I can’t even believe I am typing this. But maybe I am just giving up on this Summer and am ready for our next chapter? I don’t know. It’s been rough here, as I am sure it is for many of you too. I am feeling defeated in some ways and others I am feeling a little motivated, so I am running with that tiny bit of motivation and knowing that I’m going to have to do a LOT of this unmotivated.
School will be back in session before we know it, I mean, yes, time is going kind of slow when we feel stuck at home but it’s still going to be fast. I need as much of our normal as I can muster for these big changes.
The changes will be different for every family, I’m not even sure what our changes are yet. I AM sure that mornings will still be chaotic so I am starting with ways to combat that. Breakfast is up first because it’s not going to kill our budget and it’s simple. A small chunk of time while we feel like there’s an excess of it, traded for hours worth of time in the mornings when it’s all a rush.
Last week I made some french toast sticks and pancakes, like 50 of them because I already had the skillet on and the dishes dirty from making pancakes for breakfast. I did mix em up a little. I made traditional ones and also
Strawberry protein (added a little vanilla protein and some of our fresh strawberries)
Coconut Protein (powdered coconut oil and protein)
Then just flash freeze them on a cookie sheet and transfer to gallon size bags.
I also made a few batches of the egg bites in the instant pot. If you haven’t tried it before, go for it! Easy and inexpensive, can mix em up with whatever you have in the fridge. They are portable and quick to reheat. I’ve added the molds to my Amazon store.
Look how ugly these are 🥴
Some other things I’ve got on the plan to make for breakfasts in the next couple weeks are
More French toast sticks
Breakfast sandwiches
Breakfast burritos
Mini Muffins
My goal is to have 2 months worth of breakfasts for the kids before September 1st. Obviously we will need more than this because they are still eating breakfast everyday 🤣 The other aspect is sometimes I find a deal on waffles, kodiak cakes are a fave, and I will grab some of those, so I have a little reprieve, and bagels.
If you have a bread outlet near you, go! It’s one of the ways we can really stretch the budget and stock up. Ours has bags of bagels, bread, English muffins and more for $1.10 each and often do B1G2F. So 3 loaves of bread (or whatever) for $1.10.
That’s what we use for Breakfast sandwiches and quick breakfasts. Texas Toast for French toast sticks, uncrustables at home. Lots of options if you stop their first. You never know what’s going to be there.
I’ve got a big list of things I want to accomplish before school starts. Whatever that’s going to look like, I thrive when I have boxes to check and boxes that have been checked. Are you making goals for before school starts? Projects to finish before it starts raining again? Tell me about ‘em!
Disclaimer *this is our real life, I’m not staging pancakes for y’all. Just being real because I am not here to influence you, I just want to encourage you 😘
There is laundry on our bed and we live here. Sometimes there’s a picture that looks good. I promise it’s just that picture.
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