I eat cooked quinoa with slightly warmed milk (load on any toppings you like) a lot for breakfast when I'm not feeling the sweets or eggs thing.

My favourite breakfast, bar none, is the European spread of bread with cheese/meats/jams/etc. It's quick and allows you time to sit down. You don't have to eat the exact same thing, but the principle is the same, if that makes sense. For example, when I lived in Germany, my host father would eat a soft-boiled egg most mornings, but my host brother would not.

Other than that, I would also recommend oatmeal or warm scones as a sound middle ground for you both.

yogurt parfaits and smoothies might be good options, unless they're too sweet. maybe like a breakfast sampler platter: roasted grapes, bacon, sliced good cheese, sausage, cantaloupe, apples. also homemade granola!

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Can't go wrong with a green smoothie! We start every day with the following concoction: 1 apple (or any frozen fruit--I like peaches), 1 pear, juice of 1 lemon, 1/2 inch of peeled ginger, 3 packed cups of spinach/kale/chard, a handful of parsley and about 2 cups of water, plus ice. Blend it in a high powered blender and rejoice.

I did breakfast quesadillas and burritos for a while (black beans, cheese and some sausage) and really enjoyed those. They're easy to freeze, too - my initial recipe had caramelized onions and sauteed mushrooms, but I didn't really like the way the mushrooms worked in it. What about breakfast potatoes with some sausage?

I dislike eggs, but a lot of breakfast scrambles without eggs are pretty darn tasty.

Try muesli with milk heated up in the microwave just until warm. Just make sure you get a muesli with plenty of nuts and berries.

chicken sausage. maybe with some sliced fruit, a leftover biscuit..

I eat one of 2 things every day:
Unsweetened greek yogurt with fruit (and sometimes some oats on top). Nothing too sweet about that!

English muffin with peanut butter and sliced banana.

Eat soup. It will warm you up and start your day with some vegetables. I recently (last week) started a blog that focuses on breakfasts for people who follow a paleo eating style; all of the recipes are savory and grain free, and some are egg-free. www.primalbreakfastclub.com.

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Tofu and veggie scramble - my favorite is made with a nutritional yeast sauce (it's best made the night before, and reheats beautifully). Here is the link to the recipe I use (any veggies work - my particular favorites are green and red pepper and onion): http://vegweb.com/index.php?topic=14074.0

Is it all eggs or just chicken eggs? We recently discovered that my son was allergic to chicken eggs - so we switched to duck eggs. They taste amazing!!

One of my favorite breakfasts: leftover brown rice reheated briefly, scattered with toasted salted slivered almonds. You can add a sliver of butter or a splash of milk or (my favorite) a small chunk of cheese.

Or a breakfast burrito --- just leave out the eggs, which also makes it faster to throw together. Keep beans and rice on hand and in the morning, toss them into a tortilla along with whatever else strikes your fancy: cheese, avocado, tomato, salsa. This is great with leftover cooked sweet potato. Then put it in the microwave on low briefly while you go find your shoes (or whatever morning task).

Also, this healthier breakfast flow chart is pretty helpful for ideas! http://www.eatingrules.com/healthy-breakfast-flowchart.pdf

A restaurant near me does fantastic egg scrambles and will substitute tofu for any order. I'm a big egg fan, so I've never tried the tofu, but they look delicious. Here is a link to their menu: http://www.toastbakerycafe.net/menu.html. No recipes are listed, but I think it would be good inspiration for tofu scrambles (The 3rd Street and The Favorite are tops on my list).

I never liked eggs as a kid (still not wild tbh) and my mum used to make me what she had growing up as an expat in Singapore. Fried bacon with fried banana instead of eggs. So gorgeous, just slive the banana lengthways and pop in the pan once the bacon is fried (or grill them both). No eggs, no bread, just yummy.

