The High-Protein Breakfast Recipe to Fuel Your Morning Workout

by | Feb 3, 2026 | Recipes

For Robbie Felice to have a successful day, he needs breakfast, a workout, and cats.

Felice is the executive chef/owner of three modern Italian(ish) New Jersey restaurants: Osteria Crescendo, Viaggio Ristorante, and pastaRAMEN. The guy is busy, but he understands he can’t use that as an excuse.

“The restaurant industry is a gruelling one. The unhealthy habits are everywhere,” he says. He knew this from growing up in kitchens—his dad was a restaurateur as well. So Felice ate healthy and exercised while attending culinary school and working at restaurants.

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Last year, though, “I noticed working out had become repetitious and I wasn’t getting the results I wanted.” He hired a trainer, began each day with a macro-balanced pre-workout meal, and started unwinding each night not with a drink but with his cats, in his apartment overlooking Manhattan.

Felice eats this high-protein Eggs & Bacon & Toast & Avocado before heading to the gym. It’s also carbohydrate dense—and those carbs fuel him through his workout.

Print Recipe
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Total Time 20 minutes
Servings: 1
Course: Breakfast
Cuisine: American
Calories: 741
Ingredients Method Video Notes

Ingredients
  

  • 15 ml olive oil
  • 2 small red baby potatoes boiled until tender, then crushed
  • 2 slices back bacon lean streaky bacon also works, diced
  • ½ small red onion diced
  • 3 spring onions white parts diced
  • 15 ml soy sauce
  • 5 ml sriracha adjust to taste
  • 3 eggs
  • 1 tsp everything-bagel seasoning or sesame & poppy seed mix
  • 1 slice brown bread toasted
  • ½ avocado sliced
  • Juice of ½ lime
  • Pinch of kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper

Method
 

  1. Pinch of kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
  2. Heat half the olive oil (7–8 ml) in a large pan over medium-high heat. Add the boiled potatoes and cook for 2 minutes per side until golden.
  3. Add the diced back bacon, red onion, and spring onions. Cook for 1–2 minutes until aromatic. Stir in the soy sauce and sriracha. Push the mix to the side of the pan.
  4. In the same pan, heat the remaining olive oil (7–8 ml). Add the eggs and cook sunny-side up for about 5 minutes. Season with freshly ground black pepper and the everything-bagel seasoning.
  5. Transfer the potatoes, bacon, onions, and eggs to a plate. Serve with toasted brown bread and sliced avocado. Drizzle the lime juice over the avocado and season with a pinch of salt.

Video

Notes

  • 741 calories
  • 40 g protein
  • 46 g carbs (10 g fibre)
  • 45 g fat

Food styling by Rebecca Jurkevich, prop styling by Stephanie De Luca.

This article by Paul Kita was originally published in Men’s Health US.