Easy Week Day Breakfast

Do you think following the Paleo lifestyle is too hard? To someone who isn't used to cooking very often, I think it can be hard. Maybe they don't know how to cook or maybe they don't have the time to cook. That's why today, I'm sharing with you my easy, make-ahead breakfast! I'll show you that having a home cooked breakfast everyday can be easy and delicious!

My husband and I have eaten basically nothing but fried eggs for our work day breakfasts since we started eating Paleo in April 2013. I've gotten tired of eating the same thing over and over. I also wished I could just have something as simple and easy as cereal. 

So I started making Struesel Apple Egg Muffins (click for recipe) from the book Practical Paleo, on Sundays for the work week ahead. It only takes about 15 minutes of active prep time with 40 minutes of baking time. You start out by sauteing green apples with lots of cinnamon. If you like cinnamon, you'll like these muffins. Then, after the apples look like chunky applesauce, you mix them in with eggs, coconut flour and some other ingredients and pour them into muffin liners. Then you're free to do whatever you want for the next 40 minutes. 

Since I won't be eating these immediately, I let them completely cool and put them in a gallon sized bag and store them in the fridge. The freezer would keep them longer, but I can't figure out how to stop crystals from forming on them. It makes them watery and throws the texture off. One batch only lasts us 3 days, so I don't need to keep them in the freezer anyway.

When we're ready to eat, I just take two muffins out of the fridge and pop them in the microwave for 40 seconds on high.  I think I've mentioned this before, but my husband has to leave for work really early in the morning (or you could look at it like late at night!). I don't usually feel like frying up eggs that early, so I really love that it only takes 40 seconds from fridge to table.

Just so you're aware, these muffins are eggy, as they're made of mostly eggs. They will not be like a grain muffin. When I first made these, I thought they would be like a grain muffin because they had a little coconut flour in them.

If you don't like the Apple Cinnamon flavor of these, there are a lot of variations on egg muffins out there. Just google it! I've seen pizza flavored ones, ones with just sausage and egg and veggie muffins. If you get tired of the streusel apple muffins, make a different kind and you'll still have a quick and easy week day breakfast!