What's a good vegan breakfast?!
What's a good vegan breakfast?
I don't really have time to all out cook before work in the morning but would like to eat something. Right now, I eat an apple.
Answers:
My mother used to make "Muesli" for breakfast. Here's how to make it: Take uncooked, rolled oats and mix with diced apples, peaches, bananas, grapes, raisins, chopped nuts etc. whatever you like. Mix in enough apple juice to make it moist. And that's it. Put it in an airtight container and it will keep in the fridge for quite some time. If you make enough you can eat it for breakfast a few days in a row.
Other ideas -
- Silk brand soy milk makes wonderful fruit smoothies. Try a silk smoothie with a banana.
- Chocolate Silk with a banana and a slice of toast spread with peanut butter.
- Vegetarian sausage links with toast & jam and a glass of orange juice.
LEAVES!
Cereal and soy milk.
Just read the ingredients before consuming.
Oranges, bananas, soy yogurt (Silk).
or get up earlier and consider pancakes, oatmeal...
Instant oatmeal and fruit with soy milk or juice. If you can, get bread/toast with peanut better too.
Trader Joe has wonderful vegetarian sausages, piece of toast and a glass of juice, totally a healthy breakfast.
You could make a smoothie, they are good for breakfast because they have a lot of vitamins to get your day started.
I use a banana and frozen strawberries and add water or soy milk and blend. There are a bunch different recipes you could try, here's a link:
I usually eat vegetarian sausages, oatmeal, fruit, or cereal with soymilk. You don't have to eat breakfast food if it's not appealing to you in the morning; have a bowl of soup if it suits you better. Regardless, you're right to want to eat better. You need the fuel.
Tofu scrambler is quick and easy. You take a cube of Tofu and crumble it. put it in a pan and mix in "tofu scrambler" by Nasoysa. Cook it for a couple minutes and it is ready. High in protein and very nutritious. You can make 2-3 meals out of 1 of these and just re-heat each day.
If you need to grab something quick, like I do because I stay in bed as late as humanly possible in the morning and have zero time to make anything... grab soy yogurt and a granola bar.
Cereal's always a good stand by. When I lived in Greece I used to take a banana and smear it with almond butter and cinnamon. Yum. That'd work with your apple as well. But my fav is vegan pancakes or tofu scramble. My boyfriend has to leave early in the morning for work as well, so what I do is cook up a big batch one night, make several breakfast burritos at one time, wrap them up and stick them in the fridge, so all he has to do is microwave it (or not, they're tasty cold as well).
sounds like you need more calories...
Invest in some frozen fruits,a little sugar and a blender.
My smoothie:
1 half canned pear (strained from the can of water and juice concentrate,frozen afterward in a small tupperware box)
1 banana (frozen)
2 cubes of frozen watermelon (=about to half a cup or so)
1/4th cup frozen blackberries
1/4th cup frozen blueberries
2 slices frozen peach
1/4th cup frozen raspberries
4 small cubes frozen pineapple
1/16th small cantelope,frozen (take a cantelope and halve it. Cut the halves in two after gutting it. That's quarters. Now slide your knife just against the top of the rind to get -just- the fruit,quarter the fruit and freeze it. It keeps forever and there's your 1/16th every morning).
12 ice cubes
2 cups (or so) of water
Sugar to taste (I recommend about 2-3 tablespoons if you're really into sugar-sweet taste as opposed to natural sweet).
Large things on the bottom,work your way up in size. The berries should be on top,the watermelon at the bottom and the ice cubes somewhere in the middle of the stack. It should all fit in a 40-48oz blender easily. Put the top on and maim it as violently as your blender allows until everything blends smoothly.
Tastes fantastic,it's fast and you get about 2/3rds of your daily fruit intake from it. Tons of vitamins,too. And it's portable! It does great in a little water bottle. =)
My breakfast regimen is either:
1. Organic Valley Vanilla Soy Milk and Nature's Path Millet Rice Cereal.
2. Oatmeal loaded with evaporated cane juice and other stuff, (thats the beauty of oatmeal, load it with nuts, fruits, berries etc. and it just gets better and better ;).
I'll usually have a fruit and some PB toast. and the occasional fair-trade coffee.