3 High Protein Vegan Breakfasts Ideas

Here are three high-protein vegan breakfast ideas that take 15 minutes or less to make. What's up everybody? Welcome back to my channel. My name is Nimai Delgado. I am a vegan fitness coach and trainer, former professional bodybuilder, and today I'm going to share some of my favorite go-to recipes for breakfast. So for me, whenever I first wake up, I don't really feel like cooking. My meals in the morning tend to be very practical, meaning that they are tasty, they are highly nutritious, and they are quick to make. Because I don't want to spend most of my time cooking, I would rather spend that on my morning routine or my work phone calls, or maybe just going to the gym early. And I don't like to train with a very full stomach, so I like to have lighter meals. All right, so let's get right into these first meals. So what I have here are three different versions of overnight oats. Overnight oats is quite literally the most basic and simple recipe one could possibly make. You literally just have to mix ingredients, put it in the fridge, and forget about it. Wake up, grab it out of the fridge, and eat it. I made three different versions of overnight oats here, and each one of them has a little bit of a different flavor profile, just so you can continue to switch things up and not get bored with your breakfast. One great thing about overnight oats is these also serve as a meal prep. So they store for a few days, and you can travel with them just because you can put caps on them and take them with you and eat them even on your way to work if you're crunched for time. I like to start off my overnight oats with the same base and then add different flavors on top, so that gives them a different flavor profile. So the base consists of one cup of rolled oats, one tablespoon of chia seeds, one tablespoon of vanilla extract, and then I will add my different flavors. So this first container, I wanted to give it a little bit more of a sweeter profile, so I added blueberries and blackberries. I wanted the second recipe to be more of a chocolatey, nutty flavor, so I added PB Fit, which is just dehydrated peanut butter powder, which also has a little bit of protein in it as well. And then I threw in some cacao nibs as well as some banana. And then the third recipe, I wanted it to have a little bit of a higher protein profile, so I added one scoop of vanilla ice cream flavor from veg protein. And again, I wanted a little bit of a different flavor, so I added PB Fit to this one as well. Overall, the calories for these overnight oat recipes is roughly 500 calories to 700 calories, depending on the recipe, and they each have over 25 grams of protein, so you're talking about 25 to even 45 grams of protein for the one that I added the veg vanilla ice cream to. So overall, if you are crunched for time, this is the best option. So this would be considered a meal prep option, and the best part is that you make it the night before, so before you go to bed, put it into the fridge, wake up, take it, and then eat it on the go. So it literally takes zero time in the morning, but a little bit of time the night before. Moving on to my favorite of the three recipes, which is avocado toast. As you'll find out on this channel, I really love avocados, especially all forms of avocado toast. So here is my basic avocado toast recipe with a little bit of a twist. So the first thing you're going to want to start off with is the bread. Now, I went to Whole Foods and grabbed this loaf of sourdough bread, and I particularly love sourdough bread because I like the flavor, especially with avocado toast, and I just love fresh bread. You could also do this recipe with Ezekiel bread or Dave's Killer Bread, each of which will have a little bit of a different nutritional profile, but for the sake of this recipe, I'm using sourdough. So first thing you'll want to do is start cutting up the avocados. I used two whole medium avocados, put it into a bowl, put some salt and pepper and garlic spices in it to give it a little bit more flavor, and then I washed some chickpeas and then added the chickpeas to the avocado and then mixed it up until it was nice and blended, and then I toasted my bread. I then smothered each piece of bread with this avocado and chickpea blend mix, and I topped it off with some microgreens because I like to try to get in my greens in different ways, and microgreens do contain quite a bit of micronutrients. So here you go. This is, again, a really, really easy and simple to make avocado toast recipe, and it is absolutely delicious. Last but not least, you guessed it, a smoothie. You'll see a lot of smoothies on this channel as well. Smoothies are my go-to breakfast meal whenever I am crunched for time and I just want to have something really fast. I can sip on it during my work calls, so I always start off my smoothies with a plant milk base. I chose to use soy milk in this case just because I like the texture of soy milk. I believe one cup of soy milk also has six grams of protein, so you're getting the added protein there as well. I'll then add one scoop of veg chocolate peanut butter cup protein powder. This has 25 grams of protein per scoop and tastes absolutely incredible. It mixes very well. Next, I'll add a banana, and then I will throw in some cacao nibs, and these cacao nibs, they're a little bitter, but they give the smoothie a nice crunchy surprise whenever you're drinking it, so it also adds a really great flavor as well, and they're filled with antioxidants, so it's another highly nutritious food that I like to sprinkle into my smoothie recipes. All right, so here you have it. Here are three really easy breakfast ideas, and they all have over 25 grams of protein, so you're making sure that you're hitting your protein targets for whatever your fitness goals are, and if you want to get more into the specifics of what you should be eating for your fitness goals as a plant-based athlete, then feel free to click the link in my bio and follow the coaching application form so we can talk more about that, but in the meantime, don't forget to hit that like and subscribe button. Let me know in the comments if you try these recipes and which one you like the best, and also let me know what kind of video you would like to see from me in the future. Thanks for watching, and I will see you next time.