Mornings are kind of crazy in my apartment. After completing my 6am workout, I usually have less than an hour to shower, get ready, eat breakfast and get out the door. Most mornings, that means I’m packing my breakfast and taking it on the go to eat at my desk.
If I have time to make scrambled eggs or an omelet in the morning, it means I either 1) am working from home, 2) got up super early for the gym, or 3) I’m doing so knowing I’ll walk into work a few minutes late.
I’m obviously really into meal prep, but I normally don’t prepare my breakfast’s ahead of time. I’m more focused on preparing lunches and dinner items so I don’t have to cook too much throughout the week.
But these egg bites are a game changer. They are ridiculously easy to make, and pack a big (nutritional) punch with little calories (32 per egg bite). I recently purchased silicone muffin tins for making these bad boys and reducing the risk of the egg sticking to the sides on a metal one.
For the Starbucks lovers out there, these are pretty similar to the sous vide egg bites, but with lower calories and fewer ingredients.
These egg bites can be customized to include your favorite omelet additions — feta cheese, mushrooms, sun-dried tomatoes, bell pepper, onion, bacon, shredded cheddar cheese, milk to cream it up, or even full eggs, you name it! I love tomatoes and spinach in mine, which is why I used those to create the original recipe.
These bites are as easy as three steps:
Cut up your ingredients and fill the muffin pan
Pour in the egg whites or egg mixture
Bake and VOILA!
Get back some time in the mornings by meal prepping these egg bites for breakfast ahead of time. Enjoy!
Breakfast Meal Prep Egg White Bites
Equipment
- Muffin pan
Ingredients
- 2.25 cups egg whites ~552grams
- 1 cup grape tomatoes, halved ~149g
- 1 large handful spinach ~50g
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Spray muffin tins with oil or add silicone cups to muffin pan.
- Cut grape tomatoes in half and rip up spinach leaves.
- Pour 46g of egg whites into each muffin hole, filling almost to the top.
- Sprinkle seasoning of your choice on top – I recommend using sriracha, red pepper flakes, garlic pepper or everything but the bagel seasoning (Trader Joe's).
- Bake for 20-25 minutes, or until the eggs have stiffened.
- Take eggs out of the oven and cool. Use butter knife to help lift egg bites out of the muffin pan, if needed.