Can I get a “Woot-woot!”. My kids will be going back to school in about two weeks! I love them to death, but four hormonal moody teens can sure drive me crazy. 
The first few weeks of the school season is pretty gnarly. All the kids have gotten used to staying up late and sleeping in late. So when school starts, it takes them a bit of time to adjust to the new early morning schedule. They always wait till the last second to wake-up, which doesn’t leave much time to eat breakfast.
This year, I’ve decided to plan ahead for the back to school craziness by preparing some Make Ahead Back to School Breakfast Recipes. This way, even on the most hectic mornings, the kids can still have a great breakfast in 5 minutes or less.
30+ Make Ahead Back to School Breakfast Ideas to keep the morning chaos to a minimum.30+ Back to School Breakfast Recipes
I tried to pick out recipes that use ingredients that most of us have in our pantry or are readily available at a regular market. The recipes below have the main ingredients listed so you can quickly see if it’s something you would like to try.
Freezer Friendly
All of these recipes can be made ahead and frozen. Just pop these in the microwave for a quick and easy warm breakfast.
- Country Breakfast Bowls @Budget Bytes – main ingredients: potato, eggs, and cheese.
- Freezer Breakfast Sandwiches @Damn Delicious – main ingredients: English muffins, eggs, deli meat, and cheese.
- Freezer Breakfast Burritos @Handle the Heat – main ingredients: potato, breakfast sausage, eggs, cheese, tortilla, onions, and bell peppers.
- Delicious Omelet and Potato Breakfast Bites @Ella Claire – main ingredients: eggs, tater tots, breakfast sausage, bell peppers, onions, and cheese.
- Basic Waffles @My Pinterventures – main ingredients: flour, milk, butter, eggs, baking powder, and salt.
- DIY Freezer Smoothie Packs @Live Simply – main ingredients: frozen fruits, yogurt, orange juice, water, and spinach.
- Homemade Buttermilk Pancakes {Freezer Friendly} @Happy Money Saver – main ingredients: flour, whole wheat flour (can use all regular flour), baking soda, baking powder, honey, buttermilk, butter, and salt.
- Baked French Toast @Iowa Girl Eats – main ingredients: Texas toast, egg, milk, butter, and cinnamon.
Grab-n-go
For the days that you just don’t have any time, here is a list of grab-n-go breakfasts. Some may need to be kept in the refrigerator and warmed for 30 seconds to a minute.
Breakfast Cookies –
- Apple Breakfast Cookies @Eat.Drink.Love – main ingredients: apple, whole wheat flour, old fashioned oats, walnuts, applesauce, and more
- Healthy Oatmeal Breakfast Cookies @Family Fresh Meals – main ingredients: 2 ripe bananas, quick cook oats, applesauce, and add-ins.
- Homemade Breakfast Cookies @Money Saving Mom – main ingredients: oats, peanut butter, honey, chocolate chips, bananas, cranberries, and more.
- One Bowl Carrot Cake Breakfast Cookie @Live Simply – main ingredients: carrot, coconut, rolled oats, honey, butter, and more.
- No Bake Healthy Breakfast Cookie @Chelseas Messy Apron – main ingredients: peanut butter, honey, rice crispies, rolled oats, oat flour, and more.
- No Bake Cinnamon Roll Breakfast Cookie @Chelseas Messy Arpon – main ingredients: peanut butter, honey, cinnamon bun protein powder, oats, and rice crispies.
- Chewy Chocolatey Breakfast Cookies @Love From The Oven – main ingredients: white whole wheat flour, oats, butter, cocoa powder, yogurt, banana, sugar, and eggs.
- Real Breakfast Cookies @Food Doodles – main ingredients: rolled oats, maple syrup, applesauce, nuts, dried fruits, fresh strawberries, and more. This recipe doesn’t have loads of processed sugar.
Breakfast Bars –
- Blueberry Oats Breakfast Bar @My Fussy Eater – main ingredients: blueberries, coconut oil, maple syrup, rolled oats, and nut butter. Can be frozen too!
- Whole Grain Strawberry Breakfast Bars @Julie’s Eats & Treats – main ingredients: butter, brown sugar, almonds, whole wheat flour (AP flour can be substituted), oats, strawberry jam, strawberry, and more.
- Banana Breakfast Bars @Crazy for Crust – main ingredients: bananas, coconut oil, brown sugar, egg, whole wheat flour, oats, and optional ingredients.
