update: giveaway closed
Usually this time of year I share healthy plant-based lunches and back-to-school recipes, or tips for getting organized. This year, I’m doing one better with back-to-school recipes and one wicked giveaway. WHY?
First, for fun! I wanted to give you all the opportunity to enjoy some free stuff. This isn’t a sponsored post. I simply wanted to send out some freebie love to you guys. I reached out to brands that I use and love, and so grateful for their generosity of sample products. We all need a little fun in life, and receiving giveaways of quality products and plant-based foods is always fun in my book. See what I did there? Punny, I’m also giving away Plant-Powered Families.
Second, to bring you lunchbox solutions. Every week I hear from parents looking for ideas for healthy lunches. How to pack healthy plant-based lunches… how to work around nut-free restrictions in schools when packing vegan and plant-based lunches… how to simplify our food preparation and keep lunches fun for our kids!
I dedicated a chapter to packing lunches in Plant-Powered Families, and often it’s missed because the recipes stand out being front and centre in the book. But, that chapter is packed (I did it again, so punny) with information from my years of experience as a mom of three weegans. Not only have I packed vegan lunches for my kids for 13+ years (and hubby for longer), these lunches have always been nut-free. Until our kids enter high-school, most schools enforce a nut-free policy. I have solutions in that chapter for you.
Today, I’m going to share an excerpt from that chapter as well as a recipe that you can use in weekly lunches. Then, I’ll hit you up with the giveaway details!
Plant-Based Lunches Recipe: Hummus 101
This seems like such an obvious recipe. Hummus. Traditional hummus. But that’s why I’m sharing this recipe. It is basic and versatile. Plus, many of you tell me this recipe is a favorite for you, because the flavors are subtle enough for kiddos, but interesting enough for adults.
It can be easily modified to include other flavor perks like spices, olives, or herbs. Best of all, it can be used in lunches in many ways (see my excerpt from the lunches section of PPF excerpt below for ideas).
HUMMUS 101 from Plant-Powered Families
Ingredients
- 4 cups cooked chickpeas rinsed and drained, if using canned
- 1/4 cup tahini or more, if you like it even nuttier!
- 2-3 tbsp nutritional yeast optional; see note
- 1 medium clove garlic sliced or quartered (see note)
- 1 teaspoon sea salt
- Freshly ground black pepper to taste
- 4-5 tbsp freshly squeezed lemon juice to taste
- 2-4 tbsp water
Instructions
- In a food processor, combine the chickpeas, tahini, nutritional yeast, garlic, sea salt, black pepper, lemon juice, and 2 tablespoons of the water, and puree until smooth, adding 1–2 tablespoons water to thin as desired. Stop to scrape down the sides of the bowl a few times, and continue pureeing until very smooth. Season to taste with additional salt, black pepper, and/or lemon juice, and serve.
Recipe Notes
Nutritional Yeast Note: Classic hummus recipes do not include nutritional yeast. However, I have found that kids often like the cheesy flavor that it lends. If you are encouraging kids to eat more hummus, add the nutritional yeast—start with a bit less if you like, and adjust to taste! Garlic Note: Many traditional versions of hummus include a heavy amount of garlic. Children typically do not like the sting of raw garlic, so I have included a modest amount in this recipe. Feel free to adjust to your own tastes. Serving Suggestions: Serve with crudité, pita breads, or tortilla chips, or on Hummus Tortilla Pizzas, page 138.
Hummus in Plant-Based Lunches
I mentioned that PPF has a detailed section for packing healthy vegan lunches. For instance, how to replace standard ‘hot lunch’ foods for your kiddos, and how to switch up sandwich fillings, and use dietary staples in new ways: grains, potatoes, beans… and hummus! Here are some ideas for working hummus into plant-based lunches, excerpted from Plant-Powered Families, page 254:
Hummus Is a Food Group is one of my mantras. Jokingly, yes, but in reality I do use hummus like it’s a food group. I use not just traditional hummus, but all flavor variations that use different beans and seasonings. Some tips for preparing hummus:
- Make it yourself. Not only is it less expensive, but it also tastes far better. Most store-bought varieties have a noticeable citric acid taste, or are too spicy for kids. Make it fresh, and you will also be able to adjust the seasonings as you like.
- Make large batches. Refrigerate a portion, then freeze the remaining in portioned containers. Hummus freezes and thaws brilliantly!
- Make hummus a meal! It’s not just for dipping with pitas and veggies! Try hummus:
- as a sandwich spread
- on toast, topped with avocado
- in wraps with veggies, and other favorite fillings
- as a base layer on pizzas
- mixed with hot grains such as rice or into hot pasta
- dolloped on potatoes or sweet potatoes
- spooned in the center of pitted dates for a snack
- spread on rice or popcorn cakes for a snack
- thinned with a little water for a salad dressing
- thinned and mixed through hot pasta or as a sauce
- as a dip for steamed and roasted vegetables
- layered in lasagna or other casseroles
- in “grilled hummus sandwiches,” tucking in a few slices of avocado after heating
- spread in tortillas with spicy seasoning and cooked fajita-style
- as a layer in Savory Chickpea “Omelets”
Plant-Based Lunches: Giveaway
There are 10 prize packs, each valued at $350, totalling over $3500! Each pack includes:
Vega Gift Pack
I’ve written about Vega before, and I continue to love and use their products. Vega has a new on-the-go protein shake and it’s included in this gift pack. The full Vega prize includes a 12-pack of the new Vega Protein + Shake, a 12-pack of the Vega Protein+ Snack Bars – Chocolate Peanut Butter (I love these), and 1 Tub Vega One French Vanilla.
You can use those protein shakes to pack in your lunchbox, and the bars (that contain nuts) for after-school snacks running to activities. The vanilla powder is fabulous in green smoothies, and I also love it in this smoothie.
Que Pasa Foods & Nature’s Path Foods
I have a long love affair with Que Pasa and Nature’s Path products as well. For years I’ve bought the nut-free Nature’s Path granola bars for our girls’ plant-based lunches. In fact, the texture of those bars inspired my NO-BAKE GRANOLA BAR recipe from PPF. Then, there’s the Nature’s Path whole-grain cereals and waffles, they’ve been household staples for years. Nature’s Path has many vegan products – as does Que Pasa.
Recently I took a tour of the Que Pasa factory. Fascinating to see the process, and also to learn how deeply committed they are to organic, non-gmo ingredients and operating towards zero waste. I’ve talked about my love for their Twist of Lime Tortilla Chips – they are my absolute fave. Try packing them in lunches with the Hummus 101 recipe. Or just for straight up snacking! They also have vegan Ranch and Nacho chips. #hooahh!
Enjoy Life Foods
Many of you love my Oatmeal Banana Bites, Best Banana Bread, No-Bake Granola Bars, and Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Seed Oat Bars. Yep, I’ve baked a lot of these over the years. My favorite chocolate chips to use in these recipes is Enjoy Life. Not only allergen-free so perfectly suited to plant-based lunches, they also have various sizes. The mini-chips are my fave. Fave!
Enjoy Life has many other foods that are absolutely terrific for lunchboxes, and for this giveaway they are including all flavors of their mini-cookies and their chocolate chip snack packs. I won’t tell if you squirrel those chip packs away for yourself. 😬
LunchBots
Now you need a nifty, durable lunchbox for all your plant-based lunches – enter LunchBots! We have the Bento trio, and I find it super convenient for our 8 year old. It’s stainless steel, durable – but not too heavy, and easy to clean. I think it’s the perfect size. The compartments are a good size for a main and two snack-y bits. This is a lunchbox that will last you for years.
Cookbooks!
