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    Home » Freezer Cooking Plans

    Breakfast on the Go: A FREE Freezer Cooking Plan

    Published: Aug 13, 2021 by Jessica Fisher

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    Breakfasts can be harried affairs. Someone overslept. Someone else is hangry. And the clock is ticking! Get the daze going with this freezer cooking plan for breakfast on the go!

    Featuring waffles, coffeecake, granola, and muffins, this freezer cooking plan will get you and the people you love ready for the day with a smile on your face.

    cinnamon waffles bagged up for freezing. this …
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    • Why Do This
    • Recipes Included
    • Gluten-free Notes
    • Equipment Needed
    • Tips for Success
    • Step-by-Step Instructions
    • Adjustable Grocery list

    Planning for breakfast on the go is a great time-saving strategy. Everyone’s gotta eat and if you’ve got easily portable breakfast foods ready in the freezer, you’ve got options. You can enjoy a slow cup of coffee at the breakfast table or easily eat on the way or at your desk since you won’t need to cook anything before the day begins.

    Freezer Meals can be your saving grace.

    Why Do This

    It’s easy! You won’t believe how quickly these four recipes will come together or how much time you’ll save later being able to serve toaster waffles or fresh muffins in just minutes.

    It provides for variety. Your household may hold folks with different preferences or maybe you like to switch up the morning meal. Either way, this plan for breakfast on the go provides four different options of homemade goodies that will make your day. You can serve a variety of choices each morning from the cooking plan as well as fresh fruit, juices, yogurt, and hard cooked eggs.

    You deserve a great breakfast. Breakfast on the go or not, you’ll feel better and think more clearly if you’ve got a hearty breakfast in your belly. Taking some time now to prep it will save you time and stress — and probably a pretty penny! — later.

    Depending on the size of your oven and how many things you can bake at one time, you should be able to knock out this cooking plan in 2 to 3 hours.

    Or you can use the grocery list to shop and cook a different recipe each night for a few days. At the end of the week, you’ll have loads of breakfast on the go tucked away in the freezer.

    Recipes Included

    • baked Blueberry Lemon Coffee Cake cut into squares on brown parchment paper.
    • granola in meal prep boxes next to bottles of milk for packing.
    • an array of lemon poppy seed muffins cooling on a wire rack on a black table top.
    • cinnamon waffles cooling on wire rack.

    This breakfast on the go freezer cooking plan includes

    • Blueberry Lemon Coffee Cake (37 cents/serving)
    • Gluten Free Granola (73 cents/serving)
    • Lemon Poppy Seed Muffins (11 cents each)
    • Zucchini Cinnamon Waffles (28 cents each!)

    Make double or triple batches if you are cooking breakfast on the go for a large family. Single batches to cover a shorter time period or fewer people.

    Be sure to scroll to the bottom for the adjustable and printable grocery list.

    Gluten-free Notes

    If you need to eat gluten-free for health reasons, you can replace the flour in the coffee cake, muffins, and waffles with a gluten-free baking blend.

    If you don’t need to eat gluten-free, you can use standard rolled oats in the granola. The granola is more expensive due to the gluten-free oats called for.

    Equipment Needed

    You don’t need any special kitchen equipment to pull together these easy freezer breakfasts, other than regular baking tools and a waffle maker.

    You will want to have the right Containers for Freezer Cooking, so be sure to read each recipe and see what containers are needed for storing these baked goods.

    Tips for Success

    A couple reminders to help you truly make these easy freezer meals:

    1. Start with a clean kitchen.
    2. Wash dishes as you go.
    3. Take breaks when you need to, but stick to it. You’ve got lotsa meals to make!
    4. Be sure to label everything with the date, the name of the recipe, and cooking/serving instructions.

    Step-by-Step Instructions

    Here’s how to assemble your easy breakfast on the go items:

    • box grater on white tea towel with shredded zucchini.
    • zesting a lemon on a tray with a microplane

    Prep the ingredients.

