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Budget Friendly Pancakes

April 8, 2010 By The Recipe Mom Leave a Comment
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What You Need:

1 C four
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp of cream of tartar
2 Tbsp butter, diced
1 egg, lightly beaten
2/3 C of milk

How to Make It:

Place the flour, baking soda and cream of tartar into a mixing bowl and stir to combine.
Add the butter and rub it into the mixture with your fingers until crumbly.
Stir in the egg until blended in well.
Slowly add the milk, stirring as you add, adding only enough to give the batter a thick consistency.
Heat a lightly greased skillet over medium heat.
Spoon the batter into the skillet and cook 3 minutes or until the edges become bubbly.
Turn and cook for 2 additional minutes or until a light golden brown.

Makes 3 servings

These pancakes are a tasty morning starter. Use ingredients you already have in your kitchen to make it a much smarter budget breakfast than buying prepackaged pancake mix. Top these pancakes with fresh mixed fruit, honey or even jelly instead of our beloved syrup.

Preparation Time: approximately 15 minutes
Cooking Time: approximately 5 minutes
Total Time: approximately 20 minutes

Nutritional Information: (approximate values per serving)
Calories 90; Fat 4g; Saturated Fat 2g; Carbohydrates 12g; Fiber .5g; Protein 3g;
Sugar 1g; Cholesterol 32 mg; Sodium 36 mg

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Creamy Berry Baked Toast

September 7, 2009 By The Recipe Mom Leave a Comment
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toastjamIngredients:

1 (8 oz.) loaf of French bread, cut into slices
1 (8 oz.) carton of spreadable cream cheese
1 T of honey
1 (10 oz.) frozen sliced strawberries, thawed
1/4 C of strawberry jelly, warmed

How to Cook It:

Heat the oven to 375 degrees F.
On an ungreased baking sheet lay the slices of bread in a single layer.
Bake the bread 3 minutes, then turn and bake another 3 minutes or until crisp.
Mix the cream cheese and honey together until well blended and smooth.
Carefully spread the mixture over each slice of toast.
Each slice of toast is topped with the sliced strawberries.
Place a dollop of the strawberry jam on top before serving.

Try this instead of just plain toast. Any type of fruit and jelly that you like will work including orange marmalade. You can also use a fruit flavored cream cheese and omit the jelly.

Makes 2 dozen

Preparation Time: 10 minutes
Cooking Time: 6 minutes
Total Time: 16 minutes

Approximate Nutritional Values per slice:
74 calories; 3 g fat; 2 g saturated fat; 9 mg cholesterol; 93 mg sodium; 9 g carbohydrates; trace of fiber; 2 g protein

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Cold Breakfasts Can be Healthy Too

September 5, 2009 By The Recipe Mom 1 Comment
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fruited-cerealHealthy breakfasts are a thing of the past, right? Wrong! Even with both parents working, breakfasts can be cold as well as healthy. Fixing a hot breakfast isn’t necessary to make it healthy.

Go to the cereal aisle of any grocery store and you will find that the choices are unlimited. You can buy breakfast bars, energy bars, and cereal bars as well as healthy cereals. Go down the produce aisle and you can find all kinds of healthy fruit that can be cut into slices and eaten. Even choosing dried fruit such as raisins, bananas and cranberries can be a healthy choice.

Keep sliced cheese and sliced meat on hand. Nuts are also a wonderful choice. Buy yogurt that are in tubes or single serving containers and keep fresh nuts on hand. Keep some tortillas in your refrigerator for those mornings when time is a factor.

Always have peanut butter, honey and jelly on hand. Grapes are also a great choice for breakfast food. Vegetables such as carrots and celery sticks can also come in handy for a nutritious breakfast. Ants on a log are a great breakfast food. Take a celery stick, fill it with peanut butter and put raisins on top. The kids will fall for these in an instant.

Not much time, roll some ham and cheese together and make a meat sandwich. Add some cream cheese to a bagel and you have a healthy breakfast. Take a slice of bread and add some fruit and cream cheese and it’s a cold breakfast in a flash.

Don’t try to skip breakfast. Most doctors say it is the most important meal of the day. You need energy to make your brain work and breakfast supplies that energy as well as much need nutrition to keep the body and brain going.

Just think ahead and use your imagination. Breakfast can be an easy meal to prepare. Use prepared breakfasts ideas as well as you own and your family will start feeling the brain power earlier in the day.

Kids don’t have a clue what is good for them. The next time they want breakfast, just hand them one of the many ideas mentioned above. Add a juice box and they will think that they have conquered all.

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