Whether you are packing a lunch box to send your kids off to school each day, packing your own lunch for school or work, or need easy lunch ideas when at home, we have plenty or recipes to help you out.
From vegan lunch meats, salads, and snacks, you will find they are all easier than most think, to whip up at home. Easier and often cheaper than a premade alternative.
Making your own vegan deli meats and cheese at home will cost you a small fraction of what you would pay in the store and you will know exactly what ingredients are going into the food you are feeding you family and yourself.
Making quick healthy lunches for you and your family doesn’t have to be daunting or stressful, and I promise it can be super delicious, easy, and pretty stress free!
Vegan Deli Sliced Turkey
Vegan Deli Turkey
What is a lunch box lunch without a sandwich. I mean I guess you don’t have to have a sandwich but after you make this SUPER easy (seriously, sooooo easy) vegan deli sliced turkey, you might want nothing but a sandwich in your lunch box. This turkey is made with super firm tofu and vital wheat gluten. The flavor is amazing and the vegan turkey breast slices deli thin so you can pile it up high for the perfect sandwich!
Vegan Deli Sliced Ham
Vegan Deli Glazed Ham
If turkey isn’t your thing, no worries, I have a vegan ham recipe that is just as easy and just as delicious as the turkey. Or you can make it a club and add both and some easy rice paper bacon. If ham and turkey are not your thing, don’t fret, I also have recipes for brisket, and pastrami as well! They are all super easy and really very affordable to make. Save money and make the most delicious vegan lunch meats right at home in no time at all!
Vegan Tuna with Jackfruit
Easy Vegan Tuna
I used to eat a tuna sandwich probably 3 days a week before our diets changed. So once we went vegan I craved it more than most other sandwiches for a long time. After attempting chickpea tuna salad and not being a super fan, I decided jackfruit would make an excellent tuna substitute. I was not wrong. The texture is pretty close and since canned jackfruit has a very neutral flavor you can easily flavor it to mimic tuna! Also jackfruit in a can is really cheap, normally around $2 - 3, so it is a really affordable and healthy lunch option!
Vegan Pimento Cheese
Vegan Pimento Cheese
I loved, and I mean LOVED pimento cheese before going vegan. These days there are plenty vegan cheeses available in your regular grocery store making this recipes a breeze to veganize. If you are feeling extra sassy you can always whip up a batch of homemade vegan cheddar and cream cheese, but store bought works just as well and still makes an amazing vegan pimento cheese for sandwiches or for snacking with veggies and crackers. If you are feeling like exploring easy vegan cheese making, check out all the easy vegan cheeses on our site!
Homemade Vegan Cheddar Cheese Shape
Vegan Cheddar Shapes
Remember above where I suggested making your own cheddar and I am guessing a few of you straight laughed out loud. But y’all, it is really really easy! Really! I made these vegan cheddar cheese shapes for super fun lunch box treat, and I made them allergy friendly, too. So many cheese are made with nuts but this recipe uses coconut milk so if you or child has a nut allergy there are alternatives out there! And this alternative is pretty cute and makes playing with your food totally acceptable!
Vegan Mozzarella Cheese Sticks
Vegan Mozzarella Sticks
If your kids (or if this lunch is for you) are older and don’t really want alphabet shaped cheese, who can blame them. But they might not argue about seeing a few vegan mozzarella cheese sticks in their lunch. These cheese stick are perfect for snacking or for lunch. They mix up and set quickly and are really affordable to make! That is always my kind of snack! Don’t be afraid to try your hand at your own vegan cheese making. Agar Agar cheese are so quick and easy, and delicious, you will likely be amazed and thrilled by how much money you will save!
Vegan Quiche Boats
Easy Vegan Quiche Bread Boats
Not a traditional lunch box item, but delicious none the less, and just as good at room temperature. I love this recipe because it works well for a healthy breakfast on the go, or as delicious hand held lunch. Packed with veggies, cheese and vegan meat (if you want) this tofu based quiche is packed with protein and nutrients, and it’s all packed conveniently into a little bread boat!
Vegan Dill Chicken Salad (seitan)
Vegan Dill Chicken Salad
If tuna or deli meats are not your thing, then how about the most convincing vegan chicken salad. It is actually made with our vegan deli turkey breast. So if you are a family divided, you can use half the loaf for delicious deli sliced turkey and the other half to make this amazing vegan chicken salad. Sometimes its nice when everyone wins.
Perfect Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookie
The Perfect Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookie
Sometimes you just want to make someones day, and cookies are an easy way to do that. Who doesn’t love opening up their lunch box to find a nice big homemade cookie staring them in the face. These chocolate chip cookies are the perfect combination of soft and chewy and NOBODY would be able to tell them apart from a non vegan chocolate chip cookie. Maybe you should just toss in a few extra for sharing. I mean after all, sharing means caring, right? And if by chance you are not a fan of chocolate chip, check out the site for lots of other cookie recipes from peanut butter, Ranger, Mexican wedding cookies, soft sugar cookies and many more!
Guilt Free Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Balls
Guilt Free Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Balls
If you are watching the waist line or just want an easy gluten free, and mostly healthy snack in those lunch boxes, these cookie dough balls might be exactly what you need. They are actually made with chickpeas and nut butter, but are one of my favorite easy go to’s for a quick and easy sweet treat. You can always use sunflower butter if you want an allergen friendly versions to send to school with the kiddos.
Vegan Cheeze-its
Vegan Cheeze-ITs
When I was a kid I think I ate my weight in cheeze-its! I loved packing them in my lunch box and even as an adult I still miss and crave them. So we whipped up this pretty easy recipe for a vegan version so you and your kids don’t have to feel left out around the lunch table. Cheesy, salty, crispy and delicious, and most importantly, dairy free and vegan!
