What are your favorite portable meals?
Sandwiches are one example of an easy and portable meal component, because they’re not too messy, and they don’t need to stay cold. But one can only eat so many plain-jane peanut butter sandwiches before it gets old. (Oh forget that; I could eat pb sandwiches every day for the next hundred years and not get sick of them.) One day last week, for the sake of variety—and because experimentation is so much fun—I strayed from the pb-sandwich road, with this:
Carrot Cake Sandwich
- Shredded carrot
- Raisins
- Crushed walnuts
- Cinnamon
- Cream cheese, such as Tofutti OR coconut butter or Cheesecake Mousse
- sweetener of choice, if desired
Close it all up in a whole wheat pita and you’re good to go.
yummy!! I am going to go make one! Like this second lol <3
I may be a little late in getting aboard the Carrot Cake sandwich train, but better late than never, right? ;]
I have to hand it to you, this sandwich is DELICIOUS. I tweaked the recipe a little since I didn’t have vegan cream cheese or even regular cream cheese on hand and just used nonfat cottage cheese instead. I mixed that up with a little sweetener and vanilla extract, added ginger and cloves along with the cinnamon, and instead of walnuts used a sprinkle of coconut. I wrapped it all in a La Tortilla Factory whole wheat wrap, and it was amazing. Thanks for introducing everyone to this simple yet wonderful recipe! <3
what kind of vegan cream cheese do you use?
Tofutti. There’s one that comes in a yellow container and one in a white container. The yellow container is free of trans fats.
how have I never thought of this! this is a pretty good idea. maybe you should have a section devoted to sandwich ideas.
I’m addicted to making this as a wrap! I use steamed carrots, cream cheese (I’m vegetarian not vegan), raisins, and pineapple jam. It is so delicious that I’ve made it for lunch three times in the past six days! I wrote about it here: http://www.confessionsofcrystal.com/