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21 Feb 2015

Stupid Simple: Low Carb Breakfast Recipe

Easy low-carb recipe for egg muffins: simple, delicious, and healthy protein!

Ready for a super easy, stupid simple low carb breakfast recipe? Me too.

Something happened in my first pregnancy that changed my life forever: I started eating protein for breakfast. Since my teenage years, I had sort of given up on breakfast or else eaten carb-heavy breakfasts that left me hungry an hour later. Usually I skipped breakfast altogether and ate my first meal about 1pm. When I was pregnant, skipping meals made me nauseated. I HAD to eat. And what I ate mattered more than ever. I realized without eggs or another form of protein to kick off my day, I really struggled through the morning.

Need breakfast? A simple low carb egg recipe for breakfast.

If you’re like me, however, you might find that eggs are a little…egg-y. I love them, but I need to have them a certain way or at least hide that egg-y-ness. I love the yolks runny or having them mixed with something like sausage or cheese or—my favorite—in a breakfast sandwich. But as I’m doing Nutrisystem and generally trying to eat more naturally low carb food (as opposed to those processed “low carb” foods), I am trying to find alternatives to the breakfast sandwich.

Enter this low carb breakfast recipe: Egg Muffins.

I haven’t done a Stupid Simple recipe in a while, so let me remind you. These are recipes so simple that I’m not writing a recipe. So here is how you can make your own Low Carb Breakfast by way of Egg Muffins.

Low carb breakfast recipe: put ham in a muffin tin, crack an egg inside, and top with cheese. Easy and delicious!

Get a muffin tin.

Spray with non-stick spray.

Put a slice of deli meat (I like ham) in each muffin space, pressed in like a cup.

Crack an egg in each.

Top with a little shredded cheese (I like swiss or sharp cheddar).

Bake in the oven at 400 for about 20 minutes.

BOOM.

A delicious, low carb recipe for breakfast with three ingredients.

The great thing about these is that they give you a lot of protein, aren’t super egg-y, and are ready in 20 minutes. Plus, if you make a whole batch, you can save them in the fridge and eat them as a great protein snack or every morning for breakfast. I zap them for 30 seconds in the microwave and they are good to go.

Three ingredient low carb breakfast recipe. Leave off the cheese and it's paleo friendly too!

Do you have a favorite breakfast food? (If I’m not going low carb, I love crepes or belgian waffles or even kolaches.) Oh, and coffee. ALWAYS COFFEE. I’m linking up with Mouthwatering Mondays from A Southern Fairytale this week. Head over fore more goodness!

Check out some of my other Stupid Simple Recipes below!

Roasted Red Peppersroasted peppers

Dutch Babydutch baby

Roasted Garlicroast garlic stupid simple

Ham and Cheese Kolachesham-and-cheese-kolaches

Frozen Fruit Saladfrozen fruit salad

Chicken Salad Apple Sandwichesstupid simple apple sandwiches

Bacon Wrapped Asparagusbacon wrapped asparagus stupid simple

Filed Under: Kitchen Stories, Stupid Simple