Trim Healthy KIDS Menu Ideas for Breakfast for the Trim Healthy Mama Family!
So here is my breakfast menu ideas for Trim Healthy Kids! As I was telling you in my last post on Trim Healthy Kids, our 12 year old daughter has been following along with me on my Trim Healthy Mama journey (I’ve been doing this since May 2013) for a month now. She really is enjoying it and it has helped her improve her health and trim her up… her goal before summer! I wanted to share some of our favorite breakfast ideas for kids. I do this for even our little ones who don’t necessarily need to trim up as much as they just need to eat HEALTHY! Taking out the sugar is huge!! And when we do give them something with sugar, we can immediately tell… bouncing off the wall. lol Hope this helps some of y’all who need some brainstorming for easy breakfasts for kids. ** Remember kids do need crossovers so don’t forget to add those in as needed!
TRIM HEALTHY KIDS MENU IDEAS FOR BREAKFAST
Scrambled eggs (easy S)
Overnight baked oatmeal (soak your oats overnight, pour out the water, add a can of pumpkin, some egg whites, baking soda, vanilla, sweetener, bake. Makes a big pan & freezes well!) (E)
Breakfast tacos! Love love these even for me! Use low carb tortillas or even the egg crepes from the book to make these. So easy! (S)
THM Pancakes from the book. Wow, these are the best! I say make a lot and freeze them so your kids can pop them in the toaster. Easy again. (E)
Egg Puffs! We love these! Cook up some veggies, bacon or sausage. Whisk up about 10 eggs, a little cream, & salt. Put a touch of butter in a muffin tin pan, or spray the whole pan. Place a little of the veggies, meat, cheese in each muffin tin, pour eggs over it about half full. Bake at 350 degrees for 15-20 minutes. They are puffed up and so scrumptious! (S)
Muffins. There are lots of wonderful recipes in the Trim Healthy Mama book! Blueberry muffins are some of our favorite with coconut flour. (S) But you could also make oatmeal muffins by using egg whites instead of whole eggs. (E) AND they freeze wonderfully!
Greek yogurt (sweetened and add vanilla) with fruit. Easy again! This can be either S or E or even FP. Sprinkle some of Abby’s Almond Candied Crunch Topping on it, yum! (S)
Egg sandwiches on either Ezekiel Bread or Pitas. We made a delish S breakfast sandwich with Joseph’s Pitas (plan approved), an egg, bacon, and a little mayo! So good! (S) You could also scramble egg whites with veggies, a sprinkle of low fat cheese, lite mayo or salsa, it’s an E!
Breakfast quesadillas. Easy again. (S)
Last but not least Smoothies! My daughters favorite is the Thin Mint Shake! But the options here are endless! Lemon cream, Chocolate, Mocha, Blueberry, Strawberry, Peach, Peanut butter, Peanut butter and chocolate, etc etc.
Hope this helps! Enjoy!
Beth says
I must be a child at heart b/c these look like great breakfast ideas!
Mrs. Criddle says
Haha, I eat a lot of these most every morning too! 😉
Julie Carns says
Thank you for all the menu ideas. Do you have a set food budget that you could share with us? How many people would your budget feed? Thanks for your input!
Sarah says
Hey Julie! I am going to work on a budget/grocery/menu in one but haven’t “sat down” long enough to do that yet. We have a family of 8 and I spend about $200-$250 a week but that includes diapers for two, all cleaning and paper goods, so not just food. I am working on getting that number down to $175 a week but we will see. I think honestly it will stay around $200 a week. Hope that helps some! 🙂
Kim says
Do you have lunch meals (for lunch boxes) that your daughter enjoys. Looking for encouragement for my 14 year old daughter.
Sarah says
I do!!! I will link to it! We homeschool so some of these you will not be able to use for lunch boxes. Trim Healthy Kid Lunch IdeasTrim Healthy Kid Lunch Ideas
isabelle says
Sarah, do you have links for the smoothies at the end. I tried clicking on them but it only went to Gwen’s Thin Mint shake. And some of those other ones sound yummy too. 🙂
Sarah says
I thought I did, but I will double check that. If it is a recipe from the THM book then I think the page #’s are there.
Melissa says
I love these ideas, thank you! I have been making THM pancakes for my kids but with real maple syrup. I’d like to give them something lower in sugar, but something they will enjoy! What kind of syrup do you give your kids?
Sarah says
I will usually make my own.. the Gwen’s Nest Syrup or it’s in the THM Cookbook… or I buy xyilitol sweetened syrup.