Every Sunday morning for the past…I don’t know…forever or so, I’ve been making oatmeal for breakfast. It’s one day out of seven that I know exactly what I’m making without having to think…and it’s the easiest, most filling breakfast I can make on a Sunday morning. Sunday mornings are a little bit nuts, are they not? Or maybe they’re just nuts at my house. Somehow making it out the door on a Sunday to get to church by 9:15 with hair combed and shoes on the right feet for all six people (myself included) is quite a chore. Therefore, oatmeal has been my go-to meal on Sunday mornings.
Suddenly though, there seems to have been A Big Oatmeal Rebellion. Okay, I’ve got to admit…it’s not actually come on all that “suddenly”. The Rebellion has been coming on slowly…I’ve just been working very hard to pretend it’s not there in hopes that it will all go away. In other words, I’ve been ignoring the more and more frequent whiny oatmeal complaints and have lovingly replied to any oatmeal rebels that THIS is breakfast so hurry up and tuck your shirt in and get downstairs and eat some of it so we can try to be on time to church for once.
This week, I decided that before this Rebellion gets ugly I should do something really shocking and make something completely different from the traditional Sunday Oatmeal.
So check me out. I changed our normal Sunday breakfast plan…
Sunday, January 30
Oatmeal Giant Breakfast Cookies (Mwoohaha…they still have oats in them. And, I made them last night so that I actually had less cooking to do than a typical Oatmeal Sunday morning. Everyone was SO happy to see these cookies.)
Cheeseburger Macaroni, green beans
Sloppy joes, creamy cole slaw, carrot sticks
Monday, January 31
Simple soaked pancakes, blueberries
Tuna salad on toast, peaches and cottage cheese
Chicken fried steak strips, potato wedges, peas
Tuesday, February 1
Creamy orange cooler, soft pretzels
Hamburger patties, steamed broccoli and carrots
Venison steak, baked potatoes, tossed salad
Wednesday, February 2
Vanilla muffins with cinnamon crumb topping, bananas
Black bean taco salad, apples
Oven fried chicken, mashed potatoes, gravy, peas
Thursday, February 3
Scrambled eggs, oranges
Stir fry with chicken, veggies and rice
Homemade pizza
Friday, February 4
Breakfast burritos, oranges
Creamy mac and cheese, green beans
Tacos
Saturday, February 5
Homemade whole wheat donuts
Leftovers
Lamb chops, spaghetti squash, fruit salad
What is your go-to Sunday morning breakfast??! :)
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Lesley Wert says
I am not a routine person, but for the last 3 or 4 weeks we have enjoyed Breakfast Cake on Sunday, inspired by you. We LOVE breakfast cake around here and since I try not to eat unnatural sugar during the week and Sunday is my splurge day, I use that day to make breakfast cake (because I use store bought chocolate chips!).
Misty says
I will have to try your Breakfast cookies sometime!
We have a 30 min drive to church so we have to leave at 9:30, with having to comb my 4 daughters’ hair, etc that is a lot of rushing around!
We have found that Baked Oatmeal makes a good Sunday morning breakfast. I can make it the night before and leave it in the frig and stick it in the oven on Sunday morning.
Brenda Ryan says
I love how you write! Thank you so much for this website. It has really helped me out since my husband’s hours got cut so much. I homeschool my three kids and am learning how to stretch our money without going back to work. I really desire to be a stay at home mom and your website is helping me do just that!! Thanks!
Betsey says
Sundays are usually yogurt, granola, and fruit. My family also rebels against oatmeal!
DorthyM says
Our go to Sunday morning breakfast (if we are headed to church) has usually been sausage biscuits from Hardees. Bad, bad choice. The guys love the giant breakfast cookies so we will start putting those on the rotation.
And before I saw your menu plan for the week I couldn’t think of anything for us for the week. You’ve helped me out once again.
Shelly says
Our Sunday morning breakfast is always something that can be made ahead. Our favorites are muffins, scones, or breakfast cookies. They’re fast and so convenient!
