Please, I need some ideas for Vegetarian Lunch box for kids?!
Answers: She is 6.
My kids are not veggers but the principle should be the same. Kids school lunches (and all meals for that matter) need not be elaborate or fancy. They just should be nutritious and delicious. I also am assuming dairy and eggs are okay
Sandwiches
peanut butter (the most popular)
fried green tomatoes
cheese with veggies (lettucebeing the most convenient)
cucumber
pizza/bread topped with cheese and veggies (tomatoes, egg plants, mushrooms, whatever she likes
egg salad sandwich with or without cheese
soups ( all using vegetable broth of course)
pea soup
lentil soup
rice and bean soup
vegtable noodle
tomato soup
cream soups
you can serve the soup with or without bread /croutons
salads
bean salad
green salad with dressing
home made fruit salad with nuts
egg and potato sald
couscous with curried veggies
pasta salad
white or brown rice topped with:
curried veggies
sauteed veggies
scrambled eggs with mushrooms (and other veggies)
vegetable stew (regular meat stew without the meat)
others:
burritos
tacos
commercial fruit cups (if acceptable)
always include some snacks such as fresh and dreid fruit and nuts.
thre are others of course but this would be typical of what my kids have (except theirs contain meat)
frubes!! They're always fun...and cucumber sandwiches...cookies...apples/bananas...
Umm things like cheese strings, cheese dunkers, fruit, crisps and sandwiches with quorn slices and salad maybe..
Carrot sticks, they're sweet .
Banana sandwiches were a favourite of mine.
Those chewy oat bars are great for kids.
Tossed salad with mint/oil dressing with 3 bean mix....very healthy and tasty.
mini pitta pockets with houmous and salad
raisins
carrot sticks
grated cheese and vegemite sandwiches cut into animal shapes with a cookie cutter....that way, there are no crusts to leave.
Make up a vegetarian jelly, and put into small containers.
ps. my daughter is 18 now, and is fit, healthy with good skin and hair having followed a vegetarian diet.
Wraps! You can spread soft tortillas with tons of different things: cream cheese, condiments, refried beans, etc. Then fill with things she likes: cheese, lettuce, whatever. Then roll them up and slice them into bite-sized spirals. Kids adore these!
Sometimes cheese and fruit and crackers is a joy for kids...and easy for you!
Does she like salad? Put the dressing in the bottom of the container and the salad ingredients on top. Tell her to shake it just before removing the lid to eat it. That way the lettuce is still crisp and she gets dressing on everything. Yum!
Also, if you send cake, cut it in half, lenghthwise, and put the bottom half on the frosting so the frosting is in the middle. No mess.
Get a bento box so everything is in it's own compartment...kids love this, too! They feel grown up, plus their food isn't touching...lol!
Lettuce wraps, salads, of course fruits and veggies, there is a great site www.vegweb.com they have some great recipes
Pintobeans and rice, carots, and an apple Maybe a few fig newtons too.
Put some cheese on the rice if that will work for her or send some soy milk with her if it doesn't.
i'd love a cucumber sandwich on wheat, some carrot sticks and some apples with caramel.
But some others could include:
Mozzarella cheese sticks with baked tortilla chips, a container of salsa, and orange segments
Fruit, cheese, and meat kabobs: Alternately thread turkey (or other low-fat meat), cheese cubes, bell pepper, and pineapple chunks on Popsicle sticks.
Yogurt parfait: A 6-8 oz. container of low-fat yogurt, a snack pack of low-sugar, high-fiber cereal, berries, grapes, apple slices, and/or banana
A low-fat tortilla spread with low-fat cream cheese, sprinkled with shredded carrots and raisins.
A pita pocket stuffed with lunchtime favorites like tuna, turkey and/or cheese, and chopped vegetables (or with peanut butter and jelly).
Cinnamon-raisin pita bread stuffed with cream cheese and grated carrots.
