L'Eggo Of My Generic Waffle

It's with great distress that I inform you that due to floods in Atlanta and machinery dysfunction in Tennessee, there is a severe shortage of Eggo frozen waffles. It's been crisis time in our house for over two months. My kids are addicted to the Eggo chocolate chip waffles. I slowly watched my grocery store's stockpile of them disappear, followed by the strawberry and blueberry varieties. We are now down to the "homestyle flavor" and that just doesn't cut it with my kids.

At first, I thought my grocer was once again getting rid of a product my family enjoys. My kids have never recovered from the loss of frozen cinnamon raisin Big Soft Pretzels. I'm still mourning the loss of Folger's Cafe Latte instant coffee drink. Thank you, Mr. Grocer, for no longer enabling our addictions, in order to give more shelf space to better selling products.

In my ignorance, I tried a few other grocery chains in the area and old, reliable Target. No Eggo's. I'm like, "WTF Kellogg's?? Your marketing geniuses have decided to take away an American breakfast staple??" We will NOT go back to making our own waffles. That is just too much work. We have blogs to read every morning. We don't have time for homemade anything.

Then today, I heard on the radio about the shortage. There was relief to know that Eggo's will be back. There was more distress to learn that although we can send people to the moon, Eggo waffles will not be back into circulation until the middle of 2010.

Meanwhile, I'm accepting any recommendations you have for breakfast items for the kids that don't involve anything other than toasters or microwaves. It will be a sad holiday season when all we have are TJFarms Buttermilk Waffles.