Lunch Solutions

These recipes are meant to be simple.  Just throw together ingredients, no exact measurements.  It will turn out great!

Quinoa with kale, feta, sausage and mushrooms

 Ingredients:

1. Quinoa, cooked in vegetable stock and some chopped onion.
2. A bunch of sauteed kale
3. A couple hand fulls of feta.
4. 4 links, skins removed, of sauteed italian chicken/turkey sausage.
5. Sliced cremini mushrooms.

Cous Cous with feta, garbanzo beans, zucchini and roasted red pepper.

Ingredients:

1. Middle east garlic cous cous.
2. Chopped zucchini, seared with salt and pepper.
3. Sliced roasted red pepper.
4. Rinsed, canned garbanzo beans.
5. A couple hand fulls of feta cheese.

Mexican quinoa

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Ingredients:

1. Shredded chicken
2. Quinoa cooked in vegetable stock
3. Sliced green/red peppers and onion, sauteed
4. Canned black beans, rinsed
5. Salsa

Top with avocado and shredded cheese.

Not a lunch but great energy snack...

Date and fig nut balls

Ingredients:

1. 1 cup roasted cashews
2. 1 cup roasted whole almonds with skins on
3. 1 cup roasted walnuts
4. 15 dates
5. 6 figs
6. water

First, in a food processor, blends the figs and dates with a tbsp of water.  Once it is pureed add the nuts and blend until the mixture forms a clump, you may need to add a couple tbsp of water to get it sticky enough to clump together.  Roll into balls.

Additional comment:

I made these again and substituted roasted pumpkin seeds for walnuts, added dried apricots and chia seeds to the mixture and they turned out great.  Experiment with different ingredients!