- Oatmeal Breakfast Bars @Well Plated – main ingredients: oatmeal, wheat flour, milk, applesauce, cinnamon, and more.
- Oatmeal Apple Breakfast Bar @Don’t Waste The Crumbs – main ingredients: oat flour, whole wheat flour, honey, rolled oats, apples, and more.
Muffins –
- No junk apple and strawberry Muffins @A Mummy Too – main ingredients: apple, eggs, cinnamon, dried strawberries, coconut oil, maple syrup, and self-rising flour.
- Bacon and Egg Breakfast Muffins @Recipe Tin Eats – main ingredients: eggs, bacon, flour, milk, sour cream, and more. Needs to be kept in the refrigerator.
- Baked Apple Donuts with Cinnamon & Nutmeg @Casa Veneracion – main ingredients: apples, flour, sugar, butter, milk, egg, cinnamon, and more
- On-the-go Breakfast Muffins @The Girl Who Ate Everything – main ingredients: sausage, eggs, flour, sugar, milk, cheese, oil, and more. Needs to be kept in the refrigerator.
- Breakfast Egg Muffins with Bacon and Spinach @Julia’s Album – main ingredients: eggs, bacon, spinach, cheese, and milk. Needs to be kept in the refrigerator.
- Blueberry Oatmeal Muffins @Yummy Healthy Easy -main ingredients: blueberries, whole wheat flour, buttermilk, egg, brown sugar, coconut oil, and more.
- Clean Eating Banana Muffins @ifoodreal – main ingredients: bananas, applesauce, maple syrup, olive oil, whole wheat flour, and more.
- Iced Berry Oatmeal Breakfast Muffins @Apple of My Eye – main ingredients: banana, egg, yogurt, mixed berries, olive oil, sugar, oats, and more.
MISC.
- Soaked Oatmeal Basics @Raising Generation Nourished – main ingredients: oatmeal, lemon, water, and various add-ins. This is cooked oatmeal kept in the refrigerator for the week.
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I love anything that I can make ahead, especially for breakfast! I’ll be featuring this tomorrow at Merry Monday.
These look great! One question, though, and maybe I just completely missed it, but what is the muffin in the first picture?
It’s just a stock photo for breakfast. I didn’t want to use lots of images w/o asking.
This is a great idea, and there’s so many recipes to choose from. The muffins would be my go to. Thanks for sharing on Sunday’s Best Linkup. Hope to see you again.
I love everything about this post. I am hands down the most useless human being ever in the morning, so make ahead breakfasts are key for me. Thank you for putting this together.
These are great! With starting a new job and having to take the kids to daycare on occasion, I think making breakfasts ahead of time like this may make my life 100x easier.
These are all such fabulous ideas. Thank you for posting all of them…that’s a lot of work you did! I gave a shout out and a link back to you in my “Saturday Morning Coffee Cafe” post.
http://www.perfectlycreatedchaos.com/2015/08/saturday-morning-coffee-cafe_15.html
What an awesome selection of recipes. You could literally have a new one for every day of the month….then repeat!
Thanks for linking up to Marvelous Monday at Smart Party Planning.
Will so be putting this list to use this school year!!
Yay! I’m glad you found it useful. I made the smoothie packs and freezer burritos….so good!
This is such a great resource, and something that will really come in handy when schools reopen! Pinning for later.
School has already started for us and I’ve put some of these to use already. Love not having to worry in the morning.
This is so helpful, definitely going to try some of these! I love that you can prepare them ahead of time. Pinning this 🙂
Let me know if you do. I haven’t tried them all yet and would love some feedback. I’ve done the smoothie bags, my waffles, and the frozen burritos. Will be trying more soon.
This was my favorite post and the most clicked on post at Tips & Tricks this week. Pinning! Thanks for linking to Tips & Tricks. Can’t wait to see what you link up next. 🙂
Wow, how exciting! Thanks for coming over…headed over now.
Oh my goodness! I’m so grateful to have such an awesome resource for breakfasts…and right in time for the start of school. Have a lovely day!
I actually made the smoothie bags already and have found the bags make two – three drinks.
Great ideas. Pinned and tweeted. Thank you for bringing such amazing creations to our party. We hope to see you tonight at 7 pm because we LOVE to party with you! Lou Lou Girls
Thank you! I think I missed this week’s party, but will be over next week.
What a wonderful resource! We love breakfast foods but just can’t seem to find time to have a good meal in the mornings. This list will be a big help to me and my family! Thank you for putting this together.