    Since these are all baked goods, there won’t be as much chopping and dicing as is required in freezer meals for dinners or lunches. These is some though.

    For this freezer cooking plan, you’ll want to:

    • shred the zucchini for the waffles
    • zest the orange for the granola and the lemon for the muffins and coffeecake.
    • measure out flour, sugar, oats, etc.

    Assemble the recipes.

    • spreading granola mixture into sheet pan for baking with a red spatula.
    • muffin batter topped with coarse sugar ready to bake.
    • scooping waffle batter into waffle maker with cookie scoop.
    • baked blueberry lemon coffee cake in baking dish.

    You can prepare the recipes in any order you like, but it usually works best to start the longest baking item first, in this case the granola.

    If you can fit everything in the oven at one time (the granola, muffins, and coffeecake), great. Otherwise, do this in stages, keeping the oven going and using down time to mix and bake the waffles.

    Read through this checklist to determine the best order of preparation:

    1. Prep and bake the granola. While this is baking, you can either make the muffins or the waffles.
    2. Are you freezing the muffins baked or unbaked? If unbaked, go ahead and prep the muffins and stash them in the freezer right away.
    3. If you’re freezing the muffins baked, then hold off on them until the oven is free, and prep the waffles next as they don’t need the oven.
    4. As recipes exit the oven or waffle maker, set the baked goods on wire racks to cool. Once the oven is free, prepare the coffee cake and set it to baking.

    Freeze the baked goods.

    • golden lemon poppy seed muffins cooling on a wire rack.
    • coffee cake portioned and wrapped for freezing.
    • gluten free granola in pan, jar, and scoop on black table top.
    • cinnamon waffles bagged up for freezing.

    As all the items are cooled completely, you can package them for freezing.

    • The muffins, baked or unbaked, can be stored in an airtight container.
    • The coffeecake can be cut into squares and stored in an airtight container between layers of parchment or wrapped in plastic wrap and stored in a ziptop bag.
    • The granola can be stored in single-serve airtight containers or ziptop bags.
    • The waffles can be stored in ziptop bags.

    And that’s it! Enjoy breakfast on the go for the next week or longer!

    Adjustable Grocery list

    This post was originally published on April 3, 2013. It has been updated for content and clarity.

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    1. Shandon-dy R Diehl

      October 14, 2017 at 3:31 pm

      The eggs Florentine can be baked and then portioned and frozen?

      Reply
      • Jessica Fisher

        October 14, 2017 at 3:48 pm

        They can, but they taste best baked fresh. I prefer to freeze it unbaked and then bake later.

        Reply
    2. Jessica Fisher

      August 29, 2015 at 6:36 am

      I think so. It saves on mental fatigue as well. Who wants to cut fruit first thing in the am?

      Reply
    3. saira

      August 28, 2015 at 9:47 am

      Wow! I’ve just come across this really love the idea. I used to freeze my weekly cooking wen heavy pregnant n dragged hubster to help out. This was a weekly routine on Sundays. Now many yrs down the line… I’m planing written meals on my whiteboard makes life much easier. So wanna go bk to freezing home dinners n Mk more time fr kids. I’ve got 5 kids under 9 so yes every moment of free time is a blessing ?

      Reply
    4. Aubrey Ives

      April 04, 2013 at 2:13 pm

      Great job, Fish Mama! I love having breakfast made ahead. My hubby usually is the one to get breakfast for our two early risers. Made ahead breakfast really helps him out. I was wondering how you deal with the smoothies. Do you freeze the smoothies already blended and let them thaw? Or do you just freeze the smoothie components? We love smoothies and have them a lot, but I have not found the best way to freeze and/or thaw. You have inspired me to get into the kitchen tonight!

      Reply
      • Jessica Fisher

        April 04, 2013 at 5:07 pm

        You can do it either way. But, it’s easiest to blend them, pour into containers, and freeze. They should thaw in about 30 minutes on the counter, depending on how cold your house is.

        Reply

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