Vegetarian meal plan ideas

Here are some vegetarian meal ideas for you to try - there are a few to choose from for each meal and also some between meal snacks! Mix and match according to your taste and see our Vegetarian recipes pages for hundreds more vegetarian recipes.

Breakfast

Cereals

• Weet-Bix™ delight: 2-3 Weet-Bix™ wheat biscuits with fortified soy milk, topped with yoghurt, strawberries and 1 tbs of chia seeds. See our Smooth strawberry Weet-Bix™ delight recipe

• Oats porridge: Make oats porridge with ½ cup of traditional rolled oats and creamy fortified soy milk, and top with sliced banana and 1 tbs of ground linseeds (or flaxseed)

• Quinoa porridge: Lemon coconut quinoa porridge topped with banana, berries and hemp seeds.

• Muesli: Swiss bircher muesli with soy milk, grated apple, mixed berries

Smoothies

• Tropical vegan smoothie: Tropical green vegan smoothie with pineapple, mango, passionfruit and coconut milk

• Breakfast smoothie: Weet-Bix™ breakfast smoothie with wholewheat or sorghum breakfast biscuits, soy milk, banana and berries

Savoury

• Frittata: Quick spinach frittata

• Fritters: Corn, zucchini and chickpea fritters

Morning snack

• Fruit: 1 orange, 2 kiwi fruit or a handful of fresh berries

• Nuts: ¼ cup of unsalted mixed nuts and seeds

• Bliss balls: 1-2 nut and seed Bliss balls

Lunch

• Wraps: Roasted sweet potato and beetroot wraps with ricotta and fresh herbs or these Singapore noodle lettuce wraps for a bread-free option. 

• Tabbouli: Buckwheat tabbouli, serve with falafels and hummus

• Frittata: Zucchini and quinoa frittata with pinenuts, olives and feta

• Sandwiches: Toasted sweet potato, ricotta and rye sandwiches

• Burgers: Vegetable burgers, serve with brown grainy bread rolls

• Soup: Minestrone soup, serve with crusty bread or grainy sourdough

• Soup: Isreali couscous and butterbean soup

Snack

• Crackers: Seeded crackers topped with natural peanut butter, tahini or avocado

• Veggie sticks: Veggie sticks with Beettroot hummus or these tasty Peanut boats.

• Muffin: Date and bran muffin

Dinner

• Stir-fry: Stir-fry greens with tofu and cashews and cashews, serve on a bed of long grain brown or wild rice

• Soup: Homemade Vegetarian laksa soup with tofu, egg noodles, and fresh mung bean sprouts

• Pilaf: Chickpea pilaf with spinach topped with yoghurt and slivered almonds

• Butter beans: Greek-style butter beans, serve with rocket leaves and rustic garlic bread

• Curry: Nepalese vegetable curry, serve with brown rice or roti or naan bread. 

• Pasta: Creamy sweet potato (kumara) pasta, serve with a colourful side salad

• Burritos: Toasted mexican burritos, serve with guacamole and salsa

• Vegetable pie: Spring vegetable pie, delicious served hot or cold

• Vegetable bake: Hearty and healthy Vegetable bake

After dinner

Drinks

• Herbal tea: your favourite Herbal tea

• ​Mineral water with fresh fruit: add sliced seasonal berries or citrus to flavour

Snacks

• Pudding: Acai chia pudding, serve with fresh berries or this dairy-free Chocolate pudding

• Crumble: Apple and almond crumble with a scoop of soy ice-cream