High Protein Snack Box Bento

Perfect your in-between-meal snacks with our vegetarian high protein snack box bento. Filled with Quorn Cocktail Sausages, Picnic Eggs, grains, veggies and dips, this snack box bento has been prepped to give you all the daily snacks you need – a mid-morning and mid-afternoon graze from this delicious bento is just what you need to power you through until dinner!

Loaded with 32g of protein to fuel your day, low in saturated fat and a source of fibre, this is a simple, delicious prep and pack box which gives you two snack servings, so it’s perfect for an AM and PM snack when you’re on the go.

Once made, the carrot cake granola can also be stored in an airtight jar for a few days – so it’s perfect for meal prepping. It also makes a delicious breakfast served with yoghurt and honey.

Serves 2

30 mins

Easy

295 cals
(Per serving)

13g of fat
(Per serving)

7.2 g fibre
(Per serving)

16 g protein
(Per serving)

Ingredients

For the bento box…

  • 4 Quorn Cocktail Sausages
  • 3 Quorn Picnic Eggs
  • 45g High protein, zero fat yogurt (approx 3 tbsp)
  • 1 tsp sweet chilli sauce
  • 1 tbsp reduced fat hummus
  • A handful of carrot sticks
  • A handful of cucumber sticks

For the carrot cake granola…

  • 100g oats
  • 75g carrot, grated
  • 25g pecan, chopped
  • 25g pumpkin seeds
  • 25g raisins
  • 20g desiccated coconut
  • 10g chia seeds
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • ½ tsp ginger
  • ½ tsp nutmeg
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 2 tbsp maple syrup
  • 2 tbsp olive oil

For the quick quinoa and edamame salad…

  • 250g red and white quinoa
  • 75g edamame beans, cooked
  • 1 small carrot, grated
  • 1 inch ginger, grated
  • 1 lime, juice only

Method

For the carrot cake granola…

  1. Pre-heat the oven to 160C (fan)/ 180C electric/Gas Mark 4.
  2. Place all the granola ingredients into a bowl and mix well. Line a baking tray with baking paper. Tip the granola onto the baking tray and evenly spread. Bake for 20 minutes, stir halfway. Allow to cool and store in an airtight jar.

For the quick quinoa and edamame salad…

  1. Place all the salad ingredients into a bowl and mix well. Store in a Tupperware in the fridge for up to 5 days.

Filling the Bento Box…

  1. Using a Bento Box, place the Quorn Cocktail Sausages, Quorn Picnic Eggs, high protein yoghurt, sweet chilli sauce, hummus, carrot sticks and cucumber sticks in each compartment. Add a spoonful of prepared quinoa and edamame salad. Top the yoghurt with a spoon of carrot cake granola.