Meal Prep Breakfast Recipes make mornings way easier. Prep these dairy-free, gluten-free breakfasts ahead of time, and you’ll always have something quick, filling, and healthy to start off your day.
Let’s be real, mornings as a mom are pure chaos. Between lunches, backpacks, and someone always losing a shoe, breakfast usually gets pushed to the bottom of the list (or you end up inhaling coffee and calling it a meal).
That’s why having breakfast meal prep ideas you can grab and go is such a game-changer. Recipes like these low-calorie baked oats or crazy indulgent caramel apple overnight protein oats make it ridiculously easy to eat something filling without having to think. And if you want a full system (not just a list), my Rise & Chill breakfast eBook is built exactly for that: high-protein meal prep breakfasts + a simple step-by-step plan so mornings actually feel calm instead of frantic.
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Why These Recipes Work
Variety: These healthy make ahead recipes are a roundup of breakfast that can be made the night before and cooked in the morning or made and simply grabbed on rushed days.
Healthy: All of the breakfast recipes are dairy-free, gluten-free, high in protein, and almost all of them use only honey and maple syrup for sweetness.
Minimal prep: The easy make ahead breakfasts require less than 10 minutes of prep time making it easy to whip them up on busy days.
Meal Prep Containers and Storage Tips
For the fridge: There are a lot of containers on the market. However, I find that glass overnight oats jars work best for recipes like oats or chia pudding that you'll be storing in the fridge.
Glass jars keep things extra fresh, and when it comes to meal prep ideas like overnight oats, they tend to hold the flavor better as well.
For the freezer: We store them in plastic bags and separate the portions (like pancakes and protein bars) with pieces of parchment paper so that they don't stick together. For things like breakfast burritos with egg white wraps, they're best wrapped in parchment paper or tinfoil so that you can pop them into the oven as is!
Grab and Go Breakfast Recipes
These high-protein breakfasts are made the night before and are completely ready to eat in the morning (grab-and-go breakfast recipes). They're the best for when you're super rushed.
Bake In The Morning Breakfast Recipes
Below are some recipes that you prepare the night before and just bake in the morning. I use these the most for morning workouts. As I'm working out, breakfast is cooking, and by the time I'm done, everyone is up and ready to eat!
Freezer-Friendly Meal Prep Recipes
The protein recipes below are a mix of high-protein pancakes and bars that can be stored in the freezer and warmed or thawed when you need them.
Meal Prep Breakfast Recipes FAQs
Most meal prep breakfast recipes like chia pudding and overnight oats will last in the fridge for 3-4 days.
Meal prep recipes like bars, breakfast cookies, baked oatmeal, and pancakes are best for kids because there are so many ways to serve them, and they tend to be sweeter in flavor.
Breakfast like overnight oats, blended baked oats, chia pudding, and no-bake protein bars can be prepared in 10 minutes or less.
Ray Ruzzo says
Homemade bars and muffins are the best! Especially because theyre so customizable
fitasamamabear says
Yes! You can literally find something for ANY taste buds!
All She Things says
Breakfast should never be skipped and yet a lot of times people tend to skip it when there is a time crunch. These make-ahead breakfast ideas are great!
- http://www.allshethings.com
fitasamamabear says
It definitely makes life a bit more simple when it's already prepped for you!
Christina | From under a Palm tree says
Ooh I’m a big all of these! I used to make overnight oats all the time but these are such great options!
fitasamamabear says
Thanks! Overnight oats are one of my favorites in the summertime!
Dee Jackson says
Olive the crockpot oatmeal idea as oatmeal is my all time favorite breakfast ??
fitasamamabear says
Oatmeal is one of my daughters favorites too- so warming!
Melissa @Real Nutritious Living says
Thanks for the inspiration Shelby! I get SO bored with my smoothies 😉
fitasamamabear says
Anytime! Glad you got some new ideas 🙂
Elle says
Okay so I've tried many of these ideas but I hadn't thought of making pancakes in advance. Brilliant!
fitasamamabear says
Ohh yes! My daughter loves pancakes so this way it's not a fight in the morning if we can have them 😛 freeze them with pieces of parchment paper in between so they don't stick together!
linda spiker says
I love the idea of make ahead breakfast! Great time saver!
fitasamamabear says
Makes life so much easier in the morning!
Cassandra @ Uncommonly Well says
Such great ideas! I have been wanting to try making chia pudding - yours looks so yummy!
fitasamamabear says
Mmm chi pudding is a tasty one! And soo many flavors you can add to it!