Tasty and Easy Mother's Day Vegan Brunch Recipe Ideas

With Mother's Day right around the corner, and with no interest in eating brunch in a crowded restaurant that day, I'm sampling a bunch of easy to prepare vegan recipes. 

I aim to decide which one I'll serve to celebrate myself on Mother's Day.

If the recipes pass my flavor test, I'll gladly incorporate them into my collection of healthy, homemade plant-based recipes I serve to family and friends.

Post Updated 4/27/2024

I invite you along. Perhaps you'll discover a dish or two you can take to the bank.  

I've narrowed it down to foods that are simple to make, have healthful ingredients, and rate high in good taste and satisfaction. 

Tasty and Easy Mother's Day Vegan Brunch Recipe Ideas

First up is Sarah McMinn the food blogger at My Darling Vegan. She shows us how to make a mouthwatering version of Classic Vegan French Toast. Strawberries add eye appeal and increases the health benefit. 

Photo Credit Sarah McMinn at My Darling Vegan

Next up is Alison Andrews, the blogger at 

Loving It Vegan, who shares luscious Vegan Quiche. Her recipe is high in plant-based protein and contains mushrooms and spinach, two of my favorite ingredients.

Photo Credit Jaye at Loving it Vegan

Nava Atlas, the cookbook author and creative food blogger at The Vegan Atlas shares 

 Spring Grain Bowls with Edamame, Bok Choy and Oranges. This dish can be made with any grain you have handy, and has big flavor and wellness appeal.

Photo Credit Nava Atlas at The Vegan Atlas

Monique, the food blogger at Ambitious Kitchen shares a fabulous dish, Vegan Pasta Primavera with Creamy Garlic Cashew Sauce. 

It's a great way to eat many veggies, and young and old alike will love its creamy, deceivingly non-decadent dairy free sauce.

Photo Credit Monique at Ambitious Kitchen

I love crunchy, colorful salads. That's why I've included a special Vegan Cobb Salad from the Vegan Food Blogger Julie West at the Simple Veganista. It is yummy, simple to make, and has healthy ingredients.

Photo Credit Julie West at The Simple Veganista

Last but not least is my recipe for

The Best Vegan Avocado Toast

by Nancy Andres

Avocado toast with arugula salad

Avocados get a warm reception at my house. This green super fruit is sensually delicious, and research shows avocados are a powerful source of antioxidants and nutrients, including healthy unsaturated fat. 

The Best Vegan Avocado Toast

Avocado toast is so versatile, it's ideal for Mother's Day breakfast, lunch, brunch, or dinner. It's colorful, tasty, and healthy too.

Ingredients:

4 slices whole grain bread or gluten free bread

1 large avocado or 2 small ones, peeled, halved, and pitted

2 teaspoons fresh chopped basil or parsley

½ lemon juiced

1 teaspoon extra virgin cold pressed olive oil

Pinch of salt

1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper

1 teaspoon garlic powder

Optional Toppings: salsa, chopped or sliced tomato, chopped scallion, organic strawberries, organic raspberries, organic blueberries, toasted white sesame seeds, and/or any herbs or spices you enjoy.

What to do:

1.Toast bread in a toaster or toaster oven.

2. Peel and cut avocado in half lengthwise. Remove the pit, and use a spoon to scoop out avocado pulp into a medium sized mixing bowl.

3. Then mix avocado with parsley or basil, lemon juice, olive oil, salt, pepper, and garlic powder.

4. Mash ingredients from step 3 together, using the side of a fork or potato masher. 

5. Divide avocado mixture into 4 parts and spread onto the toast. Place  a quarter of the optional topping on each slice of toast. Bon appétit. Serves 2. 👍

This post has been so much fun to do, and it's almost the end of my ode to Mother's Day Vegan Brunch Recipes. 

Truth be told. I can't decide which wonderful recipe to savor on Mother's Day. They all are fabulous.

Please don't forget to comment below. What recipes sound good to you? 

Do you have a favorite vegan brunch food idea that you'd like to share? Please do.

No links in your comment please, as it won't be published that way.

Wishing you and yours a Happy Mother's Day. Please stay safe and well!

For additional ideas see:

How to Make Superb Vegan Chickpea Salad

Baby Butter Lettuce and Fennel Spring Saladl

Colorful, Tasty Tucson Tacos

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Tips to Help You Beat Mother's Day Blues

Do the lovey-dovey Mother’s Day ads in the media make you cringe? Perhaps you can identify with me. If my emotions are left unchecked, the closer the holiday gets, the more stressed, moody, angry, depressed, teary, and out of sorts I feel.

Posted updated 4/11/2023

Some women are childless by choice. They were wise enough to know they were financially, emotionally, mentally, or spiritually unwilling to bear and raise children. Others may have a physical condition or personal reasons that preclude them from bearing or raising children. 

Some like me have had sketchy or tumultuous relationships with our children or mothers, through death or circumstances like estrangement, addiction, and mental illness. 

