Many of us get stuck in the lunch time rut- especially if you’re a stay at home Mom and find yourself snacking on your toddler’s food or not even taking the time to eat a real meal. I know it’s sometimes challenging because you don’t want to take the time and effort to actually cook a meal just for yourself, so I’ve been sharing more and more of my quick fix meals for one, like this Open-Faced Avocado-Egg BLT. It’s quick and easy to toss together and has some real staying power to get you through that afternoon rut! When you keep your fridge stocked with a few basic things, you can create really quality, healthy, filling, meals in just a few minutes. Some other examples are this Healthy Thai Chicken Salad for 1, Eggs on Toast with Creamy Spinach Sauce, and our popular Bruschetta Chicken Pesto Wraps. You’ve asked for more, so here go. (Ask me for cookies and I’ll deliver those as well. I’m nice like that.) This lunch has been one of my favorites lately; I’ve actually eaten it for lunch every day this week!
Ingredients Needed
This is just a preview of ingredients and method, keep scrolling for full printable recipe.
- Slice of whole grain bread – Or bread of choice.
- Ripe avocado – If you don’t like using partial avocados, those little cups of avocado or guacamole are perfect for this!
- Minced garlic – Fresh or bottled, optional.
- Cooked bacon slices – I almost always have a bag of fully cooked bacon from Costco in my fridge which makes it super easy to whip this up.
- Red onion slices
- Greens or lettuce leaf
- Tomato slices
- Hard boiled egg
- Kosher salt and black pepper
How to Make an Open-Faced Avocado-Egg BLT
- Pop your bread in the toaster. While that’s going, mash up a little avocado. I like to add some jarred garlic to my avocado, along with a pinch of salt, but that’s optional. Spread that onto your toasted bread.
- Top with a few slices of red onion and a couple of slices of bacon.
- Place a lettuce leaf or a handful of spinach or other greens on top of the bacon and top with a couple of tomato slices.
- On top of that, add some sliced hard boiled egg. Sprinkle with salt and pepper to taste and enjoy!
Storing and Other Tips
- This meal is best eaten freshly assembled! Store components individually so you can whip one up as needed.
Frequently Asked Questions
Sure! Use your favorite gluten-free bread.
Personally, I would pack all of the components separately and assemble when ready to eat. The little guacamole or avocado cups at the grocery store would be best instead of trying to pack fresh avocado.
Open-Faced Avocado & Egg BLT
Ingredients
- 1 slice whole grain bread I love Dave’s Killer Bread
- 2 tablespoons mashed ripe avocado
- ⅛ teaspoon bottled minced garlic or fresh, to taste
- 2 slices cooked bacon
- 3 slices red onion
- 1 handful greens or lettuce leaf
- 2-3 slices tomato
- 1 hard boiled egg
- kosher salt and fresh cracked pepper
Instructions
- Toast bread. Mash avocado with garlic and spread on bread. Place bacon and onion slices on top of avocado. Top with greens, sliced tomato and egg. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Serves 1.
Notes
- This meal is best eaten freshly assembled! Store components individually so you can whip one up as needed.
- Those little individual cups of guacamole or mashed avocado you can find at the store are perfect if you need to pack this to make later on the go.
Nutrition
Questions & Reviews
im gonna try this for lunch tommorow looks delicious!
We had this for dinner tonight and it was delicious!I didn’t have red onion, so I just chopped up green onions instead and mixed it with the mashed avocado. It worked our great, and was one less thing to slide off the sandwich;) even my 7 year old loved these. Thank you!!
This is one of the best BLTs I’ve ever eaten. I made it for dinner tonight and was blown away by how delicious and filling it was. I loved it so much I’m bringing another one to work tomorrow for lunch! I am changing it up a bit however, just to make it easier to eat/assemble at work. I’m adding another slice of bread so it can be a holdable sandwich, and omitting the avocado for light mayo – I don’t want to deal with a brown avocado tomorrow and think the second piece of bread would make it too rich. I’m leaving the garlic though, because everything could use a little garlic. 🙂 Thank you so much for sharing this recipe!
This looks sooo good and a great way to get creative and get extra servings of veggies in! I am wondering though… is there really a thing as good fat and bad fat? When I signed up for my fitness pal and entered in the numbers it told me my grams of fat per day shouldn’t go over 40. Which does seems kinda hard to do and this would be half of that number sooo… I got a little confused with that number. Thoughts anyone?