How about more recipes and resources for your plant-based lunches?
Again, ten of you will receive a copy of Plant-Powered Families and a copy of my oil-free dressings ebook! PLUS…
a copy of Heather Nichold’s NEW Protein from Plants cookbook and her vegan meal planning ebook. These are recipes and resources that will serve you well for plant-based lunches, and also healthy meals and snacks on a regular basis.
K, what are we waiting for? Go ahead and enter here, I have 5 prize packs up for grabs. Then, visit Heather’s site on Friday for another recipe and more chances to win!
Tamra Honea
Excited to find a no oil hummus recipe.
Emily
Looking forward to lunch box ideas! My interest is piqued by lunch bots.
Karen Andrews
I rely on Dreena’s recipe ideas for how to appeal to a child’s palate. Thank you, Dreena, for sharing your wisdom and expertise.
Erin
We do left overs for lunch!
Rachel
I am intrigued by the LunchBots bento box and Heather’s cookbook (ok, so pretty much any and all the prizes look fantastic!). I’m really needing to get our lunch game on point, so I’m looking forward to learning more about what everyone does!
Carrie
Looking forward to some lunch help for the granddaughters….
JoAnn
Thanks for the hummus recipe! I was looking for an oil free recipe and this one looks delicious!
Carolyn
I just discovered your website a few weeks ago. Such great recipes.! Keep up the good work.
Terri Bessey
I am looknig forward to the cookbooks. I need some inspiration!
Allison
I am most excited about the lunch box and the humnus recipe is delicious!
Thanks!
Nichole McKenna
I have most of your other books and I’ve been wanting to pick up this one for a while!
Jen
I am over the moon about the vega pack!! Fingers crossed 🙂
Angie
I’m most excited about the Lunchbots! Thanks for the chance!!
Krista
I’m very excited about the cookbooks. I love cookbooks! Anything to help with packing lunches!! Thank you!
Brigitte Croteau
leftovers are the best in my house. making extra and freezing in portions for a quick grab and go hot meal.
Ciera Larson
I’m excited to try your cookbooks!
Rust
I’m excited to try the Vega One French Vanilla, one of my favorite flavors.
Gloria
I love your site and it’s even more awesome when you have give away;s.
Bonnie Sumner
Always use your wonderful PPF cookbook and post recipes on my Instagram! (@wholeplantkitchen) now this?! Brilliant! Hummus is basically my spirit animal.
Rhonda
Thank you for everything chance to win all of these great prizes! I have tried many of your recipes and would love to try more from your cookbook.
Andrea
I gifted your Plant Powered Families to my sister, and she uses it all the time. I make the sweet potato cake from that book for birthdays and it’s always a hit!
This is a great prize pack for back to school!
Laila
I can really use a bit more inspiration for my child’s school lunches so I am excited to dive into your resources! I have been enjoying your recipes for many years but need to get focused on trying more of them 🙂
Julie
My husband and I LOVE all of Dreena’s recipes and would love another copy of Plant-Powered Families to give to my daughter and encourage her to fix plant-based recipes for her family and help them all see how yummy plant-based foods are!
Amie Larocque
Plant based lunches ~ encourage the kids to get creative with their food (lettuce face, banana eyes with raspberry lips and a strawberry nose). When food is fun, everyone eats!
Susan
Love everything in your giveaway and your plant powered recipes!
Jen Hayes
Newbie here! I would love to mostly get my hands on the cookbooks, but it all looks fantastic! Thanks for a chance at the giveaway!
Wendy
Thank you for this give-away! I would love to win the Bento Box and the Vega pack.
Many of your recipes are staples in our home, and your recipe books are well worn.
I’m from the east coast as well, now living in Vancouver, and had the pleasure of
meeting you and your family at your PPF signing a few years ago.
Adriana
I love getting new inspiration and ideas when reading your posts. I makes my lunch box planning so much easier!
Cathy
Thank you Dreena. Your Hummus 101 is the perfect hummus.
Kristen
I would love to try any of these products – they all look wonderful!
Dana
My favorite lunch (or any meal) tip is use my pressure cooker. It makes cooking certain dishes so fast and easy and it also makes great leftovers. I am most excited about the books as part of the prize pack.
OT
Fantastic information. Thank you for sharing. Keep up the great work.
Ariana timmerman
This looks like such an awesome prize. Would love to win it! Thanks Dreena!
Sabine
I’m so excited about the cookbooks!!!!!!!!
I’ve started adding unflavored, cooked quinoa to smoothies for bulk and to make them thicker if I don’t want to use frozen bananas. I don’t even taste the quinoa.
Mary Beth Hernandez
I love the lunch box and all the cookbooks!
Angie
My SK is more of a snacker so the bento box would be perfect for her! Love the lunch ideas – keep them coming!
Judi
This is soooo awesome! Would LOVE to win and wish everyone else luck as well!! Going to make your hummus recipe today!!
Britt
My preschool age weegan is all about pasta in tomato sauce with “noochy sprinkles”. That’s my go to when packing a lunch for her! Other than that, just about any legume will do. She’s especially fond of chickpeas and lentils. She prefers to snack on whole chickpeas though and hasn’t jumped on the hummus train yet. 🙂
Rachel
We aren’t yet packing lunches – lucky enough to have an all-vegan, all-meals provided preschool – but I feel like I’ve been training for this!
Andrea Lindgren
Thanks for amazing give-away. I’ve always wanted to try the lunchbox!
CJ
Great giveaway – I would love to have this cookbook!
Simone
Isn’t hummus best on just a spoon?!?
Kate
Oh! I am loving the stainless lunch box! For lunches, my 6 yr old loves tofurkey sandwiches with carrots, applesauce and grapes for sides along with a small refillable water bottle. 5 yr old is pickier at school, and terribly slow eater. So, she gets peanut butter and honey sandwich, dried mango sliced into strips and some sliced cucumbers w/her water bottle. We change it up, but this is popular with them this week!
Kim B
What a great giveaway – thanks!
Caitlin
Thanks for being such an inspiration to me as I try to way navigate my family’s way to good eating habits. I have my eye on the lunchbox but I love anything that helps me feed my family in fun and healthy ways.
Judith
I love any hummus and that included PB, cookie dough, chocolate as well as the savory. It is just a perfect food.
Alyson
My favorite (quick and easy!) lunchbox item is to stuff dinner leftovers into a tortilla or wrap.
Alicia
I’m excited about the Lunchbots lunchbox. I’ve been eyeing it for years but haven’t taken the plunge due to price.
Rachel
One of my favorite lunch recipes is hummus pinwheels. This giveaway is amazing and I would love all the things especially the bento lunch box!
Marianne
What a great giveaway! The lunch bento box looks awesome, and it would be amazing to get to try all of those products & cookbooks 🙂
Jill
I need to try that hummus recipe!! We eat it like a food group at my house for sure 🙂
Kids are in the near future for me (adopting) so I’m excited to check out your family cookbook and get some tips for feeding plant powered kiddos!
Richelle
All the quinoa!! I love everything about it and use it all the time.
Dara Howard
Humus is so versatile, definitely a go to recipe!
Ashley
The Vega gift pack!
angela N
I really like that this recipe has four cups of chickpeas and only 1/4 cup of tahini. It looks very hardy. I have been packing lunches for far too many years myself but, always looking for new things. Thank you for doing this post and offering the prizes.
Angela howell
Thank you for sharing this recipe! I’ve been making a dill pickle hummus but wanted to find a recipe without oil that I could adapt to the dill pickle flavor. I can’t wait to try this!!
Joann ossont
Oil free hummus! I found some at Wegmans, but it’s so expensive! Trying this soon!
