Fresh Slowcooking FSC Recipes for breakfast

Granola bars probably aren’t the first thing you’d think of cooking in your slow cooker but I dare you to try! These nutty bars are chewy and really easy to make. They taste like a nutty blueberry crumble — I bet your kids will love them as a snack as much as you will!

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These slow cooker breakfast burritos are easy to prepare and provide a nutritious start to the work day, or a relaxing brunch on the weekend. Cook the eggs, bacon and vegetables in the slow cooker overnight while you sleep. When you’re ready to enjoy your burritos, spread some guacamole on the tortilla, fill it with the scrambled egg mixture and top with crumbled feta.

We all know that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, but how many of you actually eat breakfast? What do you normally eat for breakfast during the week?

Thanks to my parents, I grew up eating breakfast every single morning before school. Now I have to eat breakfast before work, otherwise my brain doesn’t function — making for a rough day.

Since the slow cooker breakfast burritos were a success, and since we are minimizing the carbs in our diet, (whether they are whole grain or not), the time has come to try another experiment with eggs in the slow cooker.

So far this spring I’ve taken advantage of the great tasting asparagus by featuring it in a chicken soup, adding it to a slow cooker paella, and lamb navarin. This week I began experimenting with another spring crop, rhubarb. At first I wasn’t even sure how to classify rhubarb, my instincts told me it was a vegetable, but it tends to cooked like a fruit, in pies and jams etc. Technically the part we’re eating is the stem, not the fruit, so I’ve convinced myself it’s a vegetable, what do you think?

Are you looking for a healthy breakfast other than cereal and smoothies? These Italian breakfast burritos have it all… eggs, spinach, prosciutto and mozzarella cheese. The extra filling can be turned into a great lunch too. I just wish I had a backyard to keep a couple of hens!

Recently I posted how to make homemade real whole grain cereal. It was so good and satisfying that we haven’t bought cereal since. Every Sunday I get to think up and prepare a new healthy concoction that we enjoy throughout the week for breakfast. This one is our favourite so far and I made it again last night.

Wake up to a nutritious, satisfying breakfast that cooks while you sleep. Prepared with berries and whole grains, this breakfast provides protein, fibre and great flavour. Since it cooks overnight in your slow cooker, you will still make it out the door on time.