Breakfast Cookies

In spite of slowing down during the holiday season as is my intention every year, it has sped by quickly with a full schedule. So it was no surprise that when I got up to make breakfast yesterday morning I had little for breakfast. Even my normal back up of oatmeal was unavailable (1 cup does not feed 6 people!) Digging around I found this interesting breakfast treat. Kids did not complain, after all, how often does mom let them eat cookies for breakfast!

Breakfast Cookies

1/3 c. butter or margarine
1 egg, beaten

1/2 c. sugar
1/2 t. vanilla

1/2 c. flour
1/4 t. baking soda

1/4 t. salt  
1/2 c. grated cheese

5 slices of bacon, cooked and crumbled

1 1/2 c. oatmeal (recipe called for quick cooking, but all I had was old-fashioned, cooking time extended several minutes)

Cream butter, sugar, egg and vanilla. Sift together flour, baking soda, salt; stir into creamed mixture. Beat in oatmeal, cheese and crumbled bacon. Bake on greased cookie sheet at 350 for 7-10 minutes or until lightly browned. Makes about 20 3" cookies.

I also added about a 1/4 c. of ground chia seeds and reduced the oatmeal a bit. Click here if you are unfamiliar with the health benefits of chia seeds.

I'll be honest, these weren't my favorite, although they were a good start. The kids loved them! Which is exactly why I didn't get a pic of these goodies. I'll be trying these again soon and tweaking to my particular taste. Best of all, these can be made up ahead and even frozen. Great grab on the go snack!

Menu board

Perusing home dec blogs out there put me in a crafty mood. I have admired menu planner boards for a long time, but most of the projects out there are too complicated for my short attention span. I found one here at Ollibird that I thought I could work with. I of course could have made it easy and just used hers, but I recently broke down and bought a Cricut and am now obligated to use it! Hindsight I would have changed a couple of things (not in love with the border choice, and I probably could have matched borders up) but overall am a happy camper. Now I can just take a quick pic on the way to the grocery store and have my list already made out. Plus, it's such a relief when the schedule is busy and the weekly menu is already planned out. More travel, less stress over meals!

Thrift store frame...less that $2!

Lovin' my Cricut!

Laying out the board

Loving my handywork! (it looks wrinkled, but it was just the glare) I bought the dry erase markers have a magnet on the back. Hopefully I won't lose it!