Ariel rosen
My kids bring hummus in their lunches everyday! Usually as a sandwich spread, and also as a dip for veggies! Your recipes are our favorite!!! Thanks for everything you do!!! ❤️
Daily martin
Buckets of hummus and lots of quinoa salads, lentil pasta and veggies, guacamole and chips, granola and coconut milk, muffins and lots of leftovers from dinner the night before – I try to pack lunches while. I’m making and clearing up after.dinner.
Shaina
I love hummus and this oil free recipe sounds perfect! This giveaway is so exciting! Lots of great and tasty products!
Laura
My husband and I switched to a whole foods, plant based diet about a year ago. You are one of my go-to vegan gurus. Your recipes are always delicious and reliable. I really appreciate all that you do.
Jenny
We need a new lunch box for our 7 y/o weegan and I’ve been meaning to pick up PPF, so I’m most interested in those prize packs! Love your recipes and blog!!
Cindy
I’ve been wanting to get your cookbook for a while now. I even suggested it to our local library 🙂
Laura
My kids love making the recipes from PPF for our family!
Sue Kleinschmidt
All great products! Would love to win any of them but my choice would be the cookbooks so I could share with my family. Watching the grandchildren this week and struggling with what to send with one for school so this was a timely post.
Carrie Kennedy
Every time I try one of your recipes it is amazing! Thank you for always sharing them!
Kimber
I’m so glad your post came through my Insta! I use your books every week and was JUST looking for a new hummus recipe to try (just got my chickpeas soaking.) Thanks!!
Sandy
Hi! I really seem to have a problem to enter the raffle.
Well: I wish all of the participants good luck! And if I may: I’d go for the lunchbox or cook books …
Nonetheless tonight I made cannellini bean hummus and it just tastes wonderful. I am going to ‘experiment’ like you, Dreena, and make a sweet one using dates. Will leave pic and comment on FB.
Ya’all take care as they say down here
Lauren
May family is transitioning to plant based eating. I would love to win this to help out.
Jacqui
Awesome giveaway! I am so excited for all of the prizes… not a bad one in the bunch! 🙂 Love the Enjoy Life Brand.. works for all of our allergies! 🙂
kelly smith
I love Vega products so am excited about those as part of the prize pack but I am even more excited about the cookbooks being offered as I am a big fan of Heather Nicholds and look forward to experimenting with Dreena Burton’s recipes as well!
Jennifer
I have always wanted a Bento box! I’d love to win one!!! I’d love the recipe books, too!
Deb E
I’ve only tried plastic Bento boxes and love them but I’d love to try this stainless steel trio compartment box! They are the perfect size too.
Ally
It may sound stupid or overly simple but I am much more likely to do a good, plant based lunch if I pack it the night before. The morning of, all I do is throw whatever’s around in my lunch box…
Dee Johnson
I am really interested in the Protein from Plants cookbook.
Christina Carlisle
I’m excited about the cookbooks!
Caroline
Another simple to make, spectacular to taste recipe, thank you.
Patty
Love to try those LunchBots for my kids lunches. Love your recipes!
ET Pruitt
I want to try the Lunchbots bento box
Lisa Brown
I find it easier to make plant-based lunches when I use my bento box. Having lots of different little dishes makes it fun and never boring.
Joanne M
Hummus and Enjoy Life Mini Chips–two of my favorite things!
Lindsey
Leftover frittata with whatever veggies are in the fridge.
Melinda
Hummus is its own food group! Love it!
jacquie
lots of those products would be new too me and i would love a chance to try them. As for lunch – leftovers are my go to.
Jenn
Having lots of different sized containers is key to my packed lunches–and prepping the night before. It’s much more likely to happen if I can just grab it out of the fridge in the morning, rather than needing to cut/chop/prepare pre-caffeine.
Brooke Broehl
Yum! Hummus is the best. I’ll have to try this recipe.
This is a fabulous giveaway! I would be so excited for all of it. I’d love to get the cookbooks, try vega and the enjoy life cookies! Thanks for the chance!
MARIA GOLLER
I have never thought to put nutritional yeast into hummus. I need to try this as soon as possible. 🙂
Jimmy Brown
thank you so much
flora
Dreena, your cookbooks and website and passion make vegan parenting so enjoyable! Thank you 🙂
Becky
My kiddo is super picky (and Omni because she lives in two houses and only mine is vegan) so I am always looking for ideas that appeal to her for lunch. We did find one good idea sending rice, tofu and peanut sauce. Unfortunately she doesn’t like hummus- but I will try out your recipe for me!
Jessica Streit
I prefer roasting my garlic before putting it into the hummus. I think it takes the tang out and makes it creamier.
Also, Enjoy Life used to make a Flax Cereal that went great mixed with my Nature Path cereal. I’m sad it’s no longer available!
Mary ann S.
Looking forward to reading Heather’s new book!
Kristen
Love this hummus recipe!
Kim
This is such a great giveaway! I have been eyeing the cookbooks for months . My son has to sit at the nut free table because of his tree but allergy so the enjoy life products would be great too.
Manju
I totally agree that Hummus is a food group. My little one is Humm’anic for sometime now. Thank you for inspiring.
JulIa
Love Dreena’s cookbooks! I am so excited to win the Lunchbots Bento Trio! Perfect for my little ones!
Donna
Looks great, thank you!
Heather
We are 22 days cold turkey plant based eating. The hardest part is making things the kids will enjoy. They are 16,12, and 9. Are 12 year old was born with 2 major congenital heart defects. We tried to eat healthy but the amounts of dairy that flowed into this house were unreal! The movie What The Health changed everything for us. How could we not. We appreciate your recipes. Thanks!!!
Emily Steffans
Yum!!
Deb
Getting back into cooking from scratch…
Mari Navarro
How fun, thanks for everything you do!
Heidi
Love your cookbooks, blog posts, and Facebook posts. Your (green cover–can’t remember which one it is) cookbook was one of my first and I still use it!
Melissa Curit
I love Enjoy Life products, and would love to try the other brands in this giveaway!
Angie scott
Love the lunchbox and enjoy life products! Really excited about your oil free dressing book tho. I think I own all your othercookbooks lol but I need that one to complete my collection! 🙂
Jennifer Plantenberg
I love savory and sweet hummus! My kids mostly like the sweet versions. I also enjoy packing muffins and homemade granola bars for my kids but having premade ones, too, is very handy. I alrweaxy have and enjoy PPF so i would pass this one on to a friend, and i would love to have your dressing book!
DIANE Fahrner
Would love to win any if the great items…would give them to granddaughters so they can learn from the experts!
Chris B
Thanks for the great tips and the chance to win!!!
Jacqui
I love cookbooks! But I would love any of these prizes! I need to go make this hummus now.
Jillian Too
I’d love to try the Enjoy Life Crunchy Minis. I agree with you about hummus being a food group. I’m trying to master pizza hummus.
Marieke Head
Thanks for such a generous giveaway! I always turn to your recipes, especially for hummus and cookies!
Things2Eat
I have Plant Powered Families already, but I would love to be able to gift a copy to a good friend of mine!
What a great selection of companies in the giveaway, too! Definitely wouldn’t turn any of it down.
Good luck to everyone!
Karen D
I want to try the Que Pasa and Nature’s Path products! Sound so good.
Aly
The giveaway is amazing! Thanks for the great hummus recipe.
Jaclyn Reynolds
The enjoy life snack packs looks very yummy!
Jennifer Warschauer
The cookbooks are what I am most excited about. Good luck to everyone.
meredith
the cookbooks all look great!
Tabby72
Always love your great recipes and ideas!
