I’m back from a long weekend spent house-sitting, and am reluctantly participating in the real world once again. While I did my fair share of reading, napping and sunning as planned, my plans of wildly creative cooking may or may not have fallen through. Why is that? Because I ended up eating breakfast. For every meal. 14 meals in a row. I wish I was exaggerating. No I don’t. I love breakfast.
Breakfast Bonanza
It started innocently enough when I found three boxes of my favorite cereal in a cabinet. Yes, Shredded Wheat N’ Bran is my favorite cereal. Don’t judge. Or do. I’ll eat it anyway. Especially with a giant blob of fresh almond butter.
Then I found buckwheat pancake mix in the fridge (yeah, it was in the fridge…). I mixed in a bunch of pureed zucchini from the garden, because life’s just better when you can pretend stuff-smothered-in-maple-syrup is extra-healthy.
The fridge yielded more weird non-refrigerator-necessary things–this time in the form of a bag of vital wheat gluten. I whipped up my favorite vegan breakfast patties and enjoyed them with some black bean and fresh-from-the-garden-corn hash.
There were a lot of zucchinis in the garden, so of course a breakfast, lunch and dinner of whole-grain-goodness healthy zucchini muffins was necessary.
And more zucchini. Form of…zucchini and tofu scramblers.
You would think that after rotating through variations on the above for every meal, I’d get home and enjoy a big bowl of salad, pasta or other daytime-acceptable food. Nope. I immediately took myself out for a treat–a vegan breakfast scone from Whole Foods. For lunch.
Could you eat breakfast for every meal? I already miss pancakes. Which could be remedied by the simple purchase of a $20 nonstick pan. But really, why make life too easy? Maybe I’ll go get a bagel for lunch…
Your housesitting sounds like a sweet gig – free food and a change of scenery? Lucky girl!
I could TOTALLY do breakfast for every meal! I’m a sucker for cereal and I just learned how to poach eggs – between that, bagels and fresh pancakes (ooh ooh and veggie sausages!!!) I could eat nothing but breakfast and be a happy camper.
Glad I’m not the only breakfast fan! And oh man, I don’t even buy cereal for myself (I’ll save it for house-sitting
), because I will demolish a box in an hour. Or less.
Oh man this post is making me drool hardcore! Breakfast is definitely my favorite meal of the day too– I would never have any qualms with eating waffles or scrambled eggs and salsa 24/7 haha
Ooo, eggs and salsa! I don’t eat eggs, and I still want a giant plate of that
I love it … IF it’s savory. I tend to get tired of pancakes easily although I do love maple syrup very, very much.
I have been wanting to try a tofu scramble forever. I had my mind set on making vegan breakfast burritos with scrambled tofu, black beans, salsa and all that, but then I never actually did. Have you made that before?
I do agree that I want savory over sweet for breakfast–but oh yum, the occasional syrup-smothered treat is a necessity in my life. I have done scramblers with black beans and tomato/mex spices, so pretty close (and pretty darn delicious).
Is it a HUGE difference in taste from egg? Because I imagine with all the other overpowering flavors it’s not. This makes it sound like I love eggs. I don’t. Just curious really!
I’m not sure how comparable they are. It’s my usual issue with vegan/veggie “replacement” foods–they are SO good for what they are, yet they get branded/promoted as being “just like” the meat/egg version and then people are disappointed/think it’s not good because they expect something identical rather than enjoying it for what it is. I love tofu scramblers, but, they’re tofu scramblers, so it’s good and tofu, but it’s not an egg. Then again…anything covered in salsa in probably going to taste like salsa ;D
Yeah I totally see what you mean. Things like all the fake meat slices, sausage patties, cheese, etc. If I went by that for what vegan food is I’d NEVER eat it because it tastes terrible in comparison. But there’s no need to compare generally. Just think outside the box!
Haha there are definitely days when everything I eat could be considered a breakfast food. I just love smoothies, yogurt, cereal… haha
Hilarious. I would never expect anything less from you. What I love most is you incorporate so many veggies that it’s not just carbscarbscarbs for breakfast. That’s an easy rut to get into.
Yeah, I try to shake it up with veggies/heavy protein options. Totally in love with vital wheat gluten based things right now. Which I guess is still carb-derived, but a little better than just bread.
Well if those patties taste even half as good as they look, I can see why you’d be obsessed!
All your meals look delicious, who gets to decide what’s breakfast food and what’s dinner food anyway? Pshh!
