I will do almost anything to ease the burden of decision fatigue. If you’re unfamiliar with the concept, decision fatigue is when the quality of your decision making begins to deteriorate due to the quantity of decisions you’ve had to make. So I have systems and routines in place to help automate some of the daily decisions that have to be made. I’ll admit as a 1 on the Enneagram, I live for this. But I believe that any personality can benefit from adding even small routine practices to their daily life. Yes even you unique 4’s.

One of the ways I automate daily tasks is through a morning routine. You can read more on my personal morning routine here, but today I want to expand on what that looks like for my kids. Specifically breakfast. You can always count on me to get to the granular details of a thing.

I’ll preface this by saying that one of my parenting “hills to die on” is providing good, relatively nutritious food for my kids. I’m probably a little too loose with screen time, and my kids don’t look like child models when they walk out of the house, but I take Hippocrates’ quote “Let food be thy medicine…” seriously.

But I also believe food and meals and time eating together is the stuff families and memories are made of. In our house breakfast time is one of the few waking hours we have together during the week. So I make it a thing and do my best to cook healthy, filling, energy producing breakfasts for my kids.

If this isn’t a priority for you and your kids know how to pour themselves a bowl of cereal, you do you sister! 👊 But if you’re looking for a way to easily plan and make breakfasts for your kids in the morning without reinventing the wheel every time, here is my weekly breakfast menu. There isn’t a strict day-to-food correlation since kids aren’t robots and like variety, but I always have these items available to mix and match and generally I’ll think about what I’m going to do for breakfast as part of my going to bed routine the night before.

• Kodiak Cakes Power Protein frozen waffles - served with whatever nut butter we have on hand

• 365 Everyday Savory Chicken Breakfast sausage - This is a great quick source of protein in the morning and my kids gobble it up!

• Coach’s Oats Oatmeal - mixed with cinnamon, ground flaxseed, nut butter, and a splash of maple syrup

• Scrambled eggs - with cheese for my dairy kid and none for my intolerant kid. I know making actual scrambled eggs in the morning sounds like a massive time suck but I promise you this takes 5 minutes from cracking eggs to serving them on plates. And during that time I can usually multitask making lunches or unloading the dishwasher.

• Garden Lites Veggies Made Great muffins - These muffins can be found in the frozen sections at Target or Costco and are gluten free and packed with veggies. This is a great way to sneak in some nutrients for your picky eaters.

• Kodiak Cakes Power Protein pancakes - I’ll usually make a double or triple batch of these on Saturday to use throughout the week

• Kind Breakfast Protein bars - for those mornings when we really need to grab and go.

• Siggi’s Yogurt - Im mix half fruit flavored yogurt with half plain yogurt for the dairy tolerant kid. He likes to mix in some granola and nuts on his own.

• Fruit - every breakfast includes a variety of fruit based on what’s in season and what my kids are into at the moment.

• Water - I’ve read from multiple sources that the number one thing you can do to help ensure lifelong health for your kids is to teach them that their primary drink is water. So I do my best to make sure a big glass accompanies every meal.

  I realize this isn’t the most mind blowing life hack available on the interwebs but hopefully this gives you some inspiration that will help simplify your mornings while still doing your best to feed your family well!

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