Patrick Siu
I would love to try the Enjoy Life mini-chips
Andrea
I want to try the bento box!
Jessica
I can’t wait to try the cookbooks! Also I want to try yoga hummus recipe his week–our current recipe is losing something!
Angie Wolfe
We love making homemade pizzas and sending those. Muffins are great too and a fun way to get fruits and veggies.
Brenda Haines
I’m excited about all of it! So many pack lunches AND a bento box to put it in, that I wouldn’t have to pay for.. score!!
Carly Williams
I am excited to try everything, but especially the Enjoy Life cookies!
Nicki
You can freeze hummus!!!! I had no idea, this is gonna be a game changer. I usually only make small batches because I worry about it spoiling but not anymore. Thanks for your recipe
Katrina
Super excited about the oil free hummus recipe!! I know it’s easy to do but I usually just go for store bought and I hate all the oil. Yea for giveaways!!
Maya
Love the bento box! Looks great.
sarah H.
Make all plant based lunches attractive (with plants that is never hard) the eye eats before the stomach 😉
Courtney B
I would love the plant powered families cookbook!! I have all your other books except this one !
Edye
I’m excited for the enjoy life foods!
Cyndi
The plant protein cookbook has intrigued me, and love the Lunch Bot!
Rebecca
This contest is amazing! The metal lunchbox looks like it might even survive my pre-teen son!
Kelly
Love your tips! My kid is allergic to sesame seeds, and therefore can’t have tahini. Luckily, he is allowed to have nuts at school, so I sub in almond butter or even peanut butter for the tahini and it works pretty well. I even impressed an unsuspecting Israeli friend with this substitution. If an Israeli, who comes from the land of hummus, liked it, then I think I did ok!
Riley
Vega is such a great protein powder. I love having a smoothies for a snack.
Lynn
Looking forward to making your hummus. Have never thought of including nutritional yeast. Yum!
Hoping that I am lucky enough to win a cookbook. Never can get enough plant-based recipes to share
with friends.
Joan Kubes
I can’t wait to try the Que Pasa and Nature’s Path products!
Courtney
I’m excited about the salad dressing cookbook!!
Dandi D
I am most excited to try the Nature’s path package and I know my family would love it!
Ghislaine Schwartz
What a cool giveaway!
Andrea
Great giveaway! I would be so excited to try out all those awesome cookbooks! (I have a bit of a cookbook obsession.)
Crystal Noble
Amazing giveaway full of so many of my favourite brands! Thanks so much for the chance 🙂 Fingers crossed + good luck to everyone else!
Becca
As a full time single mama who also works full time your recipes are a lifesaver!!! We use Plant Powered Families daily for the recipes and tips as I am raising my 5y/o vegan. Extremely helpful!
This is an amazing giveaway & we would be grateful to win any of it <3
The banana bread and Apple Hemp seed muffins are on regular rotation lol and batch cooking is a must!!
Thank you for all you do!
~ Becca
Natalie Collins
I always love a giveaway! Thank you Dreena!
Donna Michon
I have the added bonus of having to be legume/pulse free. Great giveaway!
Ali
Thanks for another great hummus recipe to add to my collection!
Doris
Love the PPF cookbook! The hummus is a staple in our household =)
Jeannie
I can always count on your recipes. Thank you so much.
Samantha
The cookbooks look great, It’s hard trying to find recipes that my kids enjoy especially for lunches. Thanks for the chance to win.
Christine
meal prep, meal prep, meal prep!!!!I love having premade bars and snacks lying around or in the freezer. Having some sort of a fun treat always makes lunchtime more exciting. Dreena, I love your granola bars and chickpea nibbles for this!
Colleen
What a great give away. I’m always searching and scrolling for recipes. Would live a hard copy recipe book in my kitchen!
Cindy
I am always struggling with lunches since my kids eat opposite foods! Usually hummus is something they BOTH will eat! I can’t wait to try your recipe! Nutritional yeast~ interesting! Thanks for all you do!!
Deanne O'Donnell
I would love the cookbooks. I love to cook Vegan and my newly Vegan husband is really getting excited about our meals. The lunchbox is very cool also, Heck all the prizes would be great to receive!!
KatE D
Have yet to try vega products and I have a place in my heart for cookbooks! I love hummus and trying to get my daughter to take to it as well
Julie L
Hummus IS a food group! Love love love it! Can’t wait to try your recipe ~ it looks quite yummy with the addition of nutritional yeast! Thank you for this great giveaway! So many favorites to chose from. I haven’t tried Que Pasa products yet. And cookbooks! I already have your PPL (love)!
crystal gibson
Thanks for the chance to win a great product. My daughter has alpha gal meat allergy and we are always trying to find new vegetarian meals and snacks for her. I make her several layered meals each week that she loves. I usually include roasted bell pepper, whole kernel corn, garbanzo beans, diced tomatoes, olives, or any assortment of her favorite veggies. This is also great as a wrap.
Monique L.S.
I look forward to the Enjoy Life Foods products. They always look so fun and delicious.
Michelle Micci
My son always wants gardein chicken tender or sliders, or Mac and cheese, and the lunchbot looks great
lena
As a single 25 year old I love PPF – I’ve made many recipes out of it for my own lunches and dinners – I love how simple everything is to make. Super stoked on this giveaway!
DealinDiva
I have an obsession with tuna and eat it daily for lunch, sinch switching to plant based I tried to eat cleaner. I now make my tuna with hummus and a bunch of veggies, celery, tomatoes and onions. It’s so good!
Tim
I am most interested in trying the Enjoy Life snack packs. Whenever chocolate is on the menu, that is what I am having.
Lushka Smith
I would be excited to try The Que Pasa Foods
Angele legault
Omg!! I would love to win this giveaway!! I am 1 year into my vegan lifestyle and I am doing my best to introduce meals and snacks to my kids and husband! I love your recipes Dreena!
Annette
I’m most interested in the Enjoy Life cookies.
Marie-helene
For me, planning and batch cooking are the key to make plant based food readily available during the work week.
Jen
I switch between fruits and vegetables with different additions like nuts or homemade crackers.
Rachel
I’m looking forward to trying the LunchBots.
Monica
My kiddo isn’t in school yet, but I love all these tips for packing lunches for playgroup and picnics! She’s a hummus monster and obsessed with nooch, so I’m totally going to try that recipe!
diana
I completely agree with hummus for lunch. Hummus wraps and sandwiches are our picnic/hiking food of choice.
beth c
I try to sneak fruits & veggies in most of my son’s lunch- veggies on his sandwich, blended fruits to make sauce (pear sauce, applesauce, peach sauce, etc with a little bit of greens blended in) & cherry tomatoes from the garden for a snack! 🙂 Thanks for the great giveaway!
Chritine w
I would love some cookbooks for some new ideas for lunch!
kelly b
My son isn’t a big veggie eater like the rest of the family but he loves edamame. So I make a handful of edamame each morning for his lunch and pack it with raw carrots and cooked baby potatoes. That’s his veggie pack each day. He also gets fruit, a sandwich and pretzels and gets to pick one “treat” which is always a healthy version of a sweet – very often from Plant Powered Families! He’s a junior in high school and hasn’t eaten a school-made lunch even once his whole life. The trick is to work with him instead of choosing for him.
Donna Crombie
I have always wanted to try Vega so I would try it first. Fantastic giveaway. Thanks for the chance.
Faith
I would love to try some new Vega products! Thanks for the awesome giveaway!!
Tracy
So hard to chose! I already have your cookbooks, but I would love the other ones and I could give yours to a friend! Or the Lunch bot would be great, or my kids would love the snacks, oh dear, I cannot pick, lol!
