stop skipping breakfast. meal prep instead!

3 breakfast recipes for lazy people like me

I (usually) skip breakfast. Because I’m lazy.

My morning routine looks like the following:

1. Wake up (after hitting snooze a few times).

2. Journal: 1 page of my train of thought.

3. Wash face & skin care.

4. Meditate: 10 minutes.

5. Walk my rescue dog Randy with my partner.

6. Get home and get ready for work: Pack my lunch, pack my bag.

7. Time permitting: eat breakfast.

8. Bike to work.

But I don’t give myself enough time in the morning. It’s always a decision between A) be late for work or B) don’t eat breakfast. I usually choose B.

But lately I’ve been experimenting with meal prepping my breakfasts. If the food is already made, it’s easy to eat it.

Here are 3 recipes I’ve meal prepped lately, which have helped me ensure that I actually do step 7 of my routine.

All of these recipes keep in the fridge for a week. You can also freeze them. I hope you enjoy them!

Oatmeal Banana Muffins

These oatmeal banana muffins have a nice streusel topping, which is totally optional. But it makes the muffins feel like a fancy morning treat.

Ingredients

For the muffins:

• 1 1/2 cups oatmeal (old fashioned oats)

• 1 1/4 cups flour

• 1/2 cup sugar

• 1 1/2 tbsp baking powder

• 1 tsp baking soda

• 1/4 tsp salt

• 1 tsp cinnamon

• 1/4 tsp nutmeg

• 1/4 cup oil

• 3 tbsp water (the water and the baking powder form the egg substitute)

• 1 tsp vanilla extract

• 3 ripe bananas, mashed

For the topping:

• 1/2 cup oatmeal

• 1/4 tsp cinnamon

• 2 tbsp brown sugar

• 2 tbsp melted vegan butter or oil

Method

1. Preheat oven to 375°

2. In a large bowl mix oatmeal, flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, salt and sugar together.

3. In a medium bowl, mash the bananas together, then mix water, oil and vanilla.

4. Add to wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and stir.

5. Line a muffin tin or grease it. Divide the batter into 12 muffins.

6. In another bowl combine topping ingredients. Sprinkle over muffin batter.

7. Bake at 375 for 18-20 minutes.

Blended and Baked Oatmeal

This oatmeal only costs $2.50 (Canadian) for the entire recipe.

Ingredients

For the oatmeal:

• 1 1/2 cups of oats

• 1/4 cup of flaxseed meal

• 1 cup of almond milk

• 3/4 cup of water

• 2 bananas

• 1 tablespoon maple syrup

• 3 tablespoons peanut butter

• 1/4 tsp baking soda

• 1 tsp cinnamon

For baking:

• 1 tsp coconut oil, or any other oil

• 1 cup mixed fruit (optional)

Method

1. Preheat your oven to 375 degrees C.

2. Add everything into a blender. All at once! Blend until smooth.

3. In the meantime, grease an 8x8 inch pan with some oil - I like to use coconut oil.

4. Pour the batter into the greased pan. If you’d like, you can sprinkle some fruit on top of the batter.

5. Bake for 1 hour. The blended and baked oatmeal will last for about a week in the fridge (in the rare case that you don’t eat it all by then!).

My Family’s Pancakes, Veganized

This pancake recipe has been in my family for generations. Generations!!!

It does typically call for egg, but a few years ago my dad started making it without egg. And it comes out the same as the version with the egg.

None of my family members can tell the difference between the versions with and without egg :)

And as a bonus, it’s cheaper to leave the egg out! It costs abut $2 to make the entire recipe.

Ingredients

• 2 cups all-purpose flour

• 1 tablespoon baking powder

• 3 tablespoons sugar

• 1/2 tsp salt

• 1 1/2 cups water, to start

• 6 tablespoons melted vegan butter (melt then measure)

Directions

1. Mix together flour, sugar, baking powder, salt.

2. Add in the melted butter and the water. Keep adding water until you reach your desired consistency. I like my pancake batter to be thick, such that it will slowly fall off my mixing spoon.

3. Cook the batter on a lightly greased frying pan. My grandma always suggested we make a tester pancake to start, so it might be good to do that!

   • How do you know when to flip the pancakes!? It’s easy. Once they start to form bubbles, and the bubbles don’t pop, then you’re ready to flip them over. And then they’re done!