Easy Vegan Lunch Ideas
Delicious, balanced, and healthy!
For a vegan meal to be balanced and healthy, it needs carbs, protein, fat, and volume/color. For it to be delicious is a different story altogether because people have different taste preferences.
That’s why options are included here that offer variety. Use these as ideas for your vegan lunches, and switch them up if you want!
The main thing here is that these are easy, so you don’t have to spend a lot of time thinking what you’re going to have for lunch over and over again. Customize these to your preferences. Here they are!
Loaded Vegan Salads:
Salads can be a flavorful party in your mouth if you add in your favorite tastes! Filled with nutrients and keeping you satiated, the key here is to load them up.
Try leafy greens and a combo of a few other vegetables like cucumbers, bell peppers, radishes, beets, brussels sprouts, broccoli, onion, or tomatoes for your color and volume.
Try red lentil pasta, edamame pasta, black bean pasta, or chickpea pasta for your carb + protein.
Try potatoes, quinoa, beans, lentils, or rice for your carb.
Try tempeh, tofu, edamame, vegan mock meat like a vegan burger, or vegan chicken patty for your protein.
Try avocado, nuts (pistachios, pecans, walnuts, etc.), seeds (hemp, pumpkin, sunflower, etc.), or a dressing for your fat.
Add in any herbs, spices, or seasonings you like, too + fun toppings like vegan croutons, vegan shredded cheese, vegan feta, or vegan parmesan, vegan crackers, etc.
It gets really fun trying the different vegan dressings or making your own + combining different textures together for a delectable salad experience!
Layered Vegan Sandwiches, Burgers, and Wraps:
Layer all of your favorite toppings on your vegan sandwiches!
Start with vegan deli slices, tempeh or seitan strips, a vegan burger, or a vegan chicken cutlet or patty for your protein. Add on Just Egg (vegan egg substitute) for extra, if you want.
Choose a vegan sprouted grain bread, sour dough, vegan bagel, tortilla (brown rice, sprouted grain, flax, wheat, etc.), pita, or buns for your carb. Some of these have some protein in them for added protein, too! Toast the bread or press it if that’s your preference.
Get your vegetables ready to stack them on top! Cucumbers, bell peppers, leafy greens, mushrooms, tomatoes, onion, zucchini, yellow squash, and eggplant are all great options here. Grill, steam, or roast the vegetables to bring out more flavor to it!
Have fun with picking your toppings! Pickles, vegan cheese slices, banana peppers, kraut, sprouts, avocado, olives, cilantro, etc. are all delicious fun to add.
End with a spread, sauce, dressing, or condiments to top it all off. Vegan Italian dressing, vegan ranch, vegan French dressing, vegan thousand island dressing, a viniagrette, hummus, guacamole, mustard, vegan mayonnaise, ketchup, hot sauce, and barbecue sauce are perfect for sandwiches!
Supreme Vegan Burritos:
Burritos are quick and easy to assemble, especially if you have the ingredients already prepared and ready to go!
Your carb can be your tortilla to choose from. There are lots to choose from, including, flour, sprouted grain, wheat, flax, brown rice, etc.
Your protein can be seitan, tempeh tofu, vegan chicken, vegan steak, soy crumbles, or vegan beef.
Add in extras, like edamame (added protein), beans (added carbs and protein), lentils (added carbs and protein), rice (added carbs), quinoa (added carbs), vegan cheese shreds, corn, cilantro, avocado (added fat), potatoes (added carbs) etc.
Have a variety of vegetables like lettuce, mushrooms, tomatoes, onion, bell peppers, etc.
Complete it with sauces and condiments. Vegan sour cream, guacamole, salsa, pico de gallo, hot sauce, etc. are the best for a scrumptious vegan burrito!
Sides are always great to have alongside salads, sandwiches, and burritos, too! Try a baked potato with a salad, fries with a vegan burger, and chips and salsa, hummus, or guacamole with a vegan burrito if you want to add a side.
These are all super satisfying, packed with flavor and nutrients, customizable to your liking, and easy to make to put together a balanced, healthy, and delicious vegan lunch you love! Putting together a vegan salad bar, a vegan sandwich bar, or a vegan burrito bar are all added bonuses to include in your prep making it even quicker for you to try.
I hope you have fun trying these if you decide to add them to your vegan eating!
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