31 Brainpower Breakfasts For Starting Your Day With Triumph and Glory

Hello and welcome to this thing we’re doing where we help you figure out what you’re gonna put in your mouth this week. Some of these are recipes we’ve tried, some of these are recipes we’re looking forward to trying, all of them are fucking delicious. Tell us what you want to put in your piehole or suggest your own recipes, and we’ll talk about which things we made, which things we loved, and which things have changed us irreversibly as people.

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Breakfast is the most important and also best-tasting meal of the day. If I ruled the world, we would have Breakfast for lunch, breakfast for dinner and then also have breakfast for after-dinner mints. Then we’d wake up the next day and be like, “oh man, I’m glad it’s the morning, because that means it’s time for Breakfast for Breakfast!” Because one good thing about breakfast being a morning affair is that it is chock-full of opportunities to eat something that’ll get your brain and energy totally stoked to seize the day. Here are 31 recipes with energy or brain-boosting ingredients that will taste good and are also GOOD FOR YOU.

1. Berry Quinoa Breakfast Bowls
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2. Open-Faced Broiled Egg, Spinach & Tomato Sandwich

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3. Hummus Wrap With Grains and Greens
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4. Superfood PB and Cacao Green Smoothie
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5. Pumpkin Breakfast Cookies

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6. Blackberry Chai Breakfast Bowl
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7. Baked Spinach, Sausage and Egg Breakfast Taquitos

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8. Cacao, Banana & Blueberry Protein Smoothie Bowl Topped With Chia Seeds, Cacao Nibs, Blueberries & Bee Pollen

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9. Blackcurrant Energy Bar

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10. Superfood Acai Bowl

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11. Blueberry Spinach Breakfast Smoothie

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12. Make-Ahead Quinoatmeal with Apple and Toasted Walnuts 

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13. Company Eggs

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14. Warm Green Breakfast Bowl

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15. Fuel-to-go Muffins

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16. Raw Blueberry & Cashew Coconut Bars

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17. Mean Green Buddha Bowl

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18. Quinoa Egg Muffins With Broccoli

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19. Mixed Berry Smoothie Bowl

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20. Roasted Beet, Baby Kale & Brie Quiche

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21. Slow-Cooker Banana Pecan French Toast

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22. Breakfast Salmon Sandwich

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23. Healing & Warming Tumeric Smoothie With Bee Pollen

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24. Egg White Breakfast Bake With Sweet Potato & Spinach

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25. White Bean Huevos Rancheros
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26. Creamy Kale Coconut Smoothie

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27. Sweet Potato Sausage Breakfast Hash with Kale

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28. Monkey Salad

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29. Autumn Acai Bowls With Vanilla Bean Cashew Butter

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30. Apple, Sweet Potato, Brussels Breakfast Hash

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31. Chipotle Taco Breakfast Skillet Bake

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Riese

Riese is the 41-year-old Co-Founder of Autostraddle.com as well as an award-winning writer, video-maker, LGBTQ+ Marketing consultant and aspiring cyber-performance artist who grew up in Michigan, lost her mind in New York and now lives in Los Angeles. Her work has appeared in nine books, magazines including Marie Claire and Curve, and all over the web including Nylon, Queerty, Nerve, Bitch, Emily Books and Jezebel. She had a very popular personal blog once upon a time, and then she recapped The L Word, and then she had the idea to make this place, and now here we all are! In 2016, she was nominated for a GLAAD Award for Outstanding Digital Journalism. She's Jewish and has a cute dog named Carol. Follow her on twitter and instagram.

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19 Comments

  4. So many of these look really good. Particularly excited about the egg muffins.

    Some of these recipes make me feel very clueless about food. Like, when did bee pollen become an actual food and not a thing for bees? Don’t bees need it? (Not criticism, more reflection on my own cluelessness.)

  7. I’ll know I’ve made it in life when I have the time/life skillz to have a hot breakfast on a non-weekend morning.

  9. I love how these range from “I would never eat that” to “I could actually make this in the morning and not want to die a little.” I have problems eating in the morning and also mustering the time and energy to even make food.

    • a lot of these can be made the night before, and then the next day you wake up and are like “thank you, self, for making me breakfast.” or “thank you, wonderful partner / friend / rommate for making us breakfast.”

  10. it’s like y’all know exactly what I need in my life!! can’t wait to make these during finals week when I have time to cook and need some extra brainpower.

  11. My lady and I both work from home on Wednesdays, and I have already sent her the recipe for that sweet potato, sausage, and kale hash with the message, “We should make this tomorrow.” Yesssss.

  12. These look amazing. Especially 21 and 22. I’m a night owl working a morning shift and breakfast is ESSENTIAL.

    Also, you’ve convinced me that I’m buying a blender after I move. Why have I lived this long without a blender?

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