Amanda
Thanks for the great lunch ideas!!
Heather
Love ❤️ lunchbots! Thanks for the opportunity to own one!
Chell
We struggle DAILY to try to please our 13-year-old daughter with her school lunches. Any of the snacks above would be delightful to add to her meal and give her something to look forward to. Yay!
Ryan
Love the giveaway! My daughter is big on baked meals for lunch… veggie pot pies, muffins, etc…
Lani
Dreena I would ABSOLUTELY ADORE to win those cookbooks. I don’t have ANY of them on my bookshelves, but they are all on my list of wish list of Whole Food Plant Based Cookbooks. I can’t imagine there is anyone else who would love them quite as much as I would as I LOVE to cook, and make almost everything we eat from scratch.
Alisa Fleming
I’ve never tried Que Pasa Foods, so that one intrigues me most. But I’d also love a Lunch Bot!
Hilary
My son and I made file cards with different lunch choices on them. He gets to pick a sandwich/main, a fruit, a veggie and and “extra”.
When he chooses his own lunch he’s much more likely to eat it!
Jen
I love zoodle salads for lunch! The lunchbots look perfect for packing it too.
Sharon
Great giveaway. Pick me!
Nicole
Rather than focus on “what’s the main part of her lunch?- or sandwich, pasta,…”, I include a variety of things, like fruits and veggies, that my daughter enjoys,and in eating them she has eaten her rainbow:)
nicole
Awesome giveaway. Would love a copy of PPF!
Mindy d
The cookbooks really appeal to me. Thanks for the awesome giveaways!
Michele W
Lunch is often leftovers from the night before or a wrap with hummus and lots of raw or roasted vegetables. Thanks for the chance to win these fabulous prizes! I’ve never tried any of the products you listed but they sound amazing and, of course, one can never have too many cookbooks. I’m new to plant-based eating and only recently learned about your cookbooks so winning one would be great. And Heather’s book might help me do a better job responding to friends who say I will never get enough protein eating plant-based.
Terri
I use a LOT of recipes from PPF for school snacks! My kinder loves the banana bread, chickpea nibbles, and energy balls the most. I would be so ridiculously happy to win anything from this giveaway!
Thanks for the chances!
KrisTi
Love the book:). Love lunch bots! fave lunches are ‘composed’ of prepped foods: veggies, hummus, raw crackers, fresh fruit
Christiana Brown
This prize package is awesome! I’m most excited about the cookbooks. Even though I have a few vegan cookbooks I can always use some fresh ideas. And I want to make more dressings and sauces to have on hand for weeknight dinners– yay, oil-free dressings!– and the vegan meal planning book would be very helpful as well.
Ashley Mauceri
Making extra dinner for leftovers the next day is the best! Thanks for the giveaway!
Lori
Looking for healthy ideas for my family and kid’s lunches. I think I found the right place!
Deanna
That hummus recipe looks delicious!
Sheila N
I am really excited about the Vega products and the cookbooks!!
Shira
My tip for making my kids’ lunches is to make a whole sandwich even if they aren’t eating the entire thing in one lunch. That way the next lunch is also made at the same time.
NicT
I love the abundance of local products!
Jenny
AAAAAHHH! All of these products sound amazing. I have two kids’ lunches to pack every day and I know they would especially love the enjoy life products.
Janel M
I’m most excited for the Que Pasa and Nature’s Path Foods prize! I LOVE both brands and they are staples in our house.
Kimberly
I love all those products especially the Vega chocolate peanut snack bars!!! I keep them stashed in my work bag & purse just in case I get a snack attack!!!
Steph
I’m
Super excited for the dressings book! I love your other one
Meghan
My husband says that hummus is the “prince of foods”. I made your hummus 101 last week for the first time any everyone loved it!
Beth
Love this giveaway!! Q’ia bars are my kid’s favourite grab and go snack.
Cori
All those products look amazing! I also love hummus and eat it on everything!
Jeffrey
I’d really like to try the Enjoy Life Foods and the cookbooks, the gift that keeps on giving!
Monica kelly
Amazing giveaway! Our son has recently found a love for hummus thankfully.
I can’t wait to make this recipe. Thanks!!
Amanda Wood
What a cool giveaway! I’m working hard to shift my eating habits to a more plant-centered lifestyle. I love new ideas and new vegan recipes to try! It’d be great to be able to use the cookbooks and food to make healthy lunches for my family, especially my son at school! p.s. the Hummus is AMAZING
Ally D
Packing healthy lunches has always been a challenge for me. This hummus recipe looks amazing. I also would love to try any of the prize products!
Courtney
What a great giveaway. The Vega pack looks amazing. And I would love to add more cookbooks to my collection.
Laurie Johnson
We try to batch cook on the weekends and prep fresh veggies so it’s easy to pack. I pack breakfast and lunch every evening to help make our mornings a little less hectic. I’d LOVE more ideas especially for hummus. This is a GREAT giveaway!
Nicole C
Thank you for your mama tips! As another mom of weegans, I agree that having as many pre-prepped ingredients to mix and match (like your delicious hummus) makes for quick and healthful lunches and the ability to make new variations day to day. We love your recipes and would love one of these prizes!!! Thanks so much for sharing your wealth of ideas and inspiration!
Ricki
So many great items!!! Looks like an amazing giveaway. And of course I *already* know I love those books!! 😀 <3
Kimberly Roy
Three or four of the Enjoy Life chocolate chunks are the perfect size to fit in the tiny little centre of the PlanetBox — a sweet way to end lunch!
Emily
I keep taking your cookbook out of the library but can never renew as it’s so popular’. Would love a copy to keep forever!
Amy Katz from Veggies Save The Day
I love Enjoy Life products! All the prizes look amazing!
Stephanie Dreyer
You are always such a wealth of information. Your cookbook is one of my family’s go-to’s in the house. Thank you for all of the recipes and resources!
Andrea
This may be a common tip but it really is useful. Batch cook everything that freezes well (muffins, soups, casseroles, etc.) it makes for a quick morning of packing. Also make double of dinner and you can give them leftovers for lunch!
Rachelle
Thanks for the giveaway! My family has adopted your “hummus is a food group” mantra!
CRystal
WOw!!! Amazing giveaway! I’m always trying to find new containers for the kids lunches… and always have to pack AT LEAST one fruit and one veggie and then plant based snacks
LaResa
This would be awesome to win! Love these products and your recipes!
Bronwyn
Such a generous giveaway! This post is so relevant to our family right now as our eldest weegan started kindergarten this year *cue: mom tears*
I agree, hummus has saved the day more than once already! We bought some reusable squeeze pouches which are great for sending applesauce, dairy free yogurt, nut free smoothies etc mess free and without all the disposable packaging. I’ve taken a page out of your book (ha, see your readers are punny too) and snuck extra calories and nutrition into mini muffins.
Thanks for being such a great resource for plant based families and plant based curious alike. I’ve followed well before we had kids and have enjoyed your recipes and blog posts. <3
kate s.
Thank you for the giveaway, Dreena! All this stuff sounds amazing. This year BOTH of my kids require packed lunches. It’s only been a month of school and already I’ve run out of ideas. Oh, and of course both classrooms are peanut free. And of course whatever one kid likes, the other hates and vice versa. So excited to see all your ideas.!
Hilary
Thank you for the giveaway! Currently enjoying my lunchtime sandwich with your chickpea tamari sandwich spread.
Jeana
I am so excited about this hummus recipe I love homemade hummus and this one looks delicious! Also love the giveaway items! 🙂
Nicole Isaac
I use these products too and would love to win this prize pack!