Randi says
Sundays are our “lazy food day” lol. We eat fruit and donuts at church because we’re there at 7:30am to help set up. Our 2 year old says donut all day. We typically go out for lunch or I put something in the crockpot so it’s ready when we get home.
Lanise says
My kids are so done with oatmeal. We just have homemade granola now instead of oatmeal. It’s pretty much the same ingredients and super fast.
Kristen Hargett says
We don’t get much oatmeal in this house. My kids refuse to eat it. I wish! This morning was cereal. When I’m really on top of the game, I usually like to make caramel french toast (it’s an overnight casserole). It’s cheap and easy. It’s butter and brown sugar heated up, then poured into a 9×13, then topped with a loaf of bread, then mix 5-6 eggs, milk, vanilla, and sugar up and pour over the top. Let sit overnight and then bake in the morning for 35 minutes. I have the actual recipe if you’re interested.
We have to be at church at 9:15 (my husband and I teach the 3 & 4 year old Sunday School), so we have to have three kids (plus us!) dressed and out the door and at church by 9:15. Life goes much easier when I’ve gotten things all done Saturday night.
Crystal J says
I’d love to have this recipe! Sounds yummy!
Kristen Hargett says
1/2 c. butter
1 c. brown sugar (packed)
5 eggs
1 1/2 c. milk
1 t. vanilla
1/4 t. salt
2 T. sugar
1 loaf bread (french, oat, wheat, specialty (raisin, etc.), sliced 3/4″ thick, remove crusts) – my mom uses oat bran from Aldi)
In small saucepan, combine butter & brown sugar. Simmer until syrupy. Pour over bottom of 9×13 pan. Lay bread over caramel mixture. Beat eggs, milk, vanilla, sugar, and salt in separate bowl. Pour over bread, cover and refrigerate overnight.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Bake uncovered for 35 minutes or until golden brown.
Delena says
I’ve only recently found your site, so maybe you already know about Amish Baked Oatmeal, but it’s a favorite around our house:
1 1/2 cups quick-cooking oats
1/2 cup sugar or brown sugar
1/2 cup milk
1/4 cup melted butter
1 egg
1 tsp. baking powder
3/4 tsp. salt
1 tsp. vanilla extract
Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees. Grease 13x9x2 pan. Combine all ingredients. Spread into pan. Bake 25-30 minutes or until edges are golden brown. Spoon into bowl and top with more milk or fresh fruit.
This recipe is a favorite for me becaues I can triple or quadruple it and dish some out every morning for everyone in our house–and it tastes so much like an oatmeal cookie (and I don’t even LIKE oatmeal cookies!) that it’s not even funny. I throw in dried blueberries into mine. I just love the fact that I can make a huge batch for an entire week.
I’m most definitely trying those breakfast cookies, though! :-)
Co says
I usually try to have breakfast burritos on Sunday mornings. I make them on Saturdays and warm them up in the morning. They are pretty much mess free so no dishes except fot the drink cups. I never have time to do dishes before we leave for church and I love coming home to a fairly clean kitchen.
Alicia says
Brilliant, Laura! I get so frustrated Sunday mornings because if my kids are dressed for church before breakfast, they invariably spill something on their church clothes. And if we wait until after breakfast, then we are seriously scrambling to get out the door and to church by 9am. The breakfast cookies shouldn’t be a mess problem, and I love the idea of not having to cook Sunday morning or have an oatmeal pan to wash!
Karen says
I so sympathize with the oatmeal rebellion. My boys used to eat it regularly, but the 9 & 10-year-old rebelled a year ago and my 6-year-old wants to be just like his big brothers! The little one still eats it, but I can see it won’t be forever.
We usually have eggs, bacon and toast on Sundays and only because my husband and boys do all the work while mom just takes care of herself and gets ready!!!
