Making lunch just gets a whole lot more interesting with these easy vegan lunch ideas! We all have those days when we dread lifting a finger to cook. Try one of these and enjoy a fast and fun meal.
Don’t worry! After you look over all of these insanely delicious recipes, you are going to be drooling and more than happy to get in the kitchen to whip these up.
You’ll even be able to get the entire family on board with eating these dishes as well. In addition to making them for lunch, many are lovely for dinner options as well as potlucks and parties.
🍽️ Why You Will Love This List
No matter how you use this list of fabulous recipes, I assure you that you will want to keep it close by. I refer to it often!
Nutrient Rich | Because these are plant based recipes, you know that each one is packed full of nutrients while leaving all of the excess fillers out.
Easy Prep | Making these lunches are quick and easy, so this won’t take up a ton of time to prep. Plan for about 20-30 minutes in the kitchen.
Tasty and Flavorful Vegan Recipes | These clean, refreshing recipes bring all the flavor from the natural flavors while leaving out the excess processed additives that come with a lot of meals. Your family will enjoy healthy meals packed with flavor every day.
Great for the Whole Family | These are family friendly recipes that everyone will love. If this is new to some members of the family, ease them into it but the clean flavors alone with gain their approval. I bet they won’t even notice the lack of meat.
🍓 Health Benefits
These recipes are plant-based, and use wholesome and clean ingredients…at least for the most part. When you eat these, you will get lots of useful nutrient-rich ingredients in every bite.
🍇 Can I Make Ahead?
Yes, absolutely! While each recipe has its own set of instructions, most of them can be prepped ahead of time. This is a fantastic time-saver and will allow you to meal prep easily.
Plan out your week ahead of time, and you’ll be amazed how great it feels to have easy and delicious meals for lunch every day.
- When looking at each recipe, check to see where you can pre-cook and chop up vegetables ahead of time.
- There might be a dressing you can make ahead of time.
- Check how many servings there are and to see if you can meal prep these into 4-5 lunches for the entire week. Would they reheat ok?
📌 Tips For Taking Your Lunch To Work Or School
If you make your lunch to take to work or school every day, you will find these steps useful. Over the years, I have learned a lot about packing lunches and want to share them with you.
- Plan in advance. If you wake up at the last minute, you aren’t going to have time to scurry around the kitchen to find something healthy to eat. Instead, plan ahead so you can have a delicious lunch every day! It’s a great time saver, and you will be much less likely to hit a drive-thru!
- Add variety to your meals. If you eat the same thing every single day, it’s going to become boring. Try out new recipes and rotate them, so you always have some variety and different flavors.
- Don’t forget to pack snacks too. In addition to lunch, having some healthy snack options is always a plus. Fruits, veggies, or other bite-sized snacks are ideal.
- Use good-quality materials. Whether it’s your lunch box, food storage containers, or freezer cooling packs, it’s important to use good quality items. You want your experience to be the best it can be. All of these things can affect how your meal turns out.
- Don’t add dressing to salads until you are ready to eat it. If you add the dressing in the morning or the night before, odds are the salad is going to be slimy and not too appealing. You can either add the dressing to the very bottom of the salad and mix later or wait and pour it on right when it’s lunchtime.
- We love taking lunches as they are so much healthier and save money. Our favorite meal prep lunch containers have a great mix of options for anyone that is just starting out and not sure how much money they want to spend at first to those looking for an entire lunch box system. My husband has been taking his lunch for many years and we prefer ones that seal well to prevent leaks. You can only guess why!
Vegan Sandwiches and Salads
Create one or more of these vegan sandwiches and salads for lunch today. These are all bursting with fresh ingredients, flavor, and are sure to please. Must make vegan salads and more.
These chickpea burgers are filling, but not too filling that you can’t enjoy them for lunch. They are light enough to eat on a regular basis too. Give it a taste!
Forget boring sandwiches! Instead, make this curried chickpea salad and liven up your lunch. Serve with some fresh veggies, and you will have an excellent lunch idea that wasn’t even hard to make!
