Kellogg's, Week Four: The Breakfast Squeeze, and a $100 Visa Gift Card

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This is the fourth of twelve weekly posts sponsored by BlogHer and Kellogg's. EACH POST will have its own $100 gift card giveaway. The plan is to have each giveaway start on Tuesday and run until the following Monday.

This week's topic is The Breakfast Squeeze: what do you feed the kids if you are in a huge hurry?

We DON'T skip breakfast. Our school system fairly BEGS parents to give children breakfast, especially on testing days, because it so dramatically improves their attention levels. I'd let the kids skip a shower before I'd let them skip breakfast.

Granola bars work well: quick, already wrapped, easy to eat in the car or at the bus stop. A banana works well: quick, already "wrapped," easy to eat in the car or at the bus stop. But I'm more likely to follow this formula:


Step One: Put cereal in baggies.
Step Two: Eat cereal out of baggies.
Step Three: Feel happy at how well this formula merges with cereal-related gig.

We do this on rushed school mornings but also when the bigger kids sleep in on weekends: when they finally get up, none of us want to wait around while they eat breakfast. Cereal in baggies, and we can get going. And it's common for me to get everyone else ready and then realize I haven't eaten my own breakfast yet, so I eat cereal out of a baggie while I'm driving.

If I found myself ROUTINELY in a hurry, I might pre-baggie cereal and load the baggies into an empty cereal box: even faster, even easier. This would also be a good way to use up uneaten dry cereal on unhurried mornings: combine all the remnants into a baggie and toss it into the box.



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