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2. Rainbow Vegetable Skewers

Fire up the grill for eggplant, zucchini, tomatoes, peppers and any other vegetables that catch your eye. Stick to one veggie per skewer, so they cook evenly at the same rate.

Use: Aranya pepper from Diaspora Co., founded by Sana Javeri Kadri, a queer woman from Mumbai, India. Diaspora Co. sources equitable, single-origin spices directly from farmers and works towards decolonizing the spice trade.

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3. Rainbow Heirloom Tomato Bruschetta

The prettiest app around only takes 15 minutes to make. All that’s missing is a sunny patio and a glass of vino.

Use: Swap ricotta for clabbered cottage cheese from Cowgirl Creamery in San Francisco, CA, cofounded by two queer women.

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6. Rainbow Vegetable Sandwich

Sink your teeth into cucumber, arugula, red bell pepper, radishes, purple cabbage and every produce color under the sun. The veggies are held between layers of herbed cream cheese.

Serve with: Sis Got Tea’s loose leaf tea. This online business was started by a Black queer woman, Arielle Clark.

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7. Rainbow Antipasto Pasta Salad





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8. Rainbow Smoothie

Bring on the layering. Separate whatever frozen fruits you have on hand by color, blend and pour. Ta-da.

Serve with: Breakfast bars from Billy’s Bakery, founded by transwoman Lauren Reece. Shipping to Brooklyn and Manhattan only.

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9. Cake Batter Waffles

Breakfast hasn’t looked this fun since…well, ever. Top with vanilla whipped cream or keep it classic with lots of butter and syrup.

Serve with: A cup of Peruvian dark roast from Queer Coffee, a lesbian-owned company. Queer Coffee donates $2 to Campaign for Southern Equality for every bag sold.

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10. Rainbow Cake Batter Ice Pops

Rainbow sprinkles just make everything better.

Use: Instead of making your own homemade custard, use ice cream from San Leandro, CA’s KoolFi Creamery, owned by a queer Indian immigrant couple. There are lots of vegan options too. Shipping to select areas of California only.

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11. Rainbow Veggie Flatbread Pizza





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12. Rainbow Fruit Salad Bagels

Meet your kids’ new favorite breakfast. They’ll have so much fun decorating they won’t even realize how much fruit they’re eating.

Use: The Baz Bagel Baking Kit from Baz Bagels in NYC. The queer-owned shop will ship you bagel flour, malt, yeast and three different toppings to make your own bagels, plus a few other goodies.

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13. Rainbow Grilled Cheese

Transform any shredded white cheese into ooey-gooey prisms of deliciousness. All it takes is a few drops of food coloring.

Serve with: Gary Farrell Vineyards & Winery’s 2016 Durell Vineyard Chardonnay. This luxury California vineyard is home to Theresa Heredia, a queer winemaker.

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14. Protein-Packed Rainbow Cottage Cheese Breakfast Bowls

Stay full and energized all morning with fresh fruit, granola and chia seeds. We’ll take ours with shredded coconut, please.

Serve with: Coconut chai loose-leaf tea from queer-owned Paru Tea Bar based in San Diego, California.

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15. Funfetti Cake Batter Blondies

Don’t get us wrong: Sprinkle-coated cookies will never go out of style. But they’ll have to take a backseat to these soft, chewy cake-mix blondies.

Serve with: B’Cause Blend from Equator Coffees in California. Currently, the queer-owned company will donate some of the proceeds to the Young Women’s Freedom Center.

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16. Colorful Peanut Noodle Jar

Here, buckwheat soba noodles are paired with spiralized veggies for a refreshing 30-minute lunch you’ll never grow tired of. Feel free to use pre-spiralized cucumbers, carrots or zucchini to save time.

Use: Salty Peanut peanut butter from The PB Love Company, an artisanal purveyor of stone-ground nut butters based in Colorado. PB Love uses quality ingredients like local honey, organic extra virgin coconut oil and organic blackstrap molasses.

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17. Sheet-Pan Chicken and Rainbow Vegetables

Meet your new weeknight go-to. Whip up the two-ingredient marinade, brush it onto the bird, assemble it on the baking sheet with your veggies and it’s ready to pop in the oven.

Use: Use homegrown Rossa di Milano onions by planting Truelove Seeds in your garden. The seed company sells rare, open-pollinated vegetable, herb and flower seeds grown by more than 20 small-scale farmers dedicated to sustainable agriculture practices.

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18. Fruicuterie Board

Sorry, prosciutto—you’ll have to sit this one out. This charcuterie board stars cheese and all the fresh fruit you can imagine, from kiwis to cherries to peaches.

Use: Cheese from Rogue Creamery, a queer-owned Oregon business that’s been around for nearly a century. They have a ton of cheddar to choose from, but their most famous cheese is the Rogue River Blue, the first American cheese to ever be named World Champion at the World Cheese Awards.

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19. Rainbow Collard Wraps with Peanut Butter Dipping Sauce

These refreshing handhelds are destined for your next picnic, since they’re such a breeze to transport. Even better, they can be assembled up to two days ahead and stored in the fridge—don’t worry, they won’t get soggy.

Use: For an extra kick of heat, add a few dashes of Shaquanda’s Hot Pepper Sauce to the PB dip. Created by drag queen and entrepreneur Andre Springer, the hot sauce is a unique blend of habanero pepper, vinegar, ginger and horseradish.

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20. 3-Ingredient Ice Cream





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