What are some ideas for vegetarian kids to take for lunch?

Question

My daughter is a vegetarian (but eats eggs and dairy). She will be starting school next year and I need some good ideas for her to take for lunch since school lunchrooms are not very veggie friendly. She is very picky. Any good ideas I can put in her lunch box? (besides the normal things like veggie sticks, yogurt, etc...). She loves veggie chicken, can she eat that cold?

Answer 1

Here's a few ideas;
Pitta bread or rice cakes with houmous
Quiche
Vegetarian spring rolls
Couscous
Pasta

I think you can eat most vegetarian meat alternatives cold. Look on the packet as some products will vary. My friend quite often cooks quorn the night before and eats it cold the next day.

Answer 2

This is a quick veggie lunch that I used to make all the time: take a soy hot dog (even if you are going to eat it cold I would still microwave it because they are very moist) and wrap it in a small tortilla with salsa or mixed veggies inside. One would probably be enough for a small child along with other regular lunch items. I think it would be fine to have veggie chicken or any of the faux meat stuff cold. Roasted soy nuts are good and come in lots of flavors, that would be easy to pack. Also a hardboiled egg might work for protein, but that would depend on whether or not she's willing to eat it :)

Answer 3

Take some veggie chicken and make into a veggie chicken salad. Chill overnight, she could take it on bread or as is. If her lunch is later in the day it might help to add a small cooler to her lunch or keep the cold stuff like that and her drink side by side.

Macaroni salad or potato salad is good. Coleslaw as a side for some lunches works. PB & Jelly. Peanut butter on toasted bread. Tomato sandwhiches. Fruit cocktail, or fruit salad.

Another one is what my kids love, called the veggie taco, which is refried beans with lettuce, tomatoes, cheese and such on a hard or soft shell taco. You can get a small container to put sauce in for her to add or add a little before you wrap it for school.

I'm not vegan but to my husbands disapproval i do like to eat a lot of vegetarian meals :)

Answer 4

My son and I are vegetarians. One of his favorite lunches is a veggie dog in a hot dog bun with ketchup. He really likes it and it allows him to eat a lunch that looks "normal." And he eats it cold.

He also likes pasta salad with lots of veggies, beans, and olives (you could add cheese).

Sometimes I'll just give him a jelly sandwich (he hates peanut butter, what kind of veg kid is he??) with a soy yogurt for the protein.

Most of the veggie meats are good cold. If they are the frozen kind I would cook them first and then pack them, even if they'll be cold by the time she eats them.

If you eat eggs and dairy, a cheese or egg salad sandwich would work too.

Answer 5

I know you said that your daughter eats eggs and dairy but I would, nonetheless, suggest that you look at some of the great lunches at Vegan Lunch Box: http://veganlunchbox.blogspot.com/

There are some great ideas for school lunches there. Recipes are sometimes provided/linked and if not the cookbook the recipe came from is almost always listed. (Also, the author of the blog is coming out with a cookbook of her own soon!)

Unfortunately, the blog is not updated daily anymore, but you can look through the archives of the last year where the author updated every day with the lunch she sent with her son to school.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

Peanut butter is popular with many kids. And I packed baggies with a mixture of peanuts and raisins for my daughter. Bagels with almost anything on them are good. If she likes hummus, that's great with crackers or carrot & celery sticks. You can buy individual servings of unsweetened applesauce. Kashi makes really great snack bars - much less sugar than most granola bars, but they taste yummy.

If she likes cold veggie chicken, it should be fine; no meat proteins to spoil and cause food poisoning.

Answer 8

BLACK BEAN QUESADILLAS

Recipe By :
Serving Size : 4 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Mexican Beans

Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
-------- ------------ --------------------------------
15 oz Can black beans, drained
1/4 c Chopped tomato
3 tb Chopped cilantro
12 ea Black olives, pitted, sliced
8 ea 6" wholewheat tortillas
4 oz Soy cheese/jalapeno jack,
-- shredded
32 ea Spinach leaves, shredded
4 tb Hot salsa

Mash beans. Stir in tomato, cilantro & olives.
Spread evenly onto 4 tortillas. Sprinkle with cheese,
spinach & salsa. Top with remaining tortillas.

Preheat oven to 350F. Bake tortillas on ungreased
cookie sheet for 12 minutes. Cut into wedges & serve.

Answer 9

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Answer 10

Veggie jellies are accessible, cous-cous mixture. Marmite, Vegemite cucumber, cheese, egg, salad sandwich bread sticks, fruit; strawberries, cheese strings, homestead made truffles, celery. plenty and much and many stuff!! you additionally can get Quorn which has extra protein than certainly meat, chicken variety products or strips are continuously good to cook dinner them immediately, then placed them in refrigerator over evening and placed them in sandwiches. pass wild with veggie fever!