Vegan Cooked Breakfast

Now, this is a breakfast for champions!

Nothing Beats Fresh Orange Juice

For years now, I have avoided store-bought orange juice. Why?! It's because I learned the truth about these products, and then it all made sense...

Have you ever wondered why every carton of Tropicana or Tesco home brand orange juice tastes the same? Even though every orange naturally tastes slightly different, some sweeter and others more sour? 

The oranges used to make the cartons of OJ are pressed for their juice and pulp, and the oxygen removed for long-term storage. They can then store the juice in massive containers for up to a year rendering the liquid stripped of its taste and colour. The flavours are readded artificially before its marketed and sold to you as fresh, pure, and 100% orange juice.

The orange juice companies pay perfume manufacturers to create their signature taste; yes, that's right, your carton's flavour of orange juice tastes the same every time because it is fake!

How is this not on the label, you may be wondering?! The perfume manufacturers create the flavours using orange and pulp extracts, so legally, they do not need to state this process.

Most importantly, the store-bought orange juice is also pasterurised to remove harmful bacteria and increase its shelf life. However, this also decreases the natural benefits of heat-sensitive vitamins, nutrients, and flavours in the juice...

Of course, that doesn't mean not-from concentrate juices are completely unhealthy, however Harvard nurses health study suggested that drinking these juices even the pure and naturally labeled ones isn't much better for us than soda and other artificially sweetened drinks.

With this in mind, enjoy your breakfast with freshly squeezed orange juice next time. You can run your oranges through a juicer or a whole fruit press to save time. I quite enjoy squeezing my citrus by hand even though I have a juicer doing it this way, I can daydream until the process is complete with ease. 

Read more about the truth regarding carton orange juice here and the benefits of freshly made orange juice here.



Beans at Breakfast!

Forget opening a tin of baked beans which are loaded with salt and sugar, instead opt for a homemade baked beans recipe which will serve you many days in the same week. I love this recipe as it's smoky and sweet without any hidden additives.

The sauce is easy to make with passata, herbs, vegan Worcester sauce, cooked white beans and a couple other simple ingredients to make the flavours pop. Add this to your cooked breakfast one day and use the rest simply on toast another day.

Vegan Cooked Breakfast

Serves 2

INGREDIENTS

• 1 batch of smoked tofu
• 1/4 batch of homemade baked beans
• 1/2 a packet of mushrooms, sliced and cooked
• 1 avocado, cut in half and sliced
• 1/2 a packet of spinach, wilted
• 4 slices of bread, toasted
• Plant-based butter for your toast
• 2 glasses of freshly squeezed orange juice

METHOD

1. First cook your smoky baked beans these take around 20 minutes, if you've done this in advance, reheat as needed.
2. Prepare all of the fresh ingredients, I used a big frying pan to cook my mushrooms and spinach until the spinach is wilted and the mushrooms are cooked through, then I put those aside to keep warm to prep my tofu scramble both only take a few minutes to cook.
3. Slice your bread, toast, and spread with your plant-based butter, cut your avocado, and have everything cooked through and ready to plate up.
4. Serve each of your components on each plate, along with a glass of fresh orange juice.

Enjoy!

Blog post by Rose Wyles - The Vegan Nutritionist

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