Veggies for Breakfast: 100 Delicious Plant-Focused Recipes for Healthier Mornings

by Willi Galloway, Jim Henkens (photographer)

Eat more veg, more often! These quick, easy, and tasty vegetarian-ish breakfast recipes offer tons of adaptable, mix-and-match, and make-ahead recipe ideas to take the stress out of your morning and start the day off right.

Like Six Seasons but for breakfast, Veggies for Breakfast will win over even the most skeptical breakfast skipper and get the veg party started early in the day with easy, delicious, and seasonal savory and sweet breakfasts. Cooking up a breakfast beyond cereal, smoothies, and yogurt is often perceived as a time suck, especially during the week when you’re frantically packing lunches for the family or trying to get out the door.

But Willi Galloway is here to share her love letter to the vibrant world of vegetables, a road map for making delicious, healthful morning meals, and a call to reconsider what exactly constitutes breakfast. From classic avocado toasts to innovative ways to sneak green veg into sweet breakfasts, she makes mornings a breeze.

Imagine veggies piled on toast, stuffed into tacos, heaped into bowls, stir-fried in skillets and baked with eggs—all with a broad set of flavors to help you break out of ruts. Willi guides you on a path to eating more vegetables more often by widening the definition of breakfast and diversifying what you eat.

Recipes
Cacio e Pepe OatmealSummery Strawberry Toast with Chèvre, Cucumber, and AvocadoShakshuka with Seared HalloumiCarrot Cake Overnight Oats with Pepita CrunchTater Tot Breakfast Burritos

Genres: Cookbooks, Nonfiction

224 pages, Paperback

Published October 28, 2025

Reviews

[Graeme Williams · Rating 5 out of 5]

Veggies for Breakfast is a vibrant, persuasive case for rethinking the most routine meal of the day. Willi Galloway challenges the narrow definitions of breakfast and replaces them with color, texture, and seasonality inviting readers to bring vegetables to the center of the morning plate.

Rather than presenting plant forward breakfasts as aspirational or time consuming, Galloway makes them approachable and adaptable. The recipes balance creativity with practicality: Cacio e Pepe Oatmeal reframes a savory classic, Shakshuka with Seared Halloumi brings bold flavor, and Carrot Cake Overnight Oats with Pepita Crunch proves vegetables can shine in sweet dishes without feeling forced.

What truly stands out is the flexibility. Many of the recipes are mix and match, make ahead, and designed to reduce weekday stress. The book recognizes real life mornings school runs, commutes, and rushed coffee breaks and responds with ideas that are efficient without sacrificing flavor.

With its seasonal sensibility and wide ranging flavor profiles, Veggies for Breakfast feels less like a cookbook and more like a shift in mindset. It encourages readers to eat more vegetables not through restriction, but through abundance and creativity. A refreshing addition to the modern plant forward kitchen.

[Jordan Hanssen · Rating 5 out of 5]

A few years ago, I made the decision to try and get way more veggies in my breakfast. It was great to come across a book that had taken this thought to the next level. I’d learned the lesson myself about the necessity of a bit of preparation through trial and error and it was great to have this validated. This book gave me more ideas to make my breakfasts full the same amount of veg I've been putting in them, but with a lot more recipes and strategies to keep it interesting. I’m also not a huge fan of oatmeal, but I am going to put the carrot cake overnight oats on the rotation.

The book is clearly organized, overlaps skills, strategies and ideas in the right places so that they build on one another to. It’s also full of just enough mouthwatering photographs that it makes you want to head straight to the farmer’s market. If you’re looking to eat healthier in the morning, or looking to for more colorful and delicious ideas for breakfast this is a great place to start!

[Sharon · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some good recipe, ideas of how to incorporate more vegetables into your diet. I think that tip about preparing your vegetables over the weekend so that you have easy access to them during the week is a great idea. The easier things are the more likely you’ll stick to them.