Are you stuck in a rut in the mornings? It can be hard to find wholesome options to start the day. But as two cookbook authors, we’ve made it our mission to find the best ways to incorporate healthy breakfast recipes into your life! Maybe it’s a cozy bowl of oatmeal topped with peanut butter and jelly, or a breakfast scramble full of colorful vegetables. There are so many tasty ways to incorporate nutritious whole foods into your morning.
What is a healthy breakfast?
But first, let’s define what the term “healthy” means when it comes to breakfast. According to Harvard Health Publishing, the best way to start the day is with nutrient-dense whole foods like fruits and vegetables, legumes, whole grains, nuts, and seeds. In general, breakfasts with low glycemic load foods are best, since meals that don’t spike blood sugar result in improved cognitive performance and more sustained energy. What does this look like in terms of foods? Here’s what Harvard recommends as some examples of healthy breakfast foods:
plain yogurt with fruit and nuts oatmeal with fruit and nuts whole wheat or rye toast with nut butter eggs with vegetables black beans and a corn or whole wheat tortilla.
This preference for fruits and vegetables, whole grains, nuts and seeds for breakfast is also the same philosophy as the Mediterranean diet, deemed the best diet in the world by US News and World Report. Try these top 20 Mediterranean Diet Breakfast Recipes for more healthy breakfast inspiration. The recipes you’ll find below are build around the philosophy of nutrient-dense whole foods first. They all vegetarian, with many vegan and gluten-free options. You’ll find only a few healthy pancakes recipes, which include high concentrations of whole foods ingredients.
And now, our top 40 healthy breakfast recipes to try!
A few more breakfast ideas…
Need a few more healthy breakfast recipes? Here are some more non-recipe ideas for busy mornings: Also try: Everyday Baked Oatmeal, Baked Apple Oatmeal Also try: How to Make Fluffy Eggs Also try: 10 Healthy Pancakes Recipes
Breakfast tacos: Make scrambled eggs and throw them in a tortilla with salsa: try these Epic Breakfast Tacos. Fried eggs: Try all the ways to fry an egg: Sunny Side Up Eggs, Over Easy Eggs, Over Medium Eggs, or Over Hard Eggs. Greek yogurt bowl: Swirl plain Greek yogurt with a hit of maple syrup and top with fruit and almond butter. Healthy waffles: These fluffy gluten free waffles are made with almond flour and egg.
More healthy meal inspiration
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