Do you have a favorite lunch that just happens to be vegan?

[GreatGazoo]

I'm not a vegan but I love a big salad with baby greens, tomatoes and avocado this time of year.

I have also been eating more than a couple quinoa bowls with black beans, pico de gallo, avocado, lime wedge and Chalula.

[gollygee]

1. Peanut butter and jelly!

How about spinach and baby tomatoes with pine nuts or something on it.

[unc70]

2. Getting vegan bread is a problem

A lot of bread is not vegan. Most pasta is.

[Major Nikon]

3. Real bread is always vegan

Real bread has a very short ingredients list: water, flour, salt, and yeast. Fortified bread contains other things. Most supermarkets today bake real bread on a daily basis and you can ask to make sure those are the only ingredients.

Real bakeries also make real bread. You can also make real bread yourself which is quite easy to do. Most of the unprepared pasta at the supermarket is vegan.

[GreatGazoo]

5. I like pizza dough for making bread (the easy way)

because you just freeze it until you need it and then it can become anything from hamburger rolls to focaccia.

[unc70]

8. I checked a lot of bread today

There were only a couple of vegan loaves in a large Harris Teeter that bakes its ow breads in store and also carries breads from several local bakeries. Your basic French baguette is vegan and wonderful. After that, be careful.

I had a lot of experience in the difficulties with keeping vegan when my stepdaughter was living with me. Today refreshed my memory about breads and baked goods.

The most common non-vegan ingredient in bread is probably honey. In things like the whole wheat baguette.

A lot of breads are cake like and contain things like egg whites or milk or butter.

I stand by my original post.

Also recommend banana or pineapple sandwiches.

[Major Nikon]

9. There's also milk and eggs in many fortified breads

So yes, many of the options are not going to be vegan, but any decent bakery should have at least a couple of non-fortified breads.

[GreatGazoo]

6. Like both of those

salt and a couple drops of balsamic on the tomatoes...Mmmm

[unc70]

14. Try peanut butter and green olive

[Staph]

4. This time of year

it's tomato sandwiches -- tomato, a thin slice of onion, salt and pepper on your favorite bread.

[Warpy]

7. Risi e bisi but without the cheese

I tend to eat it fairly frequently in the spring, even now when I can't have a garden due to the long standing western drought. Without the cheese, it's light, fresh and completely vegan.

My parents felt deprived if they didn't have meat 3 times a day. I've never felt all that deprived when I've done without it completely.

[hibbing]

10. beans and whole grains

I use different beans and different whole grains. Sometimes rice, sometimes barley, sometimes farro and so on. Mix up the seasonings too, always some onion though and I used the crockpot to cook the beans. This week's was particularly good, onion, jalapeno, red lentils and brown rice.


Peace

[Retrograde]

11. Tostadas

Fried tortillas covered with refried beans (I often make my own, using olive oil in place of lard), lettuce, diced tomatoes and onions. Maybe some slices of avocado if I have one handy.

Half an avocado with the hole for the pit filled with a simple vinegar and oil dressing, with tostones (fried plantains) on the side.

Rice and black bean salad with avocado and mango chunks (I'm starting to see a pattern here...)

[GreatGazoo]

12. Love the half an avocado with oil and vinegar idea

I will have to try that.

[Retrograde]

13. You can also fill it with

tuna or chicken salad, or if you're vegan, with a similar-textured tofu or TVP based salad, or chopped tomatoes and red onion, black bean and corn salad, or whatever fits.