What Do You Put In Your Pitta Bread?

streetgirl74

Thanks to everyone for your replys will be trying some of those ideas. Does anyone send them in childrens lunchboxes or are they a bit messy to send to school?

bizzy_lizzie

For school lunches peanut butter & lettuce or hummous ( apparently they are sufficiently sticky to travel well in a plastic bag in jacket pocket & this means you get extra lunch break as you dont have to settle down with a lunch box in the dining room)
At home, absolutely anything - leftever stew or stir fry, fish fingers salad & mayo, sausage egg & mushroom, peanut butter & honey.

We only buy normal bread to ahve with stews & soups or for toast otherwise wholemeal pitta for everything, maybe 8 packets a week.

Bizzy Lizzie

recovering_spendaholic

My kids love theirs split into two halves vertically (making two smaller pockets) and stuffed with a little smear of mayo, lettuce, HM chilli con carne and grated cheese on top - kind of like tacos but cheaper (I use sainsburys basics or tesco value and they are lovely). They also like Tuna, sweetcorn and mayo, sausage and beans, cream cheese and jam and they also like them split cold and then toasted till crisp and spread with jam or syrup!

Murtle

I wrap in tinfoil to keep it all together till it's time to eat.

I also eat bolognaise and chilli in ours, anything left over from the night before will be fine!!

They are great for lunchs.

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Strepsy

Chicken salad's probably the fave. Tuna and sweetcorn mayo; grated cheese and carrot. Sometimes we have a quorn burger chopped up with lots of salad and some garlic mayo so it's like a kebab. We also make pizzas out of them. The older girls sometimes just toast them and have butter on them. They're very flexible.

They're great for school lunches streetgirl, just slit the side open and stuff, so the contents stay in quite well.

Sausage and beans is a good idea recovering spendaholic, thanks.

streetgirl74

Do you grill them or just serve them cold?

Strepsy

streetgirl74 wrote:

Do you grill them or just serve them cold?

I pop them in the toaster for a couple of minutes. Easy peasy.

Penny-Pincher!!

DD likes grated cheese with grated carrot.

PP
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mummysaver

If we're at home I cut them in half and put some salad and half a farm lamb burger in each bit. For packed lunches it's mayonnaise, grated cheese, lettuce and cucumber. If we have them with soup, I toast them whilst I melt some cheese in the microwave, then spoon the melted cheese into the pitta - tasty!

mummysaver

streetgirl74 wrote:

Thanks to everyone for your replys will be trying some of those ideas. Does anyone send them in childrens lunchboxes or are they a bit messy to send to school?

I wrap them in foil in such a way that the foil can be opened but still left wrapped around the pittas, don't want the poor lambs left with cheese and salad on their shoes and an empty pitta pocket!