Mother’s Day Breakfast Ideas
Apr 4th, 2007 by Bethany
I just saw that someone found my site by searching for Mother's Day breakfast ideas. but as I haven't written on the topic they were probably disappointed. It's a fun idea for something to write about, though, so here are some ideas for easy breakfasts kids (and Dads) can do for Mother's Day.
Do breakfast in bed if you can beat your mom to the kitchen. If you can't, send her back to bed. If you can't do that, then make her sit at the table alone while you fix breakfast and entertain her with your singing or jokes. When my siblings and I were younger, the oldest (me) or Dad would carry the tray of food we'd all prepared into the bedroom last, after all of us (starting with the youngest) filed into Mom's room. We'd all say "Happy Mother's Day!" as loud as we could while she praised our beautiful breakfast. Then we'd sit on her bed and wait for her to tell us how great the food was and sometimes we'd even give her presents to open! Make sure you do this all early enough to allow time for getting ready for church.
A nice touch is to add a bud vase with a single flower in it to the presentation of breakfast. It can be a real flower that you bought before or picked from the garden, or a silk/fake flower. Also, use nice dishes unless kids aren't allowed to touch them. Make sure you include a napkin (a cloth one if you can) and appropriate silverware. You can add homemade (or not) Mother's Day cards to the tray, too.
If you know what her favorite breakfast food is and you can make it, do that. If not, here are a bunch of ideas. Chose at least one each of bread, fruit, drink, and protein.
- Muffins are easy and cute and you can get little pats of butter and jam to put on the tray. They also come in a huge variety of flavors. Use the little paper cups to put in the muffin tins to make cleanup easy.
- Bagels and cream cheese are even easier than muffins. Or, you could do a bagel, egg, cheese, sausage/bacon sandwich.
- Waffles are also pretty easy, but it takes some tricky timing to get them to Mom while they're hot.
- Scrambled eggs are always good. You can make them a little fancier by putting in chopped onions, ham, cheese, green peppers, and such.
- You can buy bacon that you keep in the cupboard and microwave, and that would be easy to fix.
- Yogurt takes zero preparation, and you can buy it in her favorite flavor.
- Cereal is an easy stand-by, but if you get to be in charge of grocery shopping for this occasion, try to get a special cereal that she especially likes. If she likes hot cereal, there are simple directions on packages of oatmeal that kids can prepare in the microwave. Don't put the milk into the cereal before you take it to Mom–just add a glass of milk to your presentation that she can pour herself. Otherwise, the cereal might get soggy while she admires your work.
- Juice: grape, orange, apple, grapefruit, tomato, etc. Whatever you think she'd like. Make sure you also include a glass of water to wash everything down with. You can use milk instead of juice if she likes milk.
- If your mom likes smoothies for breakfast, that could be simple, but you might have to ask your dad for help with the blender, because blenders can get really messy and it won't be much of a Mother's Day present to give Mom an awesome smoothie and a huge mess to clean up.
- Toast is another kid-friendly breakfast food. They like to push the button and watch it pop up. Try making it special by using an unusual bread, like cinnamon-raisin. And don't forget the butter.
- If your mom likes grapefruit, you could slice one in half and that would be very simple. Or any other sliced fruit like apples, pears, peaches, or nectarines are a good choice. They make a pretty garnish with some mint leaves on the plate, too. Strawberries are always awesome.
I think my ideal breakfast in bed would be something like this:
A waffle or two or some french toast with butter and maple syrup and powdered sugar sprinkled on top. Two sausage links. A bowl of strawberry yogurt with granola mixed into it. A glass of orange juice. A bowl of cut-up fresh fruit (strawberries, melon, and peaches maybe). Two fried eggs, the whites cooked solid and crispy on the edges but the yolk still somewhat fluid, with buttered toast. A pretty flower in a vase. Big hugs and kisses from my family.
I hope that helps the next person looking for Mother's Day ideas!