16 Make-Ahead Breakfast Recipes For Busy School Mornings

Tired: breakfast burritos

Wired: breakfast enchiladas

I’m obsessed with this breakfast enchiladas recipe featured on Yummly. With tons of veggies and goodies inside — including black and pinto beans, eggs, and sliced sausage links — you can fully wrap these up and prep them the night before and then just heat them in the oven in the morning. Eat on the leftovers all week long for a great, hearty breakfast.

A parfait is one of the easiest breakfast meals anyway, but these meal-prep fruit and yogurt parfaits featured on Yummly are so great. It’s the perfect way to go ahead and layer your fruits and yogurt into jars for the week ahead, and then just keep the granola in a separate container. Kids and adults alike can just grab the jar out of the fridge and have a breakfast fully ready to go.

Breakfast sandwiches are always a hit, and these freezer-friendly breakfast sandwiches from Damn Delicious are so great for a make-ahead breakfast. You can play around with the ingredients a bit, but these are a cinch to pull together on the weekend and only take a couple of minutes to warm up each morning.

I love a good baked oatmeal recipe, and these banana baked oatmeal cups from Gimme Some Oven are so delicious. Like a teeny tiny loaf of banana bread, all crunchy and bread pudding-esque with lots of texture. These are full of fiber and protein, too, so they’ll keep you and your kids full all morning long.

There seem to be a plethora of Mexican-inspired breakfast meals, and here’s another great one! These breakfast taco scrambles featured on Yummly are so filling and delicious, featuring potatoes, ground turkey, eggs, and plenty of cheese and seasonings. Again, you can totally customize these, and make plenty of them on the weekend to last all week.

Nothing beats a warm blueberry muffin. Try whipping up a big batch of these blueberry muffins featured on Yummly and just warm them up in the morning and add butter (or eat cold as you run out the door, it all counts).

Who doesn’t love tater tots? Now you can pop them into this overnight tater tot breakfast casserole from Mel’s Kitchen Cafe. The recipe is full of the usual suspects — cheese, sausage, and eggs — but you can substitute and customize your tater tot casserole to fit your family’s needs. Just throw it in the oven in the morning and you’re good to go.

When you really just want pie for breakfast, there’s this peaches and cream breakfast bake from Half-Baked Harvest. It’s so good straight out of the oven (and it’s made with Bisquick, so it’s very fast to whip up), but it’s also amazing cold, so it really is just the quickest breakfast to have on hand.

OK, we need another oatmeal cup on this list, and this recipe for gingerbread oatmeal cups featured on Yummly is one of the best. With only a handful of ingredients, this recipe is the perfect warm, spicy, and chewy make-ahead breakfast.

Overnight oats are insanely popular, but these peanut butter chunky monkey overnight oats featured on Yummly are basically dessert in a jar. Coconut, banana, mini chocolate chips, and peanut butter? So delicious, and a great way to get in a lot of fiber and protein in the morning.

You’ve heard of cinnamon rolls, but have you heard of her bestie pumpkin cinnamon rolls? I’m so excited to try this recipe from Averie Cooks — you can prep everything and even let the dough rise the night before and then just throw them in the oven in the morning for the perfect, decadent, fall breakfast.

This is an Instagram-worthy make-ahead breakfast, and I can’t wait to try them. With just five ingredients, these strawberry breakfast pastries can be fully made in advance and then just reheated when you’re ready to eat. Experiment with other fruits if you want, but nothing beats the classic strawberry.

If mornings are crazy hectic, whip up these no-bake breakfast bars featured on Yummly and just grab and go out the door. There are just nine ingredients, yet these are full of fiber and protein for a nice, hearty, quick breakfast.

Strawberries are taking center stage again with this incredible strawberry oatmeal breakfast smoothie featured on Yummly. You can either whip it all together the night before and keep in the fridge/freezer, or just go ahead and fill your blender with the ingredients and keep in the fridge and then just hit blend in the morning. It’s so filling!

I love a one-handed breakfast like these bacon, egg, and cheese muffins featured on Yummly. You can make a ton in a short amount of time, and they’ll be a major crowd pleaser for both kids and adults.

OK, one more shout-out for baked oatmeal. This peanut butter brownie baked oatmeal from Budget Bytes is basically a breakfast dessert. It’s so good and not overly sweet, and your kids will totally flip for it.