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vegetarians, please share an example of your typical day meal/snack-wise
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Anonymous
| I'm trying to get some ideas for meals, particularly lunches. Thanks! |
Anonymous
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Breakfast: oatmeal with bananas, milk and flax seed.
Snack: yogurt and apple Lunch: peanut butter noodles with veggies, veggie burger, quiche, egg salad sandwich, or peanut butter and jelly, all with some kind of fruit and salad/vegetable Snack: milk and peanut butter on crackers with fruit Dinner: a lot like lunch -- eggs, veggie burgers, lentil soup, black bean tacos or burritos, lots of veggies. A little ice cream for dessert. |
Anonymous
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Just had a cheese sandwich and tomatoes for lunch. Sometimes have poached eggs if at home. Something nicer if at work.
Dinner would usually be veggie curry & rice or pasta or veggie sausages, etc. |
Anonymous
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Most of the time we make big enough dinners to have leftovers for lunch, which makes it really easy. We're not vegetarians, but don't cook meat at home (just some fish once a week or so) so it amounts to about the same thing...
Fave dishes include: - Veggie lasagna---quick to get into the oven and can last a week! - Any grain with veggies (quinoa, rice, etc.), often with a bit of extra protein thrown in - Salads with anything fresh (grilled veggies are great, as is fruit) + good cheese + crusty bread---don't dress any salad you plan to take to work the next day or it will get slimy - Pasta or polenta with veggies and cheese - Rice and beans---I sometimes cook a big pot of rice on Sunday night and then stir in canned black beans and some seasoning; it goes to work accompanied by a tortilla, some cheese and salsa, and any veggies leftover from the night before for an impromptu burrito. A variation on this is rice with lentils mixed in that goes alongside some feta, flatbread, and hummus. You can also leave the rice out of that one and make a straight lentil salad with feta and veggies for this time of year. - Pad thai is incredibly easy to make at home if you buy the jars of pre-made sauce (not the "kits" which don't make very much, but the sauce they sell separately along with a package of noodles---just add tofu, veggies, scrambled egg, or whatever you like and throw it together, and you've got a bunch of lunches or dinner with leftovers) - Pizza, along the same lines as the pasta---super easy to make at home and makes leftovers. I often throw on some nuts (walnuts are esp. good) for some added protein and iron. ...and I still go back to the old standby, the peanut butter and banana sandwich on whole wheat, for a surprisingly balanced quick lunch! Bonus for that one is that no heating is required, since most of the things above require that you have a microwave or toaster oven at work. |
Anonymous
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For lunches I do whole wheat wraps with various fillings including pretty much any leftovers or combinations of raw materials on hand like the following:
-arugula/hummus/artichoke hearts/feta - quinoa salad/almonds/fresh herbs/chickpeas -yogurt/shredded kale/red onion/sunflower seeds - yogurt/arugula/hearts of palm/chick peas/goat cheese For snacks, I'm a huge fan of various high fiber bars, pints of organic berries, mozz string cheese sticks. |
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breakfast: smoothie w/0% Green yogurt (MUCH higher protein than regular yogurt), flax seeds, frozen acai, banana, and strawberries. Sometimes when I'm really hungry I'll put a little bit of granola on top and some toasted nuts. Occasionally, I'll blend 1/2 an avocado into the smoothie if I am particularly hungry or low in general on fatty acids. (If the avo is ripe, you don't actually taste it, and it adds a nice, creamy texture to the smoothie).
Lunch: Salad from one of the many local salad places -- generally do this high-protein by having them put avocado, egg, chickpeas, nuts, and maybe once a week some tofu into it. Dinner: I get a lot of recipes here from the 101cookbooks.com site, which is a GREAT site for veggie recipes and breaks them down by the ones that are high protein. If I'm feeling lazy, I'll make whole wheat pasta with red sauce and parmesan. I also like to do eggs for dinner--generally an omelet or frittata. Good luck! I have had no problems with the diet my midwives gave me as a vegetarian. The one thing they suggest is eating fish, which I don't do, so I bought some Spectrum prenatal DHA, made from algae, which has been a helpful substitute. |
Anonymous
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not a vegetarian but don't eat much meat....
breakfast: greek yogurt, berries, honey, granola. eggs/white with feta, salsa in tortilla protein shake with banana, milk, oatmeal with raisins, cinammon and peanut butter mixed in. lunch: big ass salad with nuts, avocado, or cheese (or all 3), lots of veggies. or veggie burger, hummus sandwich, flatbread pizza with salad, etc. dinner: last nightmade eggplant and chickpea curry in crockpot, serve with couscous. lots of pasta w/various sauces. tofu curry (get thai spice and coconut milk), sometimes just cheese, bread, tomato and salad. |