Super-Fast Breakfast options

I often make scrambled eggs the night before and then all I have to do is reheat in the microwave in the morning...mostly on my big commute days. Not so much anymore, but I also used to boil a bunch of eggs for my prep and just take a few to work with me.

I prep batches of breakfast burritos on the weekends, wrap them in parchment, freeze them, and eat them for breakfast during the week. 2 minutes in the microwave, flipping halfway, and you're good to go. I've gotten the prep process down to about 2 hours start-to-finish, including dicing up vegetables, weighing and cooking all the fillings, and assembly.

My burritos usually clock in under 500 cal. The bulk of the calories are in the large flour tortilla (220 cal), so I could shave off probably 50-80 cal by using an alternative wrap, but they're all significantly more expensive than the flour tortillas I buy, so for now I spend the calories and save the cash. 50g scrambled egg is about 80 calories; an ounce of cheese is about a hundred calories. I change up the meat I include between bacon or sausage, but that's usually around 60 cal, and you could omit it altogether if you're watching sodium. I also roast some potato with onion and peppers, that's about 60 cal; sometimes instead I'll do sweet potato and black beans for the same amount of calories.

I oven-bake an entire package of bacon and bag it in the fridge for use all week. I also own one of those microwave egg poacher thingies that cooks an egg solid in less than 90 seconds. So one of my fave fast/to-go breakfasts is a home-made McMuffin - egg, cheese and bacon on a toasted whole grain English muffin: ~340 calories/20g protein.

If you don't mind a non-egg cold wrap, you can prep and bag the chopped veg the night before and quick assemble in the morning. This morning I had sliced deli turkey with shredded carrots, cheese, lettuce, onion, pepperoncini, pickles, jalapeno mustard in a low carb wrap. ~340 calories/30g protein.

if you check pinterest there are a lot of overnight oatmeals, I prefer steel ground oatmeal for the best nutrition. Just reheat in microwave to eat in morning and top with nuts, some fruit is optional

A lot of good ideas here...

Prep (weekend/night before) Muffin cup egg bake with veg and/or other protien and cheese. Like a mini quiche or souffle. Use tortilla or phyllo or puff pastry if you want a "shell".

Freeze a bunch of mixed fruit/spinach in single serving bags. Drop in in the blender/food processor with juice/milk/yogurt (or a mix) and maybe some flax seed meal or something. Puree for a couple minutes...smoothie. You can also buy frozen smoothie fruit/veg mixes but I think they're overpriced and frequently include bananas, which I hate. Not so much high protien...unless you go for a greek yogurt.

Toaster waffle? Prep pancakes ahead, microwave for a minute...There are high protien options...like Kodiak?

Peanut/almond/cashew butter or nutella on toast? Maybe go for eziekiel bread or one of those crunchy granola nuts and seeds breads.

Lots of great ideas on this thread but I really love this egg mcmuffin one!

TeaBea wrote: »

Egg McMuffins - grease a 9x9 square pan. Add 9 eggs + 9 egg whites, season and bake. When cool cut into 9 squares and place each square in a zip-lock bag and freeze.

The night before, take a zip-lock out of the freezer and put in fridge to thaw.

Morning - Toast English muffin while heating an egg square in microwave. Add a slice of cheese and go.

Greek yogurt and berry parfait. The night before, place wet ingredients (Greek yogurt and berries) in a covered mug. Store in fridge. Place dry ingredients (Granola or high fiber cereal + chopped nuts) in a zip-lock snack bag. In the a.m. sprinkle the dry ingredients on top of the yogurt and stir.

I love egg bakes in the morning. Usually make a pan on Sunday and lasts all week. Eggs, cheese, some sort of meat and veggies (you can really put whatever you want in it).

My go to is a good culture cottage cheese cup with a sheet of graham crackers used for my 'spoon'. 20 grams of protein, some fiber, some sugar/carbs, and < 200 calories. Ideal? No, but I'm not a huge breakfast eater.

How would you make Greek yogurt drinkable? You would have to chug a pint of the stuff to get the same amount of protein - it's pretty much just yogurt with less water in it, that's all.

goal06082021 wrote: »

How would you make Greek yogurt drinkable? You would have to chug a pint of the stuff to get the same amount of protein - it's pretty much just yogurt with less water in it, that's all.

Yeah, I didn't mean Greek yogurt, I guess, but something like the Siggis drinkable yogurt, which has less protein per cup, obv.

You could have a simple smoothie ready to go with greek yogurt, berries, and spinach or some such, however. Add water and blend and that's drinkable, if you have a good to go container to drink out of.

Fast breakfast I can do, but I'm not so good with ideas (other than the smoothie or a protein bar) if one wants protein and has to eat it on the go.

I boil 6+ eggs and keep them in the fridge for a quick breakfast or snack. They'll keep peeled in the fridge for 2-3 days.

Burrito update: I don't know why it didn't occur to me to do this in the first place, but for my last few batches I've cooked everything in one pan like a big scramble, rather than all the components separately. Like, I browned my sausage, threw in some onions and peppers to cook in the fat that rendered out of that, then poured over the scrambled eggs and cooked those, tossing on the cheese at the end. Then I just scoop out 100g of the filling mixture into my tortillas. MUCH faster to prep this way, I have it down to maybe an hour of work including chopping the veggies, whisking the eggs (I mean, I let my stand mixer do it but it takes a couple of minutes to whisk 12 eggs to homogeneity), the actual cooking part, giving the mixture a few minutes to cool and then cutting 10 pieces of parchment and assembling the burritos. It's probably slightly less accurate in terms of the ingredients because the scramble isn't perfectly homogeneous so I don't actually know if they all have the same amount of egg vs meat vs veg vs cheese, but it's close enough I think.

I do 2 tablespoon ground flax seed soaked overnight in 200ml almond milk. Add nuts/berries/seeds/dried fruit/maple syrup or warm it in the microwave to ring the changes. It's a porridge-like consistency.

I've also done egg muffins in a muffin tray, and frozen a batch in a plastic bag. Takes very little time to warm one or two in the microwave from frozen.

When I was working, I had Vega One and plain yogurt for breakfast every single day. It required virtually no effort and kept me full for a solid 6 hours, which was good because I didn't get any breaks at work from 7am-noon.

Pretty much every working person in my family now has this for breakfast.

How many calories are you aiming to have for breakfast? My usual "fast" breakfast is plain whole-milk yogurt (you could use Greek yogurt if you prefer) with some fruit in it (either fresh or dried) and nuts. Nuts are so good in yogurt, idk why this isn't more of a popular thing. I also sometimes add vanilla extract or instant coffee to make a healthier version of vanilla or coffee yogurt.