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: Rustic quinoa porridge topped with sliced banana and pistachios

• 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

• Open sandwiches: Marmite avocado open sandwich topped with herb salsa

• Sandwiches: Toasted sweet potato, ricotta and rye sandwiches

• 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: Wholemeal wraps with hummus, yeast spread, lettuce, carrots, cucumber, tomato and bean sprouts

• Tabbouli: Buckwheat tabbouli, serve with falafels and hummus

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

• Sandwiches: Pan-toasted sandwiches with hummus, avocado, semi-dried tomatoes and rocket

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

• Soup: Roast tomato, fennel and cannellini bean soup, serve with grainy sourdough toast and avocado

• Soup: Vegetable and pearl barley soup, serve with Turkish bread

Snack

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

• Veggie sticks: Veggie sticks with beetroot hummus

• Muffin: 1 date and bran muffin

• Smoothie: Kale and blueberry blend smoothie

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: Black-eyed bean and eggplant curry with cooked barley or long grain brown rice

• Fettuccine: Mushroom and cashew fettuccine, serve with a colourful side salad

• Burritos: Baked mexican bean burritos, serve with guacamole and salsa

• Shepherd's pie: Vegetable shepherd’s pie with a sweet potato topping

• Vegetable bake: Crispy Mediterranean vegetable bake with butter beans

After dinner

Drinks

• Herbal tea: your favourite Herbal tea

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

Snacks

• Pudding: Blueberry chia pudding

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