When the young ones descend on our house for breakfast I typically have about 10 minutes notice so there's no time for preparation. They're pretty game group and happily settle for whatever I can find in the refrigerator. We've found that a huge favorite is breakfast burritos. Easy to make:
chop up some bacon or sausage (or both together) and cook in a big skillet. Get it good and done/crispy and drain off most of the oil. While the meat cooks, beat up a huge amount of eggs. Pour that into the skillet after you drain off some fat. While that cooks, chop up some little onions, grate a mountain of cheddar cheese and warm some flour tortillas in the microwave. If you've got frozen hash browns in the fridge, that goes good too but it's not necessary.
While the eggs cook (nab a helper to stir the eggs while you work with the tortillas), turn on the oven and make a good half dozen cheese covered tortillas (quesadillas). Cut the quesadillas into pie shaped pieces, put a fistful of cheese into the egg mixture and stir it in as you turn off the heat. Put the skillet filled with cheesy, meaty eggs in the middle of the table and give each hungry one a hot flour tortilla and get out of the way.
Hot coffee, orange juice, milk -- grownups can have mimosas if they want.
It sounds a little complicated, but it's really easy and quick.
Polly, I have to tell a grit story: one summer when I was a young teenager, my folks fell on really hard times. Money for food was almost non-existent. We ate grits. Breakfast, lunch, supper -- every day. There were a few other things now and then (my dad was a pretty good fisherman), but the main sustenance for us that summer was grits. I loved them as a little child but have never been able to look a grit in the eye since that summer. LOL So I think I'd have to feed the grits to the gators when I come to your house for breakfast.
Sunny (just had dry toast and hot tea for breakfast -- ah but the reading was good ;P)