What A Vegan Couple Eats In Day + Recipes // #2

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What A Vegan Couple Eats In Day + Recipes // #2

Happy Friday! Chris and I are back with another video and blog post for our “What A Vegan Couple Eats In a Day” series. You can check out all of the recipes and video below, and please let us know what you think! 🙂

✳︎・Breakfast・✳︎

Oatmeal has been my GO TO breakfast the past couple of months, zucchini oatmeal specifically. You can’t taste the zucchini + it adds some veggies and volume to the meal! I top mine off with whatever I have on hand + always a scoop of nut butter and man oh man it’s the best. Writing this is making me want to get up and make some even though I just had lunch 😛

Chris opted for a Tofu Scramble with veggies that we needed to use up in the fridge. He ate it as is, but you can definitely serve it with toast, in a tortilla, with hot sauce, etc.

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Easy Zucchini & Quinoa Oats {gf}

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  • Prep Time: 5 mins
  • Cook Time: 15 mins
  • Total Time: 20 minutes
  • Yield: 1
  • Category: Breakfast

Ingredients

Optional add ins:

  • 1-2 tbs almond milk
  • 1/2 tbs maple syrup

Toppings:

Instructions

  1. Bring the oats, zucchini and cinnamon to a boil over medium in the water, then bring down to a simmer until the oats absorb the water.
  2. Add in the optional add in ingredients and stir until combined.
  3. Top with peanut butter* and fresh fruit.

*In the video I used yellow squash but I prefer zucchini and recommend that for you as well.

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Easy Tofu & Veggie Scramble {oil-free}

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  • Prep Time: 10 mins
  • Cook Time: 17 mins
  • Total Time: 27 minutes
  • Yield: 2
  • Category: Breakfast

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. In a pan over medium heat, add red onion, bell pepper, and kale and cook for 5 minutes.
  2. Crumble in the tofu and mix it into the veggies. Add your spices and sesame seeds and mix in.
  3. Cook for 10-12 minutes, and season with salt and pepper to taste.

✳︎・Lunch・✳︎

For my lunch I threw a bunch of leftovers I had in the fridge and made this beautiful & easy bowl! I wrote the recipe out for you below so that you can make it + store the leftovers for easy already prepared meal(s) the following days.

For Chris’ lunch, he made use of our plethora of Western Bagels and made himself an epic Grilled Cheese bagel. If you are interested in Western Bagel, we highly recommend you try out their Perfect 10 and Everything bagels. You can use our code “simplevegan” for a discount!

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Spiced Chickpea & Quinoa Macro Bowl {Oil-free}

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  • Prep Time: 10 mins
  • Cook Time: 45 mins
  • Total Time: 55 minutes
  • Yield: 2-3
  • Category: Entree

Ingredients

  • 1 cob of corn, husked
  • 2 cups broccoli
  • 3-4 cups chopped kale

Spiced Quinoa:

  • 1 cup toasted quinoa
  • 2 cups water
  • 1 tablespoon nutritional yeast
  • 1 teaspoon smoked paprika
  • 1/4 teaspoon garam masala
  • !Spiced Chickpeas

Instructions

  1. Put 2″ of water in the bottom of a pot, then place a steamer in bottom of pan. Add broccoli and kale, cover and bring to a boil. Once boiling, reduce heat to medium low, and steam for 10-15 minutes or until desired tenderness.

Quinoa

  1. In a medium pot, combine all ingredients.
  2. Bring water to boil, cover, turn heat down to low and simmer for 15 minutes.
  3. Turn off heat and let rest covered for 10 minutes, and do not open! After 10 minutes, open, fluff with a fork and serve.

Corn

  1. Husk corn. Set aside.
  2. Put 2″ of water in the bottom of a pot big enough to hold your corn.
  3. Place a steamer in bottom of pan, then put corn into the pan (whole or cut in half).
  4. Cover and bring water to a boil. Once boiling, steam for 15 minutes.

Assembly

  1. Add desired amount into your bowl and top with lemon juice, avocado or dressing of choice.

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Grilled Cheese Bagel w/ Caramelized Onions and Mushrooms

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  • Prep Time: 10 mins
  • Cook Time: 17 mins
  • Total Time: 27 minutes
  • Yield: 1
  • Category: Entree

Ingredients

  • 4 oz mushrooms, sliced
  • 1/2 medium red onion, sliced into strips
  • 1/2 cup thinly sliced Swiss chard
  • 1/2+ cup vegetable broth or water
  • 2 slices vegan cheese
  • 1 Western Bagel everything bagel, halved

Instructions

  1. In a medium sized pan over medium heat, add in 1/4 cup vegetable broth, mushrooms and onions and cook until fragrant. Add in the chard and continue cooking until onions are caramelized and chard is wilted and bright green, around 10-15 mins. Set aside and let cool.
  2. Take a bagel, sliced in half, and toast them face down on low heat in a grill pan. Once toasted, flip over and add your choice on cheese, 1 slice on each half. Cover with a lid and allow cheese to melt.
  3. Uncover and add on the mushroom and onion mixture, seal shut and enjoy!


✳︎・Snacks・✳︎

We forgot to snap a photo of our snacks but you can check them out in the video above! I had apples, a banana, snap peas while Chris had some I Heart Keenwah puffs and we both had some bites of dark chocolate.


✳︎・Dinner・✳︎

Dinner was an easy soup. Chris and I were introduced to a place called Pea Soup Anderson’s on our way to Sonoma last year, and we just had to recreate it! Of course ours isn’t exactly the same as theirs, but we added our own little flair and topped with with bagel croutons because why not 😉

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Easy 1 Pot Split Pea Soup w/ Bagel Croutons

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  • Prep Time: 20 mins
  • Cook Time: 1 hour 30 mins
  • Total Time: 1 hour 50 minutes
  • Yield: 6-8
  • Category: Entree

Ingredients

  • Ingredients
  • 2 quarts water or vegetable broth
  • 1 cup celery diced
  • 1 cup carrots diced
  • 4 oz. mushrooms, sliced
  • 1/2 cup white onions, chopped
  • 2 cloves garlic, minced
  • 2 cups green split peas
  • 2 bay leaves
  • 1-2 teaspoons salt (as desired)
  • 1/2 tsp black pepper (or to taste)

Bagel Croutons

Instructions

  1. Sort and rinse split peas prior to cooking.
  2. In a large pot over medium heat, add 1/4 cup vegetable broth, onions, garlic, carrots, celery and mushrooms.
  3. Add in split peas, and cover with the remaining water or vegetable broth. Bring to a boil, cover, reduce heat to simmer for 1 1/2 hours.
  4. Season with salt and pepper to taste the serve with bagel croutons.

Bagel Croutons

  1. Preheat oven to 350 F and line a large baking sheet with parchment paper.
  2. Place you bagel cubes on the lined baking sheet and bake for 10-15 minutes, or until browned and crunchy.

Notes

Recipe adapted from Bob’s Red Mill.

 


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Jasmine Briones
sweetsimplevegan@gmail.com
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