Starting your day with a healthy and satisfying breakfast is crucial, especially when following a Paleo diet. The Paleo diet emphasizes whole, unprocessed foods, making it an excellent way to ensure you're getting the necessary nutrients to stay full, energized, and maintain a healthy weight. If you're craving something other than the usual eggs and bacon, there are plenty of delicious Paleo breakfast ideas to fuel your morning.
What to Eat for Breakfast on a Paleo Diet
The Paleo diet focuses on lean meats, vegetables, and healthy fats, making lunch and dinner relatively straightforward. However, breakfast can sometimes feel limited. Fortunately, there are numerous Paleo-friendly alternatives to your favorite breakfast recipes that are both delicious and nutritious. These recipes are designed to be Paleo-approved and offer a variety of options, including smoothies, baked goods, and power bowls, ensuring you start your morning off right.
Savory Paleo Breakfast Recipes
Paleo Breakfast Meal Prep with Bacon, Eggs, and Sweet Potatoes
For those who enjoy a balance of fats, proteins, and good carbs, this Paleo breakfast meal prep is an excellent choice. It combines eggs, bacon, and sweet potatoes for a trifecta of nutrients.
Instructions:
Fry bacon in a large frying pan over low heat until evenly cooked. Remove and set aside.
While the bacon is cooking, dice red onion and cube sweet potato.
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Cook eggs in a sauce pot: fill with water and bring to a boil, then gently lower eggs into the pot, cover, and cook for 7 minutes for jammy eggs. If eggs tend to crack, take them out of the fridge 10-15 minutes before cooking.
Leave bacon oil in the pan, add red onions, and cook until soft and fragrant. Remove from the pan and add sweet potatoes, adding more oil as needed. Season with salt and cook over medium heat for about 20 minutes, tossing occasionally.
Combine all ingredients in meal prep containers. Consider adding a simple sauce to dip eggs and potatoes in; sriracha is a great option.
This meal prep will stay good in the fridge for up to 5 days, making it perfect for preparing on Sunday and enjoying through Friday.
Sweet Potato Hash with Sausage and Brussels Sprouts
This sheet-pan meal is a quick and easy way to prepare a Paleo breakfast. It involves roasting sweet potatoes, Brussels sprouts, and sausage on baking sheets and topping it off with your choice of eggs.
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Instructions:
Preheat oven to 425°F (220°C). Line two baking sheets with parchment paper.
Spread sweet potatoes on one sheet and drizzle with 1 tablespoon of avocado oil.
On the second sheet, arrange Brussels sprout halves in a single layer and drizzle with the remaining tablespoon of oil. Stir gently to coat, then return to a single layer.
Place both sheets in the oven.
Cook eggs as desired (fried, scrambled, or boiled). If frying, do so just before serving, or reheat if making ahead of time.
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Arrange the potatoes, Brussels sprouts, sausage, and eggs in meal prep containers or bowls.
This recipe makes 4-5 servings and can easily be doubled if needed.
Chorizo and Kale Scramble
This recipe offers a different way to enjoy bacon and eggs while incorporating plenty of vegetables.
Instructions:
Remove chorizo from casing and cook in a large skillet for about four minutes. Remove and set aside, keeping the drippings in the pan.
Add onions to the skillet and cook, stirring often, for about 3 minutes until golden and soft.
Add squash, garlic powder, and cumin to the skillet and continue to cook for 5 minutes.
Add kale and cook until wilted, about 2 minutes. Remove from heat, add lime juice, and season with salt and pepper to taste.
Cook eggs on a greased medium pan to your desired doneness, such as over-easy.
Sweet Paleo Breakfast Recipes
Grain-Free Paleo Oatmeal
This grain-free oatmeal is a great alternative to cream of wheat, without the wheat. It's a quick and easy option for busy mornings.
Paleo Pancakes
Enjoy a stack of fluffy pancakes without deviating from your Paleo diet. These recipes often use almond flour or coconut flour as a base, combined with ingredients like bananas or strawberries for added flavor and nutrients.
Paleo Muffins
Muffins are a convenient and portable breakfast option. Paleo-friendly muffins can be made with almond flour, coconut flour, and other Paleo-approved ingredients.
Portable Paleo Breakfast Options
For those mornings when you don't have time to sit down for a full breakfast, there are plenty of Paleo-friendly options you can take on the go.
Make-Ahead Egg Muffins
Egg muffins are perfect for making ahead of time and are very portable. These can be customized with various vegetables and meats to suit your preferences.
