Top Vegan Breakfast Ideas

Wondering what to serve for breakfast? There are so many breakfast choices for vegans! This list can give you some of the top vegan breakfast ideas to help prep your weekly menu or to mix up your routine by trying something new.

What do vegans eat for breakfast?

There are many choices to start your day off right when you’re a vegan. It can be as simple as grabbing a few pieces of fruit on the go, or having previously made blueberry muffins with a smoothie, or making a full breakfast feast with pancakes, home fries, scrambled tofu, and vegan sausage patties. Let us know in the comments what your favorite vegan breakfasts are.

The “Quick and Easy” Breakfasts Ideas

Fruit & nuts or seeds
Oatmeal
Cereal with vegan milk (almond milk or rice milk)

Two jars of Peach Almond Overnight Oats Garnished with more peaches and almonds

Overnight Oats (peach almond overnight oats or Overnight Oats with Chia Seeds)
Green Smoothie
Smoothie Bowl with Spinach, Banana, and Almond Butter

Pre-made Granola (Maple Pecan Granola Recipe)
Chia Pudding

Stack of pancakes with maple syrup and banana slices on top

Easy Vegan Pancakes
Cooked Rice as Cereal

A white bowl with a brown rim filled with millet butter.

Toast and Millet Butter
Cream of Wheat, Rice, or Buckwheat
Fruit Smoothie

two pices of avocado toast. One with avocado slices and one with mashed avocado

Avocado Toast

Bowl of Easy Hummus for snacks with pita bread and chips

Toast with Hummus
Toast with Feta Cheese and tomatoes

Small bowl of Almond butter with chopped almond garnish

Toast with almond butter or seed butter and jelly
Vegan Protein Shake
Vegan Yogurt with fruit
Pre-made Granola Bars
P & J on Rice Cakes

Home Cooked Breakfast Ideas

Waffles

Two plates of Vegan pumpkin pancakes toped with chopped nuts and maple syrup

Pancakes – Delicious Vegan Pancakes Recipes
French Toast

A dish of Rustic Vegan Breakfast Potatoes with vegan sour cream on the side

Home Fries or Breakfast Potatoes

Tofu Scramble with Veggies with toast on the side

Tofu Scramble
Quinoa Breakfast Bowl

Muffins (cranberry muffins / blueberry muffins / zucchini muffins / pumpkin muffins / strawberry muffins )

Plate of Vegan Blueberry Scones and Blueberries

Breads + Scones (blueberry scones)
Cinnamon rolls
Granola Bars
Bowl of vegan yogurt topped with fruit, seeds, nuts, and granola

A loaf of vegan banana bread on a blue platter with one slice cut. A ripe banana in the background.

Banana Bread
Zucchini Bread
Vegan BLT

Raw Vegan Date, Coconut and Almond Energy Balls on a plate with a dish of dates

Raw Vegan Energy Balls
Vegan Sausage

Apple Crisp (try serving it with vegan yogurt)

Corn Bread
Hash Browns
Zucchini Fritters
Vegan Bagels with carrot lox and vegan cream cheese
Vegan Breakfast Burrito
Sweet Potato Hash
Vegan Pop Tarts

Vegan Quesadillas

Many of the home cooked breakfast ideas above, can be made ahead and frozen, for quick heated up meals for the upcoming weeks. You can also buy pre-made packaged vegan foods from stores. Many food companies are making vegan food. Just look for vegan labels.