Baked sweet potatoes with a slathering of greek yogurt are really great. They're "sweet" but are earthy and savory at the same time. Plus, the yogurt's tang builds in extra flavor. Bake a bunch at once, then just reheat when you want them.

Go Asian, have rice porrige or congee with little shredded chicken or minced ground pork. Pho is traditionally a breakfast/morning dish. In Vietnam, it's served in the morning and the portion is very small, about the size of a small bowl of cereal.

hash with potatoes, onions, and kielbasa/sausage/bacon (or some tofu version if you are vegetarian). This restaurant in seattle adds fresh baby spinach and avocado. Serve with sour cream and salsa.

A friend recently turned me on to savory oatmeal and I make that quite a bit. I do steel-cut oats with some salt and pepper, a drizzle of olive or walnut oil, toasted pecans or walnuts if I have some in the house, and maybe a few shavings of parmesan.
I also make sweet oatmeal with cinnamon, toasted walnuts, chopped dates, and a little bit of brown sugar or maple syrup (the dates are sweet enough that I only have to add a tiny bit of sweetener)

I also agree with the suggestions for Greek yogurt. I buy large tubs of the unsweetened kind, which are a better deal and allow me to add in whatever I like. Granola, nuts, honey, and preserves all are tasty and it's easy to control how sweet the end result is.

You can always eat oatmeal with savory spices, etc. OR make plain oatmeal that you both can flavor how you like! If he likes sweets, top with maple syrup and cinnamon, you go the savory route.

Soup for breakfast is yummy!

Fresh fruit with greek yogurt and a drizzle of honey is delicious without being dessert sweet. And a little granola for crunch.

Honestly, you can eat whatever you want for breakfast... I've been craving sushi lately! :) Sometimes it's hard though to breakout of the normal egg heavy options.

Make a BLT with avocado. That could be good. Wrap in lettuce if you don't want the heavy bread.

I'm in a similar boat. To this day I find it ridiculous that it takes the addition of an egg to suddenly transform a standard lunch/dinner item into a suitable breakfast for most westerners (see breakfast pizza, breakfast sandwich, breakfast burrito, breakfast pasta). It's the cook's answer to Portlandia's 'put a bird on it' sketch. "Breakfast? Put an egg on it!"

One of my current favorites, from local restaurant #1: a hash of yukon golds and sweet potatoes with spinach and roasted garlic cloves, side of bacon, and a peach/raspberry smoothie.

Local restaurant #2: crispy shredded hash browns topped with cheddar, then sauteed veggies (onion, red pepper, spinach, mushroom), then gravy. I usually have this with a pot of peppermint tea in an effort to cut through all that awesome richness on the plate.

I've also been enjoying experimenting with homemade granola and there are plenty of ways to cut out the sugar (decrease sweeteners, swap out sweet dried fruits for nuts and seeds) while creating a recipe that the two of you can enjoy.

When I was in Mexico, my friend's mom served us plain tamales--basically a steamed cornmeal dumpling--poached in what resembled enchilada sauce. It was spicy and fantastic. You could do cheese or bean-and-cheese tamales if you want some protein.

I like a Middle Eastern style breakfast sometimes--hummus, tabouli, yogurt or a farmer-cheese/mild white cheese, chopped cucumbers/tomatoes/crispy lettuce, olives. Some warm pita bread to pick it up. Or pack it all IN the pita bread and take it with you. Hot sauce is a plus.

There are some great recipes for Baked Oatmeal dishes online right now. I saw one recently that was baked with brown sugar, sliced bananas, nuts and chocolate chips. It looked amazing!

This may sound weird, but I eat a lot of beans for breakfast - usually stewed black beans topped with a little Greek yogurt, maybe some avocado if I'm feeling splurge-y.

I also second the suggestions for congee or oatmeal. Another option is savoury crepes -- you could even make the batter with rye or buckwheat flour to give it a stronger flavour.

I meant to point out that you can make crepes with vegan egg substitute.