Lora
I’m excited to try the Bento trio. It looks like the perfect size.
Leaha Beattie-Palmer
I have your PPF cookbook and love the recipes – the Thick ‘n Hearty Tomato Sauce and Super Cheesy Sprinkles are favs along with the Sniffle Soup. The PPF layout is great!
alyssa
this is an amazing prize selection!!
Chr
My son’s favorite lunch is pasta salad. It’s so hard to get him to try anything else!
Heather Oswald
Great giveaway! My daughter would love all of it, maybe even the book, and then she could cook for me. 😉
Stephanie
Excited to try the Enjoy life products!
Kimmy Ripley
I love incorporating plant based meals into our diet *at least* once a week or more. I would be most excited and thrilled to win the cookbooks. I love reading them and collecting them so I can get inspired for new meals.
Tamara Rowe
I am excited to try the humuns recipe with nutritional yeast. I am always looking for good vegan ideas for lunchboxes. I also like the stainless steel lunch box. I have loved all the recipes you yours that I have tried!
Allison K
Hummus is a food group in our house too. I love it as a sandwich filling, on veggie burgers, and mixed with nooch and a little water to make an easy but tasty and healthy salad dressing. In my kids lunches I put hummus on the bottom of the container ten stand up veggies like carrots and snap peas for easy mess free dipping.
Sharon Elliott
Would really love a cookbook!!
Laurie Hoer
I love your lunch ideas! My kids are grown now so I’m no longer dealing with school lunches but we travel a lot and have to pack food for the overseas plane rides when we can’t request vegan meals. I get frustrated now because TSA security won’t let me carry on hummus anymore (because it is like a “liquid or a gel”) so I usually bring a couple of roasted sweet potatoes. The funny thing is that when the security scanner sees my potatoes in my carry on, they always search my bags to see what they are. I guess they look like bombs??!!
Gina
I would love to try all of these products. Great giveaway!
Diane Propson
The tip I have is to have made enough for leftovers. Then combine some of those “ingredients” to make a “casserole” lunch that can be heated and put in a thermos. Or make into Buddha bowls.
Laura
Generous giveaway. My favorite find recently was the pumpkin snackles They have really helped make the holidays here with new healthy traditions.
dANIELLE
My lunch tip is to pack colorful fruits and veggies that are already cut up in strips, spears, etc. for easy eating. I also do almond butter wraps and “pepperoni pizza” wraps for my kids’ lunches. Lastly, I drop a few food-safe drops of lemon essential oil in their water bottles to entice them to drink their water. Thanks for the awesome giveaway!
Allison
My kids favourite lunch is baked beans Ina thermos.
Katey
My kids always ask for sushi in their lunch boxes. It’s healthy AND fun!
Rachel Geiger
It’s so much easier for me to pack if I use bento-style boxes and dedicate each compartment to a category (fruit, veggie, sandwich, starch, e.g.). Fewer decisions each night make it much simpler! Also helps that my kids pretty much eat the same thing every day.
Tiffany B
This is perfect timing. Thanks for the giveaway.
Iesha
Great giveaway! I hope I win!
stacey
Such a great giveaway!
Suzie
I love packing your snackles and the Apple hemp muffins into my children’s lunches. They travel well, are nutritious and are delicious!
sarah
the enjoy life snack packs look great. They’d be good to tie me over until dinner!
Angie b
Such great info! Thanks for the tips for the kiddos.
Julianne
Can’t wait to try the hummus.
Thanks!
Pia Frank
Oh. My. God. This is such an incredible giveaway, Dreena! Thank you so much for the incredible opportunity -keeping my fingers and toes crossed 🙂
As for tips, I’d say, if you’re more of a spontaneous person, make sure you meal prep/ batch cook; that way you can build your box in the morning, picking from all the options in your fridge/pantry and and mixing and matching whatever you fancy that day. Also, bring spices, dressings, sauces and dips in separate little jars. Plus, bring your own cutlery! The world really doesn’t need more plastic 😉
Lastly, while I know I technically don’t have to answer both questions, I just want to say that I love absolutely ALL of the goodies one can win. That said, what I’m most excited about are definitely the books (I have heard so much good stuff about your recipes), as well as well as the Nature’s Path and Enjoy Life Foods products.
Valerie W
This year, I am making Fridays “snacky” lunch day. Crackers, popcorn, cut veggies, dips, fruit, a little treat, just depends on what we have in the house. It’s fun and easy. Thanks for the chance!
Sandra
My 5 year old son and I could eat hummus 3 meals a day. He’s even started dipping his apples in hummus!! Sadly, my 8 year old son doesn’t share our enthusiasm. I keep working on him, hopeful that one day he’ll actually eat the hummus I keep putting in his lunch box! Great give away. All fantastic items!!!
Kristen Leroux
Fantastic! I have the PPF cookbook, as well as PPD,, and it is the one I go to again and again for delicious, plant-based meals and snacks for my family of herbi- and omnivores. I just love you Dreena! Be my sister, please??
Chhaya B
My favorite lunch to pack is a hummus sandwich with olives, lettuce, cucumber, grated carrots and cranberries!
Rochelle
You are so generous! I have found that your recipes never fail. Thank you so much for all that you do. I love hummus!
Morag
This is awesome! You’re always so generous. My kids love anything we have baked together in their lunches, and having choice about what they pack. Having them be a part of the process is my tip.
Ruth ann
Thanks for the chance to win these amazing products. We love hummus – need to make more soon. I also love recipes and aids to meal planning. Your recipes are great!!!!
Ruth
Hummus is my go to snack, dinner and breakfast when we are on the go and don’t have much time. What an awesome list of price pack. I would be happy and honoured with any of them. Especially a cookbook lol.
alisa simonson
Oh my! I would so love to win this prize! I have five kids and we struggle with new ideas.
Shelley
Thanks for the opportunity to win a great prize! I appreciate the ideas for hummus too. We are seniors and need to be even more careful of the calories in as we don’t need as many as before. We keep as active as possible but nutritious, healthy ideas are always helpful. Your recipes are our favourites!
Heather
I would love to win your cookbook. I made your Classic Hummus with the sesame oil and loved it. I have a bunch of little containers of it in my freezer to grab and go for lunches.
There
I love hummus and always make my own, cause I don’t use oil. In fact, I just whipped up a sweet pumpkin hummus the other day and been having it on toast for my breakfast!
Theresa
This comment is by Theresa, not There. Stupid autocorrect.
Cheryl
So many products I have never seen which is exciting. I have the recently gotten the Plant Powered Families and am excited to check out lunch ideas. Love to hear hummus freezes well I’m off to batch some.
Mandy Hanson
What an amazing giveaway. Good luck to everyone.
Miet
Wow, what an awesome prize pack! I especially like the Vega and Nature’s Path products. Thank you so much for the chance to win!
Cathy
I really need more lunch inspiration. Would love to win the prize pack!
Regina Lagrasta
Can’t wait to try some of these great ideas!
Hannah
We love hummus! Thanks for the recipe and the giveaway.
Jessica Eagle
Ohhhh…what a great giveaway. Thanks for your generosity. It’s really appreciated.
I would be really excited to have the lunch box, bento style. Wow…! Nice ! Actually, I would be really excited with any of your wonderful prizes.
Jen
What an amazing giveaway – thanks for putting it together! I’d be stoked for all those products but the Que Pasa prize pack sounds especially tasty! 😀
Matt Spewak
Hummus is my spirit animal 🙂
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and deliciousness!
Cassandra
What a great giveaway! I know many of us parents struggle with food allergens and figuring out lunches and I love anytime that you provide tips/tricks. Love your cookbook and would love the plant powered dressings one as well! Thanks for the chance to win!