What I love about carrots is that they are naturally sweet. I have a bit of sweet tooth, so it makes sense to munch on them all the time. However, I am kicking myself for not finding this awesome carrot salad sooner.
Biting into a crunchy chickpea is almost heavenly! The flavor is insane, and they are so easy to make too. This is one salad that you aren’t going to want to miss out on.
You’ll be amazed to know that there aren’t any actual dairy products in this creamy broccoli cheese soup. It looks, smells, and tastes like the old-fashioned broccoli soup you used to eat.
If you have been craving a burger, these vegan garlic slaw burgers will give you the fix you need. They are loaded with nutrients and flavor too.
The options are seriously endless when it comes to these incredible vegan buddha bowls. Add in all your favorites, and it will be one of the best lunch ideas ever.
The sweetness from the pomegranate is the perfect combination with the quinoa and kale. Not to mention that this salad is extraordinary and beautiful.
Lasagna in the form of soup? Where do I sign up?! This delectable soup is a combination of two of my favorite things and the entire family will enjoy it too.
These vegan sloppy joes are seasoned perfectly and will keep you satisfied for hours. They are sweet and delicious. Serve with a fresh garden salad to complete your meal.
Vegan Soup Recipes
These recipes make a great meal prep for the week. Healthy, hearty, and vegan friendly soups you can devour any day of the week. If you want a comfort food soup recipe, these are for you.
This vibrant Thai soup is flavorful, simple to make, and looks gorgeous too. Red onions, bell pepper, mushrooms, garlic, ginger, Thai chili, coconut milk, and a few other ingredients are all you need to make this hearty soup.
Sweet potatoes are the star of the show in this Thai coconut red curry. They provide you with sweetness and make the texture incredibly good. Try it and see for yourself.
Can you ever really have too many chili recipes? I know I can’t, and this one has quickly become one of my top choices. Add some salsa or avocado on top, and you are all set.
Minestrone soup is loaded with veggies in every single bite. You can make this vegan minestrone soup in the instant pot or Ninja Foodi as well as stovetop version!
Even More Vegan Lunch Recipes
And here are even more lunch recipes to test out in the kitchen this week. These are satisfying lunch recipes that are all vegan approved.
Sweet potatoes have so many nutrients like potassium, manganese, vitamin E, vitamin B6, and so much more. Eat up, and enjoy your healthy lunch.
Yay!! These breakfast nachos give me the perfect reason to eat breakfast anytime I want. 🙂 They are lovely and give you tons of flavor. Nachos for breakfast for the win!
This fried rice is unlike anything you have had before. It’s impossible not to drool when you catch the aroma in the air as it cooks. It has lots of healthy ingredients, including cashews, to give you a delightful crunch.
This is some of the best comfort food you are going to find, and it just happens to be vegan too. Whether you eat vegan all the time or just want to have some vegan recipes, be sure to check this one out.
If you have made the switch and eat vegan, but still miss bacon, this is for you. This is a unique recipe that shows you how to make rice paper bacon, and it’s game-changing!
When you make this lemony spring pasta salad, you are getting a lunch that will be boasting with flavor and looks too. Every bite has bright and vibrant colors, as well as tasting great too.
When you make this lemony spring pasta salad, you are getting a lunch that will be boasting with flavor and looks too. Every bite has bright and vibrant colors, as well as tasting great too.
This vegan chickpea tuna salad comes together in literally 10 minutes. It is one of my go-to when I want a protein packed light lunch option.
Another one is a vegan stewed chickpeas! This is very comforting but also a mix between a soup or stew style, but not.
I love refried beans, and you could eat this as is, or use it to spread on crackers, veggies or make into a roll-up on a tortilla.
Looking for a satisfying vegan spaghetti sauce? Serve over any style of pasta you would like from zucchini noodles to chickpea pasta.
Buddha bowls are a must make. A great lunch to meal prep ahead and pack in all the vitamins and nutrients to fuel your day.
More Easy Recipes
Great list of recipes!