Semalee @ Nailing Jello to a Tree says
We have fend for yourself breakfast on Sundays, which is actually a bad thing because sometimes one or two of us end up not having any…. I should really plan a breakfast on Sundays ;)
Semalee @ Nailing Jello to a Tree
DreamingofSpring says
My favorite Sunday got to meal is a hash brown egg bake, made the night before of course. It is so simple: hashbrowns or whatever potatoes you love in the bottom of a casserole dish, then mix up 8 eggs with some veggies (we like onions peppers and mushrooms–but broccoli would be good too), meat (bacon, sausage, or ham) and a handful of cheese (I uses cheddar usually) if you like. Pour over potatoes and bake until eggs are set. This recipes uses up leftovers and microwaves really well. I usually double it for a pyrex cake size dish and then we eat it a couple of mornings.
Debbie says
Baked oatmeal is another suggestion for Sunday morning and even my husband who HATES oatmeal LOVES baked oatmeal. BTW- your breakfast cookies are also a favorite at our house.
Ann says
Baked oatmeal seems to be very popular on Sundays! For us it’s either baked oatmeal, bread pudding, granola or muffins with fruit or hard-boiled eggs.
Nobody at my house refuses oatmeal. In fact it’s a favorite with my youngest two kids. We add either raisins or frozen raspberries and cinnamon.
Sonja says
We had an oatmeal rebellion until I starting adding things to the finished product. Some of our favorites are mashed bananas and walnuts, apples, cinnamon and raisins, cranberries, almonds and almond extract, peanut butter and mini chocolate chips…
I do add sucanat and vanilla to these as well.
If you still have a rebellion, you could always do a classic midwest eggbake that you prep the night before. Half a loaf of bread cubed, 6-10 eggs, cheese, a bit of milk and 1/2 to 1 lb of sausage/bacon/ham. Mix all that up the night before and pour into your buttered baking dish. Pop that in the oven while you get ready and it is done with little clean-up in the morning. Personally, with Mass at 8:30, we tend to eat after church with just a light snack before if need be if any of us are actively participating in serving.
Sonja says
Sorry, error in my weblink
Leslie says
We do a breakfast casserole. It is put together Saturday night and then Sunday we put it in the oven. It is yummy!
Carla says
This is definitely not something you should make on Sunday morning, but on some other morning where you have extra time. Oatmeal Souffle! Here’s the link to my blog for the recipe: http://thewilsonslivinglife.blogspot.com/2010/11/oatmeal-souffle.html
Holly in Virginia says
Busy morning breakfasts, especially on Sundays, around here is ALWAYS breakfast casserole. I must have a strong protein at breakfast, so I bake a big one each week, and then we cut off pieces and heat them up each morning. This week our casserole had homemade hashbrowns, eggs, milk, cheese and sausage. We heat them in the microwave (not ideal I know) but you have a toaster oven that would be a good way to heat it up! I also like to use my stale bread ends (save them up in a bag in the freezer and pull out when bread crumbs or etc are needed) in my breakfast casseroles.
kathy says
lately its crockpot night before using steel oats – yummy and everyone likes it so much more than the other oatmeal and all I have to do is clean the pot. :)
Tricia says
Your giant breakfsat cookies have actually become our Sunday tradition :) We have to be to church by 8:30 and it is a 30 minute drive so the breakfast cookies are perfect for our family of 5 to make it out the door on time!
Courtney says
Luckily, my kids actually like oatmeal and eat it several times a week. Sundays, however, are the one morning of the week that they are allowed to have sugary breakfast cereal. I figure that since they are eating healthy meals the rest of the week, one bowl of sugary cereal is not a problem :)
Tami says
First of all, I will say I am not the healthiest cook/baker, but one thing I have always said, if you eat donuts for breakfast, why can’t you eat cookies?
I don’t like to cook breakfast on Sundays, and it is just me and hubby! But one wk end we had friends to spend the pm, Still don’t like to cook on Sun am, getting every thing ready for worship,, so I thought, Oatmeal cookies!! and fruit!
