Chia breakfast and BLT wraps

These have been my two most common foods this week. And my chia breakfast I've been having for months and months now.

Chia Cereal:
3 tbsp chia seeds
1 scoop of vega nutritional shake vanilla flavor
enough water to cover
2 tbsp apple sweetened cranberries.

Mix everything together and let it soak for a few minutes and it is ready to consume. I also travelled around New York/ New Jersey last week, and took ziplock bags full of these three ingredients and I had an instant nutritional breakfast anywhere I went.


BLT wraps:
This takes less than 5 minutes to make, I was inspired by visiting a vegan restaurant in NYC and ordered this, and it was sooo amazing! I craved it so much afterwards that as soon as I came home I bought the ingredients so I could make it too.

2-3 leaves of romaine
1/2 tbsp vegan mayo
1 slice of cheddar vegan cheese (I use Daiya)
3-4 slices of tomato
(the restaurant also had avocado in the wrap, however the avocados at my local organic store were pretty unripe so I went without)
2 slices of tempeh bacon
1 wrap

I take the shortcut way, of using a microwave.. Take a wrap, put the slice of cheese on one side, plus 2 slices of bacon.  Microwave for 45 seconds. Add the tomato, lettuce, and mayo to the other side of the wrap. Roll it up and consume :)

So easy and so satisfying :)

And it's Monday again

For breakfast I had:

Apricot Mesquite chia cereal
2 tbsp chia seeds
soaked in 1 cup water
4 sliced apricots
1 sliced mango
1/2 tbsp of mesquite

I also had a small bowl of millet cereal with flax milk-- at breakfast late and wasn't sure when I'd be getting lunch.

Fo lunch I made:

Refried Black Bean Quesadilla with pumpkin seed cheese smothered swiss chard
Makes 2

2 rice tortilla
1 tomato chopped
6 tbsp refried black beans
1 small bundle swiss chard

cheese--
1 cup pumpkin seeds
 2-3 tbsp water
3 tbsp lemon juice
2 tbsp nutritional yeast
2 teaspoons agave
1 dash braggs

Mix the cheese ingredients in a blender until chunky -- consistency of ricotta.

Wash and chop the swiss chard, and pour cheese mixture on top, mix well.

Spread out 3tbsps refried beans onto the middle of the tortilla and put it in the oven
or broiler for 5-7 minutes until rice tortilla gets soft in the middle and crispy on the outside.

Remove tortilla from oven and spread tomatoes, in the middle and half of the swiss chard cheese mixture.


Dinner:

Veggie burgers
Sauerkraut
Daiya swiss cheese
ketchup
bread
bread and butter pickles

I got home late tonight.. so picked up some of my favorite veggie burgers, put on the cheese -- can throw them in the oven or microwave and then add the rest of the ingredients :)

Super easy.

Busy Mondays

A few months ago I became really bored of the regular breakfast options.  I used to be good at either getting a vegetable juice in the morning or a green smoothie.  But after having some pretty bad headaches quite often, I decided to switch up a lot in my regular food routine.  I stopped eating bananas and actually having smoothies and juices -- I wasn't sure if the easy assimilation of the sugars were maybe part of the issue in my headaches?? Really not sure.

I don't like heavy foods for breakfast.  

Somehow I ended up with this recipe, which I love.

Chocolate Apple Chia 'Cereal'

2-3 apples chopped (pears can also be used or berries) 

2tbsp-3 tbsp of chia seeds soaked in 1-2 cups of water or nut/seed mylk of choice

1 tbsp of cocoa powder

1/2 tbsp of lucuma powder (optional) 

1 micropinch of stevia

Cut up apples (pears or berries) and place in a large bowl.

Measure chia seeds and put in a glass, fill the glass almost to the rim of water or mylk.  

Let sit for 5 minutes -- stirring every minute or so.  

Add stevia and powders to chia mixture.

Once chia seeds inflate, pour them over cut fruit.  

For Lunch, I had bought some Chorizo and decided to cook that up with some beans.  

Chorizo Green Beans:

2 cups green beans

1/2 cup vegan chorizo

1 tbsp tomato paste

1 1/2 tbsp of wine vinegar

1/4 cup of water

1 dash red pepper flakes

1/4 tsp garlic powder

2 tbsp of nutritional yeast

Combine all ingredients.

Let simmer for 5-10 minutes

Until green beans have become hot

but still crunchy