12 Quick-and-Easy Healthy Breakfast Ideas to Kickstart Your Day

 




 

11. Cottage Cheese Breakfast Bowl

Cottage Cheese bowl with fresh fruit and chia seeds

Keep a container of protein-packed cottage cheese stocked to make this easy healthy breakfast. Pile up those fresh curds and cream with fruit, granola, and chia seeds to add a sweet, nutritional boost to your breakfast bowl.

Start your day right with this quick and easy protein-packed vegetarian breakfast.

Ingredients

  • ¾ cup low-fat cottage cheese
  • ¾ cup fresh raspberries, blueberries, and/or blackberries
  • ¼ cup peeled and sliced kiwifruit
  • ¼ cup granola
  • 2 tablespoon snipped dried apricots
  • 1 teaspoon chia seeds
  • 2 tablespoon granola

Directions

  1. Spread cottage cheese in a wide, shallow bowl. Top with remaining ingredients.

 

12. Toasted Oat Muesli

Toasted Oat Muesli

Flecked with banana chips, almonds, and protein-rich flaxseed, this crunchy cereal isn’t your ordinary bagged muesli. Even better? One batch will keep for up to two weeks, so if you spend 25 minutes making it now, you’ll have a fast and healthy breakfast ready in minutes every day.

This homemade muesli makes for a healthy and delicious breakfast cereal. Toasted muesli, almonds, flax seeds, and banana chips combined make the best banana granola recipe you’ve ever tasted! Serve over fat-free milk for a guilt-free breakfast.

Ingredients

  • 1 ½ cup rolled oats
  • ½ cup sliced almonds, coarsely chopped
  • 3 tablespoon flaxseeds
  • ½ cup dried banana chips and/or raisins
  • ½ teaspoon ground allspice or ground cinnamon
  • 3 ½ cup fat-free milk

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 350°F. Spread oats evenly in a 15x10x1-inch baking pan. Bake for 8 minutes. Stir in almonds and flaxseeds. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes more or until oats are light brown and almonds are toasted, stirring once.

  2. Cool in pan on a wire rack. Add banana chips and allspice; stir to combine. Serve with milk.

To Make Ahead:

Place muesli in an airtight container; cover. Store in the refrigerator for up to 2 weeks.