Vegan Recipes for Quarantine using Canned Goods

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The best, comforting sweet and savory vegan recipes for quarantine with meal ideas for healthy, family-friendly breakfasts, lunches and dinners. All of these can be whipped up using what you have stocked in your vegan pantry already. Many are gluten-free and/or made using an Instant Pot.

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The best Vegan Recipes for your Quarantine!

With all of us practicing social distancing or full-on quarantining, I thought it would be a good time to do a little recipe roundup for easy recipes using our favorite vegan pantry staples.

I know all we really want to do in these times of anxiety, is to sit on the sofa, eat sleeves of cookies and bags of chips. But let’s be real – you and your loved ones still need to eat proper meals. However, I find the act of preparing a wholesome meal — even a simple one — can be oh-so-soothing and can bring great comfort.

If you have a stocked vegan pantry, you can make a wonderful meal out of a few basic staple ingredients like black beans, lentils, chickpeas, oats, and pasta.

Even though “pantry staples” typically means shelf-stable items, I’m going to include some recipes with veggies but for most of those, you can substitute frozen vegetables. I know that your freezer isn’t your pantry, but I also know that you probably come prepared and have your veggies all chopped up, frozen and ready to go!

Here are my favorite simple healthy vegan dishes that will get you through quarantine!

Breakfast Recipes for Quarantine

Samoa Cookie Overnight Oats

PB & J Baked Oatmeal

Chickpea Tofu Breakfast Scramble with Smoky Bits

Vegan Savory Oats Hash

Fudgy Nut Butter & Lentil Brownies

Sprouted Lentil Avocado Toast

Pantry Staple Meals – Lunch & Dinner Recipes for Quarantine

Beans

Vegan Instant Pot Black Bean Soup

Mexican Street Corn Salad

Smoky Vegan Black Bean Wraps

Sweet Potato Black Bean Quesadilla

Grilleable Black Bean Veggie Burger

Lentils

Vegan Keema Madras with Red Lentils

Vegan Instant Pot Lentil Soup

Vegan Lentil Sloppy Joes

Chickpeas

Chickpea Tahini Salad Sandwich

Vegan Nachos with Shawarma Chickpeas

Vegan Chickpea & Rice Soup

Pasta

Avocado Pasta with Smoky Pecans

Vegan Black Pepper Mac and Cheese

Vegan Fajitas Pasta with Chickpeas

Vegan Garlic Pasta with Roasted Cajun Cauliflower

Vegan Rose Sauce Farfalle

Rice

Instant Pot Black Eyed Peas Rice

Instant Pot Wild Rice Mushroom Soup

Hang in there, we will all get through this. Feel free to share your thoughts in general and your favorite quarantine meals in particular in the comment section below.