Budget Office Breakfast for 18

[tmarquez]

I'd like to treat my staff after a stressful month. I'm not a great cook and my budget is pretty low right now.

Anyone have any creative...but budget friendly ideas for an office breakfast? Of course everyone has different tastes, but there are no diet restrictions or anything.

Thanks!

 

[labdogs42]

Do yo have a way to heat food up or keep it hot (microwave, oven, crock pot)? One of those breakfast cesseroles or oven french toast recipes could be good.

 

[greens_in_WA]

I love a good pancake feed... grab a griddle or two, syrup, maybe even some special fruit syrups or jam, fresh fruit. At my house, we like chocolate chips in our pancakes too. if you can get a hold of an electric griddle you can even get some sausage going - or buy the microwave variety.

For a bit fancier... there's a killer cinnamon roll recipe I got from a friend... they are fantastic:
http://rachelscooking.blogspot.com/2008/09/cinnabon-cinnamon-rolls.html

 

[blanq]

I'd like to treat my staff after a stressful month. I'm not a great cook and my budget is pretty low right now.

Anyone have any creative...but budget friendly ideas for an office breakfast? Of course everyone has different tastes, but there are no diet restrictions or anything.

Thanks!

I am a supervisor and like to periodically thank my staff with treats, including breakfast too.

One breakfast I like to provide, as it is easy, requires no cooking, and people seem to like it is: bagels with cream cheese, yogurt/granola/fruit parfaits or frozen fruit cups, and juice (sometimes hot chocolate if it is winter). For the parfaits I purchase clear 6 oz. plastic glasses, and then I just layer yogurt, granola and fresh fruit. Sometimes I will take the frozen berries in syrup (like strawberries and/or raspberries) and mix some fresh fruit in with it. The fruit cups are also made in the 6oz plastic cups. They are a combination of canned and fresh fruit, orange and lemonade juice concentrate and ginger ale. You mix everything together and freeze them solid in the little cups. For both the fruit cups and yogurt parfaits, I make them the night before, cover each with plastic wrap and they travel well on cookie sheets. The fruit cups are especially great as you take them out of the freezer to thaw until they are slushy before you serve them. There is no recipe for the parfaits, but if you want the recipe for the frozen fruit cups, let me know.

I also have a good recipe for a yogurt breakfast thingy from Taste of Home, that I make in a 9 x 13pan. You make a crust that you bake and cool, mix yogurt with cool whip and layer on the crust, and then crumble more of the topping on top. You can add fresh fruit too. I can dig up the recipe if you want it, so let me know.

I don't have a stove/oven at work, so bringing hot things presents difficulties for me. My local grocery store makes great breakfast pizzas, that they will bake and have hot for me, so sometimes I will pick those up and bring them to work. They actually are super reasonable as far as price goes.

Hope these ideas help. I am sure your staff will love their breakfast!

 

[Perditamarie]

Here are some ideas to save you from any type of cooking!:

* bananas and donut holes

* bagels w/variety of cream cheese ( maybe mini bagels or bagels from discount bread store or BJs...can get 9 for $3.50 and they are fresh and huge)

 

[andrews_dad]

A baker's dozen of donuts are $5 at my local Maple Donuts. A huge jug of OJ is $5 at Sam's. Coffee is cheap at Sam's.

Use the donuts as O's and make them into letters. Write a G and a D and put two donuts in the middle to looke like GOOD to say Good Job. The round donut can be used to make lots of letters like p, b, d ... even use a pizza cutter to get more creative to make letters with straight edges. Bagels with teh same concept.

 

[kwhite1022]

For my MOPs group I do an egg cassrole, one with ham and one without, and then bring in a griddle and do sausages. I also bring in pre toasted toast, for those who have to have theirs warm, they put them in the microwave for a few seconds. This will feed about 25 to 30 people.

 

[brymolmom]

By the time you buy everything else...plus your time - I would just get 2 sheet breakfast pizzas - yummy and easy. And around here would put you at about $50. If desired, get some donut holes or mini-danish on the side. A gallon of OJ plus some coffee and you're set.

 

[luckey-lasvegas]

How about waffles? You could mix the batter ahead of time and keep it in an ice chest. Plug in the iron at work and use spray oil. A cheap styrofoam tortillia warmer will keep them hot, just leave the lid a slight bit off to let the steam out. You could have differnt fruit toppings and some canned whip cream. You can pre cook bacon at home the night before and then warm it up in the micro wave or on a griddle at the office.

A sausage scramble would be cheap and easy too. Cook frozen hash browns (the cubed kind) with sausage crumbles , onions and peppers at home the night before. Then in the morning at the office toss in some scambled eggs and cook in an electric skillet. Have some orange juice and some type of croissant or some thing.

 

[CherylA]

Donuts and coffee or bagels and cream cheese go a long way in saying thank you. I also will bring a huge bowl of grapes or strawberries depanding what is in season. People will be happy with just about anything. I think it's more about the act of doing soemthing to say thank you than it is about what you actually bring.

 

[mamalle]

do you have a costco??

crossaints, strawberries, grapes and other fruits you can cut up come to mind.

 

[semo233]

Parfait bar, crustless quiche heated in microwave, assorted bagels, coffee and tea. I would spring for fresh fruit with the parfaits....It is so much more elegant and special.

 

[jemgumby]

We buy a really BIG pack of precooked Hormel bacon at Sams for like 9 bucks. It is super easy to reheat in the microwave. Maybe you could do biscuits (make homemade for really cheap) or there are TONS of pillsbury coupons out right now. You could do biscuits, bacon, two kinds of jellies, coffee/juice and some cut up melon/fruit. That should not set you back much!

 

[PixiePlanner]

My husband recently had to bring something for breakfast. He found this recipe online. Just do a search for "Crock Pot Eggs Benedict." Super easy and not too expensive. He had no leftovers. Yum. Great, no I want some.

 

[englishteacha]

I'd love a breakfast of fruit, some cereals (everyone likes Cheerios or Life), maybe some donut holes or cinnamon rolls. We had a teacher's meeting today and our snacks were grapes, bananas, cheese and crackers, and some mini candy bars. Everyone was so excited for the fresh grapes and bananas! I'm sure we're not the only ones who like some yummy fruit!

 

[missycj96]

How about picking up nice fresh bagels and a variety of cream cheeses? You can also get a box of coffee from dunkin (whatever the group likes) and some juice. Its easy and everyone likes it.