Easy crowd pleasing breakfast!

Well, here we are in the midst of summer! Whether you have family and friends visiting or your kids are having a sleepover this is sure to please them all!

Instead of piling the breakfast options on the counter or shouting out the choices to your guests, pull out a few platters, pedestal cake plates, baskets---whatever looks good together and make your own little "Continental Breakfast!"
This will actually make your morning less hectic and you, my friend, will look like a super hero! (cape optional)

Put donuts or bagels, muffins or English muffins on a nice pedestal cake plate...if it has a glass cover even better! Put some fresh fruit in a basket or on a platter. Pick up some of those cute little boxes of cereal or pop tarts and put them in a basket. If serving yogurt fill a bowl with ice and put individual yogurts and even little bottled waters in it! If you can, bring a toaster, if necessary, to where you are setting up.
If you have pitchers or carafes, dust them off! Now is the time to use them!(Much fancier than plain old milk or juice cartons, am I right?)
Put out some real or disposable bowls and plates and put the utensils in a coffee cup.
You get the picture! Whatever you serve, even if it is just one thing, make it a look nice!

You can set the table or counter top up the night before so you don't have anything to do but assemble the food in the morning! Put the coffee on and you are done!
If you happen to get the newspaper take the sections apart and lay it out nicely so everyone can easily grab the section that they would like to read!
Put some upbeat classical music on for a nice relaxing jazz breakfast!

This doesn't have to cost an arm and leg! You can go to any Nissen or Friehofer discount bakery for super cheap pasteries, crumb cakes and donuts! Or Pick up what is on sale, or even a day old, at your local grocery store!!! You can easily microwave any baked goods for 30 or so seconds to make them soft again!

The minimal clean up will be well worth it when you see how delighted and special your guests of all ages will feel by your effort and presentation!
What a way to start the day! Happy and well fed!

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