ideas for lunch at home (not packed)

Boodle

We were having soup pretty much every day mid-week but are a bit fed up with it now! Besides, the days are getting warmer and not really in a soup-mood I have started to plan in leftovers from the evening previous so that for about 3 days mid-week we can have a couscous, rice or pasta salad of some sort. The rest of the days we can do sandwiches or on-toast. These are the ones off the top of my head:

• Kidney bean and sweetcorn couscous
• Pasta salad with tuna/mackerel/salmon/cheese and sweetcorn and extra chopped peppers etc to stretch it further if needed. I usually dresss with olive oil or mayo.
• Cooked rice mixed with grated carrot, courgette and you could add ham or chicken for the protein element, tho I usually dress with a mixture of oil, garlic, orange juice and peanut butter and add sesame seeds.
• Cheese (add onion, pineapple, apple, chutneys or tuna/sardines) on toast
• Pancakes with grated cheese layered to make a sort of pie and cut into wedges.
• Sandwiches made less monotonous by using muffins, bagels, different loaf breads, pittas, naans, wraps, etc.
• Ploughman's Lunch of crackers or digestives/crusty roll, cheese, chutney, salad and ham slices.
• Potato and egg salad (haven't had this in ages and really fancy it now!) - I just cook potatoes and boil the egg then mix with mayo, white pepper and chopped onion (sometimes mustard). Nice sprinkled with paprika too.

supersavingsharon

IsoChick wrote: »

Toasted sandwiches? We've recently 'discovered' Toastabags and they are great... I've made tuna and cheese, cheese and salami/pepperoni etc and they've turned out really well

OH also likes fishfinger sandwiches on a Saturday lunchtime, or a fried egg sandwich...

Can i just add that Toastabags are less than £1 in B & M Bargains, approx £5-£7 anywhere else.

yummymummy85

Hi,

I'm after some ideas for lunch for me and my toddler. I normally do a packed lunch for my hubby to take to work then me and my boy tend to end up having sandwiches every day (ham, cheese, tuna). I know I'm getting bored with it so my boy must be!

My only problm is time. My youngest has his bottle at 11am and finishes it at around 11.30/11.40am and my eldest has lunch at 12midday so I need ideas that are not only healthy and appetising to a 21 month old but also quick to make. I have tried him with soup but it wasn't impressed by this (think he must have thought mummy was mad giving him a drink in a bowl to have with a spoon!).

We have a cooked meal in the evenings so it doesn't have to be a cooked lunch, just something different from boring sandwiches!!!!

Thanks in advance!

415SanFran

Hi,
Have you tied pitta bread, crackers, mini bagals, or wraps, with the same fillings?
Oh yeah my eldest used to like crumpets as well

Bronnie

Something on toast

poached egg
baked beans/ sliced up sausages and beans
mashed pilchards in tomato sauce...........I know! But I love them...!!
cheese/cheese and ham or bacon
chunky chicken in a creamy sauce (could be leftovers from a main meal or M&S do it in a little tin)
spaghetti hoops with grated cheese on top
and so on

Make and freeze some HM pizza bases and add the fresh toppings from whatever you have in the fridge

Leftovers from last nights dinner!

sarahsarah

Me and my little girl usually have:

Boiled Eggs and Soldiers
Cheese Omelette
Macaroni Cheese
Cauliflower and Brocolli Cheese
Pasta & Tomato Sauce (usually with sweetcorn and cheese)
Wraps with ham, chicken or tuna
Jacket Potatoes
Beans on Toast

elf06

My DS is now 3 but I have had the same troubles!! We usually do things like soup (thankfully he is a soup monster :rotfl:), sarnies, cheesey biscuits with grapes, cheesey beans with toast or pot, HM mac cheese, HM pizza (he loves to help make the bases), HM fishcakes, stuffed pitta pockets, pasta (hot or cold) with prawns and peas........

Cant think just now (coffee hasnt kicked in ) but will pop back if anything else comes to me

sarahsarah

Ooh I've just remembered about little pizzas made with half an english muffin and just grilled.

rachbc

something on toast or hot sandwiches for us usually - sausage, fishfinger or bacon or toasties, picnic-y bits like slices of ham, crackers, cheese carrot sticks and dips, sausages rolls, quiche and beans, baked potatoes (half done in mw then crisped in a hot oven), thick chunky soups with beans and pasta go down better with my 3 year old then pureed ones, leftovers

valk_scot

Me and the girl have always had what she calls "raw lunch" which doesn't mean raw, just cold! Sticks of veg, dip of some sort, cold meat or cubes of cheese, hard boiled egg, bread fingers or buttered roll or french bread etc etc. Actually it's an excuse to clear out the fridge of odds and sods and let her try new tastes of things, like chives or olives. (She's eight now so can have the odd olive.) I also make salads like bean salad, coleslaw, potato salad etc.