Sweet Potato French Toast Sticks

We’re breakfast people. Not sure if you can tell that from a blog (10 million pancake posts, hello?), but I can eat a.m. food any time of the day. Scarlett is the same. In addition to all the blah blah about how important breakfast is, the meal is important to me in an entirely different way. A bad breakfast bums me out. Hard. In terms of Scarlett, I want her to always have time for a healthy breakfast. Time is the key word in that sentence–Many mornings the clock is not on our side. However, I often make dishes, like this one, in excess so I have extra for busy mornings. The real stumbling block can be Scarlett herself. I’ll give her two choices for breakfast. She’ll say French toast and then, when it’s placed in front of her, she realizes she doesn’t want it. Habit? I think, like most kids, she thrives on the habit of some foods, but it becomes my job to shake up her same-old, same-old. The same, but different.

We picked the moniker Sweet Potato Chronicles because we wanted a nutrient dense food in our name. Sweet potato’s were perfect because they’re full of fibre, potassium as well as vitamins B6, C (a great immune boosting vitamin since it aids in the production of infection-fighting white blood cells) and A. Besides Kale Chronicles sounded funny. On this morning, Scarlett mashed the sweet potato, but you could easily do this step the night before. It could even be some leftover from your dinner.

A little honey goes a long way.

This is always Scarlett’s favorite part….mopping up all the egg mixture onto the bread.

After the French toast was cooked, I sliced them into sticks. Some were for this morning and the others I saved for a morning when we have 20 seconds to leave the house but Scarlett can’t get over the hurdle that the outfit she wants to wear is dirty and she doesn’t want to brush her teeth or hair. Do you have those?

We put agave nectar on these sticks instead of maple syrup, but fruit does the trick too. And in Scarlett’s words, “This is so good, like the usual but not.” Aaaaah, the sound of success.