Favorite vegan breakfast?

[lozza]

Recently I've been having smoothies for breakfast or oatmeal. I'm trying not to eat too much bread, although toast is great in the mornings :>

isnt it just? :) mmm
i always tell myself im not going to have toast & coffee for breakfast, but when i am tired and cold, and have to get up for work, it feels like my only source of comfort.

[dada]

i only had black coffee this morning :(

[cedarblue]

I love a smoothie made with soy milk, banana, sesame seeds, and a few salad greens thrown in for luck ! Tastes pretty good and keeps me goin till lunch :)



for spirit, eve and anyone else who just does fruit at breakfast time. i am trying to up my raw intake and am concentrating on just having fruit for breakfast. i have made smoothies for about three days and today had a bowl of fruit salad - trouble is a couple of hours later i'm hungry again and then feel defeated, end up having toast and marmite when i really want to eat raw up to evening dinner time.

anyone else not last long on fruit based breakfasts? :(

[indianvegan]

Cedarblue, you are right ! I too faced the same hunger problem then I had to revert back to cereals plus fruits. I could not continue longer.

[cedarblue]

i am going to persevere and add some bulk to my smoothies/fruit salad like some dried dates or figs, dried fruits or ground nuts.

i want to persevere with the raw to dinner time if i can.


this morning i had a banana, an orange, slice of fresh pineapple, 5 dried dates, handful of almonds and hazelnuts as a smoothie at 9.15am, lets see how long it keeps me going for....

[indianvegan]

Almond and Cashew Nuts should work wonder with figs and raisins.

Coconut milk, Milk of Sesame seeds/Soyabean can be added too.

Manish

[cedarblue]

better today, i got a bit empty feeling about 11.45am but i had forgotten to take my apple with me for a snack but had to wait for lunch till 1.30 - i was really hungry by then:D

[DancingWillow]

for spirit, eve and anyone else who just does fruit at breakfast time. i am trying to up my raw intake and am concentrating on just having fruit for breakfast. i have made smoothies for about three days and today had a bowl of fruit salad - trouble is a couple of hours later i'm hungry again and then feel defeated, end up having toast and marmite when i really want to eat raw up to evening dinner time.

anyone else not last long on fruit based breakfasts? :(

Adding raw nuts might help. Raw walnuts are very filling. Or a couple of tablespoons of a raw nut butter of your choice...

Btw, what made you choose dinner as the non-raw meal? I'm interested and curious, because I've been thinking about trying to eat raw all day except for a partially cooked lunch (for instance, salad and a bowl of rice for lunch). My reasoning was that I don't want to burden my digestion with non-raw foods first thing in the morning or at night when my stomach should be resting. I don't know anything about it though, that's just my personal idea/theory.

[cedarblue]

hi dw - i chose the evening meal purely because thats when we all sit down to dinner together. i dont always have time to cook lunchtimes and i like us to all eat the same evening meal too.

you are right about the morning being a good and receptive time for raw stuffs, especially fruit and a light meal is ideal for the last meal of the day too - it just works out better for us this way at the moment.

[Korn]

anyone else not last long on fruit based breakfasts? :(
If I only eat fruit or fruit juices in the morning (if I eat that early), I normally eat some nuts as well (or something else protein rich): the protein in nuts and some seeds (http://www.highproteinfoods.net/nuts-seeds) that makes them good combination with the relatively low (http://www.highproteinfoods.net/fruit) protein levels of fruits.

[cedarblue]

this morning i had a smoothie (or it ended up a thickie) of 1 banana, 1 nectarine, 1 slice of fresh pineapple, 2 dried figs, 5 dried dates, sprinkle of sesame seeds and a handful of mixed nuts. phew - im full :)


thanks for the charts korn.

[cedarblue]

theres no doubt about it, adding dried fruits or nuts to my fruit smoothie definately keeps me going longer without getting hungry.
today; 1 banana, 1/4 melon, thick slice fresh pineapple, 5 dried dates.

[cedarblue]

yesterday: slice of melon, mango, banana, blueberries, some soaked mixed nuts and seeds.

today: orange, banana, kiwi fruit, dried raisins.

[my3labs]

I usually eat fruit (ie: watermelon, banana, grapes, etc).
I'm trying to stay away from bread. Refined carbs are not my friend.

[Tigerlily]

Lately it's been Koala Crisp cereal.

[gertvegan]

Weetabix (or Doves Farm BioBiz), Farleys rusk, and soya milk.:D

[Troutina]

Tomorrow I'm going to give vegan yoghurt another try, and I've got some organic blueberries to have with it, yum!

[sandra]

I didn't know Farley's rusks were vegan, I used to love them, I'll get some tomorrow! :)

[n00dlez]

Fruity Pebbles or Fruit Loops with soymilk. Or sometimes I might eat fruit and drink water or soymilk with it.

[auntierozzi]

Porridge with almond buttery stuff and apple syrup in. I think that I am addicted to this infact.

[Mystic]

I'm going through a stage of eating peanut butter on toast

[emmapresley]

we've just started making banana smoothies with soya milk..bananas..erm..that's it really :D

suppose i could add extra stuff to make it more nutrient dense (nutrient dense sounds really grown up..hurrr!)

[SpaceMonkey]

For the last couple weeks I've been eating blueberry pancakes nearly every morning. Truly the breakfast of champions.

[veggiegirl52]

Hi! I am a young vegan. (13) I usually don't eat breakfast never have......... But my favorite lunch. Is avocado rolls. Whitch I ALWAYS get if I'm at a japanese restaraunt. And my local grocery store has them in there sushi section. I've got lunch covered.....But what do you guys like for dinner?

[fiamma]

Hi veggiegirl,
try the What do you have for dinner? (http://www.veganforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=598) thread, or What did you eat today? (http://www.veganforum.com/forums/showthread.php?p=270613#post270613)
You'll get lots of ideas there.