Couscous and cabbage

Nothing new here. For this lunch I brought couscous with a vegetable sauce, I added some chickpeas for extra protein. My side dish was an Ethiopian cabbage-potato-mix.
As second breakfast and snack I had little turnovers with a feta-leek-filling and a banana.

Mittwochsbox - 12th of March, 2014: Mexican

Today I'm participating in my first blog event, I'm really exited! On two wednesdays a month Simone from the German blog http://blog.leckerbox.com/ invites everybody to show a lunchbox about a theme she proposes.
This week it's Mexican cuisine. I already had a Mexican lunch with my standard dishes not long ago, and I did not want to just repeat all those typical variations on tortillas and avocado (although they finally make an appearance...), so I did a bit of research.
It's not easy to find authentic vegetarian/vegan Mexican dishes that are a bit different, so I ended up chosing some ideas inspired by Mexico on the German website http://veganwelt.de/ .
On the right you have a potato stirfry and two mini bell peppers filled with quinoa on a bed of chimichurri champignons.
On the left you can see my midmorning snacks and dessert: burrito-"sushi" filled with homemade zucchini-salsa, seitan and avocado, two tangerines and sweet empanadas with pineapple filling.
So ... that's a lot of food. I'm not an ambitious person, but I always want to do things "right", so I might have overdone it a bit. At least today I will not have to buy a chocolate bar on my way home because I've run out of provisions!

Risotto and Calzoni

For this lunch I made my beloved barley risotto and mini-calzoni with spinach filling. As a snack I also packed two homemade fruit-bars.

Provisions for Traveling

These are the things that I brought along for my flight when I visited my parents for Christmas.
I made turnovers with an olive-tomato-filling (the rest of them are in the paper bag) and energy balls with hazelnuts, dates and cocoa. I also packed some macadamia nuts and bought a smoothy once I had passed the security check.
I hate flying, but at least knowing that I'll not be hungry on the plane because they either serve uninspired food (often with meat) or make you pay for your snacks is reassuring.