Looking for a fun and easy lunch idea for the kids? Try French Toast Nuggets! French Toast Nuggets are small, bite-sized nuggets of french toast. They’re dipped in egg and fried crispy-brown, and dusted with sugar and cinnamon. They’re easier for kids to eat than regular french toast too. No forks required! Just pick one up, dunk it syrup and pop it in your mouth! Mmm-mmm!

Our fun and yummy lunch idea was brought to you by Karli Bitner from Cooking with Karli! Karli is a star when it comes to cooking up some fun in the kitchen with her kids!

A Fun Recipe For Kids to Make

French Toast Nuggets are my kids’ favourite finger food. They’re little bite-sized pieces of french toast that are covered in cinnamon and sugar. There isn’t much that could make them better!

My kids absolutely love these. Not only because french toast nuggets are 100% drool-worthy (which they totally are), but because my kids actually make these little guys by themselves! (With a little help from mom for the frying part. ;))

My kids really can make this lunch with minimal help from me. They love being in the kitchen, and love it even more if they can make a recipe all on their own. Microwave Scrambled Eggs and Pancake Mix Muffins are two more of my kids’ favourite lunches to make.

Ingredients For French Toast Nuggets

(printable recipe below)

8 slices white bread
2 eggs
1/4 cup milk
1 tbsp sugar
1 tsp vanilla
3 tbsp butter for frying

Cinnamon and Sugar Topping

1/4 cup sugar
1 tsp cinnamon

*The reason we use white bread for this recipe is because it’s the squishiest. If you’d rather, go ahead and use brown bread. Just make sure it’s super-fresh.

Making Your Nuggets

To make french toast nuggets, bread is torn and smushed into balls. We usually tear a piece of bread into fourths, so four nuggets come from each slice of bread.

Next, eggs, milk, vanilla and sugar are whisked together. My son (4) can do this on his own as long as I set out the correct measuring spoons by each ingredient.

Then the balls of bread get dunked in the egg mixture. I take over here, and fry them up in a bit of butter.

While I am frying the nuggets up, my kids are making the cinnamon and sugar. I find it easiest to measure straight into a zip-top bag.

Once the nuggets are fried to a golden brown, I drop them into the baggie full of cinnamon and sugar. Zip that baby shut and let the kids shake, shake shake!!

Why Kids Need More Kitchen Time

Kids are learning and developing all the time! As parents, it is our responsibility to give them the opportunities they need to develop emotional, socially and physically.

Yes, messes are a given when kids get in the kitchen, but the fine-motor skills they get to practice are 100% worth the messes! You’d be surprised at how fast they catch on and how the messes get less and less every time they try again.

Not only are they developing skills (life long, important skills!) but this is a perfect opportunity for parent/child bonding.

My son loves to make recipes all by himself but he also loves for me to sit on the chair and chat with him while he is cooking. Sometimes we even turn on music and dance around as we help each other.

Give it a shot, let them try! Hey, they might love it and soon you’ll never have to cook another meal in your life. 😉

French Toast Nuggets are just one of our favourite kid-friendly lunches!

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