Any ideas for packaged vegetarian meals I can take to school?!
Answers: The more ideas I have, the more types of food I can eat! Much obliged :3
There are a lot of things you can try. I'll split this into home-made ideas and then convenience foods. I will mention both vegan and vegetarian foods since you did not specify whether you eat eggs, dairy, or both.
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Convenient
(But unfortunately high sodium and probably not as healthy as home-made)
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Instant Pad Thai/Noodles - in most there's there's meals from companies like Thai Kitchen, it is usually in the Asian section, all you need to do is mix the rice noodles with water and add the sauce and microwave it. Most of the meals are vegetarian.
Packaged rice/jambalaya - there are bean and rice packaged meals like Zatarain's Ready-to-Serve Jambalaya, or other ones, like Uncle Ben's flavored rices (just check the ingredients, some are chicken-flavored or have beef stock or whatever)
TV dinners - Lean Cuisine has vegetarian options like their Butternut Squash ravioli or Vegetable Lasagna or four-cheese pizza french bread. There is a company called Amy's Kitchen that makes vegetarian AND vegan TV Dinners.
Canned soup - a lot of vegetarian or vegan soups (like split pea, chunky vegetable, beans and rice)
Pizza - cheese and veggies make it vegetarian; just veggies and maybe a vegan cheese substitute or nutritional yeast sprinkled on top make it vegan.
Morninstar / BOCA products - they make lots of vegetarian meat-like things, like vegetarian corn dogs or burgers. Just take how many you want in a plastic bag (with, obviously, an ice pack and a lunch case or whatever - you would need those with most of these meals!).
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Homemade
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Sandwiches: take two pieces of bread and put on: egg salad, eggless tofu salad, hummus and bean sprouts, peanut butter and jelly, grilled cheese
Pasta and Sauce: Make or buy your own meatless meatballs and cook up a whole batch of pasta and just ration some pasta sauce, some pasta and some meatballs into tupperware; the entire batch can stand in the fridge safely for 3 - 5 days, I would say, you can make a big portion and just take a little every day.
Salads - you can have a lot of stuff in your salad, whatever you would like is fair game! Any veggies, cheeses or vegan cheese substitutes, cro?tons.
Leftovers - anything you cook at home that's vegetarian can be put in a tupperware container and taken to school.
Vegetables, fruit and a protein. Pick something from that category. Peanut butter and jelly sandwich with carrots and celery and a apple. Very healthy and covers all the food groups.
eat meat.. get your protein and energy
everyone should eat meat unless you are allergic, which I'm sure is impossible!!
its dangerous to take out such an important food group from your diet..
eat it and become strong
I'm a veggie.
But then again i hardly eat anything...
Pasta?
you can take pasta salads (cold)
sandwiches with quorn ham (little vege ham slices)
any sandwiches, cheese, egg etc...
Vegetable mix with some kind of sipping sauce
Vegan chicken nuggets
Vegan hotdog
vegetarian lasagne mmmmmmmmh
Cut veggies and put them in a container and some dip to go with it
Cheese dip with Crudettes, Oatmeal rolls with soup in a flask,Lentil Pate with crackers.Mung bean Salad and pitta bread.
My local grocery store carry small veggie trays. They come with a variety of dips. There is also all kinds of soy and tofu patties and such. I'm not a vegetarian, so I'm not sure if you have to cook those things. I bet it is tough to find those things for school though. Good Luck!
Though not a meal, bags of frozen baby carrots are extremely popular for snacks.
I ate a cheeze sandwich every day at school my entire life. Hope dairy isen't on your list. Lots of schools here have banned peanut butter due to allergies. A fresh bun with a little butter is good to. Some carrot sticks and brockaly, chery tomatoes, colyflour. All great lunches for the veggy person in all of us.
dont ever eat jelly!!!!!!!!!!!!! it has gelatine in it! gelatine contains pig feet!
My vegan kid have no other choice. The govt school provides non-veggie meal and dairy milk as part of govt's initiative programme. No doubt from my tax money, but I have nothing much could say. Her friends and teachers often force my kid to eat them. (I know life is not as easy being a vegan).
Now, we pack for her vegan meal, like buns and pau.
Ever you seen assorted vegan pau?