Save More Time - Freeze Breakfast Too!

Being the Supermom that I am (aren't we all) every morning the tots get a hot breakfast- yes, every morning I cook - cereal in my house is a snack, not a meal:) But, who has time to do that everyday - I admit, some days, I am really pushing it to get those cakes off the griddle. Lately, we have been freezing the hot cakes and french toasts!

We use 1/2 Heart Smart Bisquick and !1/2 Hodgson Mills Insta Bake (their version of a whole wheat Bisquick). If you use straight Instabake, the hot cakes are a little heavier than I prefer - but whatever... We also add extra eggs for protein.

For French Toast - it is the standard milk, cinnamon, touch of pumpkin spice, vanilla mix - but we also add extra eggs. Eggs are a great source of complete protein for kids and adults (although grown ups should just really eat whites).

After you make a loaf of french toast or a couple weeks of hot cakes - freeze them in a days worth containers (we use 4 of each, so a ziploc bag of 4) and freeze. Kids can pop the french toast oven in the toaster oven or the hot cakes in the ol microwave, and that with a glass o' milk and an apple - and you've just fed the tots healthily before they go off to learn. We really try to use only maple syrup or honey instead of the high fructose corn syrup stuff... I think high fructose corn syrup was made by the devil!