One meal I never skip is breakfast. These days I wake up hungry and struggle to function properly until I have had breakfast, and I’m not afraid to admit I’m a bit of a zombie before coffee too. If I go for a run before eating it has to be the “foot out the door before my stomach wakes up” kind of early run. I have breakfast phases but I try and mix it up when I can. I always get annoyed when people are so narrow-minded to question what a Vegan eats for breakfast. I eat cereal or toast like the rest of them, but I have soy milk and Nuttelex, and a few way more interesting things too…
Avocado & tomato bagel
I love a bagel, usually with Better Than Cream Cheese but am also partial to a bit of tomato and avocado as well. Bagels are quite dense, and calorie heavy, so not for everyone. Other toppings could be PB&J, or anything that goes on toast. Until they create a Vegan smoked salmon, my old favourite breakfast is a thing of the past.
Millet, pepitas, almonds, bran, psyllium & raisins
Once when I was staying at my parents’ house, I raided the cupboard for breakfast and found a bunch of random healthy stuff, so I threw it all in a bowl and had it with rice milk as some kind of crazy cereal. Slivered almonds, pepitas (pumpkin seeds), oat bran, millet, psyllium husks and raisins made for quite an interesting mix. Not bad though, could have done with some fresh fruit and/or soy yoghurt.
French toast with grilled pear
If you have bread, non-dairy milk and egg replacer, French toast is easy. If you have cinnamon sugar, maple syrup and pears then French toast is awesome! I just grilled (broiled?) them with brown sugar until they were slightly caramelly and they were perfect with the toast. I think I actually used extra thick raisin toast for this, which made it even better.
Grain roll with spinach, avocado tempeh & cheeze
I am pretty much the Queen of the epic breakfast sandwich. In this case I wasn’t making it to ease a hangover but use up some leftovers, so half a grain roll with sliced, fried Tempeh with Tofutti American cheeze slices on a bed of baby spinach and avocado. Not bad for something thrown together and has a good mix of carbs & protein. Would prefer it with tomato or some other Vitamin C to help absorb the iron from the spinach.
One of my breakfast phases was wholegrain porridge, with various topping from maple syrup to fruit compote to walnuts & banana, but in this case I had stewed apple and sunflower seeds. It’s a great start to winter and for summer just have fresh apple on untoasted muesli and it’s pretty much the same.
Waffles!
My waffle iron comes with a recipe book that has a bunch of different mixtures which are all easily Veganized. Serve with fresh fruit & maple syrup and it’s easy to impress a guest or yourself. My waffle iron is Sunbeam brand (I think) and they retail for around $20-50 depending on which model you get.
Facon, avocado, tomato, mushroom & toast
Breakfast fry-ups are something I share with my brother B, except he has eggs and bacon, I have tofu & facon, everything else is pretty much the same. If we can be bothered we get hash browns too. An awesome weekend breakfast, or put it all in a sandwich (except the mushrooms, really) or a bagel (maybe add cheeze and tomato sauce) and have an epic breakfast sandwich!
Now try and tell me that I am missing out on awesome breakfasts, eh? I get to have healthy breakfast, hearty breakfasts AND treat breakfasts. I never feel like I’m missing out. Ever.
What’s your favourite breakfast? What do you actually end up having most days?
I used to have pb & banana on a waffle almost every day. Recently, it’s been oatmeal or smoothies on most days. This morning it was sweet quinoa! :)
I have always thought bagels to be a food of the gods.
Favourite breakfast – vanilla soy yoghurt, banana, dried figs, tahini, walnuts, flax seeds and rolled oats all mixed together into a huge mess. A delicious mess mind you. I usually have something like this, or else porridge, bircher muesli, or some sort of homemade baked good. Love love LOVE breakfast, best meal of the day.
That sounds amazing! I make similar messes of things for meals. Yum!