Gluten Free Breakfast Ideas

If it was up to me, I’d skip breakfast altogether. Give me a cup of coffee and maybe a banana and I’m set for the day. Unfortunately, my kids have other ideas. I need to keep plenty of quickly made gluten free breakfast ideas handy. I’d be lying if I said we don’t have a selection of packaged gluten free cereals on hand for emergencies, but I prefer to not feed my children that much processed food. Young bodies need good proteins and fats, especially first thing in the morning before a long day requiring good focus for learning and control over their behavior.

The easiest and most obvious of the gluten free breakfast ideas is eggs and meat. Pastured eggs and meat offer the best fats for helping growing brains. If you’re like me and hate cooking in the morning, you can hard boil and peel eggs in advance and have them ready to eat out of hand with a piece of fruit while waiting for the school bus. For a hot cooked meal, you can prepare an overnight baked omelette the night before. Mix together scrambled raw eggs with cheese and vegetables plus some rice or gluten free noodles to give it some body, then put into the fridge to set overnight. In the morning, just pop it into the oven before getting the kids up and you’ll have a hot, filling breakfast for everybody. Pieces of baked omelette are also good packed in wide mouth thermos bottles for eating later on in the morning if they prefer to eat after getting to school.

Potatoes and sweet potatoes are the gluten free mom’s best friend. They are full of nutrition and are often very well received by kids. Who says french fries can’t be for breakfast? Cut your potatoes or yams into matchstick sized pieces for quickest cooking, toss with oil and a bit of salt or seasoning, and bake in the oven until crisp. Both white and sweet potatoes are excellent in pancakes and can be made with either shredded or mashed potatoes. Potato pancakes can be cooked in advance and reheated in a toaster oven for a quick breakfast.

If you are able to find locally made injera, the Ethiopian sourdough teff crepes, you can use them to make hot breakfast burritos. Fill them with scrambled eggs, cheese, potatoes, salsa or anything else that your kids like. It doesn’t seem breakfasty to me, but my kids really like having broccoli, rice and beans in theirs along with the eggs and cheese. Who am I to argue about more vegetables and protein in breakfast?

More fun gluten free breakfast ideas for warm weather can be made from frozen yogurt. Having ice cream for breakfast seems odd, but if you’re making it yourself from unsweetened plain yogurt and fruit with just a bit of honey, maple syrup or stevia, it’s not junk food. You can even let them make sundaes with nuts, fresh or dried fruit, and crushed gluten free cereal to top the ice cream.

The important thing to remember is that children need to start the day with a solid dose of good proteins and fats. These gluten free breakfast ideas will help make your mornings go a little more smoothly

By: Melinda Knight

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Melinda Knight- Wife & mother of a family allergic to gluten, and former Catering Dir. at 3 of the largest hotels on the Las Vegas strip where she planned menus and parties for thousands including the occasional 3,000 person wedding. She now plans meals for her gluten free family and shares her recipes and ideas for living a gluten free life at her blog.