Smoothies
Smoothies are super quick and easy to make and can easily be carried around in a glass jar when you’re on the go. For a complete and satiating breakfast meal, make sure to include protein powder or add a side of protein like a hard-boiled egg, beef jerky, sliced turkey, chicken, salmon or ham.
Granola and Muesli Bars
Granola and muesli bars or protein bars are great for a quick breakfast on the run.
Other Paleo Breakfast Ideas
Paleo Granola
Paleo dieters can enjoy granola with almond or hemp milk, or as a snack. It’s packed with fiber thanks to the almonds, coconut, and pumpkin seeds.
Breakfast Muffins
These breakfast muffins are egg- and vegetable-based, but are baked in a muffin tin just like their grainy brethren. They also pack quite the protein punch.
Paleo Doughnuts
With coconut flour for the dough and freeze-dried strawberries made to resemble pink icing. Now this is a treat you can enjoy and feel good about.
Zucchini Bread
In this recipe, the classic baked good goes completely paleo with ground almonds as a base. The almond flour holds the bread together, just as wheat flour does in traditional recipes. This paleo-friendly ingredient also provides a nutty flavor and a pleasant crunch.
Sweet Potato Hash Browns
With this recipe you can enjoy this typically heavy breakfast food without the empty calories. The sweet potatoes here are shredded in a food processor and lightly sautéed in lard. Top off the meal with eggs to add a bit of protein.
Blueberry Muffins
These densely delicious muffins are easy to grab and nosh on the go, and perfect with hot java or tea.
Sweet Potato Smoothie
When you’re looking for immune-boosting vitamin A, look for foods that are bright orange, red, and yellow. This recipe includes sweet potato, one of the best sources of vitamin A around. Bonus points: this breakfast smoothie is also vegan friendly.
Banana Pancakes
We found these banana pancakes to be both easy to make and packed with all the nutrients bananas provide, namely, fiber, potassium, and vitamin C, and eggs, that provide a good amount of protein. Serve with a paleo-friendly fruit or maple syrup, which provides iron, magnesium, and calcium.
Sausage and Sweet Potato Frittata
Savory sausage combines with eggs and sweet potato in this paleo-friendly breakfast recipe. You won’t miss the cheese typically found in a traditional frittata. The shredded sweet potato provides a lightness cheese never could (not to mention plenty of fiber).
Paleo Loco Moco
Here’s a paleo version of loco moco, the traditional Hawaiian comfort food of white rice and beef. This recipe relies heavily on cauliflower. When cooked, cauliflower provides phosphorous, vitamin C, and folate. It also has twice as much fiber as white rice.
Paleo Crepes
This yummy, grain-free concoction relies on green plantains as a base.
Pumpkin Muffins
With the use of full-fat coconut milk in these muffins, you’ve got yourself a moist, delicious morning treat. Pumpkin pie spice is mostly cinnamon and nutmeg. Numerous studies suggest cinnamon works as an anti-inflammatory and cholesterol-lowering agent. Pumpkin is a great source of vitamin A. All that and frosting too!
Bacon, Sweet Potato, and Avocado Toast
The slight sweetness of the sweet potatoes provides a delicious base for savory bacon and garlic mayo. Avocados, tomato, and lettuce make this a complete meal any time of day.
Paleo Oatmeal
This recipe uses coconut flakes and coconut flour to replicate that grainy oatmeal texture. You can add an egg to boost protein or opt for a banana to make the recipe completely veganfriendly.
Breakfast Cookies
These breakfast cookies are delicious sources of nutrition that are easy to bring when you’re on the go. The combined fiber from the nuts in this recipe amounts to nearly 20 grams.
Green Muffins
Relying on just a little almond and coconut flour to hold them together, these are protein-packed single-serving complete meals.
Strawberry Pancakes
This recipe adds delicious pureed strawberries to its almond flour-based batter. A tablespoon of ground flaxseed provides omega-3 fatty acids and 2 grams of fiber.
Egg and Sweet Potato Scramble
Here’s a one-dish meal that satisfies both needs. Eggs are one of nature’s best protein sources. They are also a significant source of folate and vitamin D. Sweet potatoes provide yummy bright color and offer more fiber and fewer calories than white potatoes.
Paleo Banana Bread
Even the sweetener in this recipe does its part to create a high nutrition profile. One-quarter cup of maple syrup has about the same number of calories as white sugar, but it packs in important nutrients like calcium, iron, and potassium.
Avocado Muffins
These may seem like your average muffins, but there’s a secret ingredient, a superfood, in this paleo recipe - avocados!