favorite adult or kid lunch

[star792]

My family is heading into a plant based diet. Lunch meat and cheese has been a staple for years. I know this diet change will involve more work but I am excited.

I am packing for two school kids and two teachers.

What is your go to lunch? I am looking for your favorite lunch! Thanks!!

Even if you just suggest websites you use frequently, that would help a lot.

[maciascl]

We still do lunchmeat and cheese quite often, we just use Tofurkey now. My boys also like pb&j or apples and pretzel sticks to dip in peanut butter. If your school is nut free sunflower butter works really well too. Marniated tofu makes a great sandwich or salad topper.

I am currrently obsessed with arugula, shredded carrot, diced apple, and sunflower seed salads topped with some sort of creamy dressing. Left overs are always good for lunch too if you have acess to a microwave. If not pasta salads or soups in a thermos are great too.

[jbk21]

Same here- pasta, soup, salad, sandwiches.  Also leftovers from the night before.  I tend to cook huge meals so we have lunches available for the week.  

[Sol_y_Paz]

You might like this site http://blog.superhealthykids.com/

[catnip]

My daughter almost always has a peanut butter and jelly sandwich on whole wheat - I cut little hearts out of the bread before I make them and save the crusts for making lentil loaf, with carrot sticks and cut up seasonal fruit, right now that is apple or orange, I wish I could get her to eat kiwi. Alternate lunches she likes are a bean and Daiya cheese quesadilla, or veggies, crackers (often rice crackers or corn chips if we are eating with our GF friends), cut up veggies and edamame hummus. I always serve fruit at breakfast and lunch, and try to sneak more veggies and fruit when we have snacks.

My lunches are less predictable and more likely to be crap. I like to make a salad, but then I don't, and then my greens go slimy and evil, and then I feel horrid for wasting them. Yesterday I did make a spinach salad with dried cranberries, toasted almonds, garbanzo beans and  little bits of cashew 'cheese,' (I was trying for a chevre flavor. Didn't manage it, but it tasted good anyway. Sometimes I'll make a garlic spinach quesadilla - whole wheat tortilla, lots of spinach, fresh garlic, tiny bit of Daiya to hold it together. Sometimes, leftovers.

[mumkimum]

Hummus with pita or tortillas and veggies.

Pita bread or tortillas with grain or bean salads are yummy, and  dd1 here often likes simple bean burritos (just plain vegetarian mashed beans in a tortilla, cold).  

Muffin with fruit salad.

Veggie sushi is also yummy and filling, and less tricky than you'd think. (you can also do pseudo veggie sushi with a vegan cream cheese and smashed bread with simple veggies or even fruit inside).

[greenmama]

My veg 12yo dd loves vegetarian sushi for lunches.  She would love tofurky sandwiches except I think it is too expensive so she rarely gets it.  PB&J is our ooops its too late to make a good lunch  fall back which happens about once a week.  Hummus and cucumber sandwiches are great.  If I have started a block of tofu she sometimes has a tofu and lettuce and mustard sandwich.  I helped in the pre-school this fall and two of the kids brought sauer kraut in their lunches which dd also takes.

When dd was little she preferred dipping foods so we did that a lot, including apple slices to dip in peanut butter. 

If you eat dairy cucumber and cream cheese or pickles and cheddar sandwiches are a good choices also.

[neptunemama]

Anything that will go into a thermos.  My kids like a hot lunch.  Their favorite is garbanzo beans, sautéed in olive oil, with thyme and salt added.  Pasta, homemade soup, and lentils and rice are well liked.  I also heat up black or pinto beans, and put in the thermos.  Heat a tortilla and wrap in foil.  That way it is soft even if it's not warm, when they have lunch.  Pack cheese in a small container, and they have a burrito. 

I always send fruit and/or a veggie (carrots, snap peas, steamed broccoli), a yogurt tube and water along with the main meal.