Easy Meal..Need Help...Ideas????

Question

Busy Mom work FT and go to school. ANy easy meals that are quick?? Recipes ur family likes and allows u to still hv time w them. Any ideas would b great

Answer 1

You can make:

Pita bread with falafel, avocados, & hummus.

Vegan chili made with black beans, kidney beans, corn, green beans, chili sauce, taco seasoning, tomatoes, green peppers & onions.

Baked/fried/BBQ tofu, seiten, TVP, or tempeh.

Cook and fry a large portobello mushroom and make a burger.

Stir fry and season rice/couscous/quinoa, beans, and vegetables.

Bean, rice, & veg cheese burrito, taco, or quesadilla.

Pasta or potatoes (scalloped, mashed, fried, baked, etc) with nutritional yeast cheese sauce. http://www.ivu.org/recipes/italian/sauce...

Sandwiches (like tempeh lettuce & tomato, tofurky cheezsteak, roasted vegetable etc).

Breaded or stuffed mushrooms

TVP and bean tacos, cook tvp with cornstarch, water, and spices to make tacos

Scrambled tofu with vegan cheese, bell peppers and onions

Falafel wrap with tahini dressing

Lettuce or veggie wrap with hummus or vegan mayo

Fried, baked, grilled, or stuffed veggies

Stir fry with vegetables and tofu, tvp, tempeh or seitan

Sandwich, on french bread or sourdough with choice of fillings, vegan grilled cheese

Salad, fruit, vegetable, vegan chicken, etc.

Soup, tomato, butternaut, creamy mushroom, black bean, etc.

Pasta, basic with sauce and vegetables with oil and seasoning

Grilled seiten steak with mash potatoes and gravy

Mashed cauliflower or potatoes with seasoning and vegetables

Vegan bagel pizzas, with bagel, vegan cheese, pizza sauce and veggies and cook in oven, or instead of bagel use french bread

Peanut butter with rice and veggies, or toasted bread/bagel, on toasted bun with fried bananas

Toasted vegan cream cheese bagel with herbs and tomato

Make tofu fillets or cutlets breaded with sauce

Quick casserole, mix your favorite veggies chopped together with olive oil and fry, add nutrional yeast sauce; with vegan margarine mix together with breadcrumbs and put in a cooking dish poor mixed veggies onto it and then cover with more of the breadcrumb mix and top layered with green beans and cook for 10-40m or replace breadcrumbs with pasta of your choice

Easy vegan mac and cheese, cook pasta of your choice, make vegan cheese sauce and pour of cooked pasta.

Make a burger with either pre-made vegan burger patties or cooked portobello mushroom or cooked mushed mixture of vegetables or beans and add your favorite fillings, or make sloppy joes with a cup of cooked TVP covered in BBQ sauce in a cup of water, mix onions, tomato, bell peppers, etc cook until done serve on top of buns

Vegan sushi with brown rice, white rice, couscous, or quinoa, vegetables of your choice, maybe tofu, tempeh, portobello mushrooms or seitan and wrap in nori, roll and cut

Paprikash, cook your favorite vegetables with favorite legumes and add a lot of paprika and onions and green bell peppers

Chinese fried rice, fry brown rice and vegetables in a skillet with olive oil and add soy sauce or Bragg's liquid aminos and liquid smoke

Vegan hot dogs, cook Smart Dogs or another brand of vegan hot dogs and put in a hot dog bun with your favorite condiments, even make chili dogs or frito pie

Vegan fish tacos, grill tofu and wrap in seaweed dazzle with olive oil and wrap in tortillas with lettuce and dressings of your choice

Bake a potato add your fixings, make a BBQ potato with BBQ sauced setien, a broccoli and cheese potato with broccoli, vegan cheese, and vegan butter, etc

Cook cauliflower, squash, broccoli, and peas together, mush slightly add vegan cream cheese, or vegan sour cream, or vegan butter

Power vegan smoothie with fresh fruits of your liking, plant milk, bananas or tofu, flaxseeds, pumpkin seeds, and maybe a sweetener of your choice; you can also add nuts, spirluna, protein powder, etc

Quick vegan waffles or pancakes with syrup, vegan butter or vegan cream cheese, and fruit

Cereal or oatmeal with fortified alternative to milk (such as soy milk, almond, rice, hemp, etc), with nuts and fruits on the side (or mixed in!)

Tempeh bacon with tofu scramble

Here are simple and easy veg*an recipes:

http://vegweb.com/index.php?board=153.0

http://vegweb.com/index.php?board=136.0

http://www.recipezaar.com/recipes.php?ca...

http://www.recipezaar.com/recipes.php?ca...

http://blog.vegcooking.com/quick_and_eas...

http://www.theveggietable.com/recipes/ea...

202 Simple Vegan Meals Ready in 10 Minutes or Less:

http://urbanvegan.blogspot.com/2007/11/a...

http://urbanvegan.blogspot.com/2007/07/s...

Other recipes:

http://veganpeace.blogspot.com/2007/08/v...

Answer 2

When I need a quick vegetarian meal, I use the morningstar "beef" crumbles with any kind of hamburger helper ("beef" stroganoff is the best). Or the make these fake chicken strips that are really good with any kind of pasta. (Frozen cheese tortellinis with pesto sauce is to die for AND quick!) When I have other things to do around the house, I'll throw some partially cooked pastas in a casserole dish with some sauce, frozen veggies *quick, chik-in strips and bake it. mmmmmm. Now I'm hungry :(

Answer 3

My mom--not a vegetarian--got this recipe book "Lickety-Split Meals" by Zonya Foco and it happens to have a LOT of vegetarian ones. I haven't tried many of them, but here's a couple (both serve 4):

Cheesy Potato Skillet with Mixed Vegetables (15 mins)

1 bag frozen mixed vegetables

4 cups frozen Ore Ida Potatoes O'Brien (hash browns with onions and peppers)

1/2 cup shredded mozzarella cheese

2 Tbs grated parmesan cheese

Pepper to taste

Heat frozen veggies for 4 minutes in large skillet, in a tsp oil.

Add potatoes and cook another 6 minutes, stirring frequently.

Sprinkle the cheeses over the vegetables, turn off heat, cover and let stand one minute.

White Beans with Tomato, Basil and Parmesan (15 mins)

1 Tbs oil

2 cloves garlic, minced

2 cans Navy, great northern or white kidney beans, rinsed and drained

1 lg ripe tomato, chopped

1 tsp dried basil

1/2 cp grated parmesan cheese

1 Tbs lemon juice

Sautee oil and garlic 3 mins.

Stir in beans, tomato, and basil, cook 7 minutes.

Mix in cheese and lemon juice just before serving.

There are lots more, too, ranging from 5 minutes to slow-cooking.

Also, personally, I am a huge fan of the stir-fry. Just throw a bunch of vegetables in a pan, cook up some rice, and you have a tasty, healthy, quick meal. I use soy sauce and other seasonings, too.

Answer 4

Vegetarian Chili

In a crock pot, combine the following

1can kidney beans rinsed

1 can mixed beans, rinsed

1 can corn

1chopped red pepper

1 chopped yellow pepper

Couple ribs of chopped celery

1 jar salsa (use a store brand, Doritos is very sweet)

2-3 tbsp chili powder

cook on low all day

to serve

dish out, add shredded cheese, sour cream, black olives, shredded lettuce, tortilla chips.