Quick and Easy Recipes for Busy Nights


These delicious and healthier vegan food prep recipes are awesome for preparing the weekend before you really enjoyed them. From easy and quick breakfasts to juicy delightful lunch desserts, these making-ahead foods could satisfy all the cravings during the busiest days. Sticking half the recipe in the refrigerator for the starting of the week and the other half in a freezer to enjoy during the last half. Or if you’re too busier for meal prep at-home, service like Purple Carrot takes all the work off the plate. Let’s dive in!

Carrot Cake Overnight Oats with Candied Ginger and Walnuts

These soy-free, low-sodium overnight oats make for the ideal healthy breakfast. Accessible through the convenient plant-based food delivery servicing Purple Carrot, this food takes 5 minutes to make and you would dream about it all day longer.

Vegan Blueberry Muffins.

These satisfying and soft muffins are drool-worthy. Made with smooth applesauce, soy milk yogurt, and  almond milk, this is the breakfast that would disappear from the plate fast.

• Meal Prep Tip: Cooking them ahead of time and storing them in the airtight container at room temperature for up to five days. You could also freeze them right away to defrost and eat them later in the month.

Green Smoothie Bowl

An energizing healthier smoothie bowl with avocado, spinach, chia seeds,and banana. Adding toppings like granola or the favorite fruit for the extra crunchy delicious texture.

• Meal Prep Tip: Make this one-serve meal ahead of the month, store it in the freezer bag, and let it defrost out in your refrigerator the night before you enjoyed it.

Turkish-Style Vegan Tofu Scramble (Vegan Menemen)

Menemen is a famous Turkish dish made up with onions, eggs, olive oil, tomatoes and chiles. In this tastier vegan version, skipping the eggs for the soft silken tofu.

• Meal Prep Tip: Preparing this meal over the week. Heated it, then dipping it into the best-loved bread.

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Chilaquiles with Pepitas, Charred Corn, and Black BeansDig

In this classic Mexican night dish made with crispy a handful of crunchy toasted pumpkin seeds, tortilla chips, salsa verde, black beans, and avocado.

• Meal Prep Tip: Making the salsa verde and toasting corn ahead of time. Toss them both in a huge saucepan with tortilla and water chips, then add the toppings and serve.

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Nutty healthier dishes you can easily eat for dessert or breakfast (we do not judge). Stir together maple syrup, coconut milk, and chia seeds, then divided evenly into the favorite glass jars.

• Meal Prep Tip: After prepping, screw refrigerate on the lids and the jars. On the day of, add roasted almonds, pineapple chunks, kiwi chunks, and raspberries on topping and enjoy!

Blueberry-Orange Pancakes with Vanilla Yogurt.

These creamy, zesty pancakes are other food courtesy of the Purple Carrot. This calorie-conscious alternative gets all its deliciousness from dry blueberries, orange zest and coconut milk. Plus, it only takes about 20 minutes to build.

• Meal Prep Tip: Since all the elements are shipping directly to you, all you want to do is mixing up the batter, cooking them on the skillet, and serving!

Spicy Chard and Pineapple Smoothie.

Satisfied the spicy and sweet night cravings with the veggie-packing smoothie with a jalapeno kick. The chard and frozen pineapple develop a refreshing, non-bitter greens dose.

• Meal Prep Tip: Blending all the ingredients, then storing them in the freezer containers or bags. Put up the smoothie in the refrigerator the night before to defrost for the next night’s meal.

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Vegan Banana Bread with Chocolate and MisoGrab.

A chunk of this vegan chocolate-chip banana bread for the fast night (or late-night snack). Made with white miso and applesauce and served with the brown sugar glaze, this loaf would disappear in no time.

• Meal Prep Tip: Storing this bread for up to 3 days. Before serving it later that month, reheated it in the oven for 10 minutes before adding on the glaze.

Vegan Pancakes.

These super-shaggy pancakes are the fan-best loved, made with maple syrup and soy milk. The coconut oil also serves them the tender tropical flavor that elevates this sweetened breakfast.

• Meal Prep Tip: Making the batter the weekend before and sticking it in the refrigerator or freezing it for the weekend ahead.

Whole-Wheat Vegan Waffles

These healthier egg-free and dairy waffles are crisp, swoon-worthy and tender. For the touch of extra sweetness, add a dollop of fruit preserves, maple syrup, nut butter before serving.

• Meal Prep Tip: Preparing the waffles and freezing them in reclosable plastic bags for up to 1 month. Reheating them in the toaster oven, then serving with the favorite toppings.

Blueberry-Coconut Breakfast Cookies.

These mouth-watering night cookies are a meal planner dream. Made with rolled oats, coconut flakes, bananas, maple syrup, and frozen blueberries, these cookies are destined to disappear from the plate.

• Meal Prep Tip: Bake these cookies ahead of time, then stick them in the fridge for an easy on-the-go breakfast.