ideas for lunch at home (not packed)

Penelope_Penguin

How about quesadillas or piadine

Penny. x

angelavdavis

Chicken and Sweetcorn Noodles. Soup Noodles are usually about 15p a packet. While they are boiling in some water, I chop and add to the pan a couple of spring onions, add some leftover cooked chicken, some tinned sweetcorn, chopped mushrooms, pinch of garlic, pinch of chilli, soy sauce, pour some beaten egg into it. Once noodles are cooked, switch off heat and leave to stand for 2 minutes before serving.

Minestrone soup. I used bacon, leftover veg and broken up spaghetti added to chicken stock with a tin of tomatoes. Usually does a couple of meals so half can be frozen.

Bruschetta - Ciabatta cut into two thin slices. Add chopped garlic, red onion, chorizo or salami, tomatoes and sprinkle grated mozarella and oregano on top and put in oven for ten minutes.

In summer, pitta bread, filled with salad and HM hummous or baba ghanoush is lovely. You can always add HM falafel (I don't really miss the meat on hot days!) or HM meat koftas for OH. I'm hungry now!!!

tattoed_bum

how about making a slightly larger portion of your evening meal and freezing some of it i used to do this for my dh ,i just made smaller containers with leftovers and he could then choose a different one each day .

chilli, spaghetti bolognese ,toad in the hole ,mini sunday dinners ,

clutterydrawer

some kind of pasties...you can make a flock and freeze them to save time later

sardines on toast
a big salad with couscous and nuts in to fill everyone up
stuffed peppers? i often have a couple for tea but they would be quite an easy lunch if you jsut made on per person

shopndrop

We love tuna melt at the weekends. I mix a tin of tuna with some lemon juice, S & P, some chopped onions or chives and a couple of spoonfuls of creme fraiche. Pop it on some bread and heat under the grill. Absolutely yummy.

Beccatje

A few Dutch favorites :

Tosti. You butter two slices of bread.
put buttered side on the outside.
Slice of cheese then ham then cheese again and put other slice of bread on top. Again, buttered side out.

Bake gently in dry frying pan on both sides till golden brown and cheese is melting.
Cut into triangular shape and serve with ketchup.


Wentelteefjes. (I think you call them french toast)
Great for using stale bread

You need:

Eggs beaten
milk
sugar
cinnemon

Mix sugar and cinnamon to taste.

soak slice of bread briefdly in the milk, then in the egg. (turn to get full coverage)

Pop in dry hot frying pan and cook both sides till golden.

Sprinkle with sugar/cinnamon and serve hot.



Pancakes!

Flour
baking powder (just a touch)
eggs (I use 4 eggs on a kilo of flour but we are a big family)
milk
water.

mix into a batter. It has to be smooth, about the consistancy of golden syrop.

Fry in buttered frying pan, making nice thin pancakes the size of your frying pan. I usually use one half soup ladle of batter, then move the pan around to make it spread.

Serve with syrop, jam, sugar. anything really. For the savory lovers, you can add streaky bacon to the frying pan, then when it's shrunken a bit, add the batter.
We make endless variations. Bacon, mushrooms, paprika's, cheese etc...

organic_wanabe

Another vote for quesadillas as mentioned above. I quite often have these at the weekend, especially if I have wraps leftover from pack-up lunches which need using up. Today the filling was some leftover chicken breast in white sauce which I supplemented with some finely sliced onion and mushrooms. More usually I spread the bottom wrap with some hm tomato sauce and add onion, cheese, ham (sometimes tuna instead ham) and then top with another wrap. I make them so often that I bought a quesadillas maker; however I used to make them successfully - if a bit more fiddly - in a frying pan.

webitha

we just had today a BLT on HM bread
the lettuce and tomato count as veg, and the bacon is the protein

nom nom nom

kunekune

I cook lunch for myself at home sometimes if I am working at home. Favourites include:

spaghetti with broccoli lightly cooked, and breadcrumbs cooked in olive oil with anchovies
miso soup with mushrooms, bok choy and tofu
baked beans with frankfurters sliced into them, on toast
mushrooms on toast

newlywed

Thanks guys. Some great ideas there