[Malice_Kaiser]

So yeah, as you can tell by other threads I've made, I lost a bit of weight recently and I'm very bent on keeping it that way.

But I know once school starts, if I eat the school lunches every day I'm just going to gain it all back.

So I want to bring lunches to school instead.


Does anyone have any vegetarian-friendly and low-fat suggestions? Besides fruit, that's pretty obvious...
I mean more of staple-type foods like sandwiches. Peanut butter sandwiches and cheese sandwiches I both love, and they're good for you, but you can't really eat them every day or else it becomes fattening...


Can anyone help out?

[christee8876]

my mom's vegetarian so she makes this sandwich a lot:
bread(of course haha) alfalfa sprouts, mozzarella cheese, avocado, tomato, lettuce, and maybe a cheese spread if we have that around the house. it's really good.
or you can just bring a salad with carrots, corn, peas, alfalfa sprouts, tomatoes, celery, mushrooms, etc. and a low fat dressing. i really like balsamic vinaigrette.

and you can always make different variations of the sandwich and salad so you'll never get sick them.

[emmy20]

Some good vegetarian lunch ideas that are healthy
are whole wheat pitas or wraps filled with hummus or baba ghanou- like hummus but is made with eggplant, or avocado, falafel (can be made from a box found in most grocery stores), and topped different veggie
Fresh fruit, trail mixs
also could pack cold soba noodles and add some veggies to them and make a kind of pasta salad

[Xiaoba1tu]

Make an omelette and put that in your sandwich.

Your omelette could be eggs, shredded cabbage, shredded carrot, onion and other vegetables you like. Add salt and pepper too. (I forgot about the oil too! Otherwise you'll have a hard time scraping the egg off the pan).
Use canola oil.
After you combine the mixture of eggs and vegetables, pour a layer (not too thickly) onto a flat grill pan like for a pizza. Heat that over the stove until the sides and bottom is lightly browned. This step is to cook the outer layer of the omelette.
Next, place the half-cooked omelette in the grill where the inside of the omelette will be cooked. Heat until lightly browned.

Let it cool before putting it in your sandwich.

Alternatively, you could then use a sandwich press like this:

for a different taste other than plain bread as the sandwich.

[Migumii_]

You could try making bibimbap(correct me if it's the wrong spelling)
Left over rice with the veggies you like&bring a small container of sauce I guess

Stir fried bean sprouts with red peppers, mushrooms&all the veggies you like haha
add some noodles

Mediterranean salad, garden salad, cold soba noodles,fruit salads

There are a lot of things you can choose to make

[sushisimo]

make a bentobox. and put like fried rice or something..

[**ThatGirlPhuong]

You actually can eat peanut butter, my science teacher eats it every day and she's so skinny.
She eats it with wheat breat and organic peanut butter though, she's Whole Food's shopper X]

It's high in fiber so it'll keep you filled up

[hungrycollegeboy]

2 rice krispie bars and 1 caprisun
has sugar to keep you going, and contains no meat

less than 300 calories and fills you up....... well fills me up

[x_TaintedLove]

I don't even eat lunch at school regularly. Don't do that though... ><
Bento lunches and salads are both vegetarian friendly and healthy. I just don't have the time in the mornings to make them.
If you ever get bored of sandwiches, you could try eating bagels and wraps. -Nods-

[belle_kd1413]

salads maybe?
and u could put corn and stuff! YUM! is pasta good? with lots of veggies?
hhhmmm..

[pochacco]

Tofu! My parents love tofu.. also salads.. umm, breadsticks? I'm not much of a help..I don't know why I bothered replying in this thread...

[x SaRaNg HaE x]

Fruit cups FTW!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Whateva]

Yeah...this school year I won't be eating cafeteria food, after seeing last year's ...."mystery meat."
Don't really have any ideas on any veggie lunches you could bring(I'm carnivorous >:D)
But you can check out the bento livejournal. http://community.livejournal.com/bentolunch

[amazngracexx]

You should totally try cucumber sandwiches!
They're kinda like tea sandwiches, and you can add cut up boiled eggs too.
Basically, take regular white bread (like Wonderbread) and cut up the cucumbers really thin and mix them in mayonnaise.
And you can cut up the boiled eggs and mix those to mayo too.
Then you take one slice of white bread, put cucumbers on top, another slice of white bread, put the eggs on top, then a final layer of white bread.
It's SOOO good and you can make it really quick (:

[Malice_Kaiser]

Ooooh, thank you for all the suggestions everyone! This definitely helps give me some ideas.