What is in your lunch box today?

I'm just debating this! I have some soup left over but i'm not sure i fancy it today - I might quickly boil some eggs and make egg and onion sarnies.....Mmmmm

J x

I work night shifts so I can tell you what was in my lunch box last night. I roasted a chicken night before last and made up one person sized portions of chicken, spuds, cabbage, carrots, swede and gravy. I took one to work last night and heated it in the microwave. I have another 6 portions in the freezer for future use. I also took to work a pear and a satsuma.

I used the chicken carcass to make chicken, pulse and veg soup in the sc night before last, whilst at work, and that will be my lunchbox tomorrow night. I usually take a couple of pieces of fruit as well and a handful of nuts if I have some.

Hi Marru,

There are lots of ideas for lunches on this thread that may help:

Lunch for work (merged threads)

I'll add this thread to that one later to keep the suggestions together.

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not for my lunch as I work from home, but I often do a quick pasta salad for OH. cook some pasta using the lid on, heat off method to save fuel. then chop some chilli, spring onions/onions, ham/crispy bacon/leftover chicken etc, tinned sweetcorn/pineapple/apple, red pepper, boiled egg etc and toss it all in the pasta with either some balsamic vinegar+olive oil or cream cheese. fresh black pepper and its more or less decent. he can have it cold or heated in the micro if he fancies it hot. I usually just ransack the fridge and see what I can add in but that's the usual stuff I have

I can strongly recommend making the swap from bought sarnies to a homemade lunch - I started doing this about a year ago and the results are much cheaper and much, much tastier.

(Rather off topic, I know, but one of my colleagues teased me (in a friendly way) about my homemade lunches when I first started doing this. That stopped quite quickly when he realised my 'cheap' lunches were far nicer than the expensive ones he was buying every day. )

At this time of year I usually make a big batch of soup at the weekend and have some, with a sandwich or chunk of HM bread, for lunch every day until it's all gone. If I have stew or something like that for dinner I'll sometimes make extra and take that in for lunch the next day - stew in particular is often better the next day anyway. If your company doesn't provide a microwave, vacuum flasks are surprisingly cheap, and mean you can still have something hot at lunchtime - I know this as my office's microwave died on Monday and I had to go and buy a flask so I could still have my soup!