight alterations to our normal menu due to the week we have before us needing adjustments. Here is what our breakfast menu looks like this week (the items in parenthesis are examples of the extra items we will add and change from week to week):
- Monday – Bagel (Fresh Fruit)
- Tuesday – Toast (Hard Boiled Eggs)
- Wednesday – Cereal (Yogurt)
- Thursday – Poptarts (Strawberry & Milk Smoothie)
- Friday – Oatmeal (Applesauce)
- Saturday – Family Brunch
- Sunday – Make Your Own Breakfast (everyone makes their own breakfast before church which is usually something easy like cereal, toast, poptarts, oatmeal, smoothie, etc….)
We are pretty consistent with our week day breakfast menu. For each day of the work and school week Monday to Friday we have the same main menu item from week to week the only thing that changes is the “extra item” we add each day such as an egg, sausage, fresh fruit, cottage cheese, bacon, smoothies, or other items that we have in the kitchen. During the school week the girls always have their main breakfast, at least one side (usually fruit, sausage, egg, etc…), vitamins, milk (one has non-dairy milk due to allergies), and small glass of juice. When I am ambitious, awake, and my creative juices are flowing I will add a little extra silliness to make breakfast more enjoyable for the kids.
We first started doing a different main breakfast item everyday a few years ago because I have one child who if she eats the same thing too many times in a row she stops eating. Adding a little variety from day to day was enough to keep her motivated to eat breakfast. It wasn’t until several months later when the girls pointed it out that I realized that we do the same main item on the same day every week. “Mom, Tuesday is Toast Day…..” So now it has become our rotating breakfast menu which helps keep us on track because we know exactly what we need to prepare for the next breakfast. Plus the girls are sometimes still waking up when they come to breakfast and the morning menu helps them figure out the day of the week as well as prepares them for the upcoming activities they have that day.
There are times I will mix it up (just for fun) or Jake will get up first and make breakfast! The girls don’t hesitate to let him know if he makes a main food item on the wrong day….ha! Our breakfasts are not fancy, but it gets us up and started for the day. What do you make for your family breakfasts?
Soldiers and Soft Boiled Eggs
The soldiers are being dunked into the soft boiled egg!
One of my daughters has a new favorite breakfast treat – Soldiers and Soft Boiled Eggs! My husband was the one who introduced her to this new breakfast dish and it was a hit! Our family tries to have a sit down Saturday morning breakfast or brunch. We try to have at least one meal a day where we all sit down and eat together as a family. During the week that meal is in the evenings for dinner, but on Saturday we try to do it in the morning since many Saturday afternoons and evenings are taken up with other activities.
My husband is an amazing cook and will often introduce the kids to new recipes or come up with his on completely new recipe. Which always turns out delicious! I don’t think he has ever made anything that didn’t taste yummy! Myself on the other hand….well….let’s just say there have been a few dishes or recipes I have made that we can laugh about now as a family, ha!
The best part about Soldiers and Soft Boiled Eggs is that they are pretty easy to make. The “soldiers” are just bread that is toasted, buttered, and cut into strips. The soldiers are perfect for dunking into the delicious thick and runny egg yolk!
A soft boiled egg is a perfect combination between poached and hard boiled egg. To make soft boiled eggs you bring a pot of salted water to a boil. Gently add your eggs to the boiling water and cover the top of the pan. Reduce the heat to low and let them cook for 5 minutes. (While your eggs are boiling make your soldiers.) Remove the eggs from the boiling water and rinse the eggs with cold water.
Once your soft boiled egg is done cut off the top and serve immediately with your toast soldiers! After you are done dunking all your soldiers and your egg yolk is gone you can peel and eat the rest of your egg.
My daughter loves this breakfast. I think dunking the soldiers in the egg yolks has a certain appeal, but she enjoys the taste too. Always love it when we come up with fun and healthy recipes!
Dunking her soldiers into the soft boiled egg yolk.
Typically we do one piece of toast per two eggs, but it really depends on how much you want to dunk or the amount of yolk you want on each soldier.
