A mono-meal of fruit! Mono-meal
meaning eating a lot of one fruit, it could be 10 bananas, 3 cartons of
strawberries, 6 mangoes, apples, oranges etc. etc. you catch my drift! Why is
this easy? Because no prep involved except lifting and putting to mouth.
Why is it healthy? Mono-meals of
fruit are the easiest thing for your stomach to digest. Fruit is the fastest
digesting food for our bodies which means the body doesn’t have to strain to
digest it. It does it with ease, leaving more energy to do other things like
heal and play!
The reason mono-meals are better
than mixed fruit meals is because if you give the body different types of fruit
all at once it will have to struggle slightly as different types of fruit are
digested at different speeds. So eating the one type of fruit is best.
Oh here’s an important tip:
melons can be digested in 15 mins – provided you don’t have any dead rotting
flesh stuck in your gut– so always eat melon alone…for optimum digestion. If
you have good digestion 24 / 7 then you may disregard this and experiment!
A fruit smoothie! There are so many options here I don’t even know if there’s a point explaining! Basically get 1 or 2 fruits that are reasonably similar in sweetness or in the same fruit groups so they digest well together, put in the blender (to the top), add some sort of liquid like water, coconut water, plant based milk, apple juice, orange juice etc., some greens or nuts or powders, or any fancy stuff you want in your smoothie to make you feel like you’re eating superfoods, something to give it extra sweetness because your blending the fruit with something less sweet so like dates, coconut sugar, or lucuma powder (never tried it but heard it nice) and blend!
Cereal! An old traditional
favourite, how simple can you get. Just find your favourite plant based milk
and pick a relatively clean cereal. I would highly recommend organic cereals,
gluten free is good, and the lesser processed the better and check the
ingredients to make sure there is no milk or honey! If you get a plain cereal
you can always jazz it up with the likes of dates, goji berries, nuts, seeds,
agave syrup, fresh berries, banana etc.! Again the possibilities are endless!
Toast. Hi I said simple breakfast ideas! Try to get
organic bread because word on the street is that wheat is GMO and sprayed with
all kinds of dirty filthy chemicals. That being said though I myself do not buy
organic bread (because my mum buys the bread). But when I don’t live at home I
don’t really buy bread unless I see organic bread. Oh and sorry to break it to
anyone Irish, our beloved traditional brown bread and soda bread is not vegan.
It has buttermilk and butter in it.
This is unfortunate but I have,
on my mental to-do list, a plan to try to make a vegan version. I have seen
some recipes online I just need to get a day to do it. If successful I will
share.
But yeh don’t be afraid of toast!
If it is a whole organic toast it’s a natural enough food! High carb for the
win!
Beans on toast J People like beans on
toast! And it’s vegan too….do I need to explain this anymore? People surely
know how to make beans on toast? Try organic baked beans if you can spend the extra few cent...it's just better for everyone.
Scrambled tofu…oooh yeessss I
went there…. :) But no just wait until I
explain here. Scrambled tofu is a vegan take on scrambled egg, minus the
chicken period. It is really similar in texture and colour and personally when
I made it first I thought it tasted like scrambled egg! But it’s been a while
so I don’t know how similar it really was but my aunty and uncle absolutely
loved it and they know the real thing. There are so many recipes online but I’ll
give you a list of what I put into it, and you can look at actual recipes
online to get a general estimate of quantities: Firm tofu, plant based milk,
vegan mayo, turmeric, cumin, paprika, nutritional yeast, salt&pepper, I
might have put lemon juice in to….but check the recipes online for a breakfast
version and experiment! It’s amazeballs.
Photo courtesy of: http://vegandad.blogspot.ie/2008/10/vegan-moms-scrambled-tofu.html
Smoothie bowls! Smoothie bowls
have taken Instagram by storm….mainly because they look pretty. But they are
basically just thicker smoothies in a bowl with toppings of your choice.
They can be anything from
berries, shredded coconut, coconut sugar, crushed nuts, goji berries etc.
Personally I think smoothie bowls should be thicker than drinking smoothies so
kind of like melted icecream….so using frozen fruit along with your normal
ingredients helps make it thicker. And use less water. I don’t know how obvious
that one is so I had to say it..!
Fruit salad. I know I said it is
better to eat one type of fruit at a time for your digestion’s sake but if
you’re feeling adventurous or if you have a steel stomach then experiment away
with different combos!
A selection of different types of
melon would be nice with passion fruit over the top! Or plums, peaches and
nectarines. Or different citrus fruits in winter. Or all three…! Be an
artist..! I would recommend soya natural yoghurt on top if you had to have a
topping. My favourite food growing up was fruit salad and natural (Greek)
yoghurt and I swear it is still unreal but with plant based yoghurt instead!
(because yoghurt is cultured cow pus) J
Porridge. A big one for us in
Ireland because eating fresh fruit on a cold winters day isn’t the most
satisfying breakfast you can have….especially before going out in the gale
force winds and icy rain. (What lovely winters we have…) SO porridge is the
answer! For me anyway! What I recently learned to do is to soak my porridge
over night! I do this with juice or my plant based milk and then in the morning
it’s basically already cooked and all I need to do is heat it up. It’s far
quicker than cooking it from scratch in the morning.
And again porridge is a blank
canvas for all your healthy sprinkles so add your berries and your nuts and
your dates and you have yourself an interesting breakfast.
If you add chia seeds to it while
it’s soaking overnight too it makes it even softer and smoother in the morning.
Chia seeds do some weird shit to things. But good shit. Try it honestly.
Avocado on toast! So easy, so
tasty, so quick to make. Make sure your avocado is soft to feel, scoop it out
and mash with lemon juice, salt and pepper. Spread on lovely organic toast.
Bam. Enjoy.
Oh here’s an important tip: melons can be digested in 15 mins – provided you don’t have any dead rotting flesh stuck in your gut– so always eat melon alone…for optimum digestion. If you have good digestion 24 / 7 then you may disregard this and experiment!
Photo courtesy of: http://www.taste.com.au/recipes/17292/porridge+with+banana+pecan+topping
Photo courtesy of: http://healthycookingcamp.com/recipe-gabbys-avocado-toast/
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