As soon as school is back in session, it seems as though children magically appear everywhere in this city. Where were they hiding before? Camp? Cottages? In basements playing video games? I have no idea, but now it seems as the city is flooded with little kidless. All whom are very eager to come and pat Chickpea - much to Chickpea's horror. (She is still pretty shy). We're working on that.
In celebration of all the youngins, I wanted to collect some inspiring lunch recipes, because peanut butter and jelly is cool and all, but we can do better than that. So I asked my blogger friends for their favourite vegan lunchbox recipes, and here they are. Tah dah!
A collection of 25 Vegan Lunchbox recipes that are perfect for back to school... But also pretty perfect for back to work if I do say so myself -I'm looking at you peanut noodle salad!
Click on the picture or the title to take you to the full recipe. Enjoy!
1. Two City Vegans: Chocolate PB and J Rice Crispy Treats
2. Vegan Huggs: Strawberry Banana Breakfast Muffins
3. Strength and Sunshine: One-Pot Vegan Mac & Cheese
4. The Edgy Veg: Peanut Butter Chocolate Pudding
5. A Virtual Vegan: Pumpkin Granola Bars with Pecans & Chocolate
6. Vnutrition: Ranch Pasta Salad
7. Yumsome: Perfect Vegan Brownies
8. Simply Overjoyed: Buffalo Jackfruit Sandwiches with Hemp Ranch
9. The Mostly Vegan: Vegan Berry Oat Bar
10. Healthy Happy Life: Walnut Salad Sandwich with Crunchy Celery "Vegan Tuna"
11. Beautiful Ingredient: Mini Veggie Sushi Rolls
12. Unconventional Baker: Blueberry Coconut Bliss Balls
13. Green Evi: Simple Vegan Pita Pizzas
14. It Doesn't Taste Like Chicken (that's me!): Vegan Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
15. Sandra Vungi Vegan: Pumpkin and Hummus Wraps
16. Vegetarian Gastronomy: Pumpkin Pecan Breakfast Cookies
17. Sprinkles & Saturdays: Creamy Tomato, Basil & Rice Soup
18. Abbey's Kitchen: Vegan Chocolate Dipped Banana Roll-Ups on a Stick
19. It Doesn't Taste Like Chicken (that's me!): Chickpea Salad Sandwich
20. Healthy Slow Cooking: Chickpea Noodle Soup with Spiralized Celeriac
21. It Doesn't Taste Like Chicken (that's me): Vegan Peanut Butter Cups
22. Yummy Mummy Kitchen: How to Freeze Smoothies and Acai Bowls for School or Work
23. Vegan Huggs: Vegan Butternut Squash & Sweet Potato Soup
24. Savory Tooth: Cold Peanut Noodle Salad
25. Contededness Cooking: Vegan Cheese Quesadillas
Bon Appetegan!
Sam.
Kenzie1732 says
This is amazing! I know its for kids but i made some of the recipes just for myself!!!
poppy says
with the cold peanut noodle salad, could soba noodles be used instead of rice noodles?
Sam Turnbull says
Absolutely!
India Wardell says
This was a godsend. Ive been trying to find simple ideas for school lunches for my plant based kiddos.
Sam Turnbull says
Woohoo! So happy I could help, India!
Akiko says
These recipes look delicious! However a lot of them contain nuts or peanut butter which is forbidden in schools. Could you do a post of vegan lunch ideas that are nut free as well?
Sam Turnbull says
Hi Akiko! That's a great idea. You can search my recipesfor lunch ideas. You could also substitute sun butter (made from sunflower seeds), wow butter, or another similar product.
Sam Turnbull says
Sorry you didn't like my post, Caroline, but keep in mind this is just a free list I put together. I'm not a parent, and peanut butter was totally acceptable when I went to school so I didn't know! I didn't want to modify the post because I don't want to delete the links to my friend's sites, that's not a nice move.
Stacy says
For the peanut butter recipe would it work to replace it with a nutbutter or sunbutter?
Sam Turnbull says
Not all of these recipes are mine, but I imagine that it should work just fine. Enjoy!
Annie says
Wow thanks! Packing my lunch for school has now become a lot easier! All these recipes look so delicious !
Sam Turnbull says
Woohoo! So happy I could help! 😀
Nico @ yumsome says
I've only just discovered that you featured my brownie recipe - thank you so much, Sam, I really appreciate it!
**Note to self: get with the programme.
Sam Turnbull says
Haha no problem! My pleasure 🙂
Sandra says
Yes! Love all this inspiration. Thank you so much for including my pumpkin and hummus wraps. Gonna share this beautiful post 🙂
Sam Turnbull says
Thanks Sandra! So happy you like it 🙂
Wendy Beautyman says
Hi Sam
my kids are all grown up now and in college or uni so they can fend for themselves, what i really love about your put together collections is that I get to see recipes from other fantastic vegan cooks that I might not have heard about before. So thank you because now i can follow a whole bunch of new (to me) vegan cooks and enjoy making their creations as much as i enjoy making yours (btw the oatmeal and chocolate chip cookies are stunning!!!)
thanks again
Wendy
Sam Turnbull says
That's great Wendy! Yes there are so many awesome vegan (or mostly vegan), blogs out there, and so many cool recipe ideas! So happy I could introduce you to a few. Also so happy you love the cookies 🙂
Natalia @ Simply Overjoyed says
These recipes all look delicious! I think I'll have to try a few for when I go back to school in a couple weeks myself! Big thanks for including one of my recipes!
Sam Turnbull says
You're very welcome! I hope you get a chance to test some out 🙂
Melissa @ Vegan Huggs says
This post couldn't have come at a better time. I've been running out of ideas for my picky eater. He also gets bored easily with food, so I have to switch it up a lot. He looked at this post with me and has already picked out some favorites. The chocolate chip cookies were his first request. I told him we would make them together this weekend. Thank you for including some of my recipes. 🙂
Sam Turnbull says
Hahaha, great minds think alike- the chocolate chip cookies would be my go to as well 😉 So happy this post will help you out, I hope you're youngin discovers some new favourites!
Jen says
Sam, these all look wonderful, but I have to wonder about the inclusion of so many recipes with peanut butter and nuts. Kids can't bring anything with any nuts to school.
Sam Turnbull says
Ah yes... Can you tell I don't have kids? Haha. Back in my day, or at least in my middle of nowhere country school, nuts were a-ok, so I didn't even think of that. Looks like lunchbox collection round two will be in order soon! 🙂
sophie says
so many great ideas! Gosh I can't tell you how bad I was waiting for this this kind of stuff but I couldn't find anything that looks just...good 😉 Thankssss
Sam Turnbull says
Yay! So happy I was able to help you find some cool ideas! Enjoy 🙂
audrey @ unconventional baker says
Um... those banana rolls I so want some now I'd be willing to go back to school... 🙂
Thank you for the recipe inspiration and for throwing my blueberry balls in there.
Sam Turnbull says
Haha right? Cute banana rolls! I love the colour of your blueberry balls. 🙂
Florian @ContentednessCooking says
Delicious and tasty collection, thanks for including my Quesadillas!
Sam Turnbull says
You're very welcome!
Bethery says
Your cheese for these quesadillas is different from anything I've ever tried before, and Sam introduced me. I'm going to give it a whirl.
Florian @ContentednessCooking says
Awesome, Bethery! Happy to hear that!