Grain Free Mixed Muffins and Back to School Breakfast Club ideas!
My oh my how our breakfast has changed since the good old school days! Not gonna lie, I adored my sugar coated cereal and milk. Yup! I think every kid did (still does). But now, families are becoming more aware of the importance of REAL food for breakfast. Well, at least I like to think so.
Here are some great ideas for back to school breakfasts! I tried to focus on collecting easy meals that were protein rich and gluten free.
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For us, breakfast is A MUST to FUEL our day or for recovery after those early morning workouts. I try to focus on good fat and protein most days in order to keep the blood sugar stable. Or good carbs and protein (like flapjacked!) for the post workout swims, etc.
But here’s the thing, I work from home, so I have the “luxury” of eating at home. Most do not, and most kids will be heading back to school soon and in need of a good breakfast to go! That being said, these muffins just might be do the trick for both at home meals (add some fruit and scrambled eggs) or on the go (along with an apple or banana)!
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Grain Free Mixed Nut Muffins
- Total Time: 22 minutes
- Yield: 6 1x
Description
Grain Free Mixed Nut Muffins
Ingredients
- ¼ cup mixed nuts – I used some honey roasted vanilla cashews and a few brazil nuts.
- ¼ cup almond meal or flour (you can buy this or just finely grind up raw or roasted almonds in food processor)
- 2 tbsp coconut flour (or other flour of choice)
- cinnamon
- 1 tsp stevia or other sugar of choice
- 1 tbsp. ground flaxseed or ground chia
- ¼ cup egg whites
- 34 grams (1 serving) of vanilla protein powder
- dash of sea salt
- ½ tsp of baking powder
- ¼ cup unsweetened applesauce
- couple tablespoon of almond milk (optional)
Instructions
- Grind up your flavored nuts in blender or food processor. Mix them in with all other dry ingredients. stir in egg, unsweetened applesauce, and milk. Mix thoroughly. the batter will be thick and a little gritty. Add more milk if its too thick. Spoon into greased muffin tins.
- Bake at 350F for 10-12minutes
- Prep Time: 10 min
- Cook Time: 12 min
Regular sized muffins- Calories 89.5 Fat 4.9 g Saturated Fat 0.6 g Carbohydrate 5.1 g Fiber 2.6 g Sugars 0.5g Protein 7.3 g [/print_this]
These taste like KIND bars all baked up in muffin form with protein. I love them with butter or even a little honey. Full of fiber (from flax/chia) and protein! Bam! I like that.
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What’s your go to breakfast of choice? And just for kicks, what was your favorite back to school breakfast growing up?
Cheers,
LC
Hi, do the egg whites have to be whisked?
Hi Tania! This is a super old recipe we’re actually deleting or redoing. Are you looking for a grain free muffin recipe? Happy to redirect you one of our other ones in the meantime.
Love using the foodie site! Can’t wait to look through the recipes you picked out. Breakfast is always the hardest meal of the day for me to be creative with.
Honey roasted vanilla cashews… oh my, that sounds dreamy.
I’m using a 2 a day girl…I meant breakfast. What were you thinking? Although I wouldn’t be against 2 a day for something else either. 😉
tee hee… i see what you did there.
You better believe these will be coming to The Lyons’ Share kitchen soon! Yes – I do LOVE my cereal, but I don’t eat it for breakfast anymore (hello insulin roller coaster). I definitely enjoy it a little more often than I’d like in the afternoon, with hemp seeds, mixed nuts, and almond milk for at least some stabilizing healthy fats … just too good to pass up entirely!
Soooo because these muffins are ever so wholesome, I can pair some WITH a bowl of cereal, yeah? Balance…ha 😉
These sound great! I also think I have all or at least most of the ingredients here at home.
I’m soooo making these for the boys and I! Wait, and Andrew too! YUM!!!!!! I really want to come over for breakfast and then go for a hike with you!
I love breakfast. I would say it’s my favorite meal, but I love all the meals. 🙂
mmm nom nom! kind bars in muffin form? I’m in!
