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Breakfast for dinner: 10 ways to switch up your nightly routine
These breakfast meals are so popular that we suggest you try them in the evening for something unique and unexpected.
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Go on, try breakfast for dinner
And why not breakfast for dinner? It’s fast, can be tinkered with endlessly and is universally loved. Get out of your dinner rut with one of these cross-over meals. Who knows, you might even have leftovers for the next morning.
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Banana as a vegetable
Switching the usual carrots and broccoli for these crispy banana “vegetables” are a great way to introduce breakfast foods into your dinner routine.
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Cheese strata
A brilliant invention. You use up stale bread, get rid of all those odd bits of cheese, and you make a delicious dish all at the same time.
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Crepes for dinner
These crepes are just as good rolled with vanilla maple tropical fruit inside, or folded in quarters with strawberry jam or (eep!) chocolate hazelnut spread. Is it dessert? Is it breakfast? Is it dinner? Who can tell anymore?
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Crunchy French toast dippers
Make a batch of these delicious dippers ahead of time and freeze them. The crumb coating on the finger-sized French toasts adds a great crunch and also keeps them crisp when you reheat them in the microwave.
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Mini latkes
A traditional Hanukkah treat, these latkes (or potato pancakes) are, if anything, improved by miniaturization.
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Mini quiches
This is a perfect boost of protein in your dinner regime and uses up those last few eggs in your fridge.
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Pancakes not from a box
There are few things as fun as blowing the kids’ minds by answering “Pancakes!” to the nightly “What’s for dinner?” question.
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Presto potato fritatta
A frittata falls somewhere between an omelette and a quiche. Because there’s no crust to mess around with and it requires no fiddly folding, it’s a perfect bombproof dish. This recipe calls for only potatoes, but you can add an equal quantity of any vegetable your kids like.
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Salmon scramble
An infinitely variable dish that, in our house, is made up of whatever happens to be available at the time. So if you don't have any salmon around, just try something else.
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Scrambeled spaghetti
A great way to spice up breakfast or dinner!
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