No matter if you eat lunch at your kitchen table at home or at your desk at work, the key to enjoying your midday meal is embracing variety, especially when you're cooking meatless meals. From salads and sandwiches to microwaved dinner leftovers, just a few tweaks to your usual standbys can create an all-new meal, like Tyler Florence did in his next-level egg salad sandwich.

Remember the gooey egg salad sandwiches you used to find in your lunchbox, those smushed between two slices of mushy bread? Tyler's version is nothing like those. He starts his  Egg Salad Sandwich with Avocado and Watercress (pictured above) by just roughly mashing hard-boiled eggs, not pulverizing them into a too-soft smash, before adding a few dollops of mayonnaise and Dijon for added richness and subtle tang. By building this sandwich on toasted whole-grain bread, Tyler guarantees a welcome crunch in the sandwich, which he layers with cool avocado and, in place of traditional lettuce, fresh watercress. If you've never before cooked with watercress, give it a try the next time you're at the store; this leafy green is a tad bitter, so it's a go-to for offsetting the creaminess of the eggs and avocado.

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Meatless Monday, an international movement, encourages people everywhere to cut meat one day a week for personal and planetary health. Browse more Meatless Monday recipes.