Morning Nutrition: 7 Muscle-Building Breakfasts [Part2]

5. Protein French Toast with Sautéed Apples

There are just some foods that nearly every gym rat or gym bunny loves. French toast is one of them. Carb it up for a long day or a monster leg workout.

Ingredients

    2-3 slices Food for Life Genesis bread (or Ezekiel or le grain bread)
    1 scoop Dymatize ISO 100 French vanilla protein
    1/4 cup Almond milk
    1 egg
    1 egg white
    Cinnamon

Optional

    1/4 golden apple, sliced
    1 tsp coconut oil
    Cinnamon

Directions

1. In a bowl, mix eggs, almond milk, cinnamon, and protein.
2. Soak each piece of bread in the mixture until it is all used.
3. Lightly spray a pan or skillet with olive oil or coconut oil and heat pan. Cook each piece of bread until each side has browned.
4. Top toast with your favorite syrup, sugar-free syrup, or honey.

Optional Apples

1. Sauté slices in coconut oil and cinnamon.
2. Eat with French toast.

6. Anabolic Muscle Bowl

You want to start the day building muscle? This breakfast will get you there. I dare you to try this and not feel your "muscles feeding"—certified muscle food and energy.

Ingredients

    6 egg whites
    1/2 cup instant oatmeal, cooked
    1/2 banana
    1/8 cup walnuts
    1/4 cup raspberries
    Cinnamon
    Stevia or raw organic honey

Directions

1. Cook egg whites in a skillet on low heat.
2. If you want to cook your banana, spray another skillet with coconut oil or virgin olive oil and set on low-medium heat. Chop half of the banana into pieces and add to the skillet. Use a spatula and be careful not to let the banana pieces stick to the skillet.
3. Combine oatmeal and egg whites in a bowl and mix.
4. Add cinnamon and Stevia (or raw honey) and mix.
5. Top with banana, raspberries, and walnuts.

7. Dark Chocolate Gluten-free Protein Waffles

These pancakes are powered by Gaspari Nutrition MyoFusion. The "rite of passage" for any FMC/ FWC is making protein waffles and pancakes. And these waffles prove that feeding muscles is pretty delicious!

Ingredients

    1 scoop Gaspari Nutrition MyoFusion chocolate protein
    1 egg
    1 egg white
    1/4 cup sorghum flour
    1/8 cup almond flour
    1/3 cup almond milk
    1 packet Stevia (or cane sugar)
    1 tbsp dark chocolate Hershey's baking powder

Directions

1. In a bowl, mix protein powder, sorghum flour, almond flour, cocoa powder, Stevia or sugar.
2. Add eggs and almond milk and mix or blend.
3. Spray waffle iron with coconut or olive oil.
4. Pour batter onto the waffle iron and cook.
5. When waffles are done, drizzle with fruit, your favorite sugar-free syrup, or both.

Credit_Kevin Alexander