What are good filling/protein-rich sandwich/wrap fillings to eat cold? Preferably vegetarian. Trying to think beyond PBJ, hummus, and egg salad!
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Mellow Mushroom used to do a tempeh hoagie that was to die for.
Tempeh bacon
Fresh rolls
Tofu salad
Roasted veggies
Mushroom walnut pate
Ground or mushroom walnut taco meat
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Tofu scramble on an English muffin or toast.
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Chickpea salad! Especially curry with golden raisins and celery.
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I was reminded of this salad today. A good antidote to last week’s fast food…
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I have roughly 30 limes in my fridge from a produce box
What would you do with them? All ideas welcome, but especially ones that aren’t sweet focused.
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Juice and freeze the juice?
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it’s the backup plan. lots of ice cubes of lime juice.
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Also eat tacos for every meal?
Limeade, low sugar?
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3 Tbsp. Lime juice + 1 Tbsp. olive oil sprinkle on corn tortilla cut up to make your own tortillas chips. Sprinkle with a mixture of 1 Tbsp chili powder, 1 Tbsp. Cumin and 1 tsp. Salt. Bake on silicone or lined cookies sheets at 350 F for 7-10 minutes each side. These harden up as they cool. Serve with salsa or hummus.
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I love just doing a squeezed lime in sparkling mineral water. So yummy. In summer I can go through like 5 limes a day that way if I’m not careful 
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Do people have suggestions on what to use for freezing foods other than plastic containers or bags? I freeze a lot and tend to use a lot of baggies and takeout containers, but I am trying to eat leases plastic. I’ve assuming I will probably have to buy a bunch of metal containers? I have a lot of glass jars, but I’ve frozen in glass before and had it break, even when it wasn’t over full.
I dumpster dive so I often get large, infrequent amounts of one thing, like 15 bags of onions, etc.
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I’ve done foil for things I know I’ll eat soon?
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I do use plastic, but for things like onions, I will chop and then freeze on a silicon sheet. I would expect that would be fine to then put into a glass container.
I’d also look for dedicated glass containers that are meant to go into the freezer. I wouldn’t trust them to go from freezer to microwave, but I think freezer to counter would be fine.
(I am having flashbacks to grade 1 science experiment where I put a tin of apple juice in the freezer and it bowed out on both ends! I think I also broke a mason jar and my mom was less impressed)
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I got a few silicone containers recently (these from Amazon but other places probably have something similar if you’re avoiding Amazon). I got them for making and freezing broths but it could also be useful for batches of whatever. I think it says they can go into the oven too if I wanted to bake little loafs of something but I haven’t tested that part yet. The flex of the silicone is more forgiving than things like glass containers.
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Back before Ziplock was a thing, we used to use freezer paper and freezer tape, but it looks like freezer paper is now coated in plastic. Sigh.
Anything you can freeze on a cookie sheet you can then decant into glass once it’s frozen. It won’t expand more and so won’t break the glass. You can use a silpat or just waxed paper. Even things like applesauce can be done this way, fairly thinly, so you can roll them up in the waxed paper and put in a jar. but definitely things like onions, and the bonus is then you can take out however many you need.
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That reminds me, I just did this with tomato paste. It’s sold in small cans but we would never go through the whole can so I portioned the rest out on a cookie sheet and could grab one or two out of the freezer whenever I needed, and it was one less thing to have to shop for.
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Silicone storage bags are a thing too. I’ve got too many plastic bags to bother since unless they end up with raw meat in them I just keep rinsing and reusing, but I tend to either chop-and-freeze vegetables on trays or liquid(ish) things in silcone cups and then everything gets moved into a bag afterwards.
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Good ideas. I do have silicone cups. And cookie sheets.
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