Two Simple Breakfast Options

This morning I'm sharing TWO easy breakfast ideas for you!  You can even eat these for lunch or dinner.  The recipe is super basic and is really more a method than a hard and fast recipe.  It's a super simple way to pull together a well balanced meal for morning, noon or night.

Another fantastic feature?  Only SIX ingredients or less for these two examples!

If I remember correctly, I think I ate the meal pictured above for a quick lunch option. Both of these meal ideas offer a nice balance of veggies, protein and healthy fat.  Add on that piece of whole wheat toast and you've got good carbs for added energy as well!

The meal pictured below was a colorful breakfast option that I whipped together in about five minutes.  If you have time to stop at the drive through for breakfast, why not use that time and cook a better-for-your-body meal at home?

As you can see, the humble egg is an ingredient in both dishes.  The egg has got to be one of my favorite ways to pull a meal together or add some easy protein and healthy fat to a dish.  It's an inexpensive protein option and it just tastes delicious!

5 Ingredient Breakfast Dish:

• 2 eggs
• Spinach
• Broccoli
• Whole wheat bread
• Crystal hot sauce (optional)

5 Ingredient Instructions:

• Saute the broccoli with salt and pepper until just tender.
• Meanwhile scramble your eggs in another pan.
• Wilt in the spinach with the broccoli.
• Toast your bread.
• Top greens with the scrambled eggs.
• Add a splash of hot sauce to your eggs.
• Serve all together!

6 Ingredient Breakfast Dish:

• 2 eggs
• Spinach
• Grape tomatoes, sliced
• Corn
• Black beans
• Ground turkey

6 Ingredient Instructions:

NOTE: I had leftover "taco" style turkey, black beans and corn which I used in this dish. Using any kind of leftovers like this makes it even quicker and easier to pull together, especially in the mornings.  Instructions below are for the "leftover" version as I made it.

• Scramble eggs and season with salt and pepper.
• In a separate pan, heat up your leftover ground turkey, beans and corn.  
• Wilt in the spinach.
• Put eggs and spinach mixture on plate.
• Over medium hot pan (the same pan you heated up your taco mixture in), blister the tomatoes for just a couple minutes.  Season with S&P.
• Serve together and enjoy!

PRO TIP: Eat your spinach!  You can see I used it in both recipes above.  We all know that dark leafy greens are good for you but we are NOT all fans of the super trendy kale.  (Not a kale fan, right here!)  Spinach is my go to green and it's easy to see why:

It's FULL of good-for-you vitamins and minerals and, in my opinion, tastes much better than kale.  

You know what else I love about it?  

I can take a HUGE pile of raw spinach and wilt it way down in a hot pan and suddenly it doesn't feel like I'm eating a Popeye sized serving.  I love this "sneaky" method to trick my brain into eating a lot of spinach without feeling like I'm a tiny bunny trying to take down a giant spinach plant.  Seriously, the next time you cook spinach, take two BIG handfuls and wilt it into a hot pan.  You'll be surprised how much it cooks down in just a minute.  Much easier to eat!

Bunny vs. Spinach