Easy Breakfast

Breakfast.  The most important meal of the day according to health professionals.  Most week days I am running around the house like a mad woman trying to get ready in time to walk out the door and be only 5 minutes late to work.  One of my discipline areas is getting up earlier so I have time to eat breakfast and do devotions.  Bear with me on that one... I'm working on it but it's not going well.  What can I say?  I like to sleep.  A lot.

So, it is important for me to have easy breakfast options on hand that I can literally grab and take with me to warm up in the microwave at work.  Hey, eating breakfast at my desk is better than not eating breakfast at all.

I came across this gem of an idea on Pinterest.  Grease your muffin pan, place a piece of turkey lunch meat in the bottom, crack an egg on top, sprinkle with whatever spices you want (the recipe suggested paprika, which I did), bake at 350 degrees for 15-20 minutes or until the eggs are cooked through and set.

Before picture.  I got a little heavy handed on the paprika on some of them.

 

After picture.  Okay, I got REALLY heavy handed with the paprika.

 

Making them this way was okay but I honestly don't like cooked egg yolk.  A couple of my friends (Two Pretzels and Metacognitive Musings specifically) would be appalled at that statement.  The taste was good... then I would get a mouthful of dry, crumbly egg yolk and I didn't enjoy them.  In fact, I made 12 of them and 5 of them didn't make the left over cut - they never got eaten.

 

So, I saw a different version on Pinterest and tried it this way.

That is turkey bacon arond the outside of the muffin cups and then scrambled egg poured in the middle.

DELICIOUS!!!  I just added a bit of salt and pepper to the eggs as I was whisking them, although there is so much you could do with these.  You could add chopped spinach or other veggies, cheese, etc.  Trying to keep it low calorie, I kept it simple.  Each one of these gems is 115 calories and loaded with protein.  After baking them and letting them cool, I then put them in a sealed container in my fridge and have eaten one or two of them for breakfast with fresh fruit for the past week.  They have kept just fine and I warm them in the microwave for about a minute before eating.

(Sorry, there are no after pictures because they get eaten before I can remember to snap one.  Plus I'm usually sitting at my desk at work when I'm eating them and my co-workers might look at me funny if I started taking pictures of my food.)