Menu Plan Monday: The Breakfast Challenge
June 1, 2009 > 8 Comments
One of the things I like about blogging is making real friendships with other bloggers. I’ve recently made great friends with Joy over at Five J’s. Little did I know when she designed my blog that we would form such a special friendship!
We have been chatting a lot lately, and we’ve discovered we have a lot in common – one of those commonalities being that we’re both in a cooking rut (or shall we say a not-cooking rut).
Confession: My children have been in charge of breakfast too much lately and while I am happy for them to learn their way around the kitchen, we’ve had one too many peanut butter sandwiches in the a.m. Each week I start out with goals, but without motivation, encouragement and accountability it’s easy to slide backwards.
That’s what friends are for! So Joy and I decided that at least for the month of June we’d join forces and be a help to each other. And we thought perhaps you all could use a little accountability yourself as well as some great meal ideas!
But from experience, we know that it’s best to start small, so instead of trying to focus on all three meals right from the start, we’re starting with baby steps.
This week it’s breakfast. In addition to our Menu Plan Monday we will be posting daily, expounding on that day’s breakfast, including recipes and tips.
We’d love for you to join us in our endeavor. If you are feeling a little (or a lot) uninspired and are eating the same ole boring meals day after day, link up with your breakfast menu and the more who participate the more breakfast ideas we’ll have!
Focus on preparing breakfast each day this week, and especially on trying out new recipes. Then next Monday we’ll post a Mr. Linky where you can link up your breakfast recipes for the week. (While Joy and I hope that this challenge inspires you in the kitchen, we do have to confess that we have an ulterior motive. If you link up your breakfast recipes, we’ll have more great recipes to choose from for our master menu plans!)
And without further ado here’s my week of breakfast for the week of June 1st:
- Monday Fruit Loops, Corn Pops and Apple Jacks – Before Joy and I brainstormed our menu plan I had already bought 3 boxes of cereal for breakfast this morning.
- Tuesday Chocolate Chip Breakfast Biscuits with fruit
- Wednesday Layered Breakfast Bowl (For lack of a better name!) Grits, sausage, egg and cheese
- Thursday Piggy Pudding
- Friday Peanut Butter Banana Smoothies
- Saturday Apple Crisp
- Sunday Crockpot Oatmeal
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June 1st, 2009 @ 1:50 pm
Great looking breakfast menu! I confess it is easy for me to slack on breakfast and even on lunch, too, sometimes. The breakfast bowl concept is neat!!
June 1st, 2009 @ 2:41 pm
Crock pot oatmeal, eh? How is that made? Sounds good!
June 1st, 2009 @ 3:07 pm
Great idea! I am happily stocked up on cereal right now, and Kashi waffles too thanks to coupons and some great deals. I like to keep breakfast super simple
I can’t wait to see your recipes and tips!
June 1st, 2009 @ 4:27 pm
Having a breakfast menu is a great idea. We always have such a breakfast rut, but it works. A week of planned breakfasts could be fun this summer though.
June 1st, 2009 @ 7:08 pm
chocolate chip biscuits sound awesome!! happy monday!!
June 3rd, 2009 @ 3:58 am
[...] sure to check out what Joy at Five J’s prepared today for our Breakfast Challenge. I believe it’s another [...]
June 7th, 2009 @ 5:44 am
[...] mine and Joy’s Breakfast Challenge is almost over. I am really looking forward to seeing what you fixed for breakfast this week. The [...]
June 8th, 2009 @ 6:31 am
[...] our Breakfast Challenge is over, we’re still hoping you’ll link up your favorite breakfasts here so we can have [...]