(Candice hums merrily)
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- All right, so you guys have been loving
all of the recipes that we've been making lately
that are really quick, they're easy,
you can easily meal-prep them
and heat them up when you need them,
so today I thought that we would do
three easy breakfast recipes.
They're perfect for meal prep.
Hey guys, I'm Candace, the Edgy Veg,
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So today, three breakfast recipes.
I'm gonna start with a breakfast bar which is delicious.
We're gonna do a peanut butter chocolate chip breakfast bar.
Better than the grocery store protein bars
or granola bars that you can buy there
because you're making it at home.
It doesn't have extra stuff in it, sugar, filler, whatever,
bunch of fats or all that extra gunk
that you just don't want.
The second one is going to be an easy breakfast sandwich
and you're probably like, "Uh, breakfast sandwich, blah."
Well, I'm gonna show you how to meal-prep them for the week
and then you just heat them up every morning.
Just throw them in the air fryer or kitchen stove
or the microwave,
and you have a super easy delicious sandwich.
And then the third one is how to meal-prep pancakes, oh yes.
And then there's a fun little hack for that one
so definitely stay tuned to the end of the video
where I show you how to heat up pancakes
like you've never heated up pancakes before.
It's the best hack ever, I promise.
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All right, so for our ingredients,
we have obviously peanut butter and chocolate chips
'cause it's peanut butter chocolate chip breakfast bars.
The base is going to be a combination of oats
and also a crispy rice cereal,
so whether it's Rice Krispies or the knock-off version
that doesn't have the vitamin D in it,
you can use that or any crispy cereal that you like.
For our additional base and our protein,
we have obviously peanut butter,
and then to hold it all together, we have coconut oil,
which I love for this because when it's cold, it hardens
so it keeps the bars together.
For sweetener, we're going to use an agave.
You can also use a maple syrup or a brown rice syrup.
Brown rice syrup is going to be a little bit stickier.
Maple syrup is going to be a little bit more watery,
so I like agave.
And then to kinda bulk it up with some added nutrition,
you can add nuts, seeds, anything that you want.
Today, I'm going to add some hemp seeds, some flax seeds,
and because I love coconut, I'm gonna add some coconut.
Let's go to the stove.
Start by melting your coconut oil over a medium heat.
Add in your agave and your peanut butter.
I don't know if I've mentioned this
but I just have a natural peanut butter here
because I am adding my own sweetener,
so this is just an unsweetened only-peanuts peanut butter.
Whisk that and bring it to a simmer.
(Candace lightly whisking)
Now remove it from the heat
and now we can mix in our oats, vanilla, salt,
crispy rice cereal, and then we mix,
flax seed, hemp seeds, and coconut,
and then mix that together until it is well combined.
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All right, so I have lined a baking dish here.
You can use an eight-by-eight.
You can use one of these which is a three-by-nine
with parchment or plastic wrap or whatever you want,
and we're going to put a bunch of chocolate chips
in the bottom. (chocolate sprinkling)
Just spread them out
so that the bottom is covered, mostly anyway.
This is gonna create
a nice little layer of chocolate on the bottom
because our oatmeal is nice and hot.
It's gonna melt it a little bit but not too much.
And now just add your oatmeal, or oat mixture I guess.
Not so much oatmeal.
And then we're gonna squish it down
with our hands and a glass.
Just gonna go ahead
and just use a spatula to spread it down first.
make sure it's in a more or less even layer,
and then we are going to go in with our glass.
Cover the top with another layer of plastic or parchment
and then just go in and really press that down.
The harder you press,
the more likely it is to stick together.
You need the compression to make it all stick
so really go in there.
And then you just wanna put this in the fridge
for about an hour.
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Off to the fridge!
After you have either put them in the fridge or the freezer,
see how the chocolate melted there?
You can leave them like this
or you can cut them into squares or bars,
whatever shape you want.
(knife firmly chopping)
Voila!
Breakfast granola bars!
And you have your little chocolate bars.
Breakfast bars.
Breakfast chocolate bars.
So you can store this in your fridge for up to,
I mean, you can actually store these in the fridge
for a while, like a few weeks,
and you can definitely store these in the freezer
for up to a month.
All right, let's do the next one.
So our second breakfast is an English muffin,
really like an Egg McMuffin but a vegan one,
a Vegg McMuffin, if you will,
that you can reheat in your air fryer or in your microwave
or even in your oven.
So I'm gonna make four sandwiches
'cause there's four more days left to the week
that I need a breakfast for that is prepped.
You can make a bunch of these.
You can actually put these in your freezer.
Freeze them up to a month.
But I only need four, so we're gonna make four today.
So we're going to have some cheese.
I just have my favorite plant-based cheese here.
I mean, cheese slices, you can use whatever you want.
For the egg, you can use my homemade egg patty.
I have a recipe for it on my blog.
Or you can go out
and buy these egg substitute patties, like folded things,
but these ones are just egg
but there's a couple different brands out there.
And then you can either add a vegan bacon
or I'm just going to use these breakfast sausage patties.
Quick, simple.
Again, if you have seitan that you like to make at home
or your own breakfast sausage.
Again, I have a recipe on my blog that I will link as well.
You can use those.
But sometimes, just buying things pre-made from the store
is just easier because you live a very busy life.
I know I do.
So let's build these and then we're gonna wrap 'em up
and throw them in the freezer.
All right, this part's pretty easy.
Just build them.
Add your egg
and add your cheese.
Of course, you can add more ingredients than just this
but this is your basic sausage Vegg McMuffin.
Let's call it that.
And because we are freezing them
or putting them in the freezer and then using the air fryer,
I dunno, I just like to keep it simple.
And then if you wanna put fresh lettuce
or tomato on afterwards, you can definitely do that.
Then you can take each one
and wrap it in some parchment paper,
and this will give you this individually-wrapped sandwich
that you can just throw in the microwave
or into the air fryer every morning.
Just like that!
And then you can just keep those in an air-tight container.
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You can keep this in the fridge for up to five days
or make a whole batch.
Make about 20, stick them in your freezer for up to a month.
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All right, our last recipe is a pancake hack
which I promised I would share with you
'cause it's my favorite pancake hack ever.
So whether you, I dunno, make pancakes on a Saturday morning
and you made too many
and then you don't know what to do with your leftovers,
you can do that with this.
Or if you like to meal-prep pancakes for the week
so you don't have to just have a smoothie every day
or just have a bowl of cereal,
you make the pancakes and then heat them every morning
with your toaster.
So let's whip up a quick batch of pancakes
and I'll show you how to reheat them.
So you can do this with any pancake recipe that you love,
whether it's just pancake mix from a box
or your favorite recipe,
or chocolate chip pancakes, pumpkin pancakes,
whichever ones you want, this will work for.
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So to store your pancakes,
I just like to put a piece of parchment between them.
I like to put them in a freezer bag
or an air-tight container,
or you can wrap them up with Saran wrap.
You can keep them in the fridge for up to a week
or the freezer for up to a month.
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So tomorrow morning, or two days from now,
when you want some pancakes,
take your pancakes out of the Tupperware
and just throw them into the toaster for about two minutes,
and then you can just top them with butter or syrup
or whipped cream or whatever else you put on pancakes.
All right, guys, there you have three easy ways
to meal-prep your breakfast every week.
Let me know which one's your favorite
and if you have a really awesome breakfast meal hack,
you can leave that in the comments section down below.
My favorite is literally all of them because mainly
they're not oatmeal and they're not a smoothie.
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you can leave them in the comments section down below.
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