Vegan Breakfast Recipe: Miracle green smoothie

 

I am not one to get over-excited about smoothies. In fact, I have harboured a deep suspicion about smoothies for some time now, assuming drinking your breakfast is a rookie move. Even as I get older and lazier, I still like chewing. Furthermore, I used to not think of a smoothie as REAL FOOD. 

Until I met THIS smoothie. This guy is so packed with nutritious goodness it keeps me full for hours, and makes me feel AMAZING. I am not kidding.

Vegan Breakfast Recipe: Chia pudding

When you go to work very, very early in the morning (or you're just very, very lazy) sometimes putting any effort into breakfast at all is really hard. And maybe you would be tempted to skip breakfast, but we all know that is WRONG, WRONG, WRONG!

With this handy prepare-the-night-before, keeps-for-a-couple-of-days recipe, you will ALWAYS eat breakfast, and LOVE it. And you can feel good about the fact that you're eating all those awesome power foods, so you can feel full all morning, AND you've basically eaten dessert for breakfast. This is a win win!

Vegan Breakfast Recipe: Staying-in-bed-all-day pancakes

These pancakes are SO GUARANTEED AMAZING that firstly, you will dream about them, and secondly, you will be in such a carb-sugar coma afterwards that it's the perfect excuse to have breakfast in bed. So you don't have far to fall into your carb-sugar coma. And in that coma you will dream about these pancakes. AND THE VICIOUS CYCLE WILL CONTINUE.

Here, friends, is the recipe:

Vegan Dinner Recipe: Gallo Pinto (Rice and Beans)

Oh. My. God. It might not look like much, but this guy is the highest level of comfort food known to humans. We discovered gallo pinto (direct translation "speckled/spotted hen") in Nicaragua, where they sold it everywhere for breakfast, lunch and dinner. It's greasy, it's fantastic with hash browns or faux meat sides or veggies or... well, anything. It's a great side, and it's also great in a giant bowl on its own.

And it's cheap. And pretty easy. There is NO DOWNSIDE. Aside from the fact that it's pretty bloody unhealthy, but you know, you can't win em all!

Vegan Breakfast Recipe: good, ole fashioned porridge

There is nothing quite like porridge on a cold winter's morning. Well, sort of. I mean, pancakes are obviously a winner. Hashbrowns and mushrooms fried up with some tomatoes and a big whack of avocado. But sometimes, you know, it's Monday morning and all of a sudden it turns out you don't have time to whip up a batch of pancakes. Or sweet potato hashbrowns (i will DEFINITELY put THAT recipe up soon!)

Vegan Breakfast Recipe: Naughty macadamia chocolate maple scrolls

So, maybe it's the weekend and you're thinking pastry is everything you'd like for breakfast. Or an afternoon snack. Or a just-anytime-treat. I don't blame you, friend. Pastry is AH-MAY-ZING. And I have adapted these little beauties for all your delicious bread-y breakfast and snack needs.

Vegan Dinner Recipe: Nosages and hash browns.

You know how sometimes you think that a lazy fry up is just the ticket for a quiet night in? Well, this is that fry up. It's super quick (provided you've done a wee bit of prep earlier) and it's FRIED, so that is a bonus. And I like to serve it with steamed veggies so it takes on the vibe of a well rounded meal.

Alternatively, scrap the veggies, fry up some onion and mushroom, roast some tomatoes in rock salt, and serve this meal up as a massive vegan breakfast.

So versatile!