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There is a certain breakfast food out there that is small and round.

In fact it comes with it’s own life stages.

As a child you eat it.

As a teenager you notice the burps it gives you when you’re trying to talk to the cute boy in fifth period biology (true story.)

As a mom they are a staple, decorating everything from your purse to the floor mats in your car. If you’re really (and I mean REALLY) lucky you’ll make it to work one day with a petrified one stuck to your butt.

There’s another breakfast food out there that is rectangular, sometimes covered with frosting and generally filled with fruit. Kids love these things. I personally can’t stand them, you want to know why? No one ever wants to eat the edges or the corners. So you’re left with a little dusty pile of remains no matter how hard you try to keep their consumption tidy.

Now let’s move on to the round one. The plaid pancake as it’s known in our house. It’s true we have a Costco sized box of them in the freezer and it’s also true that I let my teething child chew on frozen ones. But when you enter plaid toaster pancake territory you also enter into the realm of syrup.

(This is where I insert that my husband refuses to camp in a camp trailer, for the sole reason that when you do ‘everything smells like syrup.’ Valid argument.)

With syrup comes sticky fingerprints, sticky tables and sticky faces. All smelling of syrup. Now if you’re into that whole maple thing please ignore what I’m about to say.

I don’t like smelling of syrup. Not ever. I like eating it, but not smelling like it, or having to clean up the little invisible sticky spots. If you don’t rinse your dishes immediately the syrup spreads like a festering ooze, tainting anything and everything in its path.

Peanut butter and bananas on my waffle? Yes please. But syrup? Just say no (unless someone else is cleaning up.)

Now this isn’t to say I don’t love breakfast, I really do. And I need breakfast to make it through the day as a nice person. But here’s the thing, I am not (NOT!) a morning person and when I say “make breakfast” I mean sleep in until 10, fry up some bacon and make some biscuits and gravy from scratch. None of this rush out the door garbage.

However rush out the door days happen and when they do my entire existence relies on self contained food. Bananas, apples, kefir with nuts, granola bars, yogurt and things that can be toasted. To tell you the truth, last time we dashed out the door in order to make it to church on time I had a handful of pistachios and some chocolate milk (and when I say chocolate milk I mean Dr. Pepper.) It’s no problem to get the little kid fed properly, but take care of me? Pffft. You must have mistaken me for someone else.

Just last week at a conference I decided sleeping in would be way more awesome than making it to the scheduled breakfast on time. By the time I made it to the line the workers were already packing up the eggs and bacon. I grabbed what I could, some melon and a couple of slices of bacon. What hadn’t yet been cleaned up were toaster ready bagels stuffed with cream cheese, a sponsor of breakfast that day.

At the suggestion of Jessi (who in full disclosure works for the PR firm handling the bagels) I toasted one.

Long story short? I came home and we bought four boxes.

With my freezer as my witness, I shall never go to church hungry again.

Would I eat one everyday? Yes. Should I? Probably not. Will I? I’m not telling.

So hit me, self contained breakfast foods that don’t trash your car and that keep you from shoveling a handful of crackers and a string cheese down your throat and calling it breakfast (because I know I’m not the only one.) And if you’re really ready to break up with your breakfast routine you can enter for a chance to win a Breakfast Breakup Survival Kit (worth $200) head on over to Blissfully Domestic to share your vows and be entered to win.

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are they stuffed with anything else, or just cream cheese?

Casey Reply:
February 21st, 2010 at 10:16 pm

@Mindy, They come with different flavors of cream cheese (strawberry is the best) and different flavors of bagels (blueberry or cinnamon) they even have some savory ones (like chive)
Strawberry is our favorite around these parts.

Mindy Reply:
February 21st, 2010 at 10:27 pm

@Casey,
Can you believe I don’t like cream cheese? !! I might try them for my kids though. I’ll tell them there’s frosting in the middle. Thanks for the info! Hope you’re feeling better!

Casey Reply:
February 22nd, 2010 at 12:01 am

@Mindy, Um, do you think I could make a chocolate cake stuffed with frosting? Ah, new life goals.

Mindy Reply:
February 22nd, 2010 at 7:43 pm

@Casey,
You can do it!!

Please make it your new life goal. I will be the first to try it (and love it, of course).