I could probably eat breakfast for every meal, but only for a few days. I’d eventually be swayed by something not breakfast-appropriate, like pasta. I totally prefer savoury breakfast foods though, I’d get pretty bored of sweet things after one meal.
That’s right, I’m just challenging definitions and traditions, haha. I’ll pretend it’s a counter-culture movement. I definitely couldn’t do a sweet breakfast every day either, but luckily there are lots of options for both sweet and savory.
Breakfast is pretty awesome. Although I’m a fan of most breakfast foods, I think muffins and cereal are my favs (carb much???)
Mmm, carbs–the best reason to get up in the morning
Breakfast = my favorite meal of the day! I’m planning on making breakfast for dinner this week too
I am right with you! I’d eat breakfast all day every day if I could.
Do you have a recipe for the sausages? What a cool idea!
I do! I’ll have to put it together, maybe make a post about it, since I can link to the recipe I (sort of) use, but I change it SO much that it’s not even close to the same thing, haha.
Great – thanks!
P.S. There’s a surprise for you on my blog today.
Well you already know how much I love breakfast! But seriously I could definitely eat breakfast for every meal of the day, it would be bliss! I think a nice mix of weetabix, toast and dippy eggs and waffles would be ideal
Those zucchini muffins look great and I would absolutely love that breakfast scone – looks so good!
That scone was such a treat! It was absolutely full of walnuts and dates…The Whole Foods bakery knows what it’s doing, that’s for sure.
I LOVE breakfast! I could totally eat it for every meal. Especially cereal! Love it, which is why I never buy it
I never buy it either! I’ll eat an entire box in an hour, no problem. So I just save it for treats/when I find it at someone else’s house.
Breakfast is my favourite meal of the day, it’s got coffee on it’s side which I don’t have at any other meal though, so that may play a large factor in the win. I love all these zucchini baked goods! I grew cucumbers in the garden but now I wish I grew some zucchini!
Mmm, coffee is a GREAT reason to love breakfast, haha. Now I’m seriously considering a side trip to Starbucks for a latte, mmm. And I planted zucchini but got absolutely no zucchinis, so I went a little crazy when I had access to them over the long weekend
How fun that you got to raid the house and make fun meals with what you found! I love breakfast too!
Yay for house sitting, that is just the best situation! or most of the time at least
Lovin this breakfasty post too… it is most certainly my favorite meal of the day, although it sure didn’t used to when I “feared” it!
I LOVE breakfast, and could eat breakfast foods for every meal. Sometimes I do!
That is unbelievable that you ate 14 breakfasts in a row. I’m not sure I could do that. I love my evening meal. Your buckwheat pancakes look delicious – perhaps I could eat those for dinner. Glad the house-sitting went well xx
I salute your dedication to the cause; breakfast rocks
I could eat it for evey meal, love it… that courgette/tofu scramble looks amazing and what else could you have done when you found that cereal? It would have been rude not to eat it….!
If you’ve got any of that buckwheat pancake mix, try carrot pancakes with cinnamon, and maple syrup and blueberries on top – heaven.
I should have snatched the rest of the mix, it was so good–and make a carrot-cake-like version? Brilliant! I did see the same mix at a grocery store, so I think I might have to go buy some (and a proper pan that will work for making pancakes) and give that a try.
Give it a go, I promise you won’t regret it!
Hahah you are my hero…breakfast for the win! I love eggs but can’t do savory in the morning…which means that by default I have breakfast for lunch/dinner preeetttyy often! I know people think I’m kidding when I say that breakfast is my main motivation for waking up in the morning but I am dead serious
! Hope you enjoyed your bagel!
Haha, me too–I’m always excited to get up and out of bed in the morning because it means it’s breakfast time!
I probably could eat breakfast for every meal. I love nothing better than a breakfast type sandwich for lunch. Yum!! The tofu scramble looks really yummy!
this is totally awesome that you ate nothing but breakfast. I love breakfast, love Love LOVE.
and I can only imagine how incredible those breakfast patties taste… vital wheat gluten is so GAAH tasty good, but it puffs me up and makes my joints ache, so I really have to want it. we made a couple things with it in class, which was really fun as I have only had it in restaurants before.
breakfast rules! welcome back to reality
(where you can still eat breakfast all the time!).
Oh, what did you get to make with it in class? And yeah, I love vital wheat gluten, but that’s the problem–it’s all gluten. And I’d imagine it would be pretty hard to come up with a gluten-free version