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:
- Quinoa, cooked in vegetable stock and some chopped onion.
- A bunch of sauteed kale
- A couple hand fulls of feta.
- 4 links, skins removed, of sauteed italian chicken/turkey sausage.
- Sliced cremini mushrooms.
Cous Cous with feta, garbanzo beans, zucchini and roasted red pepper.
Ingredients:
- Middle east garlic cous cous.
- Chopped zucchini, seared with salt and pepper.
- Sliced roasted red pepper.
- Rinsed, canned garbanzo beans.
- A couple hand fulls of feta cheese.
Mexican quinoa
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Ingredients:
- Shredded chicken
- Quinoa cooked in vegetable stock
- Sliced green/red peppers and onion, sauteed
- Canned black beans, rinsed
- Salsa
Top with avocado and shredded cheese.
Not a lunch but great energy snack...
Date and fig nut balls
Ingredients:
- 1 cup roasted cashews
- 1 cup roasted whole almonds with skins on
- 1 cup roasted walnuts
- 15 dates
- 6 figs
- 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!