This can be a toughie, but I'll pitch a few ideas your way
I assumed that you are not lactose intolerant, since you did not list in in your restrictions (lucky you!). Do you also not eat things with eggs in it, in addition to meat? Anywho, here are a few ideas.
-Simple snack ideas-
Cheese and crackers
Cream cheese and bagels
Quesadillas- Melt some cheese and salsa in a flour tortilla, serve with a side of sour cream. Springle with green onion, too, if you like.
Corn chips with salsa
Pita chips with hummus (see recipe for hummus below)
Bagel pizzas/pita pizzas/english muffin pizzas
Tuna salad with crackers or as a sandwich (see no-mayo tuna salad recipe below)
Nut butters on crackers, bagels, or bread. For a change of pace, try something other than peanut butter
Ideas for your veggies and fruits:
Fruits:
-Apples: peeled and sauteed with cinnamon and a drizzle of honey. Pears are good this way, too.
-Pineapple: Yummy with cottage cheese or yogurt. Also good if you grill it and drizzle with honey.
- Melon- good with cottage cheese as well. Did you know that cucumbers fall in with the melon family? Cucumbers are not only good with cottage cheese, but also good dipped in ranch, spread with cream cheese (garden veggie cream cheese is soooo good), or put into veggie sandwiches.
Fruit salads, of course. And fruit pies. But you can get your daily fruit intake in other ways as well- like juice and smoothies. See the smoothie recipes below.
Veggies:
If you like them raw: Celery with peanut butter or cream cheese in the middle, red pepper strips are also good with cream cheese. Raw carrots with hummus, ranch, or any other variety of dressing (cucumber dressing is good).
Cooked veggies: Seasonings are your friend! Broccoli with red peppers and seasoned with lemon juice is yummy. Green beans with onions, or seasoned with lemon zest and slivered almonds. Maple or brown sugar glazed carrots are sooo good. Also, carrots cooked in a dressing of one part bbq sauce and one part italian dressing is really good. Roasted potatoes with rosemary and garlic. Tomatoes are actually a fruit, but most think of them as a veggie. Roasted tomatoes with mozzarella and basil is good, or just sliced and sprinkled with salt and fresh black pepper.
Specific recipes:
Hummus:
You'll need:
* 1 (15 ounce) can garbanzo beans, drained, liquid reserved
* 1 clove garlic, crushed
* 2 teaspoons ground cumin
* 1/2 teaspoon salt
* 1 tablespoon olive oil
Directions: In a blender or food processor combine garbanzo beans, garlic, cumin, salt and olive oil. Blend on low speed, gradually adding reserved bean liquid, until desired consistency is achieved.
No mayo tuna salad:
You'll need:
* 1 (6 ounce) can tuna, drained
* 1 teaspoon olive oil
* 1 teaspoon sweet pickle relish
* 1 teaspoon Dijon-style prepared mustard
* 1 stalk celery, chopped
* 1/4 cup chopped onion
Directions: Combine well and chill! I also like making tuna salad with ranch dressing
Smoothies: This came from an article on bellaonline.com
First, chopped fruit (one type of fruit or several) is the smoothie's fruit base. Great fruits to use are bananas, berries (including strawberries and blackberries), pineapples, mangos, and/or kiwi.
Second, add an ingredient to the smoothie as a thickener. Good choices include low-fat yogurt, low-fat frozen yogurt, a can of frozen juice concentrate, frozen fruit, or a cup of ice. How much of these ingredients you will use depends on how thick you want your smoothie to be.
Third, you will need a liquid so everything will blend smoothly. You can add skim milk, soy milk, fruit juice or even water (some smoothie makers use flavored water). Start with 1/4 cup and then add more if needed.
An extra option to enhance flavor is to add a sweetner, cinnamon or vanilla extract.
A good rule of thumb for the ingredient measurements is to make your smoothie with 1 part fruit, 1 part liquid, and 2 parts thick base. For example: for 1 smoothie (a little over 1 cup), you would use 1/4 cup fruit, 1/4 cup liquid, and 1/2 cup thickener. But these measurements are not set in stone. The great thing about smoothies is you can experiment to get exactly what you want!
* 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
Oh, I almost forgot! Your drink ideas! I really like lemonade, and it can be changed around for different taste- things like strawberry lemonade, raspberry lemonade, and even strawberry-kiwi lemomade. Also, to vary your tea, add in some fruit juices to your tea mix- pineapple is a good choice.
I hope this has given you some ideas
Feel free to PM me if you have questions or want a specific recipe or how-to for anything I listed.
Oh, I also forgot- As for prepackaged snacks, I like oreos (dairy free, and I don't think they contain artificial sweeteners), teddy grahams, ritz crackers, and chicken in a biscuit crackers, but I don't know if those contain animal meat products of some kind.
PS- I like your quote/signature.
