These super healthy vegan lunch ideas include chickpea burgers, lettuce wraps, and organic split pea soup. 😋
Eating a healthy lunch isn’t just about staying energized through the afternoon—it can also have a big impact on your health.
Research shows that front-loading your meals earlier in the day and tapering off as bedtime approaches is better for digestion, metabolism, immunity, and even weight management.
Personally I take my ‘big’ meal between two and six o’clock, and when I do these vegan recipes come to mind.
1. Chickpea Burgers
Vegan chickpea burgers make a delicious and healthy lunch option. They’re packed with protein, rich in fiber, and loaded with nutrients.
Fiber, in particular, plays a powerful role in health—studies show it can help reduce the risk of cancers, heart disease, and even premature death.
It may also help the body offset an accumulation of toxic PFAs.
Get the recipe here.
2. Loaded Salads
Salads are clearly one of the best foods ever, and especially when they’re stacked. Think dark leafy greens and every vegetable, nut, seed, sprout, and legume under the sun.
The possibilities are rich. 🌱
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3. Lettuce Wraps
Vegan lettuce wraps make an excellent lunch choice—light, nutrient-dense, and endlessly versatile! And when you make them with dark green leaves instead of iceberg lettuce, they’re healthier yet.
I personally rock sauces like pesto, hummus, tahini, baba ganoush, or vegan Ranch dressing on wraps. Think spicy bean wraps with salsa, guacamole, the works.
Get the recipe here.
4. Vegan Split Pea Soup
Vegan split pea soup is a hearty, nourishing lunch that delivers both comfort and stellar health benefits. Peas are packed with plant-based protein, offering around 16 grams a cup. They also rock around 13 grams of fiber—nearly half the RDA.
They also pack iron, magnesium, and B vitamins—particularly folate.
Serve with salad, homemade sourdough bread, and garlic croutons.
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5. Vegan Chicken Pot Pie
Vegan chicken pot pie is a great lunch option that combines the satisfaction of a classic dish with the benefits of plant-based ingredients.
When made with whole-food alternatives such as tofu, tempeh, or plant-based protein instead of chicken—and packed with veggies like carrots, peas, greens, and potatoes, it becomes a fiber-rich, nutrient-dense meal.
It’s also low in saturated fat and boosts complex carbohydrate intake.
Get the recipe here.
6. Vegan Lasagna
Vegan lasagna is a hearty, satisfying lunch that can also be immensely healthy when made with plant-based ingredients.
By swapping traditional meat and cheese for layers of veggies, lentils, or plant-based protein and dairy-free subs, it’s a fiber-rich, protein-dense meal.
It also rocks additional nutrients when you use whole food, gluten-free noodles.
Get the recipe here.
7. Vegan Falafel
Vegan falafel is a perfect lunch idea. Made from chickpeas or fava beans, it’s packed with vitamins, minerals, protein, and loads of healthy fiber.
Often paired with tahini—e.g., ‘falafel sauce’—it’s great with vegan Ranch dressing, hummus, and baba ganoush.
Give it an air-fry for reduced calories.
8. Miso Soup
Miso soup is a light yet deeply satisfying vegan lunch that fits seamlessly into an intermittent fasting or detox routine.
Made with fermented soybean paste, it’s rich in probiotics, which support gut health and aid digestion. It’s also one of the most healing foods on earth. 💚
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9. Vegan Calzones
Homemade vegan calzones are a treat! Pack with veggies, plant-based proteins, tons of herbs.
Fully customizable and they freeze well.
Get the recipe here.
10. Creamy Broccoli Soup
I’m a huge fan of soups as a main course because they’re very nourishing.
And especially this creamy rich vegan broccoli soup served with salad and homemade bread.
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11. Vegan Chili
We all need to eat more beans, and a delicious vegan chili recipe can level you up. It’s packed with nutrients and goes with tons of meals.
Think chili dogs, chili burgers, meatloaf, vegan stew, vegetable soup, on and on. It’s also great slow cooked for the following day.
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12. Open-Face Sandwiches
Open-face sandwiches like avocado toast are an easy jam. They’re also super healthy with protein, greens, and avocado onboard.
And when it comes to stacking them, the sky’s the limit! 💚 😋
Read up on them here and why they’re Dr. David Sinclair’s favorite fruit.
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13. Vegan Pizza
Vegan pizza is a great healthy lunch idea because it allows you to control every ingredient—from organic buckwheat crust to slews of delicious veggies, plant-based proteins, and nutritious herbs.
Unlike most store-bought or restaurant pizzas that are high in saturated fats, processed meats, and excess sodium, a homemade pizza can be customized for health. 🍕
Tap it here.
14. Potato Wedges
Yummy vegan potato wedges are a meal in and of themselves. They’re also super healthy when you use purple potatoes in their skins. 🥔 😋
Get the recipe.
15. Vegan Protein Smoothies
Vegan protein smoothies are a favorite, and especially a rich creamy peanut butter banana protein smoothie made with Organfi.
It not only rocks over 20 grams of plant-based protein, it packs vitamins, minerals, phenols, fiber, and some high-powered antioxidants.
This Organifi mega-blend takes a creamy rich power smoothie to next level (you can get it here):
Get the peanut butter banana smoothie recipe here.
Enjoy! 💚
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