Fideuà

For this lunch I tried to make "fideuà", a Catalan dish that's basically a risotto but with pasta instead of the rice. Not bad. I also brought a dessert, something that I have eaten when on vacation camp as a teenager - quark with tangerines from the can and a lot of vanilla sugar. That's really nice and easy to make for a big group of hungry kids. In my case I used vegan "quark", I just poured vegan yoghurt in a sieve and waited until it had lost some liquid.
My midmorning snack were homemade waffles and some cherries.

Pasta with Soy Sauce

For this lunch I prepared one of my favourite recipes, pasta with fried vegetables and soy sauce. I improvised a little salad as a side dish.
My midmorning snack was nut bread with a tomato-radish-spread. I'm showing you one piece of bread without the spread so that you can admire the incredible texture. I made this easy and delicious bread myself following this recipe by My New Roots:
http://www.mynewroots.org/site/2013/02/the-life-changing-loaf-of-bread/
I also included two sweets in the photo. Lately I'm succumbing again to my "addiction" to sugar and sweets, so I thought I should document that as well and not only show you the healthy stuff I eat.

Fried Vegetables and Waffles

For this day I brought fried vegetables that I ate with white (soy) yogurt as a sauce. I wanted something a bit more juicy for a side dish, so I improvised a spicy puree with tomatoes, corn and pumpkin.
I'm quite proud of my snack, because this is the first time that I managed to make waffles without an egg (substituting it with soy flour), they usually fall apart when I try to take them out of the waffle maker. I read that you should allow the dough some time to rest so the gluten of the flour can develop and make the mix sticky enough. It seems to work!

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.

Lentil Soup and Quiche

The main dish of this day was supposed to be the Italian lentil soup with pasta, I only considered the homemade spinach quiche a side dish. But it turned out I didn't really like the soup and was happy to have brought such a big piece of quiche.
The snack are homemade energy balls with hazelnuts and walnuts.

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.

Bulgur Patties and Marzipan Snacks

I had some leftover bulgur from my Curried Aubergie lunch the other day and found a recipe on the internet for bulgur patties. This one used an egg as a binder, next time I'll see if I can substitute it with soy flour.
As a side dish I improvised a mediterranean vegetable mixture à la ratatouille.
My second breakfast were puff paste sticks with marzipan filling.
When I moved to Spain from Germany, I suddenly found that I could not easily buy many ingredients that I had considered quite basic, for example marzipan paste. So now I make my own, you just mix icing sugar with almond flour and add a tiny bit of liquid - water, rose water or bitter almond oil, or a mixture of them. Easy peasy!