I'm a 14 yr old vegetarian and love to cook. I tend to run out of ideas for lunch & breakfast. Ne ideas?

Question

Vegetarian
No really odd ingredients

Answer 1

Some ideas:
1. Grilled tomatoes on Toast
2. Mushrooms and grilled tomatoes served with pita bread
3. Humus dip ( paste made with chick peas - ready in tin). Mix with a little lemon juice, mix with spoon till smooth, spread on small saucer size plate, sprinkle with a little olive oil and decorated with wedges of tomatoes and cucumber. Serve with pita bread.
4.Baked beans or spahetti on toast.
5. Honey or jam on toast.
6. Pancakes filled with with fruit/ sprinkled with lemon juice and sugar or honey.
7. Garlic bread with grilled tomatoes or mushrooms.
8. Porridge oats made with water, sprinkle with sugar or honey for extra taste.

Answer 2

PNB Sandwiches
Cooked dry beans/peas/legumes over rice
Grilled Cheese sammies
Mac & Cheese
Hot & Sour Soup w/ tofu in it (from Chinese rest. or make your own)
Tuna salad, if you eat fish.

If you eat fish, eggs and milk products, that would help tremendously. You are still growing and still need the essential amino acids found in those foods.

Being a vegetarian doesn't just mean not eating meat, but eating the rest of the food the family eats. You will quickly become malnourished this way and lose muscle. You need to eat cooked dry beans, peas, legumes/lentils at least once a day, over rice, cous cous, or pasta. If you call that an "odd" ingredient, maybe you should wait to beomce a vegetarian.

Answer 3

My favorite breakfast is corn muffins and coffee. Fresh corn muffins are great! I've made whole-wheat pancakes with those veggie-sausages when I've had company over. Thats a good veggie breakfast, too. If you have the time, try cutting figs or dates into the water before you boil it for hot cereal. Cook it (oatmeal, farina, corn grits or whatever) like normal hot cereal. Chop some nuts and stir them in before its done to soften them up a bit and add a some cut up fresh fruit like peaches or strawberries when you take it off the stove. Its different, but delicious!
PS I've been a vegetarian since 1979. Rock on, sister!

Answer 4

I like to grill vegetables. Although the recipe below is for asparagus, the marinate works for squash and peppers too. Pair with cheese and sour dough bread for a light lunch or sandwich


Prep asparagus by snapping off ends, and scoring the stems. Microwave about 1 minute per pound on a plate with a tsp of water.

Transfer to plastic bag and marinate for at least 30 minutes with some soy sauce, flavored olive oil, balsamic vinegar, garlic salt.

Place on grill, turning frequently until tender.

Answer 5

This is a very old fashioned recipe that my grandma taught me... but it was surprisingly good:

place a sliced boiled egg over two pieces of toast and cover with white sauce.

A white sauce is made by boiling some milk and adding flour to thicken like a gravy. Add salt and pepper to taste. My grandma and I would eat this for dinner on Fridays during Lent (because we are Catholic and can't eat meat).

Another recipe I enjoy is to cut up zucchini and summer squash in a pan with some butter and a little onion. Fry until the squash and zucchini are soft. I usually add a little pepper and garlic salt.

And have you ever had spaghetti squash? You cook it like regular squash but when it is cook, used a fork to scrape out the insides. It comes out like spaghetti. Just add your favorite spaghetti sauce or saute some peppers and onions in oil and garlic and top it with that. Yum!

Answer 6

eggs (if you eat them) are ver versatile. Try a frittata (an open faced omelette) with veggies, or a quiche is always really simple to make. You can make sandwiches out of tortillas, or lettuce wraps. Sautee up your veggies, and put some really good sauce, like SOY VAY VERI TERIYAKI, or othe type of asian sauce, and roll up in your wraps. The frozen section of the grocery store has MORNINGSTAR FARMS products, and they have fake steak strips, chicken strips, sausage crumbles, ground beef, all totally vegetarian. You just substitute in any recipe that calls for meat, like lasagna, stir fry, fajitas, etc...and they also make fake breakfast meats like bacon and sausage patties. I love a sausage patty on a bagel with egg and cheese. Good Luck!

Answer 7

My freshman year in college, I was vegan, and ate only dinners in the college cafeteria. For breakfast and lunch, I made all kinds of things in a small 3-cup rice cooker, the only appliance I had in my dorm room. For breakfast, I would throw into the rice cooker dry multi-grain hot cereal, dried fruits, and nuts. I could vary this a lot based on different types of cereals, fruits, and nuts. For lunch, I put different types of rice, beans and lentils in the rice cooker. Beans and lentils required more water and longer cooking time than rice, but worked equally well in my rice cooker.

Answer 8

Breakfast pizza! take a pre made or make your own pizza shell, what ever size you will need. Scramble enough eggs to generously cover the pizza shell. First, coat the shell very lightly with sauce, place the scrambled eggs on next. then add your Pizza cheese to your liking top that off with your favorite veggies. toss in the oven until cheese melts. Wa Laa! breakfast pizza.......great food for next morning sleep overs!!

Answer 9

breakfast Crispy French Toast 6 bread slices a million/2 cup milk 2 eggs, overwhelmed a million/4 teaspoon sugar a million/4 teaspoon cinnamon a million tablespoon oil Beat eggs. upload milk, sugar, and cinnamon and combine at the same time. Use a fork to dip each and each bread slice into the blend one after the different. the main right that's to dip it interior the blend long adequate to soak nicely, yet no longer too long so which you circumvent it breaking aside. cook dinner bread on a warm griddle or skillet over medium warmth for 2 to 3 minutes on the two aspects. Use a potato masher to softly press down so your French toast is crispy and golden interior the middle with out burning the crust. Lunch you additionally could make him a Ham and Cheese Sandwich a million slice sandwich ham mustard or mayonnaise a million slice American cheese a million slice bread with a can of soup Dinner lb. lean (ninety% - ninety 3%) floor pork a million a million.25 oz.. equipment taco seasoning blend a million cup mayonnaise (low-fat or decreased fat is nice) a million cup salsa a million 14 .5 oz..bag tortilla chips a million 10 oz.. bag lettuce a million/4 cup chopped pink onion a million cup shredded Mexican mixture cheese (or shredded cheddar) In a great skillet, brown floor pork. Drain. upload taco seasoning and prepare in accordance to instructions on taco seasoning packet. Whisk at the same time mayonnaise and salsa. set aside. place tortilla chips on the backside of a extensive serving bowl. precise with lettuce. precise with floor pork blend. Drizzle with mayonnaise-salsa dressing. precise with chopped onion, shredded cheese

Answer 10

Addictive Sweet Potato Burritos

INGREDIENTS:
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
1 onion, chopped
4 cloves garlic, minced
6 cups canned kidney beans, drained
2 cups water
3 tablespoons chili powder
2 teaspoons ground cumin
4 teaspoons prepared mustard
1 pinch cayenne pepper, or to taste
3 tablespoons soy sauce
4 cups cooked and mashed sweet potatoes
12 (10 inch) flour tortillas, warmed
8 ounces shredded Cheddar cheese

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DIRECTIONS:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
Heat oil in a medium skillet, and saute onion and garlic until soft. Stir in beans, and mash. Gradually stir in water, and heat until warm. Remove from heat, and stir in the chili powder, cumin, mustard, cayenne pepper and soy sauce.
Divide bean mixture and mashed sweet potatoes evenly between the warm flour tortillas. Top with cheese. Fold up tortillas burrito style, and place on a baking sheet.
Bake for 12 minutes in the preheated oven, and serve.