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I am in the daytime kitchen with Mary
Rapoport from the Virginia egg Council
and we're talking about busy mornings no
I mean the September is just it's at
your house right yes because we get back
into our activities and we're going I'm
you know I'm not a million miles yes so
you have some great ideas or ahead of
time yeah that's and it has to do with
breakfast which is the craziest time of
all and we all know that you really have
to feed your kids breakfast right make
the new eat breakfast model that great
behavior and also have the kids do but
in the morning when everybody is going
crazy you don't have teenagers yeah not
yet well with teenagers is particularly
hard because they don't get up right
they don't get up in time yeah the
youngsters will get up because if
they're ready they can watch TV for a
little bit right yes that's what we but
with teenagers they're just I mean it's
the screening routine and you by the
time they're out the door you're like a
noodle right so so the plan ahead do
things ahead my suggestion is on Sunday
night while they're supposedly getting
their books and their whatnots together
that's a good time you go ahead and you
take an hour and you start planning
breakfast planning meals for lunches and
and do that ahead of time buy things
that you can do quickly that you can
just grab it and go right now you have a
couple of recipes that I saw that
utilize the toaster toaster microwave
right so we're talking easy but do a few
things ahead so that you can just grab
them use the plastic bags that you get
at the dollar store and have everything
up have it ready to just either pop it
in the microwave or the toaster oven and
then folks can get out the door without
all that crazy feeling yeah give me a
kind of an idea of the things that I
want to shop for so obviously we're
gonna welcome actually actually you can
buy hard-boiled eggs already in
containers already zipped together you
can buy those they're expensive
considering what it would cost for you
to do it yourself but you can make them
yourself you can hard-boiled eggs and
put them in the refrigerator and keep
them for a week right so that's clear is
that you can portion we're going to be
making french toast ahead of time
everybody loves toast but toast is not
as nutritious as french toast because
you've got the protein from the egg in
there so we're making we're going to
come
I can make french toast ahead of time so
you can pop it in the toaster or the
microwave and anything you see in the
freezer section at the grocery store you
can actually make it home okay do it
yourself yeah so there you go okay so we
have easy breakfast and easy oh my gosh
it's got some great amazing lunch right
as well all right
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I'm back in the daytime kitchen with
Mary Rapoport from the Virginia egg
Council and we are talking quick
breakfast using toaster microwave right
exactly and so it's a little bit of
thinking ahead and so what what my idea
is on a Sunday night make a bunch of
french toast okay and you can when you
make a bunch of french toast use your
blender it's 12 eggs and a half a cup of
milk and then if you want to put some
flavorings in I like to do vanilla and
maple flavoring okay because it gives it
that kind of maple flavor okay all right
so put it in a large this is a lasagna
pan okay so you can see how it's kind of
mixed up right there and then take the
bread and you can use any kind of red
it's all about bread at my house yes I
if I'm gonna eat bread I want good bread
so this is challah right here and this
is Italian and then this is a bread that
has chia seeds and high-fiber and that
kind of thing and so you let it sit in
there and one egg soaking like this will
be good for one piece of bread so every
piece of bread has got an egg in it okay
okay keep that right so you've got your
cookie sheet right here that's been
sprayed and after these really soaked
nicely these go on here and you can fit
six of them on here so you're gonna do
six and then six more the oven is at 375
degrees and try to use tongs rather than
your hands keeps everything nice and
clean and nice so anyway you do six of
them on there bake it at 375 degrees for
about eight minutes flip it over about
four or five minutes more on the other
side cool them down make sure people
don't eat them because you know you're
saving them put them in Ziploc baggies
and then when you need them you just pop
them in the toaster and might be the
right idea here's one with peanut butter
I always forget so great oh okay and
that's just so yummy or you can use
applesauce or of course you can use
syrup and if you're using that you can
actually make a sandwich out of it and
pop out the door door right okay the
other thing that's really quick and easy
is a breakfast burrito you can start off
with them
up and like waxed paper or this is
parchment paper put a flour tortilla in
it and this is a high-fiber flour
tortilla if I'm gonna eat carbs I want
to get some nice as I did with the bread