Most don't receive flowery Mother’s Day greeting cards or more than brief calls on Mother's Day. We also don't want to give empty gifts to people that don't treat us nicely. We just wish the day would disappear from the face of the calendar. 

I’m one of many women who grew up in a dysfunctional family. My mother grew up without a mother, and spent part of her childhood in an orphanage. At times, as an adult, my mother was severely depressed. She couldn't mother me in a consistently healthful way.

I’ve taken many steps to heal the trauma I experienced as a child, and am grateful I vented, mourned, and released much of the frustration, anger, and sadness I felt about the past. 

New life skills I adopted as an adult helped me reframe my concept of mother and mothering. Now I practice self-care skills that give me the love, safety, concern, and mothering I missed out on as a youngster. 

When I made the decision to imagine standing in my mother’s shoes, I saw her as she was before she was a mother. It's only then that I found myself appreciating her as a whole person, someone who had her own life, her own struggles and problems to solve. 

When I became willing to look at my mother from a different perspective, I found forgiveness, compassion, and hope for us both.

I use the day to honor those I hold near and dear as surrogate mothers, daughters, sisters, and mentors. I celebrate the healthy choices I’ve made that empower me as a woman and bring out the best in me and my relationships. 

I acknowledge AND APPRECIATE THOSE WOMEN WHO ARE DOING A GOOD JOB AS MOTHERS. Chances are your children will grow up to be self-sufficient and happy in their own skin, because that's the example you are modeling for them.

Understanding these things doesn't mean I'm free of blue feelings around this time of year. Although it’s been three decades since my mother died, bittersweet memories of our life together surface now. 

I've learned if I truly surrender my longing to have people in my life "fill in" or "make up" for past losses and grieve those that have actually died, my blues do eventually lift. 😌

Today I'm sharing ideas and tips that continue to help me. I envision them helping you too! Here goes...

18 Tips to Beat Mother's Day Blues

1. Know that you’re not alone. According to the U.S. Census Bureau’s Population Survey of 2014, 47.6 percent of women between age 15 and 44 had never had children, up from 46.5 percent in 2012. This represents the highest percentage of childless women since the bureau started tracking that data in 1976. 

2.Write in a Journal to get a better handle on thoughts and feelings of isolation, grief, anger, abandonment, and love. Connect with that tender, courageous human being inside you that needs your encouragement. For ideas see journal prompts and quotes to help you heal here. 

3. Participate in a bereavement group. Give and get understanding from those who are in a similar situation.

4. Reserve A Few Hours of Time to Help a Shut-in, Friend, or Relative. Make a home cooked meal or cookies, read aloud, or take on a few errands they haven't been able to do.

5.Call a loved one who lives across the miles for a phone visit or write a handwritten note to someone you’ve lost contact with. Giving love makes you better able to receive it.

6.Invite Someone to Join You for Brunch, Lunch, or Dinner. Recognize you aren’t the only one who may feel lonely or out of sorts at this time of the year.

7. Spend Time Pampering Yourself. Give yourself a facial, get a deep tissue massage, soak in a bubble bath, read a mystery, watch a DVD, or do something you ordinarily put off doing.

8.Get out of town, book a weekend get-away to a spa or dude ranch, or any change-of-scene place you think you would enjoy. If you can't afford a vacation, visit a museum, art gallery, park, or nature trail to fill up on beauty.

9.Exercise until those endorphins kick in. Keep the good vibes going by playing a sport or dance for fun.

10.Grab a half hour of sunlight early in the day or before dusk, when sun’s rays are less intense. Sunlight helps the body produce vitamin D, a mood elevator.

11.Take a nap, a good way to replenish vitality and restore your spirit.

  

12.Pick wildflowers or get yourself a bouquet of sunflowers. Yellow is s sunny color and its energy cheers you up.

13.Attend a religious, communal, or support group meeting to feel a sense of community and comfort. 

14.Listen to music or play a musical instrument that inspires you.

15. Read How to Celebrate Mother's Day If Your Mom Passed Away, from someone who has been there .

16. Set up an appointment for psychological counselling. Sharing with a pro who listens with an objective ear can help you see yourself and your situation in a new light. Read Tips to Help You Choose a Psychologist.

17. Tap into the lovingkindness inside yourself. Be your own best friend. Focus on things you’re grateful for, affirm your talents and assets, and give yourself radical self-compassion for as long as it takes to feel better. Then continue to be gentle with yourself every day of the year.

18.Write and say your own affirmations or use the ones below. Recite them aloud, when you feel blue, lonely, less than, and perceive “lack” instead of abundance. Please feel free to take what you like and leave the rest.

"I Face Challenging Situations with Grace."

"I am Confident in My Own Worth and Love Myself."

"I Accept My Mother and/or Children as They Are, and Affirm Our Relationships are Teaching Us Things We Need to Know."

Wishing You a Happy Mother's Day.

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