Who wants to cook breakfast in the summer? It’s too hot. The kids, most of them anyway, want to sleep late while they can.

 

These No Bake Peanut Butter Breakfast Bars are the perfect summer time breakfast. They would be also be great for grab and go breakfasts during the school year. They make a great snack, too!

 

 

 

No Bake Peanut Butter Breakfast Bars

 

1 cups natural peanut butter

1/2 cups honey

1 1/2 cups old fashioned oatmeal

1 1/2 cups crispy rice cereal

 

 

Combine peanut butter and honey in a pan stirring over medium until combined. Remove from heat.

 

 

 

Stir in oatmeal and cereal until well combined.

 

 

Pour into 8×8 pan that has been greased with butter or cooking spray. Press mixture firmly into pan, smoothing top.

 

 

Let cool. Cut into bars or squares.

 

 

Store in an air tight container. Or wrap individually in plastic wrap so the kids can serve themselves when they get up. Finally.

 

This recipe can easily be doubled. Use a 13×9 pan for the double recipe.

Turns out, I was so busy last week that I only took one food picture!  I need to start taking pictures before serving the meal. Since we don’t like the kids having cell phones at the table, it’s not fair for mom to have her phone. This would work good for the busy nights that dinner is served from the stove, too.

 

I made Hot Ham & Cheese sandwiches again yesterday. They are my families new favorite meal.

 

 

I made three different kinds of sandwiches yesterday.  Ham & Provolone cheese, Ham & Pepper Jack cheese, and Turkey & Provolone. All on Hawaiian bread rolls. The family loved them all!

Some got a little too brown on the bottom. It didn’t matter, though. They ate them all.

 

 

 

In the Kitchen with Linda & Dinner Menu

 

Now…. to answer the question that I get asked about a hundred times a day……….What’s For Dinner?

 

Saturday – quick & easy- Make your own! Some had leftovers & some had hot dogs

Sunday – soup & sandwich day – Hot ham & cheese sandwiches, chips

Monday – chicken or turkey –  Chicken Pasta Salad

Tuesday – pizza/pasta –  Take out pizza, salad

Wednesday – Taco Night- Granny’s cooking goulash

Thursday – pork or beef – Scalloped Potatoes & Ham, broccoli

Friday – venison  – Venison roast, potatoes, carrots, and onions in the slowcooker

 

 

For more ideas, visit Menu Plan Monday

 

I didn’t write a menu last week, on or off line. And boy did I flounder last week! Trying to figure out what to make at 5 pm when you don’t feel like cooking anything in a hot kitchen is not fun!

 

All it takes is one week of skipping a menu to renew my commitment to writing one every week.

 

Before Memorial Day, I baked 20 pounds of chicken leg quarters. My husband helped by cutting the legs and thighs apart.

 

 

Once these were cooled, I bagged four meal size bags. Three bags went into the freezer. I love, love, love having prepared meals in the freezer! It is such a time and money saver.

 

 

We ate the fourth bag the next day, on Memorial Day. We finished cooking them over the fire. So good!

 

 

In fact, they were so good I couldn’t get a picture without someone’s hand in the picture taking chicken! This happens to be my mother’s hand. So it wasn’t just the kids! lol We had Macaroni Salad, and stuffed eggs to complete the meal.

 

 

We had make your own salads twice last week. It’s been so hot in Kentucky. I don’t feel like cooking. And move of the family doesn’t feel like a big meal. My husband likes to have a big salad, actually a couple of big platefuls of salad, on hot days. This picture was from one night. We had romaine lettuce, roma tomatoes, cucumbers, green onions, grated carrots, shredded cheddar cheese, tuna, chicken breast, and cottage cheese. Another night, we had all that plus chopped green bell peppers.

 

 

We had fish filets one night with homemade tartar sauce. This was my plate. As you can tell, I love tartar sauce! lol I served them with mashed potatoes, and peas & carrots. I do admit that the mashed potatoes were from a box. I bought boxed potatoes for the first time when my mother was in the hospital. They were convenient for the kids to make when I wasn’t home. A kid, or two, have said they prefer them to mashed potatoes made from raw potatoes. My husband has even admitted that they taste okay. lol I don’t use them all the time, but they sure are convenient.

 

 

And, yes, I did read the ingredients. I buy the kind with very few added ingredients. I don’t like to sacrifice nutrition for convenience.

 

We always eat different in the summer than we do in the winter. In the winter we have soups, chilis, casseroles, and other things that have a long cooking or baking time. In the summer we try to turn the oven on as little as possible. So while I use my slowcooker in the winter, I will be using it more now. We will also be eating a lot more salads, too.

 

Do you cook differently during the summer?

 

 

 

 

In the Kitchen with Linda & Dinner Menu

 

Now…. to answer the question that I get asked about a hundred times a day……….What’s For Dinner?

 

Saturday – quick & easy- Leftovers from family reunion earlier in the day

Sunday – soup & sandwich day – Hot ham & cheese sandwiches, chips

Monday – chicken or turkey –  Chicken strips, salad

Tuesday – pizza/pasta –  Take out pizza, salad

Wednesday – Taco Night- Tacos with all the fixin’s including homemade Taco Sauce , some of us will have Taco Salads

Thursday – pork or beef – Smoked sausage with onions, homemade mac & cheese, corn

Friday – venison  – Venison roast, potatoes, carrots, and onions in the slowcooker

 

 

For more ideas, visit Menu Plan Monday