Willi Galloway says breakfast is the most important meal of the day because skipping it makes it “impossible” to make the daily recommended intake of vegetables—between 2½ and 3 cups per serving at around five servings, though the Perch Furniture founder personally aims to get seven servings herself.

“I was sitting at my kitchen table eating a piece of toast and a boiled egg, which was my go-to breakfast,” she says. “I was looking out at my garden, which was bursting with zucchini, and I thought, why don’t I ever eat vegetables at breakfast?”

Through her new cookbook Veggies for Breakfast: 100 Delicious Plant-Focused Recipes for Healthier Mornings (Sasquatch Books, 224 pages, $37), Galloway wants to inspire people to cook with veggies, not just get their fill at restaurants. She has tw

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