They taste like KIND bars?! I want. My fav breakfast now is eggs, chicken sausage+avocado toast, but up until about a year ago it was cereal for sure. ….though it never quite filled me up. Glad I made the switch!
oh i like your style!
Ooo – I’m ALL about that sweet potato and egg idea! YUM!
Fruit bloody loops.
I remember being friends with one person purely to sleep over and have their breakfast cereal. I LOVE kind bars so think these muffins need to kinda happen…
Breakfast is very important to us too!! Loving this recipe! Thanks.
This reminds me that I need to make muffins for my kids! They love muffins (and they love baking them with me!). I’ve been on an overnight oats kick lately. And I have to admit, I loved the sugary cereals when I was a kid!
oh you can so use oat flour instead of almond meal here and pumpkin or sunflower seed! i bet they would taste awesome. Just replace the flaxseed with chocolate chips or banana chips! see, Christine friendly!
hehe thanks for helping me adjust the recipes for the food allergic among us! xo
Seriously these sound amazing!
I don’t eat nuts, because you are what you eat… Just saying 😉
I’m a teacher, and I go back to school next Friday, so this is perfect timing. I needed some new grab-n-go breakfast ideas!
Love this recipe! Cant wait to try!
muffins are great quick on-the-go breakfast option!!
we have been a big granola and yogurt kick lately.
I will take three, please 🙂
I am about to head back to school myself (insert sadness here) and these look fabulous.
This is such a clever topic to write about! I think many times parents struggle with giving their kids healthy and yummy options because they run out of ideas, or they might feel like, “ehh….I don’t think my kid will like that bc it’s too healthy”, but wholesome food/desserts can taste just as good as the regular stuff!
I love a good muffin and these definitely fit the bill! Perfect for breakfast and a snack attack. I need to make these tomorrow for my little snack monsters (and me!).
We’d hope more people have realized breakfast needs to be real food- but I’m a teacher, and I hear different! I have kids come to school for “breakfast” and pick up a bag of popcorn (who knows what the cafeteria pops it in! And why is it sold at breakfast time?). I sure hope when I have kids, I have a little more control over what they eat.
Wow – these look great!! I’m horrible and rarely eat breakfast.
I hated eating breakfast as a kid! No wonder I could barely pay enough attention in class… though my mom refused to buy the super sugary stuff, it was always cheerios and shreddies in our house.
These look delicious my friend! Any reason why whole eggs couldn’t be used?
I used egg whites for more fluff but you could add egg and then egg whites separate
Kind bars in muffin form.
Brilliancy.
I’m all about mimicking my favs haha
These look fabulous, I am loving nuts lately!
I’m doing a breakfast tomorrow! HA! Great minds think alike…again! I need hearty breakfasts that last me 3-4 hours, since mornings are my busy time. Nut butter is always included. Favorite childhood breakfast, was when we were allowed to choose a sugary cereal to have…remember those small boxes that came in 6? Lucky Charms were a fav of mine.
Yum yum yum! You know I’m all about the muffins.
MmM those look good! Plus I’m sure Drake would have them gone in no time 🙂 Breakfast of choice… Eggs with oats, a spoonful of nut butter plus lots of berries on top! Favorite kid breakfast….toaster studels! Oh how I dream of those days 😉
These turned out awesome! My almost 13 year old daughter made them this morning. She somehow is really into healthy foods (also a vegetarian) so loves recipes like this and the pictures help entice her to make them. Thanks for posting!
that’s awesome!! what nuts did she use?
YUM! these look fabulous! And I love working from home for that very luxury, making my own meals, fresh, vs. packed on the go.
I LOOOVE all breakfast food. Oatmeal is usually my go to though. I especially love muffins because I can give one to my son and he eats it with minimal mess. A bowl + milk is very dangerous around him.
yep! totally! muffins win!
Sugar cereal and milk for me too! My brothers would eat it by the box. The muffins look amazing as expected. Don’t forget! We have a bakedate!
