Easy cook-ahead Breakfast Club suggestions please?

[Witchazel]

I am setting up a Breakfast Club at DS's school and need suggestions for some easy, not to expensive, cook-ahead 'specials''. I am offering a selection of cereals, drinks, toast and spreads already. I also want to offer a daily 'special' maybe sort of along the lines of a cooked breakfast but quick to produce on the morning. I don't mind baking / assembling the afternoon or evening before. School kitchen is small and equipment very limited (hence not doing a proper fry-up) also time is limited.

Here's what I was thinking of:

Bacon & cheese / Tomato & Cheese in puff pastry
Muffins - variety of flavours
Slice of ham put in greased bun tin with egg cracked inside, cooked in oven that morning for 15/20 mins
Breakfast bars / flapjack
Apple, raisin & cinnamon in puff pastry

Any other ideas?
Ta x

[Witchazel]

Should add - I'll be cooking for 15 - 30 kids
School kitchen equipped for warming up in oven (no dinners cooked on site)

[SilasGreenback]

Warm croissant with ham and Swiss cheese
Kedgeree
Toasted English muffin with cheese/ham/egg
Sausage sandwich

[SuperGlue]

A good one I saw in an old delicious magazine yesterday was a small round dinner roll (bread roll) the one in the pics had poppy seeds but any would do. Cut off the top and scoop out the bread innards (use for breadcrumbs later) curl a slice of ham (or smoked salmon!) into the inside of the roll, crack an egg into the middle, bake for 12mins. Toast the 'lid' of the roll and then butter and slice into soldiers for dipping. Looked gorgeous!

[GrouchyKiwi]

I have no suggestions. I'm just following for ideas.

SuperGlue's idea sounds amazing.

[EvansOvalPiesYumYum]

Your ideas so far sound lovely, Witchazel. (And Superglue's sounds yummy too - I might give that a go).

Maybe make up a batch of pre-cooked American-style pancakes or waffles (if you have a waffle-iron)?

They freeze well, and can just be reheated in a warm oven wrapped in a teatowel or foil, or very lightly toasted, ust to warm them through. Then serve with bacon, eggs or sausages. Pre-cooked mushrooms reheat well, as a little side. (I know, not all children like shrooms - what age is it for, I'm guessing juniors)?

Smoked salmon and cream cheese bagels?

Sweet or savoury scones - made up and cut out the night before, then pop in oven in the morning.

[Witchazel]

Wow Superglue - that's a better version than my bun tin ham & egg! Mine is OK but the ham does go a bit crispy at the edges.

Keep em coming!

[EvansOvalPiesYumYum]

Frittata - could be served warm or cold.

[Witchazel]

Age is primary school BTW

[Witchazel]

It has been mooted that staff & parents may also wish to buy the special as a takeaway - so also looking for easily wrapped in foil / paper bag type thing. Hopefully we can raise extra funds this way (it's a Social Enterprise).

[Witchazel]

OMG take a look here:
www.pinterest.com/hermyfrizz3/breakfast-club-ideas/

[GrouchyKiwi]

Oh my. I've been avoiding Pinterest but that makes me want to use it.

[JiltedJohnsJulie]

Super I'm going to try that for our breakfast tomorrow. I don't run a breakfast club just a greedy sod

[JiltedJohnsJulie]

Lidl do a rather nice fruit loaf and its dairy free.

[JiltedJohnsJulie]

Sorry to keep posting but just wanted to say, witch that board is amazing! French Toast Kebabs, pancake pops and breakfast pizza would especially appeal to my DC.

[Witchazel]

I do have budget restrictions, not too much sugar, no chocolate and no nuts.
Variations on ham or bacon with egg in bun tin working well. Tried lining tin with brioche earlier - worked well.

[joanofarchitrave]

I frequently had fish fingers for breakfast as a child. Delish.

[zipzap]

I saw something on tv (I think it was the woman that lives in a tiny french flat and serves a meal to 2 people a night, can't remember her name) that was similar to the ham and egg/bun, ham and egg things that she called her croque madame muffins.

She used a muffin tin, lined the tin with a slice of bread (think it had been flattened a bit, then buttered), then layered the ham in and then the egg. I think she might have finished it with some hollandaise sauce and a little grated cheese on top but I don't think that would be necessary.

However it meant that the ham wouldn't go as crispy as it might do if you cooked it on its own.

If I do a cooked breakfast these days I often do it in the oven - do the bacon in rolls, sausages, eggs in little buttered pots (sometimes with a tiny bit of cream or cheese on top), baked tomatoes, baked banana chunks (ok that's probably just me that likes that with a cooked breakfast!). However if you did that you could probably assemble good breakfast kebabs from the different components pretty easily, especially if you used mini sausages. It's also easy to warm up so you could offer an actual english breakfast. And instead of the egg if you want something eggy for the kebab - you could either do eggy bread squares or tortilla.

Tortilla is also very nice in the morning as a breakfast food. And Cake is also hugely underrated as a breakfast food, a plainish one without masses of icing but nice and tasty. And bagels stuffed with whatever you fancied putting into them also work well.

On a separate note, looking through your pinterest link - I reckon you might find some takers on the teaching staff for the Baileys and vanilla vodka with iced coffee cubes as a little something to kick start their day

[sashh]

Pancakes you have to have them as a special - cheap, easy and wrapable.

[JiltedJohnsJulie]

Shame you aren't in Staffordshire. Staffordshire Oatcakes are brilliant for this sort if thing and their Pikelets are pretty good too

[DataColour]

wow subbing for ideas...all these sound amazing. Wish our breakfast club served similar!

[clattnow23]

I WOULD USE Bero as it is step by step I think that their quick section at the back of the book is good with the scones, easy to make pizza and a rainbow cake which is fast to do looks nice and also good for children. My aunt made it for her neice

[Damnautocorrect]

Bread works well in the tins with egg, roll it with a rolling pin first. You can add tomato to do veg ones, cut up sausages work well in those too.
What about a melon, small yogurts, grapefruit.

[zavi00000]

Some of the ideas in the original post are very high in fat e.g. muffins, puff pastry ideas, flap-jacks. Whilst these may be tasty and appeal to children their high fat content makes them unsuitable as a breakfast staple. They should be used as treats, not staples.

If my DC were attending that breakfast club I'd be looking to see some fruit in the menu. Breakfast is the perfect time to make a start on the "5-a-day" that kids need as part of a healthy, nutritious diet.

What about fruit smoothies, or fruit kebabs, or fruit topped bagels?

[LovingKent]

Lots of ideas on this thread Healthy Breakfast.
This site also has some quick and easy to assemble breakfasts Shake Up Your Wake Up