Healthy Preschooler Breakfast

A healthy breakfast is a great way to start the day before some homeschool preschool lessons (or going off to school). Here's an easy idea for a nutritious meal!

Earth's Best Organic Homestyle Mini Waffles topped with vegan butter and amber agave.
Fruit: blackberries, and strawberries
Vegan yogurt topped with hemp seeds

Delicious and nutritious and sure to be gobbled up the the kiddos!

Dr. Seuss Day Breakfast

Here was our Dr. Seuss Day Breakfast!

We had green eggs with organic ketchup, Cat in the Hat skewers, and Pink Ink Drink. Pink Ink Drink is my own idea and we have it every year! I'll share the recipes on this post.

For the green eggs I used Trader Joe's organic brown eggs with added omega 3's. I cracked them into a bowl and whisked them a bit, then I added in quite a few drops of neon food coloring, and regular green food coloring. They mixed together to make just the color I wanted when I whisked the rest of the way. They came out beautiful after cooking as well, as you can see.

For the Cat in the Hat skewers I put some slices of organic bananas and organic strawberries on a skewer to look like the cat's hat, and then I put a jumbo marshmallow on for the cat's face. We didn't have a food marker or I would have drawn him a little cat face on there.

For the Pink Ink Drink (which I was inspired by One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish to make) is made by blending some organic strawberries with some organic almond milk.

Delicious and Healthy Breakfast for Kids

I know most parents are always looking for new ideas for healthy meals to feed their kids, especially breakfast since it's the most important meal of the day. Look no further than this post for a lovely breakfast idea for your toddler or preschooler. 

On the divided plate pictured above there is sliced organic strawberries, vanilla soy yogurt, and what I like to call Chocolaty Hemp Heart Banana Slices.

Here is my recipe for them:
- 1 organic banana, sliced
- Trader Joe's Cocoa Almond Spread
- Manitoba Harvest Hemp Foods Hemp Hearts

Step 1:
Take a slice of banana, and use a butter knife to coat one side of it with the cocoa almond spread.

Step 2:
Pour some hemp hearts into a small bowl, and roll the coated side of the banana in them so they stick to the cocoa almond spread.

Granola Stuffed Strawberries

Looking for a new breakfast for your toddler to mix things up a bit? Look no further! This is a new favorite around our house. A favorite of mine to make (it's fun and feels fancy), and a favorite of my daughters to gobble all up! It also makes me happy because she hates oatmeal, but will eat oats in the form of granola just fine. Nice filling breakfast to have before heading out on morning errands, activities, or whatever you've got planned for your child.

Ingredients for the Granola Stuffed Strawberries:
- Strawberries, prefferably organic (however many your child will eat)
- Granola (we use triple berry organic granola from Trader Joe's)

For the vegan dip:
- Cultured coconut milk yogurt
You can use any type of yogurt you want such as soy, almond, homemade, whatever. If you're not concerned with being dairy free cow's milk yogurts will work as well. The cultured coconut milk from Trader Joe's really does pair well with these though.

Step 1:
Wash the strawberries, then slice off the leafy tops.

Step 2:
Use a knife to poke a hole around the edge of the inner white part of the strawberry, then go all around it with your knife so you can pull out the white part without cutting the rest of the strawberry. You're just trying to get that part out of the middle so there's room to stuff them.

Step 3:
Use a small spoon (baby spoons work great) to stuff the strawberries with the granola. Try to get it in as deep as you can, it's okay if some overflows onto the tops of the strawberries.

Step 4:
Get it ready for presentation. I put my daughters inside of some heart silicone baking cups that would be perfect in a bento box. We haven't gotten ours yet though, so they're just placed on a paper plate. Add the yogurt of your choice onto the plate, bento box, or in a bowl.

Step 5:
Present and watch your child gobble it all up!

Banana Dessert Breakfast

Around here, we like to occasionally make breakfast a little bit like a dessert by adding a fun and unexpected treat to it. Here's my recipe for a Banana Dessert Breakfast that works well as the main entree or a side.

Ingredients:

- 1/2 a banana

- Almond butter

- Chocolate chunks

All you need to do to make this is take a banana and peel it, then slice it carefully down the middle longways. Once you've got your half of the banana ready you spread almond butter over it, as much as you'd like. Finally, you top it off by adding some chocolate chunks on top across the banana in a row.

Your little one will most likely delight at the sight of chocolate on their breakfast and gobble it all up!