Paleo Porridge, an egg-free breakfast
I could post a recipe for scrambled eggs and I would undoubtedly receive comments asking, “I can’t have eggs. Can you please tell me what egg substitute will work here?” Unfortunately, and as I now explain in my recipes, egg substitutes for grain-free recipes present a challenge. In the last few months, I’ve found more egg-free recipe requests than usual in blog comments and my email inbox.
Although I’ve been able to re-introduce eggs into my life (with much jubilation and relief), I know the challenge of juggling an egg-free and grain-free lifestyle. This paleo porridge offers a solution to the quandary of an egg-free breakfast that offers a good source of protein… 18 grams of protein per serving, to be exact!
Empower Your Breakfast Guidelines
This paleo porridge meets my “Empowered Breakfast Guidelines.” If you are overwhelmed with the transition to a grain free diet, start by renovating your breakfast according to these guidelines.
Your willpower is a freshly-charged battery in the morning, enabling you to make a healthy choice that reverberates through your day. With a satiating breakfast, you’ll be empowered to resist snacking because you’ve set your blood sugar rhythm on the right track.
The Empowered Breakfast Guidelines include:
- Take a paleo approach to relieves the inflammatory burden of gluten, other grains, sugar, and processed dairy.
- Include colorful, low starch vegetables to start your day with nutrients rather than empty calories.
- Take a low carb approach to your morning meal to encourage a healthy, fiery metabolism. Carb metabolism efficiency is lowest in the morning and improves later in the day.
- Emphasize protein paired with healthy fats to keep you satiated until lunch, so mindless snacking loses appeal.
- Use outside-of-the-box breakfast ideas – who says veggie soup or a savory overnight crockpot meal breakfast food?
Get more Empowered Breakfast recipes in my free download Reset Your Breakfast Guide. It’s available here.
About the ingredients in Paleo Porridge
- Spaghetti squash is a low carb squash option that has a lovely mild, sweet flavor. When cooked and blended, it creates a texture reminiscent of oatmeal.
- Coconut milk adds healthy fats for a creamy porridge, and ensures that this breakfast sticks to your ribs until lunch.
- Shredded coconut increases the satiety factor with fiber and metabolism-boosting fats from coconut. It also lends a porridge-like texture.
- Collagen peptides add nutrient-dense, easily-digested proteins. I credit my regular intake of grassfed collagen for improving my skin, hair growth, and energy levels. Click here to get grassfed collagen with free shipping.
- 2 cups prepared spaghetti squash from 1 large squash (learn how to make the perfect spaghetti squash here)
- 1 cup full-fat canned coconut milk
- ¼ cup finely shredded coconut
- Coconut flour, if necessary
- 4 scoops (1/2 cup) collagen peptides, available here
- ½ tsp. vanilla extract, optional
- Coconut milk and cinnamon, if desired for serving
- Combine all ingredients except the coconut flour and collagen peptides in a saucepan and bring to a gentle simmer. Simmer for 8 minutes until slightly thickened.
- Add the collagen peptides. Use an immersion blender to process a couple of times to achieve an oatmeal-like texture. If the texture is not thick enough, add coconut flour, a tablespoon at a time, to thicken. If you would like a thinner texture, add more coconut milk.
- If desired, add the vanilla extract.
- Serve with additional coconut milk and a sprinkle of cinnamon, if desired.
This is great, I guess it will definitely satisfy my stomach in the morning, I love the idea that you choose to put collagen in it. I am taking collagen all the time, normally I put it into my drink,since the one I am using now is 100% hydrolyzed so I wouldn’t taste anything which is great. I recently decided to try coconut oil from wecarenaturals, I will try to include it in this receipt too since I don’t really like the texture of shredded coconut.
This sounds phenomenal! My question is in your experience would this keep at all over night? I kind of run out the door to catch the bus every morning so I tend to do everything at night and on weekends.
Thank you so much for posting g and egg free recipe! Those of us who are highly sensitive to eggs truly appreciate a great eggless recipe from a wise and authentic woman like yourself. Thank you!
Wow this is best paleo breakfast idea I have ever heard. I don’t like eggs for breakfast and enjoy something a little sweet. I don’t want to eat lots of nuts or seeds or dairy/legume protein powders so this is perfect thank you!!!! LOVE your site and your advice. Thank you.
ps are the collagen peptides a complete protein? does it matter? thanks!
No they’re not, unfortunately. If I were to make this for breakfast, I would definitely have some meat or some kind of complete protein on the side, or (sorry Lauren) add in some grass fed whey protein.
thank you!
last question! does the vital proteins gelatin (v. collagen) have the same beneficial amino acids? thanks!
Can I use Great Lakes Collagen Hydrolysate instead of the one recommended above?
I did but it was really thin. But delicious!
Hi, Lauren. I’m British, so am having great difficulty sourcing spaghetti squash. We only seem to have Butternut in abundance here… If I steamed some Butternut, would that be a good low- carb substitute?
Unfortunately, I don’t think that would work because it would have a higher water content and be much sweeter. You may want to try this porridge recipe instead: http://empoweredsustenance.com/paleo-oatmeal/
Wow, interesting recipe. Would have never thought to use spaghetti squash in this way. Totally agree with your breakfast guidelines. I have no problem with eggs, but also enjoy dinner leftovers for breakfast sometimes. I actually prefer to have a savory morning meal…having something sweet in the am, no matter how healthy it is, sets me up to want more sweets throughout the day.
Interesting idea to have the porridge based on spaghetti squash! I absolutely love how versatile collagen powder is! I put it in almost anything that it will dissolve in.