Pinning for menu planning!
yummy these sound great Lindsay!
Yes, yes, yes! I’m all about a healthy and sustainable breakfast to kick off the day. Lately I’ve been LOVING my Flapjacked pancakes with some nut butter and fruit. Hunter has too. 😉
As a kid, I loved Cinnamon Toast Crunch and Pop Tarts (OK, still love both of these things but rarely buy them anymore)!
I need more silicone in my baking!
I love how you included protein powder in these. Honestly, my go-to breakfast is usually an apple or banana with some almond butter. When I was a kid, I LIVED FOR cinnamon sugar toast. YUM!
Yum! I go to bed excited to wakeup for breakfast! My go to is either a protein pancake or eggs always with a side of apple slices. But when I was a kid, I was all about the Lucky Charms! Oh, and Pop Tarts (the Smores one)
Sugar coated cereals was exactly how I used to start my day until I got smart and wised up about my health. Now I try to either make a smoothie, eat eggs or oatmeal. These options are much healthier and much more satisfying than that sugary cereal I loved so much.
These look absolutely delicious!
When I think of how my breakfasts have evolved over the years…wow! And when I think of my kids going back to school so soon..it makes me sad! But this would be a great first-day treat to send them off with, so thank you.
let me know if you try them!
PINNING these sound great. I have everything but the applesauce.
We’ve been doing breakfast casserole with fruit the last couple weeks! Always, always eggs! 🙂
I am so ready for “second” breakfast now
Breakfasts of choice from back in the day included Poptarts, Eggos, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, or some kind of Nutrigrain bar. Basically anything loaded with sugar 😛 I did graduate to oats in my early 20’s though! And I’m still addicted to them a handful of years later.
Looks delicious! I don’t have kids, but I do work in a school. I’ll remember these for when I go back in a couple weeks!
These muffins look great!! I will be trying them soon. 🙂
I am all over those muffins!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yummers!
I love those colored muffin tins!! So pretty! I need them in pink. Naturally.
Can I join your breakfast club? Your muffins look mighty tasty!
OOOOh this muffins looks super yummy!!!! Must try these!
These look delish! I also really like those silicone muffin cups…I might need to get some of those! Breakfast is a tough meal for me. I’m a teacher and always running out the door at 7 am and pretty much don’t sit down all day! I’ve been diligent about waking up early and making sure I have a good breakfast because it fuels me through the day (or at least until lunch :p).
Karen @karenlovestorun
A Kind bar muffin!? Perfection 😉
Oh yes how my breakfasts have changed. I was a Frosted Flakes girl in high school and Lucky Charms in college. Now my parents think I am crazy that I have “dinner for breakfast” as they call it. These look wonderful and full of delish ingredients. Pinned for future baking!
haha i was fruit loops or pops. No wonder i never could pay attention in school!
Yum! As a kid I’d rock the Froot Loops, then graduated to Chex. Now I’m all about eggs. My kids are so tempermental about breakfast, what’s in one day is way out the next.
The muffins look delicious! Love the foodie recipe galleries.
me too! now if only someone could make them all for us! haha
oh man… I need these! Growing up I didn’t eat breakfast… I know right? I couldn’t stomach it.
i think most kids can’t. We need to fix this! haha
I am glad you mentioned that you can eat at home, as I often forget about this. When people ask me what I eat (it is all laid out there today :P), I respond, but then they usually have a “but” when ti comes to breakfast as they are in too much of a rush….not everyone enjoys eating breakfast either, so they do not want to make time for it! Great ideas Lindsay! Hope you had a wonderful birthday 🙂
well these look fantastic! growing up, it was usually cereal for breakfast before school! but sometimes scrambled eggs on top of a toasted bagel with cream cheese!
Lindsay, these look amazing!! I am on the biggest nut kick right now… Can’t wait to try making these!! xo
totally thought of you!!
These look super incredible! My kids love making any kind of muffins so it’s a nice little activity for them too. We’ll have to try them soon 🙂
let me know if you do! i thought you’d like!