Martha ^..^
Depending on how long it is until lunch time, make sure to include an ice pack or put in food that is normally eaten at a non-refrigerated temp to avoid hearing “EW MOM MY FOOD WAS WARM” later in the day. 😉
BrittNey
We love the GOOD granola bars and lentil chips for lunches, but would love to try some other healthy options.
Danielle
Tip – pack sauces/dressings separate from wraps or salads, as they can get messy!
Stacey Moore
Would love to win this prize pack and make some cool lunches for my little ones!!
Marcie
I would enjoy using your cookbooks.
Theresa H.
We like to have soup, salad and a sandwich for lunches. Success for the week lies in batch cooking/advanced prep for me. I’m aways looking for new recipes to try as well as travel containers to put lunch in, so the LunchBots caught my eye as did the recipe books, especially: Plant Powered Dressings! Thank you for hosting this giveaway. Happy (almost) autumn!
eric
to prevent my kid from getting beat up and her lunch money stolen, I try to come up with fun ways to feed her from home. these ideas totally come in handy and keep the hospital trips to a minimum! tell your kids to play nice!!
hope I win 🙂
Michelle
PPF is a staple in our family kitchen! I am hoping to win and give a copy to a friend!! Thank you for continuing to test, perfect and share your kitchen goodness with us, Dreena!
Kathy waGler
I love making a big batch of homemade hummus! My son loves to take for school lunch with pretzels for dipping. I am looking forward to trying your chickpea omelette!
Deanna Weber
Thank you for offering this awesome giveaway!! I would love any help I can get packing lunches for my 2 kiddos. We do a lot of sandwiches and bean burritos with fruit and veggies.
Sonja hIlton
I’m all for anything that makes makes meals quicker
Plus healthy too!
Becky Striepe
What a great giveaway! I love using a lunchbox with sections, so I’m encouraged to pack a variety of foods for my kid.
Amy
Wow! So many new products I’ve never tried before. Your tips on making hummus palatable for kids is spot on.
Annette
I LOVE your books Dreena! I have every one of them so far. 🙂 Thanks for the fun giveaway!
Maya Hoehne
We sure enjoy hummus here, never thought of trying nooch before but I will now!
Arleen Wobser
Love having good lunch ideas for my grandkids.
Chelsea Ihnacik
I just whipped up my kids wfpb lunches, but we could use those nifty lunch boxes!
Rachael
Hummus is a good group at our house too!!! One thing I love to do is to make green smoothies and pour them into the small freezable freezer jam jars and freeze them until they are solid. When I pack lunches I stick one in and it acts as an ice pack. By the time lunch time rolls around it has thawed enough to be enjoyed as either a smoothie or as nice cream!
Mary E-O
Indeed hummus is a staple. The LunchBot looks fantastic and simple to use and clean. Thanks for always keeping Plant-Based interesting.
Charlotte
I am most excited about winning the cookbooks. But if I don’t win that, then I would like to win the Enjoy Life products. Thanks for the hummus recipe! We love hummus. I’m looking forward to trying your recipe.
Carrie Smith
I can’t wait to try everything! Especially the Enjoy Life products! I am only two days into packing school lunches, so I don’t have any tips yet 🙂 I love reading them, though!
Molly
We love Enjoy Life chocolate chips, but I never saw them in snack packs. What a great idea! Would love to try these for lunchboxes. (Or my purse.)
Bonnie
Vega products are my go to breakfasts almost every day. Thanks for suggesting some new products to try!
Katie Wagner
I’m excited about Heather’s books and all of the other great prizes! I already have DB’S books and love them!
Heather Nicholds
aww thank you so much! Good luck 😀
Carolyn
I have just begun making my own hummus. Your recipe looks great. I will definitely give it a try.
Heather Miller
I would really love to win the dressings book! I have yet to buy it.
Emma
Weekend prep is key for me.
Sherry
I never thought to include nutritional yeast in hummus, that sounds great! I’m trying that asap. Oh how I love cookbooks. I read them like novels. The meal planning sounds interesting and I’d love your cookbook….We enjoy your recipes!
Heather Cullen
I love your awesome ideas about what to pack for lunch. I think vegan sushi is a lunch box staple too that most kids love. I make “sushi burritos” which are just uncut sushi rolls. Fill them with hummus or sweet potato or baked tofu along with the traditional avocado, cucumber, and julienned carrots.
Yvonne smith
Love The Plant Powered cookbook. I’m a grandma watching grandkids and there are so many good recipes I use for them.
Nicole L.
I’ve been toe dipping in the idea of vegan living, and I think I’m ready to take our family’s health to the next level. However, getting the family on board is a different story. This giveaway would help to show the boys (and husband!!) that a vegan lifestyle would actually be delicious and more convenient than believed to be. Thank you for the opportunity to win such amazing prizes! Good luck, everyone!
Hope
Thanks for the tip on freezing hummus. I love it but don’t make it as often as I would like.
Frida
I’m most excited about package no. 2 and 3! My only concern is that I live in Sweden, can I still participate in the giveaway? Also, thank you for your amazing recipes!
Vera K
The cookbooks are what excites me the most.
APricot
I’ve never seen the Qi’a products before. I need to check them out!
Denise
So excited to try all the products and Plant Powered Dressings!
Anna Hubbell
I love this hummus recipe! It has so many uses, but my favorite way to eat it (today at least) is on my red peppers and onion lunch wrap. Thanks for the raffle opportunity. I’m a huge Nature’s Path fan and would love to try the Enjoy Life products. All products look wonderful. Thank you!
Debbie
I’m excited to try some of the items in your giveaway! You are an inspiration and I enjoy your blog very much.
Beth
I agree that hummus is a food group! 🙂 I especially love it on toast topped with avocado. For quick and easy lunches, I also like to make a big batch of a grain-based salad at the beginning of the week — like quinoa with black beans or tabbouleh with chickpeas.
Thank you for all of your great tips — and happy almost fall! 🙂
Sheila shealey
I didn’t know Enjoy Life mini chips and morsels come in snack packs! I’d like to try a Lunchbot too!
Kristin
Thanks!
Nancy
I always make a pot of quinoa at the beginning of the week. By dividing it in two I can make two completely different meals (different additions to each) to mix it up for my weekday lunches
Emily
Hummus is one of the few healthy things that always gets eaten in my son’s lunch. Thanks for the additional ideas for adding variety.
Jenn buckner
I love your recipes, my hubby just agreed to try plant based and I’m so excited. Made the maple banana muffins and they turned out wonderful!!!
Greg
I like to keep a few starches cooked and ready in containers in the fridge, like rice, quinoa, sweet potatoes or pasta. I keep a container of cooked veggies for our 3yo. Then all I need is a protein to add to a meal and pick a starch, and it makes mealtime quicker and easier.
Rachel Collett
Easy lunch. Sweet potatoes with Boca crumbles and bbq sauce
BaRbara
Roll up hummus & cucumber in a tortilla. Slice it like sushi. Change it up with different bean spreads and tortillas.
michelle
my best tip for plant based lunches.. have a bunch of veggies cut up in the fridge in containers. when it comes to lunch packing time, the kids can just grab whichever ones are their favourites for the day. makes packing vegetables so much easier when they don’t have to think about cutting and peeling!
Will G
I am excited to try the Que Pasa Foods & Nature’s Path Foods pack.
Lindsay
My biggest tip is to get my kids involved in their lunches. When they help me in the kitchen they are much more likely to eat the food I give them. There is something to do for kids of any age!
Miriam
Anything that makes lunchtime a bit easier I’m all for!