Whole-wheat bread with peanut butter, banana, and chopped dates.
A hollowed-out red or green pepper stuffed with tuna salad.
A hollowed apple filled with a mixture of farmer cheese, granola, and raisins
Scooped-out dinner rolls filled with tuna or egg salad.
Sosmix sausage rolls. Quite easy to make and easy for a small person to handle. Quorn deli slices (ham, turkey, beef, chicken falvour, all non-meat)
i am mother of three kids and their classmates always apprieciated their lunch boxes becouse of veriety of meal and it is veg. only....first of all diffrent type of sandwitches,........( boil vegs, cheez with tomato, mashrum coocked in butter, sprouts mixed with curd) make wheat roll than fill in side same filling like sandwitches, fruits cut in small spread lime and salt n peper . some time you can give pizza too but you have to prepare at night and in morning you have to grill only.kids are choosy today always make things in diffrent style.
pack a lot of fruits that are sweet. Also get meat substitutes like tofu and soy products.
fruit kebabs, kid friendly pasta shaped salad, hummus dip with carrot and celery sticks, cherry tomatoes, soy yoghurt and soy yoghurt fruit smoothies, vegie fingers (similar to fish fingers), dried fruit, nuts (if not allergic).
My daughter has been vegeterian (her choice) since she was 6ish, and she enjoyed all of the above, as little kids like to eat with their hands. Most of her non vegeterian friends enjoyed her lunch box food too!
lady49 - gosh where is all the anger coming from? As a mother surely you should support your daughters choices. And remember they are your grandchildren, but they are her children!
I am very surprised at your level of meanness, towards a vegetarian diet! - erm,, maybe its eating all those sick dead animals, that has made you mad!
Good luck in trying to calm down and learn to respect your daughters choices!
The answer: I have been a vegetarain all my life, and my granny was vegetarian, she made me loads of good sandwiches, peanut butter with jello on wheat bread, and i always got nice little treats, like almond cookie, or a nice cocnut jiuce drink. it was cool!
Well I would have a cheese mayo lettuce and cucumber sandwich, a candy bar, some chips like cheese puffs or diritos, a strawberry yoghurt a piece of cheese cake, an orange & any non meat product its simple.
Im a vegetarian and i eat cheese sandwhiches but pitta wraps,or crackers with humous is really nice,,,hope this helps
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why not try cheese wraps or filled pittas, just 1 thing, why is your child a vegetarian, does she not like meat or are you trying to brainwash her.
When I have children I will not force anything upon them of course, but are you guys kidding about a vegetarian diet being bad for children?!?! Where have you been? Meat these days are CHOCK full of hormones. This generation of young women are menstrating at 10 and 11 years old!!! Are you telling me thats healthy?
Pasta and couscous salads, quorn sarnies.
By the way all, the question was for ideas, not your thoughts on kids being veggie. So there.
u have one smart 6 year old
that is something to celebrate
her life will be so much easier and healthier
you could give her veggie soup veggie wraps
there are soy lunch meats that taste like turkey ham and bologna - they are in the grocery store
if not, you should ask your grocer to carry them
There are many things that can be packed into a lunch for a child. Have you ever looked at the website http://veganlunchbox.blogspot.com/2005_0... , it has a lot of great ideas for school lunches. You can pack soups, sandwiches, wraps, etc.
fruits, juice veggies
I hope she has made an informed decision to be a vegetarian and you haven;t forced it upon her as that is very young.
Why is your child vegetarian? My daughter is vegetarian, but I've got her told that if I catch her feeding my grandchildren the rubbish she eats, I will personally strangle her!! It's not up to you to make that choice for your child, it's what is best for her health not her principles that count. You could end up with her having rickets of something nasty like that. My daughter is 29 and her father made her vegetarian by telling her she was eating her pet lamb as he'd taken it to market. She was a meat eater before that and had a healthy balanced diet the same as her brother.
Lettice, carrots and other rabbit food.