Make Ahead Breakfast Ideas to Make Back-to-School Mornings Easier

Here you go. 60 Make Ahead Breakfast Ideas to give us a boost as we kick off the school year! All of these are made with real food ingredients and will hopefully save our mornings from being too hectic.

60 Make Ahead Breakfast Recipes and Ideas
The beauty of these ideas is that they make mornings easier whether your kids have to get out the door for school in the morning or you homeschool and want to get your day off to a productive start without spending too much time putting breakfast on the table. (For that matter, these ideas are great even if you aren’t in the kids-in-school season of life!)

I love getting breakfast foods made ahead of time so that my kids can easily help themselves in the morning. Often we’ll also scramble or fry eggs to go with our meal and we always get out fresh fruit. My teenage boys often also crave protein at breakfast, so I try to have something meaty available for them to cook for themselves. Hmm, it sure does sound like we eat a lot around here. Truth: We eat a lot around here.

So 60 Make Ahead breakfast ideas. Here we go!

Recipes and Ideas You Can Make Ahead for a Fast Breakfast

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All of these recipes can be made the day before and served right away in the morning!

Homemade cereal recipes you can make ahead and serve right away in the morning

Some mornings are cereal mornings, so there. Here are some homemade cereal options we enjoy!

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Recipes that freeze well and can be thawed and reheated easily

If you have these in your freezer, you can thaw and rewarm in the oven or toaster oven!

Recipes that Can Be Made Easily with Whole Wheat Quick Baking Mix

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Fun Ideas to Enjoy Stir-n-Pour Bread

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This super easy Stir-n-Pour Bread takes practically no effort, but turns out a delicious loaf of bread. When I have this on hand, we can slice it and make:

Peanut Butter Honey Toast
Fried Eggs on Toast
Cinnamon Toast
Scrambled Egg Sandwiches
Simple Buttered Toast – maybe even with jelly :)

Drink Your BreakfastYum

Most smoothies are pretty quick to make and can be filling if you include peanut butter or cottage cheese. Add fresh spinach for an extra punch of nourishment.

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Warm Chocolate Soother – warm and filling
Warm Pumpkin Custard – warm and filling
Warm Vanilla Soother – warm and filling
Pineapple Mango Smoothies
Pineapple-Orange Slushies
Creamy Orange Cooler
Strawberry Peach Slushies
Green Machine Milkshakes

Muffins, Muffins, Muffins!

I’ve learned to love freezing muffin batter, which you can read about here. What a time saver! I’ve also learned that silicone muffin cups are fantastic. More about that here.

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Almond Flour Muffins (gluten free/dairy free)
Bacon Cheese Muffins
Banana Muffins
Blueberry Streusel Muffins
Breakfast Cake Muffins
Chocolate Chocolate Chip Muffins
Chocolate Swirl Muffins
Coconut Flour Muffins (gluten free/dairy free)
Coconut Flour Banana Muffins (gluten free/dairy free)
Cornbread and Cornbread Muffins
Cream Cheese Pumpkin Muffins
Eggnog Muffins
Honey Cinnamon Muffins
Orange Muffins
Pancake and Sausage Muffins
Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Muffins
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins
Snickerdoodle Muffins
Strawberry Cream Muffins
Sweet Potato Streusel Muffins
Vanilla Muffins with Cinnamon Crumb Topping
Whole Wheat and Honey Zucchini Muffins

Make it Ahead, but Cook it in the Morning

Overnight Whole Wheat Waffles

Mix up Overnight Waffle Batter before bed so that all you have to do in the morning is cook the waffles and serve.
Make Turkey Sausage in large batches and freeze it in meal sized portions. Make Freezer Biscuits, and thaw only the amount you’ll need in the morning for a meal. Make a quick meal of a big treat – Biscuits and Gravy – when you’ve done the prep work ahead! Here’s my Sausage Gravy recipe.
Follow the freezing muffin batter idea mentioned above, set some out at night before bed, then bake them in the morning.
If you want to serve pancakes, mix the dry ingredients the night before so that all you have to do in the morning is add your liquids and cook. This isn’t as fast as other ideas shared here, but it does make the pancake process a little easier in the morning! Here’s our favorite Whole Wheat Pancake recipe.

I have several new breakfast ideas in the works, so be on the look-out for those. Sign up here for our free weekly newsletter to be sure you don’t miss a post!