Simple Breakfast Ideas for Muscles to Feast Now

Looking for breakfast ideas for muscles to get the fuel they need? Not eating enough is the primary reason skinny people stay skinny when they want to gain weight. Preparing meals in advance is a great way to prevent missing your calorie goals for the day. Start the day off strong by packing in protein and calories during the very first meal! Here are some simple ideas to boost your breakfast every day and keep you on a consistent path to grow your muscles.

Ideas to Find Your Favorite Muscle Building Breakfast

What’s important is that you find breakfast ideas that you’ll actually eat, keep you excited for breakfast, and keep you packing on the mass. You don’t have to be a culinary genius to come up with breakfast ideas that will grow your muscles. Here’s how I like to cheat to come up with my meals:

• Think of your favorite breakfast memories. What were you eating?
• Look at breakfast menus of restaurants you like. What dishes make you want to go right now?

As an example, one of my favorite breakfast memories was from a place that made an egg sandwich with cheese and bacon. The egg was “sheeted” so it looked like a fluffy square. As another example, a menu item I really enjoyed from a few different restaurants was a steak, gouda cheese, and egg taco. I love that taco!

Twist Breakfast Up for a Change

Consistency is key and you don’t want to lose progress because you get bored of your breakfast, find it difficult to prepare, or don’t have access to the right ingredients. You can easily shake things up by swapping out one or two ingredients, or adding in another item. Don’t try to rethink the whole breakfast from scratch, or you’ll be back to step one.

Swap One Ingredient, New Breakfast

For example, let’s keep going down the path of my delicious steak, gouda cheese, and egg taco above. What if you don’t like one of those things? What if you have a dietary restriction? Maybe you’re just struggling to find the ingredient you’re looking for. Well, don’t let that hang you up. Swap out just one or two ingredients and keep the basic idea.

Instead of the steak in the taco, you could use chicken, or break up pieces of sausage. Instead of gouda cheese, you could use cheddar. Add a creamy jalapeño salsa or a spicy red one. Maybe you prefer a chipotle sauce instead. Just like that, you’ve turned one idea into a bunch of different combinations to keep the options interesting.

If you’re like me, you’ll also get bored of everything being a taco. While that’s a great method to make a hearty breakfast portable, it can get mundane. Twist it up. Take the same ingredients and put it into a bowl instead. To get a different version, try it on a brioche bun. Slice a croissant and stick it in there, or maybe give a thin toast a try. Again, by switching or adding a single ingredient, you can keep your breakfast simple, but powerful, to boost your muscle gains.

Maximize protein and calories during breakfast for muscle growth

Remember, we’re not in this for the love of culinary pursuits, although there’s nothing wrong with that. We’re here to build muscle and gain mass. The best way to do that is to make every bite max out your potential to grow your muscles. More protein and more calories are the simple way to accomplish that.

Don’t worry about creating a recipe that will earn you a Michelin star. Focus on food that you like and help you reach your goals. So, modify your breakfast to get more out of it. Let’s keep running with the steak, gouda cheese, and egg taco example. It would be simple to switch things up.

Adding sour cream or creme fraiche is a common chef’s trick to make scrambled eggs very moist and fluffy. Instead of that, you could use some cottage cheese to stack on the protein. It will make the eggs moist like the cream would, but has a lot more muscle growing potential. Sure, a diner would give their waiter a funny look for this, but all that matters is that you enjoy it.

Above we talked about changing the breakfast from a taco to a bowl to a sandwich. You can do that in ways that maximize calories and protein. If you’re eating a bowl, try adding beans, mayo, or avocado to the mix. If you’re looking for a taco, there are all kinds of variations of tortillas available now, including tortillas that are made from egg whites. These tortillas add more protein to the taco. If it’s sandwich you want instead, give Dave’s Killer Bread a try to turn those slices into muscle growth.

Conclusion

The point here is to use this process to rethink your breakfast and create muscle building meals.

Thoughts? Questions? Comments? Let me know in the comments.