If you aren't in the mood to prepare breakfast, there are a variety of satisfyingly smooth vegan breakfast recipes to choose from. Toast (vegan grocery store or health-food store bread) with jam, vegan chocolate spread (from your health-food store), or truly vegan "butter" to go with your coffee and tea (soy spread). Otherwise, a bowl of vegan cereal (of which there are several choices and varieties nowadays) with soy milk, rice milk, or coconut milk is a must. Alternatively, simply serve a handful of freshly sliced in-season fruit with a dollop of soy or coconut-milk yoghurt and a handful of walnuts or almonds.

The majority of people in the arena drink a cup of espresso or tea with their meal. Vegans aren't any different! Coffee or tea may be served black, with soy milk, or with rice milk. Using stevia, brown sugar, molasses, maple syrup, or agave nectar to give it a candy-like flavor. And daily delicate sugars should be avoided since they can be filtered with bone char, a non-vegan substance.

For starters, why not? To make your own fresh juice, squeeze a couple of oranges or lemons into a bottle. Likewise, if you have a juicer, you can juice a truly nutritious concoction to get you ready for the day!

Try out the following juice recipe: 3 apples, 2 carrots, 1 beetroot, and 4 celery stalks, plus a knob of ginger If you have a better juicer, you should be able to make your juice in less than 10 or 15 minutes.

For a sweeter juice, add more apple, or more ginger for a zingier juice.

If you just want fruit in your juice, skip the vegetables and juice your favorite combination of apples, pineapple, papaya, and berries instead. Adding a small knob of ginger to your fruit juice will make it even more zesty!