Veggie lunch ideas

candygirl

Spriggan wrote: »

This chickpea salad with cumin seeds, garlic, sundried tomatoes and cucumber is absolutely delicious:
thekitchn.com/recipe-spicy-chickpeas-with-cu-150758

(Can't post as link - long-time lurker, first time poster!)

It's really easy to make and keeps well, so I usually make a couple of batches at once and then divvy up into tupperware. I have it with a bit of couscous, made with some stock, a bit of oil and lemon juice, and then with chopped up spinach wilted into it (again, i'd make a couple of batches).

Love the look of this, thanks:D

Glad

I usually do a mixed bowl for lunch (I don't like salad)
I roast veg, enough for a few days, and add a variation of chickpeas, quinoa, boiled egg, mozzarella, homemade hummus, beetroot, tomato etc

other day I'll take leftovers from the night before

sillyvixen

Spriggan wrote: »

Usually I'd just buy a cheap bag of stir fry veg rather than doing the veg separately. It's the sauce that's important: honestly it's addictively delicious! It's a good one to have for dinner and then save for lunch later in the week.

I often do stir fry on my day off for lunch (hubby at work, would not eat it) I do enough to heat in the microwave the next day. I also do several days worth of pasta, veg and sauce, then all I have to do is heat it up and Chuck some greated cheese on top. I have a selection on home made soups in the freezer to take. And if i do end up taking a sandwich my favorite is hummus with grated carrot and sweetcorn or red pepper. If I take salad in the summer its usually Greek salad and I keep a bottle of dressing in the work fridge.

sillyvixen

Also I have a couple of tins of soup and a couple of small tins of beans in my locker so worst case I can just nip to a local shop for bread for lunch, if I have nothing to take with me.

MandM90

We usually have leftovers.

Today it'll be this Autumn Quinoa Salad: https://www.budgetbytes.com/autumn-quinoa-salad/ which we had for lunch yesterday.

I blitzed cabbage potato and carrot from our roast yesterday with lentils and stock this morning. Have frozen them for 'emergency' lunches. Will give DH hunk of homemade bread also to fill him up.

silverspirit

I`m a healthy veggie and sometimes I make a good thick allsorts of veg soup, then I put some beans in a day at a time. Lovely with a thick chunk of good bread. I freeze beans if I don`t want the remainder of the can next day. If I am taking it for packed lunch I blitz and heat and pop into a thermos.

MandM90

Am on a mission to up my protein at the mo, and made this tonight for supper: https://www.budgetbytes.com/chili-garlic-tofu-bowls/

But I substituted the rice for organic black bean spaghetti from Aldi - meal was 40g in one go! And delicious! Have boxed up other three for lunches Tues, Weds, Thurs.

Going to make this Chickpea, Chilli and Lentil Soup from BBC Good Food for dinners: https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/333614/red-lentil-chickpea-and-chilli-soup

Tried and tested in our house and super cheap.

DundeeDoll

today's lunch was mung bean dahl and pasta. chucked 1/2 chopped onion, 1/4 red cabbage, 3 carrots, cup of mung beans, tin of tomatoes, veggie stock cube, 2 cups water and spices to taste all in the slow cooker. plenty left for next 2 (3?) days. (veg was what i happened to have - onion was left over from yesterday's sweetcorn fritters). Mushrooms are absolutely yummy in this

K80_Black

Another vote for 'leftovers' - I purposefully cook far too much of things like chilli/bolognese sauce, and have little boxes of lunch and dinner portions in my freezer. Just grab one out the freezer the night before, add some chilled rice or pasta and pop it in the fridge to reheat the next day. They're 'upside down', but I've not had a complaint yet.

I also do quick stir frys with noodles for lunches - no idea if the OH reheats them in the microwave or just eats them cold, but he seems to like them.