Thanks Tina. I used to always be in a rush in the mornings and making freezer breakfasts have made things so much easier.
Thank you for putting all of these together. I definitely need them to get ready for the school year and plan on putting them to good use. Pinning them!
The breakfast burritos are really good. I did modify the cooking instructions a little, but they came out great.
WOW and what a post Erlene! Thanks for sharing at the Say G’day Party! Pinned all and look forward to seeing you on Saturday!
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Thanks for pinning and sharing Joanne! Always appreciate your support.
Oh wow look at all those recipes! What a great resource for everyone, whether they are going back to school or not. Thanks for sharing with us at the #HomeMattersParty
Thanks for visiting Alayna. Yes, these are great for anyone.
Wow! These are great ideas for anyone, not just kids going back to school. I think we all tend to be in a rush around breakfast time. Thanks!
Yes, adults can definitely use these too.
What a great compilation of recipes! We have got to get in a back to school mode soon! Thanks for sharing. I found your blog through Live Randomly Simple.
Thanks for coming over Jennifer. I hope you can use some of these recipes.
These are some great ideas! It is nice to have a breakfast plan ready to go on those hectic mornings!
Yes, it’s definitely nice on to have some of these on hand for busy mornings.
Great round up Erlene! I can’t believe we are almost back to school already. Where has the summer gone? I found some new recipes that I want to try.
Thanks Christina. Glad you found some things to try. I’ve already made my smoothie freezer bags and the kids can’t wait to have these in the morning.
Thanks for sharing these great ideas for make ahead breakfasts. Breakfast is so important however going back to school after holidays can be stressful so this takes a little of the pressure off. Thanks for sharing with us at #AnythingGoes linkup and see you next week!
Thanks Sue. Yes, making these recipes does help to make the mornings less stressful.
Absolutely loving this list! However, one question. Do I really need to wait for breakfast? 😉
Thanks. Thankfully these make-ahead recipes are take less than 5 minutes to reheat or grab…so very little waiting.
Great collection of ideas. Although we’re only halfway through summer, I’m already thinking about back to school so these recipes will come in handy. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks Minh. Our summer is over and the kids have already started school, so I’ve put some of these to use already.
Thank you for this! I needed this, I HATE cereal and I get bored cooking the same thing.
My kids still eat cereal, but these are a nice change.
Great selection! I’ll bookmark this for when my kids go back to school
Thanks Jasmine. I hope it helps make your mornings go a little smoother.
What a great collection of recipes! We start back to school next week, so I need to make up quite a few of these so we are ready!
We started school today and it was so nice that the kids had breakfasts that were already made.
These are so great! I am so bad about eating breakfast but, how can you skip something that’s already made?!
I’ve skipped many breakfasts too but now I have everything premade and it’s sooooo nice.
Awesome roundup!! I’m all about make-ahead anything! These recipes are great
I’m all about make ahead breakfasts too! Especially since my kids all have different start schedules and they can pick and make what they want when they’re ready to eat.
Wow — freezer friendly buttermilk pancakes sound absolutely delicious!!
Yes, it’s nice that the kids can pop these into the microwave for a quick breakfast.
Oh there recipes all look yummy! I need to try some of the cookies and breakfast bars for some quick on the go meals. Thanks for sharing!
I’ll be making some of these soon and will probably be posting the results.
Great list! The oatmeal cookies sound fab. Delicious, yet healthy!! Score 😀
I love oatmeal cookies and it’s a plus to have them for breakfast.
This is an awesome (and super helpful!) round-up!! Love it!
Thanks Chelsea. I’m hoping I can find the cinnamon bun protein powder to give your recipe a try.
Omg what a great list! My daughter starts school this fall so I really should make some of these!
I’m making some of these next weekend so I won’t have to rush around in the morning.
Wow such a great list of things to choose from, will have to try a few of these!
You should Vicki! I’ve tried a few and am totally loving it.
Thank you! This came at the perfect time! School is sadly right around the corner and I’ve been wondering how I would handle breakfasts for the kiddos.
Glad to help. Making breakfast ahead really does help the mornings be less stressful.
Great roundup! Thanks for including me 🙂 And I have to say I’m a little jealous your kids are going back so soon, we still have over a month left! I’ll be using some of these awesome ideas then 🙂
Thanks Heidi. I loved your cookie since it didn’t have tons of sugar. I took a look at a lot of breakfast cookies and found many had too much sugar, so I can’t wait to try yours.