Quick + Easy Breakfasts
Oat Waffles
Green Smoothie
Parfait
Scrambled Tofu
Potato Waffles
Breakfast cookie
1. Choose Your Leaves
Kale and/or Spinach/Swiss chard and/or Lettuce/Sunflower sprouts
2. Choose Your Base
Purified water and/or Coconut water and/or fruit juice and/or NonDairy Milk
3. Choose Some Fruit
Banana
or
Mango
or
Berries or
Pear
Tip: Try with frozen fruits and/or add a few dates if needing it sweeter or to offset any bitter taste from greens.
4. Add Some Kick
Spirulina/Chlorella and/or Maca Powder and/or Chia seed
5. Blend away Whiz together in your blender until smooth, and drink straight away.
Green Smoothie Ingredients: 4 cups spinach 1 cups pineapple, frozen 1 cups mango, frozen 1 Banana, fresh or frozen (optional) 2 cups pineapple juice
Yields: 4 cups Description: If you don’t like eating your greens in a salad this is a great way to still get them in your diet. In fact, you can eat more greens this way then you can eating a salad. Directions: Put all ingredients in blender in the order listed. Blend on high till well blended.
Oat Waffles
Yields: 4 medium-small or 1 x-large Description: These waffles are a huge hit in our house! Make more batter and store it in a jar in your refrigerator to use the next morning!
Ingredients: 2 cups - Oats 1 handful - Almonds 1 handful - Walnuts 1 Tbsp - Chia Seed 1 Tbsp - natural sweetener or 3-4 pitted dates 1 Tbsp - hemp (optional) 1/2 tsp - Salt 1 tsp - Vanilla 2 cups water (more if needed)
Directions: Pre-heat waffle iron at almost the highest temp. Put all ingredients in blender and blend on high till well blended. Add water if batter is too thick. Pour evenly into waffle iron being careful not to over fill. Allow to cook for a few minutes before attempting to open. Wiggle top while lifting to make sure it doesn’t stick.
Scrambled Tofu
Yields: 2 servings Description: Awesome with potato waffles, in a breakfast burrito or on top of toast!
Ingredients: 1 pkg tofu, firm 1/2 onion diced small 1 clove garlic minced 1/2 tsp salt or to taste 1 tsp Chik’Nish seasoning 1/2 tsp turmeric 1 med tomato diced 1 handful spinach chopped coarsly
Directions: Before pan heats, add a little grapeseed oil and coarsly crumble tofu (into large chunks) adding onion, garlic, salt, Chik’Nish and tumeric. Mix together and cook on med-high heat till onion and garlic are sauted well and tofu slightly browned. Chop up your tomato and throw it into your mix and let it cook for 3-5 minutes until the tomatoes cook down just a little. Add spinach and cook till spinach is wilted.
Potato Waffles
Yields: 3 Potato Waffles Description: Quick and easy way to have hashbrowns! Really good with scrambled tofu and salsa!
Ingredients: 4 med-large potatoes 1/2 tsp salt
Directions: Pre-heat waffle iron to high. Scrub and shred poatoes into a bowl. Sprinkle with salt and mix. Set aside for 5 minutes. Squeeze out water from potatoes and drain. Lightly spray waffle iron with oil. Put down an even amount of potatoes, close the lid and let cook for 5 minutes. A little longer if you like them crunchier.
Parfait Ingredients: Millet Pudding or/ Vegan Yogurt Granola Fruit of your choice
Yields: Description: Individual parfait cups make it easy for serving those who are picky eaters. Its quick and fancy looking too! Directions: Layer ingredients and enjoy your tasty parfait!
Millet Pudding
Yields: 3 1/2 cups Description: Millet pudding is a great replacement for yogurt in parfaits. It doesn’t taste like yogurt, but it does still have that creamy texture. Use it as a good whole grain replacement for those calorie rich puddings.
Ingredients:
Directions: Rinse millet and place in pot with water. Bring to a boil and reduce heat until water is gone and millet is soft. Immediately blend millet with the remaining ingredients. Allow to cool on the counter (will not work if you put in the fridge). After it is cooled place in the fridge. Add more milk if you desire a different consistency.
1 c millet rinsed 3 c water 1/4 t salt 1 1/2 t vanilla 1/2 c honey 1/4 c sugar 1 c milk
Banana Breakfast cookie
Yields: 12 large cookies or 24 smaller Description: These cookies are awesome on the run! Get creative with what you put in them!
Ingredients: 11/2 c mashed bananas (2 med-large) 1 c steamed dates, mushed 1/2 c chopped almonds, or other nut 1/4 c oil or 1/4 cup vegan milk and 2 Tbsp ground flax seed 1 tsp vanilla 1/2 tsp salt 2 c reg oats or 1 quick and 1 reg
Directions: Pre-heat oven to 350F. Mash bananas in bowl and add the rest of ingredients. Mix well and spoon out onto cookie tray with parchment paper. Bake for 25 minutes! Variations add: Coconut shreds Raisins Nuts Seeds Hemp
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