Kristy
Awesome giveaway! Really want to get your Plant Powered Families cookbook for my family of 6!! Thank you!
Shelly
Thanks for ideas. Packing lunches can be a challenge
Jenn
Awesome prizes
Laura
I’m new to packing lunches, I had no idea the lunch box was such a huge deal! So that’s one of the things I’m most excited about.
Monique Day
I’m excited to try more Vega products. My husband just went vegan and is very active. The way he has transitioned is through making smoothies with Vega added. He loves the results he’s seeing and feeling!
Jenni
My tip for lunches is to make a big batch of quinoa to use throughout the week. Then I can add beans, greens, and a sauce for quick to-go bowls. Thanks for the giveaway!
Ramona
All the items are great – especially the cookbooks and lunch containers.
Shannan d
What a great idea! I’m always searching for items to use in my 4 teenagers lunches and for snacks after school!
Jan Scholl
I think the most interesting for me personally is the cookbook Protein from Plants. I watch my grand kids a lot and usually have them eat veg (they and their parents are omni). The kids eat what I eat. So there should be lots of ideas in this cookbook. But for the newly branded Kindergartner, I think that Bentobot would be high on his list for eating lunch as his K is full day plus 2 hours of latch key fun after.
Caitlin G h
You really can’t beat hummus!
Erika Krebs
what a fun contest! I’m most excited to try out the different products – the LunchBots for my littlest one and all the fun snacks to try out!
Linds
Vega shakes to go!!! That’s exciting news. Thanks for the awesome giveaway!!
Brada
Always looking for good ideas for my kiddos lunches!!
Karen
Really looking forward to the twist of like tortilla chips! And I bet my toddler would love the lunchbot since she loves having her food separated. I think she’d use 4 different bowls at dinner if I offered.
Rosy
Would love another copy of Plant-powered families, so I can give one to my Mom before she steals my copy 🙂
Josiane
Homemade crackers made with chickpea flour make for a great addition to a lunch box. Those crackers are more than just a yummy crunchy little side or snack: they’re actually loaded with protein, which makes them quite filling.
Lyndsay
Excited to try the cookbooks and the lunch box!! Thank you
Andrea
Always love more lunch ideas!
Erin
I’m excited for the books and that shiny lunchbox!
Cindy
I have been using store bought Hummus for my daughter and I can’t wait to try the homemade kind for her!
Havah
Would love to have a lunch bot!
Julie
Sounds like a great package. Thanks Dreena!
Christy
Excited to try some new lunch box products!
Courtney Howard
My tip would be to change up salads often to make sure you don’t get bored and you’re getting a variety of nutrients. Cold salads, warm salads, different dressings, with or without grains like quinoa, with or without fruit, cold toppings and warmed up toppings, Mediterranean one day and Mexican the next, for example.
MEl Hartzell
Hooray! Great give away and thanks for the hummus recipe and lunch tips!
Shana
Awesome giveaway! I actually had just made this hummus tonight for the first time! It was delicious!
Su
Great giveaway
Stephanie Caruso
We use hummus for everything! Toast, wraps, veggie dip. This giveaway is great! The lunch box would be amazing!
Misti
Lunches for my toddler are always challenging. He is an allergy weegan, so I’m always looking for new ideas.
Christie
I would so love to win a cookbook! Completely replacing all my old ones with incredible new ones.
Anne
My lunches are very simple, often just a large salad with some hummus and pita or other bread.
Angele legault
This is such an awesome giveaway! I love Dreena Burton’s recipes and tips and tricks for raising a plant powered family! I’m crossing my finger that I win!!
Alisa
That hummus looks delicious! I love all of your tips for feeding it vegan family.
Tara
We really like hummus in our house but I’ve never made it myself. Your recipe looks great for it. Going to try that out.
Andrea K
What great prizes! I would live to win any of them, especially the Enjoy Life Foods package 🙂
Sareen
Yay!
Amanda Hunter
I would love the Plant powered dressings cookbook and PPF! My kids love bean burgers in their lunches!
Kim petrik-Dobbie
What an awesome giveaway (fingers crossed!) Have you tried the new Vega pre-made shakes?
StephaniE
I’m excited to try this recipe. I love hummus and my kids don’t like the store bought stuff. Also I love that it has tahini but not added oil 🙂
Krista
Just made the red lentil hummus from Plant Powered Families for my son’s lunch – always a double batch to make it through the week at our house. Love your recipes, Dreena!!!
Megan smythe todd
Fun giveaway! I’d love to try all of these food products! Thanks!
Gret
I’ve been looking for a new lunch box!
Myra
Awesome prizes!
Tammy
This is so exciting! With 3 kids in Canada’s north of 60, I would love the added support! ❤
Andy
Thanks for another awesome giveaway contest! I’d love to win any of these prizes but the chance at the lunchbots or que pasa package is especially exciting!
Katie B
I’m really excited to try the LunchBots
Katrina
Fun giveaway! I’m waiting on an awesome insta pot cookbook I know must be brewing! Fingers crossed for one
Dianne Smith
I would love to have another of your cookbooks.
Kelly D
I am excited to try the LunchBot. The different compartments are great.
Kim B
I’m excited by everything in the giveaway! I’m most excited by the shakes, lunchbot, trying new products…
Nina
This is my kids ‘ favorite hummus recipe!
Molly DuffY
I made the hummus 101 recipe for lunch wraps for myself last week for lunch. It’s a mellow and yummy hummus recipe. I’m excited to try the lunchbots container. PPF cookbook and the dressing eBook are staples in my kitchen. ❤️
Sarah
Thanks for the contest! We use hummus for a variety of things but to be honest, never thought of tucking it inside a date! You learn something new everyday!
GRETCHEN
Love these products!
Shar
My daughter absolutely loves Dreena’s red lentil hummus from the Plant-Powered Families cookbook, so we are excited to try this one!
Lisa manchee
What a great give away, Dreena! ALL of your recipes have been like gold for our family (and out lunchboxes!). Thank you so much for all your help in our kitchen! ❤️
Natalia m
I always cook some beans such as chickpeas and a grain such as quinoa, to make salads for lunch. I switch up the beans/grains/and different proteins to keep lunches exciting. Then I throw the salads together based on whatever greens and veggies I have in my fridge. Roasted veggies are always an awesome addition, sweet potato is my favorite. Sometimes instead of beans and a dressing, I add hummus and extra vinegar, it also makes a salad so delicious.
Kate
I love hummus in a wrap, with diced vegetables (and olives for a salty treat)
kathy
I love this hummus recipe! I love your recipes and meal ideas!
Robin
Hummus is so versatile! I use it in place of so many “yucky” ingredients! Thanks for additional ideas of ways to use it! And thank you for the recipe!
Julie Bartlett
Our favorite lunch to pack for school is black beans and brown rice with chopped spinach seasoned with minced garlic, chili powder and nutritional yeast.
Whitney
The hummus recipe looks fantastic! I’m excited to try it! Everything I’ve made from you has been amazing!
Sherry Grant
I’m excited to try any of the food products. I need some new plant based foods in my life!
Laura dye
love this giveaway!
Janet
Cookbooks and lunchbots…..but I’m not picky…lol. Love your recipes!!
Maria G
Always looking for more hummus recipes because I can never have enough. I appreciate your recipes more than you know!
LIz brown
My 3 year old loves pasta with a little hummus, olives and artichokes for his school lunch. Thanks for the great hummus recipe, def sounds more kid friendly. And thanks for the giveaway!
Laura thompson
Oh, I’m excited about the cookbooks!
Janet
Looking to enter the raffle, but Rafflecopter says it hasn’t started yet. Saw your post on FB about the contest.