I’m trying the vegan for a day challenge too! The hardest part was definitely the lack of milk in my coffee. I didn’t have any milk substitutes around so I just had it black. Oh well! Good luck the rest of the day!

i use almond breeze as a substitute to milk a lot. i love it! those pancakes look great!

Good luck with Vegan day! Everyone else also! I’ll join you guys next year!

Nice job on the pancakes! I cannot find a vegan sub for milk in coffee! I’ve tried a few different ones and none of them seem to do the trick. 🙁

Meant to say “Guess I’m doing almost VEGAN for a day”

I love the flax egg trick — just heard about that the other day and want to try it soon. You’re more adventurous than me. My vegan brekkie was simple oat bran with toppings. 🙂

It’s funny how the color of the coffee is so important to the taste that you expect. It’s got to be the right color!

Caitlin, I always make vegan pancakes – ever since the time I was craving but had no eggs on hand! I prefer soy milk anyway, so I had some in the house… so I just used flour, soy milk, slivered almonds and frozen blueberries. Omitting the egg has never been a problem – they seem to still stick together fine without egg! Rice/almond/etc milk is pretty expensive in Australia so I’ve never tried them, but I think soy milk adds a nice nutty taste to my vegan pancakes anyway 🙂

Aweomse start to your vegan day!!

I like to use bananas in place of eggs or silken tofu (surprisingly it tastes great!)

I usually just use vanilla soymilk in my coffee and Silk also has their “holiday” pumpkin spice and nog beverages so those are always good for coffee too.

I love vegan pancakes, it’s actually been one of my favorite things to make since I started on October 1st. Check out the cookbook Vegan Planet for some awesome pancake recipes.

Good luck with the rest of your day!

aw-i have that same egg beater! and a matching egg “masher” (technical term:)
those pancakes look great!
i love using mashed beans in a sammie vs. meat (thanks to you:)

Silk makes a soy cream (lots of flavors too!) it is really good and will give your coffee the normal creamy caramel color. Your pancakes look delicious!

Tip for the coffee – almond milk tastes AMAZING in coffee. I buy almond milk almost purposefully for that reason. Soymilk or skim milk really just taste blah and watery in coffee, but almond milk gives it a nice nutty taste.

I used almond milk in my coffee this morning. It wasn’t horrible, but definitely didn’t live up to half and half. It was kinda like skim milk is in coffee. blech…

I always wondered how to make a flax egg! I use soy milk in tea, but it always seems to curdle in coffee. Rice, oat and hemp milk never taste good to me in coffee, but TJ’s make a soy creamer that is AWESOME. Love it 😀 Meat subs- I absolutely love seitan, beans, tofu and quorn. Seitan is really hard to find where I live and I am wary of too much soy so I eat quorn a few times a week. I’m not veggie though 🙂 Quorn has egg in it so not vegan 🙁

Oh no rice milk is horrible in coffee!! If you decide to go vegan for breakfast again tomorrow try almond milk or vegan creamer (the coconut milk one is my fav because it’s soy free and only has a big of sugar, and you don’t need a lot)

I love tempeh and lentils as meat subs. I don’t buy faux meat because it’s so simple to make my own with more natural ingredients and freeze them (Vegan Dad blog has awesome meat alternative recipes), but in a pinch I looooove those Amy’s California Veggie Burgers! Check out http://www.happyherbivore.com – There is no way I could have gotten through my first few months of veganism without her recipes!

yeah, I have the almond breeze in my coffee this morning and it’s not bad, but it’s not the same as milk.

If that was the biggest thing to over come, though, I think I could find a solution.

My favorite meat substitute is Quorn. It isn’t vegan, because it has eggs, but it has the texture and taste of chicken. It is a wonderful substitute. Also, if you boil whole flax seeds (instead of flaxseed meal) you can made a substance that looks like egg whites, then you don’t have to have any grittiness in your pancakes. I have a great vegan cookbook that hooked me up with eggless recipes.

Okay I have never done that flax egg thing, but I always use almond milk in my pancakes.. delish! Soy milk works too, but sometimes can have a bit of a weird smell after cooking.

I’m still looking for good vegan substitutes. The egg one I can get behind. That’s genius!

I’m rather squeamish about eating things that look like one thing, but are something different (does that make sense?). I can’t do Boca burgers because they look and taste too much like beef, but they aren’t beef and it trips me out.

Yeah, I’m a little weird 🙂

I like mushroom burgers, using both real mushrooms and morningstar farms “mushroom burger”. Yum.
Tempeh is pretty darn good, especially with bbq sauce.
Also I <3 beans.

I tried vegan for a day once – the hardest thing I found is that dairy is in so many things you wouldn’t expect! Eating whole foods is super important in order to be able to monitor that I found.

Your pancakes look yummy as always!

I am not vegetarian, but deep down I want to be. I do try to limit the amount of meat I eat and my preferred substitutes are beans and tofu. I also find I have to be careful with dairy – mainly milk – so I use a lot of Almond Breeze which is really good stuff. 🙂

I really like the soy creamer from Trader Joe’s. It’s very lightly sweetened so I add a little agave to taste and lately I’ve been sprinkling in some pumpkin pie spice. The benefit over other soy creamers to me though is that there is no palm oil added to the TJs brand. I know having just that small amount in the Silk creamer isn’t that bad, but I like that I can find one without the oil.

great vegan breakfast.
jenna

i like to use beans (chickpeas, cannellini, and black being the favorite) and lentils (green or red) instead of meat. I normally just drink regular milk on the rare occasion I want it, but we always have vanilla soy silk for my husband, and it is awesome in my tea!