Lunches on the go

[Guest guest]

Hi Shaney,

Welcome to the group. Have you checked out our sandwich recipe folder. I full

of great recipes for cold lunches.

 

 

Sandwich spreads, such as bean spreads, hummus, vegetarian chicken salads, all

are great spread on tortillas, flat bread, ciabatta bread, crackers, pita bread

and large lettuce leaves.

Here is our sandwich recipe file link.

%2ARecipes/Sandwiches%20and\

%20Wraps%20and%20Roll-Ups/

 

Also check out the Salads and look in the soup recipes and click on the Cold

Soup subfolder of recipes. We've got tons of tried and true recipes in our

recipe files to tempt your taste buds and give you lots of selections.

 

Welcome!

Judy

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Shaney Spaulding

Sunday, June 14, 2009 9:17 PM

Lunches on the go

 

 

 

 

 

Hi all, I'm a fairly new vegetarian (ovo-lacto) and while I am enjoying how

much better I feel, I've sorta hit a wall. I am not creative at all when it

comes to planning meals and I am a very picky eater (although I am slowly

branching out and trying new things). I'm also in nursing school, and this makes

it very difficult for me as my schedule is never the same every day, and I'm

usually in school through lunch. I am at a loss of what to bring with me to eat

for lunch (aside from carrots and dip, or a salad). I don't have access to a

microwave, so whatever I bring has to be edible right out of the cooler. Do any

of you have any suggestions?

 

Thanks!

Shaney

 

[Guest guest]

Also don't forget to check out the appetizer folder. Tons of great stuff in

there and many of our other recipe catagories.

%2ARecipes/

 

Judy

 

 

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[Guest guest]

Hi Shaney.

I like to eat cold veggie pizza, vegetarian

sandwich wraps and some cold soups.

There are recipes in the files to give you

great ideas.

Also consider making a big macaroni salad.

Cole slaw, marinated pasta with veggie salad,

and the like are quite filling.

Hope some of my ideas help. I take lunch to

work each day, too.

 

~ PT ~

 

It's essential that a part of you not grow up.

Childhood wonder gives us our spark and beauty.

~ Robin Quivers

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, Shaney Spaulding <hadensgirl05

wrote:

>

> Hi all, I'm a fairly new vegetarian (ovo-lacto) and

while I am enjoying how much better I feel, I've sorta

hit a wall. I am not creative at all when it comes to

planning meals and I am a very picky eater (although

I am slowly branching out and trying new things).

I'm also in nursing school, and this makes it very

difficult for me as my schedule is never the same

every day, and I'm usually in school through lunch.

I am at a loss of what to bring with me to eat for

lunch (aside from carrots and dip, or a salad).

I don't have access to a microwave, so whatever

I bring has to be edible right out of the cooler.

Do any of you have any suggestions?

>  

> Thanks!

> Shaney

>

>

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Shaney,

   Since you are ovo-lacto, you could do this:  Have a hard-boiled egg, some

mixed

salad greens (like spring mix, or, now that it's summer, some fresh greens from

the garden or farmers' market), a bit of salad dressing (your choice or mayo or

mustard--whatever you

like the flavor of) and a wheat pita pocket bread.  Chop up the egg, place some

torn salad greens in the pita pocket, add  the chopped egg, drizzle some

dressing over it and --

Voila!  You have something tasty and easy to eat!  (Depending on whether or not

you can

keep the food cold, you can either pre-peel the boiled egg or have it all done

ahead of time.

 

   (I made something like this for my breakfast-on-the-run this morning. 

Instead of boiling an egg in the shell, I cracked the egg into the " oiled " cup

of an egg-poacher thingie.  When the egg was just firm and cooked thru, I turned

the cup upside down on a plate and the cooked egg slid out--it didn't have the

same shape as the boiled egg, but when I chopped it all up and stuffed it into

my lettuce-and-dressing pita pocket, it tasted just like a " regular " boiled

egg--in about a third of the time a boiled egg takes to cook!)

 

    If you are not fond of salads, that's okay.  I tend to like things that go

" crunch " , but there are plenty of other foods out there that you can try.  Just

go slow and take something familiar that you know you LIKE and maybe add one

other thing to change it just a little.

If you like it, remember what you did.  THEN, later, you can either make the

original food or the " new " one that you have " invented " .  That would be my

advice as to how to " branch out " and not have the same things over and over.

 

     Soon, you may find you have " invented " some foods that you really like and

that your meals are not at all boring or the " same old, same old " at all!

   

     Best wishes on all your endeavors!