AG Reply:
February 25th, 2010 at 9:41 pm

@Mindy, Can I be the second?

Kari Reply:
February 21st, 2010 at 10:30 pm

@Mindy, There are a few flavors with a fruit filling and cream cheese together…I have some of the apple cinnamon right now and they are awesome. Like an apple turnover inside a bagel. I saw a cherry one on the website that I’d like to try.

@Casey – I must be weird…I love the edges and corners of those rectangular frosted breakfast foods. They’re my favorite part, all toasted and browned.

Casey Reply:
February 21st, 2010 at 11:59 pm

@Kari, Oof, the edges go to the car floor in our house. Now toaster strudels, THOSE are a different story.

I tried to get my kids to eat them last month when I saw them at the store. They wouldn’t. I am so sad. Because I think they are yummy too.

Casey Reply:
February 21st, 2010 at 10:17 pm

@OHmommy, I’m glad my kid doesn’t like them. More for me. Bwahaha.

My only problem with Bagel-fuls is that there is waaaaaay too much cream cheese inside them for my liking…but for me they are the perfect serving size and I just end up squeezing out half of the cream cheese.

Casey Reply:
February 22nd, 2010 at 12:00 am

@mama2addie, Heh, in our experience half the cream cheese sploodges out the back anyway.

OMG when I was a kid, riding the school bus, I would HATE sitting next to the syrupy kids. I was all afraid just touching them would make me sticky. Why yes, I do have OCD. I so feel you, Casey!

Okay, I know that I probably have no right to be posting this comment on a post about people who don’t wake up early enough to make an actual breakfast, but I am going to anyway.

I grew up in a house where breakfast was never a very high priority. I was always so jealous of the kids whose moms cooked breakfast every day. I vowed I would be that mom one day. And I am kind of a breakfast Nazi now that my kid is in school. I wake up and cook something every morning.

However, we do have mornings where we are running behind and I think these Bagel-fuls with a yogurt smoothie would be fantastically easy.

I guess that was the long way of saying, “Thanks! I’ve never heard of these and am super excited to try them out!”

I little hint I discovered in a fit of aggravation:

Dump out the mostly empty cereal bag full of dust and tiny chunks into a sieve that’s over your sink. Shake the sieve. Only awesome, big pieces left behind. Tada!

My kids LOVE these things. Only problem . . . they PLAY with the cream cheese inside. They think it’s great finger-paint. I may take the suggestion above of squeezing out half the cream cheese and try them again. ’cause they’re SO easy.

You’ve totally resurrected my craving for BagelFuls…. I successfully quit them when I left college but now I need them again. Mmm, warm cream cheese.

I love Bagelfuls…my favorites are the Cinnamon and Strawberry.

I was pleasantly surprised with Bagelfuls at Blissdom, but I keep forgetting to add them to my list. Just did, thanks for the reminder. I keep individual yogurt cups (I like Chobani) the blueberry and the peach are my favorites.

I am currently having an affair with cream cheese.

I thought these would be much better than buying a $3 bagel with cream cheese every morning and I tried the original ones (couldn’t bring myself to have a fruity version). The only issue I have with them is that the cream cheese may be a tad sweeter than I would like it. Also, once you cook them I find the outer “shell” gets kind of tough to bite through. But all in all I would buy them again, as they do satisfy my lust for cream cheese. I just wish half of it didn’t “sploodge” out the back! (btw Casey, if you urban dictionary that word you may not like the outcome, but consider yourself warned!)

I know this entry is all about Bagelfuls, but…

EVERYONE KNOWS THE CRUSTS OF THOSE FRUIT-FILLED RECTANGULAR BREAKFAST TREATS ARE THE BEST PART.

Shannon Reply:
February 22nd, 2010 at 1:41 pm

@Jenn, Don’t forget the Chocolate ones!!

My mom was a morning person and I think I was the bane of her existance because I never wanted to eat breakfast – no matter what it was.

Now that I’m darn near 40 my easy breakfast is either a Lara bar or if I had a good weekend a bagel with a microwave poached egg on it (precooked on Sunday night and put in a baggie in the fridge)

Those rectangular things that rhyme with Lop Marts? Have fruit in them? Fruit? Hahahahahahaha.

But I love them. AND I’ll eat the outsides.

Well you were successful! I went out and bought a box tonight

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