I made up my dough the day before, cut up cantelope and watermelon too.
Sun am got up and baked the oatmeal cookies. Turned out the friends favorite cookie, I used old fashioned oats, and added raisens and pecans in some of the dough and “craisens” and hickory nuts in the other part of the dough. This was such a hit, if I have Sunday am guests,,this is what they get!
Kris Mays says
I’m a little nuts, I guess. I cook pancakes or French Toast on Sunday mornings. Sometimes I make muffins and serve with yogurt. If I plan ahead more, I might do crockpot oatmeal (cooks all night) or a coffee cake the night before. In the summer, we’ll do smoothies and muffins.
I find if I have all of our clothing prepared the night before and I get up at a decent hour, I have time to cook breakfast. Dave cleans up the kitchen for me while I get the littles ready and myself ready. Then he combs hair and washes faces. Of course, the older kids get themselves ready.
I guess it works. We are rarely late. Church is just down the street and it starts at 9:45.
Cathy says
We’ve been doing oatmeal & cereal on Sundays (oatmeal for my family, cereal for me because I don’t like oatmeal!). My other go-to is a quick bread, either zucchini, pumpkin, or banana.
Lana says
My husband has NEVER eaten oatmeal and so our 5 now grown kids didn’t eat it either. I love it and make it for myself while hubby eats his Cheerios.
I have made pancakes on Sundays for as long as I can remember. Everyone pitched in to help so it all got done. I still make them for just hubby and me.
Julie H says
I made the Giant Breakfast Cookies this morning and they were really good. My 3 yr old ate almost 2 of them, and I made them fairly large. Just wanted to say thanks for the recipe and I am really enjoying your site
Julie says
I want to come eat breakfast at your house . . . cookies, pretzels, and doughnuts!!!! YUMMY!!!!
I’m 9 months pregnant and all about EASY – on Saturday I cook up a bunch of hard boiled eggs, a batch of granola, and homemade yogurt — if I’m really ambitious, I might make muffins but they are usually eaten long before breakfast time!
It’s time for this baby to arrive so my mother-in-law can come and cook for me!
Katherine says
Congratulations! May the Lord bless you with a fast, easy and beautiful labor
!
Anitra says
I grew up with my dad making special breakfasts on the weekend: pancakes, waffles, omelets, crepes, etc. We had a fairly leisurely Sunday morning, leaving the house by 9:45.
Nowadays… I have a toddler and an infant, and on a “normal” Sunday morning, we need to be out the door by 8:30. My husband also runs the sound booth at our church about 1/3 of the time – on those Sundays, we have to be out of the house before 8:00! We’ve been going to McDonalds for breakfast a lot.
I obviously need to be better about 1)planning/making ahead for Sunday breakfast and 2)picking things that can still be eaten in the car if necessary.
kelliinkc says
Well, I love oatmeal. But the other 4 members of my family refuse to eat it. My youngest is starving when she wakes up but hates eggs, my middle son cannot eat until a couple of hours after awakening which is a problem as he leaves for school before 7:00. Since he has been on the swim team he has to be at school at 5:15 a.m. I hate mornings!!! I have to fix 5 different breakfasts!! The only foods they will agree on are sugary/sweet things– muffins (store bought or homemade), waffles, pop-tarts, sugary cereal. Ugh!
Audrey says
We eat this a lot….. it is SO good, and SO easy! I wake up on Sunday morning, transfer it from the fridge to the oven, turn the oven on, and it’s ready by the time I’m out of the shower and wake up the family. http://joyinmykitchen.blogspot.com/2010/01/christmas-eggs.html
Margaret says
Hi – I’m really excited to try your bfast cookies tomorrow. since I only have 2 little ones I’m sure I will be freezing a lot of the left over cookies…what is your preferred method for thawing/reheating them in the morning? do you pop them, still frozen, back in to the oven for a bit, or do you thaw over night and then bake them a bit? I would like to avoid using the microwave and we don’t have a small toaster oven. thanks for the tips!