Any ideas for vegetarian brown bag lunch?!
Any ideas for vegetarian brown bag lunch?
Actually a reuseable lunch bag...:-)
(No veggies and dip thank you.)
Something kids would like that isn't too "lame" and an adult can appreciate.
(Am I asking too much??)
Don't know where to look online for ideas... links would be nice if you know of any.
Thanks for letting me pick your brain!
Answers:
A soup Thermos can be a blessing for the variety brown bagging Vegan/Vegetarian. There's no limit to the variety of soups you can make.
Add a side of a cold grilled Cheese Sandwich, and even your kids will love you for it...
peanut butter and jelly
cheese and crackers
a salad
veggies and pasta and alfredo sauce /
veggie sammich's like with just cheese, tomato, cucumbers lettuce and such..
um .. salads..
nuts?
I'm a veggie and usually my work lunches consist of the following:
1.sandwich-wheat bread, lettuce, tomato, onion, pickle, cheese, bbq sauce
2. bag of baked lays chips/teddy grahams
3. apple sauce cup/cup of fruit
4. fruit drink or tea
and that's all IF i have time to put it all together the night before
I love the old fashioned ones.
I eat peanutbutter with fresh green apples, sliced onto 7 grain bread. I also like nutella (hazelnut) on melba toast.
I bake garlic in the oven and make a paste with pesto and make a pita sandwich with it. I admit to being a hummus gal and eat it like main course most of the time.
I do make pizza with spinach and garlic with lots of sliced tomatoes on it.
good luck
Make a tortilla roll up with lettuce, tomato, cheese, pickles and slice in half and wrap up in plastic wrap.
hummus and pita chips
fruit cups
pudding cups
laughing cow cheese with crackers
bean dip (mexican) and chips
bean dip, cheese, salsa spread on flour tortilla rolled up and cut in two and wrapped in plastic wrap
Wrap sandwiches are always good... can customized with the your favorite veggies and dressings (and cheeses or eggs if you are octo-lacto). You can get creative with it and do mexican, italian, greek, etc. Also kids like them because its a wrap, not just the normal sandwich. You can put just the things you know the kid will eat on his or her wrap and what you want on yours.
Fruit kabobs is a good idea for a side... something different.
With kids anything that looks fun or has something to dip with it.. is usually a hit
I do wraps... you can put whatever you want in there (and use either tortillas or flatbread)... if you slice it kinda diagonally, it looks "cooler" for the kids. Crackers & cheese slices (if you're lacto-)... I like to use my apple slicer/corer, then close the apple back up (to keep it from browning) and send some peanut butter or caramel in a dipping cup.
My daughter also loves yogurt in her lunch (works fine with an ice pack).
Mexican black bean salad.
I'm not a veggie but this stuff is good and taste as well room temp as refrigerated.
1 can of vegatarian black beans
small can of corn
juice of 2 or 3 limes depending on taste
1/2 to 1 onion chopped
2 tblespoons of cumin
salt and pepper to taste
mix and refrigerate over night to allow flavors to blend
you can chop a fresh jalopeno if the kids like it too.
it is great on salads too and a good source of protein
I always feel obligated to remind vegatarians that legumes or beans and peanuts are not complete proteins without a whole grain and corn is.
Wraps (they come in soooo many different flavors now), Pita pockets, whole grain breads with your favoite vegis/cheeses on it. YUMMM Chips, pickles, cookies (holiday ones if applicable), use you imagination.
Whole grain wraps or pita pockets with a variety of veggie salad ingredients, yogurt and lemon with extra virgin olive oil dressing or avacado and lemon dressing. You can make yogurt cheese by lining a strainer with a coffee filter or cheesecloth and filling it with plain yogurt, allowing the whey to drain off. This tastes similar to cream cheese. If you are strictly vegetarian, you might try making something similar with silken tofu.
In the Search for questions box above, type in vegetarian lunches. There are many answers for you. Also Google recipies for pasta salads, potato salads, vegetarian sandwiches etc.
sandwiches, wraps, salads, mini pizzas???
Tortilla chips, mild salsa, cheese or Vegan rice cheese and sliced apples (sorry, I put some weird stuff together sometimes but I like it.) Rice cakes with vegemite/marmite(yeast extract) and tomato slices Quorn or tofu and veg. skewered kebabs with a chilli sauce. Cold veggetable risotto. Mexican 5 bean salad.
fruit biscuits spaghetti no sauce
I would buy some smoked cheddar cheese (block form), slice and make a sandwich complete with lettuce, tomato, dijon mustard. Add onion or jalapenos if they like them.
Bag of lightly salted Tostito corn chips and a small container of salsa (sorry that is a dip I guess).
For dessert, put in a cup cake, fudge round, or oatmeal cake.
I was a "hot lunch-er" but I remember a girlfriend who would bring a peanut butter, honey and sesame seeds sandwich that she would share and it was yummy.
J-ann
www. rawfoodtalk.com is excellent website for vegetarians
Cheese and crackers, salad, potato chips, yogurt, jello, fruit, fruit salad, egg salad (in a sandwich or with crackers), bagel and cream cheese, parfait, hard boiled eggs, cereal bars, fruit snacks, etc. If there is a microwave handy, then pasta, Spaghetti O's, sauteed vegetables, Cup O Noodles with vegetables, Nacho Cheese Pizza Rolls, soup, left over pizza, tv dinners, etc.