These quick weekday breakfasts mean that you can still make your meeting on time, even if you overslept, and not pass up the most important meal of the day…cuz no one likes a cranky co-worker.
Our Favorite Oatmeal Toppings
: Eva Kosmas Flores
1/18
No more boring oatmeal at the breakfast table. Just make a big batch, set out some unexpected yet lovely toppings, and watch things disappear.
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Breakfast Sandwich
: Danielle Oron
2/18
An unconventional riff on the ever-popular breakfast sandwich that's healthier than most, easy as can be, and satisfying as all get out.
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Chocolate Sandwich
: Matt Armendariz
3/18
A proper dinner any night, this chocolate sandwich with a French accent is a far cry from Wonder bread and Hershey's. Oooooh sooooo far.
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Breakfast Quinoa
: Lisa Linder
4/18
A quietly, healthily, nuttily pleasing alternative to your same old oats. Go on. You know you want to try it. So get your quinoa on.
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Chilaquiles
: Christopher Hirsheimer
5/18
Essentially eggs scrambled with chips (or day-old tortillas) and salsa, chilaquiles is equally enticing in the a.m. as the p.m., with a cup of hot joe or a bottle of cold cerveza.
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Breakfast Cookies
: Jessica Merchant
6/18
Think granola bars but in soft, crumbly cookie form. That's what you get with these sorta virtuous, sorta naughty little lovelies.
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Homemade Greek Yogurt
: Guillaume Czerw
7/18
This is the homemade Greek yogurt of your dreams. Seriously. Folks are calling it the creamiest and most loveliest homemade yogurt ever.
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Almond and Coconut Granola
: Penny De Los Santos
8/18
An inspired take on a classic, this simple, sassy granola recipe is yours to follow to the letter or tweak to your (or your most picky family member's) content.
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Breakfast Burritos
: Becky Rosenthal
9/18
Quick, easy, healthy, crowd pleasing, freezer-friendly morning grub that you can grab and go.
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Bite-Size Bacon and Cheese Scones
: Eric Wolfinger
10/18
Cute as a button, and not much bigger, these buttery, bacony scones are the most diminutive and darned good biscuits we've had in recent memory. Maybe ever.
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Soft-Boiled Eggs and Toast
: Della Chen
11/18
Ideal for lazy weekends as well as harried weekdays, these soft-boiled eggs are cooked to perfection in less than five minutes. You're welcome.
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Breakfast Cheese
: Stephanie Schamban
12/18
Say good morning to your newest weekday breakfast craze. Who knew cheese, honey, and bread could be sooooo indulgent?
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Carrot Muffins
: Quentin Bacon
13/18
These little lovelies contain sugar and spice and everything nice--including an oh-so-buttery oat streusel and a batter so enticing you'd never, ever guess it's good for you.
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Homemade Muesli
: Jonathan Gregson
14/18
This lovely homemade muesli number, with nary any cardboard-like, dusty-tasting grains or too many raisins, will upend your notion of morning cereal.
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Blueberry Kale Smoothie
: Kelly Pfeiffer
15/18
Tastes like "bananas and blueberries and creamy icy summertime." That's what folks are saying about this spectacularly simple smoothie that has made converts of even avowed kale loathers.
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Fried Egg Sandwich
: Alex Farnum
16/18
Bread. Cheese. Egg. Hot sauce. Five bucks says you've got the makings for this easy and oozy sandwich waiting in your kitchen.
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Scrambled Eggs
: Jonathan Lovekin
17/18
Scrambled eggs. They may seem so simple as to defy a recipe. And yet sometimes a precise technique makes all the difference. Here's how to make the best ones ever.
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Breakfast Martini
: Jason Varney
18/18
Oh, what a way to start a day! Just shake yourself this citrusy martini and take the rest of the morning—and afternoon—off from all your troubles.
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