it's important to me I'm not going to
use just carbs for the sake of neck stop
put this in the microwave for 30 seconds
when it comes back out 30 more seconds
uh-huh
and then when it's done it looks like
this and I'm going to put some cheese in
it right here mm-hmm
and it's nice and hot so the cheese will
melt and then a little bit of salt and
pepper right and then if you want some
taco sauce or I like taco sauce rather
than salsa it gives a punch without
either one all that other stuff yeah
take it out no dirty dish just fold it
up and you're out there and you are out
the door I love this so Monica you can
put it in the foil
mm-hmm goodbye dear and we're gonna off
there there you go peace on our website
and then when we come back with Mary's
two more great quick one lunch ideas
right
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we are back in the daytime kitchen with
Mary rep report and we were talking
about finishing that burrito that's all
to the three-times-great I you know it
really depends on I said 30 seconds mix
it up in 30 seconds it depends on how
powerful your microwave is okay this is
a really nice high-powered one mine at
home not so much so it might take a
little bit longer so depending on what
yours is like at home okay so easy yeah
lunch lunch is okay first of all I need
to tell you I have a cousin of mine my
dearest cousin who is now a millionaire
he is the same age as I and we were
talking to his son one day and he said
you know how he became a millionaire he
packed his lunch every day of his life
and he never spent it going ever spend
it going out always use food that was in
the house kind of planned overs the
children as well I'm not saying that
everyone needs to pack their lunch every
day huh but but she could be a
millionaire but that's about it
I mean when you think about it I mean if
you spend $10 a day as an adult for
lunch which is probably pretty much
reasonable $50 a week times 50 weeks a
year times 30 years yeah that up right
there we go so I've got some ideas today
that would be really super easy to do
uh-huh this is my favorite right now you
take everybody has these plastic sure
things you can use in disposable ones
the next time you get a Slurpee or
something save it has a cover yeah okay
and so what you do is you put some make
sure you have clean hands which I do
cooked chicken this is rotisserie
chicken that I have law of rotisserie
yeah what I do is I shred it apart put
it in baggies and freeze it and then I
have it all set okay then I kind of put
some you can put lettuce this is spinach
I like spinach because it's a little
more nutritious but that's gonna go
there and then we're gonna have some
these are just cut up put all peppers
and then let's do some tomatoes and
they're like this and you're saying to
yourself well how is that going to be
easy it's gonna be easy because you can
do several of these at a several nice
and then some more protein on the top
with some eggs okay so what's going to
keep it sort of insulated
is I'm gonna put dressing on top no this
is and this is ranch you can use
whatever kind you want and see how it
kind of covers it up like this mm-hmm
and you can keep this we did a big salad
one day remember and it stayed it's
really rooted so this will stay but I've
got a hole in this what I'll do is put
this plastic in here like okay okay put
that so this can go in the refrigerator
you can do a couple of them you can have
several days and you have the whole
thing the whole week done they've got
that and then when you need it you can
either shake it up or just put your fork
next to it okay this is I had
grandchildren like hot foods yes and
that's a real challenge so you get
yourself a widemouth thermos mm-hmm the
spoon goes there
make sure when you're gonna put
something hot and you put hot water in
it first to get it hot okay okay then
pour it out this says it keeps it hot
for six hours so that's pretty good okay
so what I did was start with two cups of
water in here and a package of ramen
noodles pretty cheap crunch it all up in
the bag okay with a cup of peas and
carrots that were frozen just throw that
in you cook that for a couple of minutes
and then I beat two eggs into it so I've
got lots of nice protein and it becomes
like a pasta dish and then you just put
it in here and this will make two very
nice portions right isn't that great I
mean spilling it all over the place but
every and it is the kind of thing
children would love this yes so
inexpensive you've got the nice protein
and this will be good for tomorrow you
heat it up and you put it in there and
then they forget about the hot food
that's great I can't like hot food
especially in the winter and there you
go and it's the kind of thing oh the
other thing is after I finished it I cut
it I cut it up okay otherwise you've got
these long strands like we are running
out of time but we do want to mention
that if people want more recipes or
great ideas Virginia a counselor or you
can contact Mary there's our phone
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