Recipes: Lunch
Chilli bean wraps
Fast easy family meal. You don’t need to follow the recipe exactly – use whatever vegetables you have in the cupboard, freezer or fridge.
Fast n easy pizza
Instead of spending 20 minutes waiting for a store-bought takeaway pizza, why not try making your own yummy pizza in 15 minutes? A much healthier alternative too.
Thai Style Chicken & Pumpkin Curry
Easy to make delicious Thai style dish. The chicken and fish sauce can be left out for a vegetarian dish.
Vegetable Chowder
Vegetable chowder is an easy and tasty vegetable soup. Use seasonal vegetables which you have grown to create a unique homemade soup.
Stuffed Potatoes
Stuffed Potatoes are great as an afternoon snack, lunch or a side dish to any main for dinner. Try something new and fill with baked beans or spaghetti along with your other favourite fillings.
Pancakes
Great for Breakfast. Serve with your favourite seasonal fruit ie. Strawberries or Blueberries
Wholegrain Salad Sandwiches
Salad sandwiches are a great idea for lunch or an afternoon snack. They are healthy and easy to make. To add to the taste add your own favourite sandwich fillings.
Savoury Pinwheels
You can eat pinwheels with a salad for lunch, as an after school snack or with soup for dinner.
Pita Pizzas
Create variation through selecting your own favourite toppings ie. sliced tomato, chopped onion
Scrambled Eggs
Scrambled Eggs are great for Breakfast. Serve with toasted bread. To add to the taste you could try adding chopped ham, cheese and tomato.
Salmon patties
Here is an real easy recipe for a very fulfilling snack or meal. Some canned fish will make the patties then add some colour by steaming 2-3 different vegetables to have on the side.
Vegetable Fritters
A great way to get the kids to eat their daily serving of Vegetables. Quick and easy to make. Can be served with sweet chilli or tomato sauce.
Toasted Sandwiches
Toasted Sandwiches are an ideal snack or quick meal on the run. Some fillings work well cold in the lunchbox. Grated cheese goes further than sliced cheese.
Recipe from The Great Little Cookbook
Fluffy Omelette
This is a great option for breakfast. Add a selection of your own faviourite vegetables
Vegetable Rice Slice
Great served hot or cold. Serve with a green salad. Great for both lunch and dinners
Potato Wedges
This is a great alternative to store brought chips. Serve with a little sour cream or sweet chilli sauce
Corn Fritters
serve with rice or your favourite sauce or try with warm winter vegetables. Make a fritter burger – slap a fritter between chunks of bread or toast with lettuce and tomato.
Tuna or Ham Wrap
Wraps are great for those nights when you may find yourself pushed for time. They are quick, easy and low costing meals that can be prepared for dinner, lunch or a light afternoon snack. Vary fillings and dressings to meet your own taste.
Smarter Sausage Rolls
Homemade Sausage Rolls have the same savoury taste as store brought ones, but less fat
Satay pork balls
This makes for a healthy yet delicious meal. Serve in pita bread or with a fresh garden salad
Frittata with bacon and corn
Serve with sweet chilli sauce, tomato relish or chutney and a side salad.
Vegetable curry
A tasty way to get lots of vegetables into one meal. Alternate taste through adding your own list of favourite vegetables.
Vege Sticks
Vegetable Sticks are a great afternoon snack for kids.
Serve with dip or tomato salsa to add flavour
Ratatouille
This is an extremely versatile dish that can be made with your own favourite variety of seasonal vegetables
Frittata
A great picnic dish or an easy meal that can be served hot or cold, packed with your selection of seasonal vegetables
Salad Nicoise
This fashionable but easy to prepare salad will reflect the fresh wonderful ingredients that the summer months bring.
Tomato and Corn Salsa
Make the most of seasonal vegetables with chutneys, relishes, and salsas. Great for nachos, tacos, wraps, as a dip with vegetable sticks or on the side with kebabs.
