5 Quick Breakfast Toasts

And not one of them has avocado!

My husband eats the same breakfast every single morning — a bowl of cereal.

Monday through Friday he has Honey Nut Cheerios. On the weekends, he goes crazy and switches it up — sometimes he has Special K Choclatey Delight or Honey Bunches of Oats.

This has been his routine for over 25 years. How he can maintain this monotony is beyond me. I like a little variety in my life.

I go through breakfast phases. During the winter, I am an oatmeal girl. I cycle through a few different pre-made flavors, and then usually end up making some concoction of my own. I use plain oatmeal as the base and then play around with different nuts, fruits and spices each day to keep it interesting. In the spring and summer, I like to have a different kind of smoothie each morning.

In the fall, I usually crave something more substantial and move into my toast phase. I love avocado toast as much as the next person, but I feel like it has been overplayed. Last week, I had a lot of random leftover ingredients in my refrigerator and did not want them to go to waste. So, each weekday, I got creative, mixed and matched and came up with five relatively healthy, interesting breakfast toasts.

As you will probably notice, I had a bag of arugula and lots of leftover capers. I also had to find a way to use up a dumb impulse buy of Boursin cheese at Costco that my husband questioned when I threw it in our already overloaded cart. I was determined to prove him wrong — this delicious cheese of my childhood would not go to waste!

All of these toasts started with a slice of basic whole wheat bread. Here they are:

Monday

Garlic and Herb Boursin, cherry tomatoes, arugula and capers.

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Tuesday

Salmon, Garlic and Herb Boursin and capers — a little nod to bagels and lox :)

I made salmon Monday night and had one leftover piece. So this toast was made out of that salmon — which was delicious by the way — here is the link:

Wednesday

Shallot and Chive Boursin, honey, fig jam, Trader Joe’s candied pecans, pear and arugula

You can use any candied pecans (or even plain) but my favorite is from Trader Joe’s

Thursday

Peanut butter, Trader Joe’s candied pecans, sweetened dried cranberries, apples and honey

Friday

Nutella, banana, Trader Joe’s candied pecans and honey

Ok - BONUS…I can’t help it…I had to add an avocado toast. Only because on Saturday morning I spotted an avocado that was about to go bad. So, I gave in and made avocado toast. This had avocado, capers, salt, pepper, smoked paprika and arugula.

So there you have it. Almost a whole week’s worth of breakfast toasts that are simple and quick to make. I used the ingredients I had on hand, and you can certainly use them as well. But, I am sure if you check your fridge and cabinets you can come up with some unique, tasty toasts on your own. If you do, I would love to hear what they are!