You can definitely cook scrambled eggs in less than 5 minutes if that's your thing. When I make them, the prep time is like 2-3 minutes and cook time is max 30 seconds. Get a good sized nonstick pan, let it get hot while you're cracking and scrambling, and then they will cook almost instantaneously when you pour them in, just immediately start breaking them up and mixing them around in the pan with a spatula.

Add some cheese or other fixin's if you want some variety.

i just toss a corn tortilla on an oiled pan while i beat an egg in a bowl, once the corn tortilla is toasted on one side, i flip it and pour the egg on it, keep the egg as much on the tortilla as you can and let it cook most of the way until you can flip it

flip the whole thing and gently tap the tortilla, the eg should fluff up quite a bit, when you think it's done flip it back over

apply hot sauce and cheese to taste, fold in half until cheese is melted, consume

you can also add veggies to the egg, i will add one or more of the following pretty often: bell pepper, onion, broccoli, basil, soy chorizo, etc.

I dice and roast a bunch of sweet potatoes, toss em with a little oil with cinnamon and chili powder, bake em at 425 for about 40 mins. Then I have a bunch of delicious home fries for breakfast bowls. Heat em up, throw an egg and avocado on it, u got bfast gold.

Bread, toasted in a pan, topped with hummus and avocado, hemp hearts and seasoning

While not exactly a massive stretch away from oatmeal, grits with a bullion cube and a bit of butter makes for a good, tasty, easy breakfast

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-scrambled tofu: fork up some tofu with a bit of plant milk, starch and some spices (kala namak, turmeric, salt, pepper), fry in a pan

-what's left from yesterday's dinner (my fav)

-bread with hummus and tomato slices, grilled veggies and sriracha

Oh yeah you could look up some of Jacques Pépin's vids for tips on how to cook nice cheap good food.

I like to recommend his egg videos since it's literally just learning how to prepare it multiple ways with simple ingredients. His French omelet recipe is a good example since it's so basic you can just add a minor tweak here and there to have an entirely different dish I.e tossing in some fresh herbs (grow some for yourself if you can) one day then tossing in some diced mushrooms the next, to tossing in some diced apples pieces the day after, and so on and so forth.

Not savory, but if you’re into mealprep, you can make bootleg perfect bars on Sunday for your weekly breakfast. It’s pretty easy if you have something to mix with. You can put in how much sugar you want.

https://eatthegains.com/perfect-bar-recipe/

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You could make some variation of a croque monsieur/madame (poached or fried egg on toast with a slice of ham and some melted cheese)

It's quick, fairly cheap and filling.

Alright so what you're gonna want to do is get a bag of english muffins (or homemake some biscuits if you wanna be a real champion). Then you need a small microwaveable bowl roughly the diameter of an english muffin. Scramble an egg into that fucker and pop your english muffin in the toaster oven.

While the toast is toasting, microwave the egg on 3/4 power for 45 seconds - 1 minute. You'll have to play around a little. You want it to cook and bind together but still have a bit of runnyness around the edges and the center might not be cooked. That's perfect. Take out your toast, put the egg on there, lay on a slice of pepperjack cheese if that's your thing. Try avacado on there if you don't like cheese. Put it on a microwaveable plate and put it in the microwave. Zap it on full power for ~10 seconds. That will finish cooking the egg, finish warming the bread, and add a little melt to that slice of cheese but it won't turn it into goo.

Let it cool a few seconds, cut it in half if you want it cool extra fast if you need to wolf it down in a hurry. I make 2 of these a day when I gotta leave the house at 5am during our crunch time. I eat one there and the other at my first break at 9-10am. Keeps me going when I'm outside for ten+ hours, and the warm savory flavors and the density of the food really help to warm me up with a nice caloric boost when its cold as fuck and the sun hasn't even risen.

Also electric kettles are so much faster than using a stove top to boil water, and a lot more efficient than heating it up in a microwave, so consider getting one of those as well to shave some time off your morning if you need to boil water for tea or coffee. (Edited to break up the wall o text)

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Instant oatmeal, especially the packaged kind, is perhaps the saddest way to have the dish. I highly recommend switching to rolled oats (somewhere in between steel cut and instant in terms of convenience and texture). The small extra prep time is worth the improvement in texture alone. You can then add real ingredients, not just flavoring, to make it your own and avoid unhealthy sweeteners. I don't like to do added sugar, so I'll either shred an apple with a grater and toss that in, or chop up a banana and mash it into the oatmeal for sweetness. Throw in some chopped/sliced/crushed Almonds or walnuts, chia/Hemp seeds, a pinch of salt, and cinnamon/nutmeg to taste and you'll have a MUCH more satisfying breakfast.

Another style I like to make has crushed pistachios and chopped dates/dried apricots in it for sweetness instead. If you have cardamom on hand, it's a very nice addition for this one.

Also, cook your oatmeal in either milk or a milk alternative. Nutritionally speaking, soy milk is the most robust. I find Silk (in the refrigerator section) to be the best tasting/consistency in my opinion.

With all that said, I got tired of prepping my oatmeal every morning even when it tasted so much better than the packets, so I started doing overnight oats from time to time too. Just throw all the same ingredients into a Tupperware container with the lid on the night before, and allow to sit in the fridge until morning. Some recipes are better for this than others, but generally, all of them will be fine this way too. It's much less cleanup and obviously saves you the 5-10 minutes it would otherwise take to cook in the morning.

Instant oatmeal, with an egg over easy on it. Smothered in salsa.