What do you have for lunch at work...

gargrave50

Healthy and cheap KiKi, true MSE!

newlywed

I bake my jacket potatoes at home in the oven and then wrap in foil and freeze. Then take one out of the freezer the night before to defrost. Take foil off bung in microwave for 2 mins to heat up and then add topping

I also buy the part bake baguettes and bake them at home an take to work.

Dinah93

We made some soup this week, carrot and orange.
2 bags pre sliced carrots in Tesco reduced to 10p each (800g total)- 20p
2 onions - 45p
3 litres vege stock - free, use old vege water, otherwise about 30p for stock cubes?!
2 tsp corriander (or today, cinnamon, OH didn't read the packet thoroughly!) - 5p
2 tsp mild curry powder - 10p
salt and pepper to taste - 2p?!
3 garlic bulbs, crushed- 10p
400ml orange juice - 20p

Chop your carrots and onions, put the onions and garlic in a big pan and simmer until soft. Add the stock, orange juice, spices, carrots, and seasoning, bring to the boil then simmer for 40mins (keep the lid on if you can, locks the flavours in). Blend until smooth. Makes about 8 decent sized portions (makes about 12 of my size portions!), really thick and filling, and each portion is about 14p! Also under 60 cals for those on a diet. We have it with half a mini french stick each (so 16p each for the bread). We've got half a pineapple each today (50p each), as well as 2 of twinks hobnobs each (less than 5p for two!) - these are great as you can make literally hundreds at once and freeze them, just get them out when needed! Value gingernuts are great too.

So, really yummy, filling lunch, 2 of your 5 a day, for 85p each, could be cut down much more if you don't want the fruit. Everything (except the fruit!) is freezeable so can make in bulk and freeze, this way you can vary your lunch and not be stuck with the same soup 5 days on the trot! x

misspoppy

gargrave50 wrote: »

Well 3 x 12.5 shift days ahead of me. Going to try to make a batch of pasta to take with me each day. I don't like tomatoes and I think every pasta recipe I have seen has tomatoes in it:( Help!

One of our favourite no tom pasta meals is grated courgette, cooked with garlic, half a tub of philly stired into pasta, can't get much easier!

gargrave50

misspoppy wrote: »

One of our favourite no tom pasta meals is grated courgette, cooked with garlic, half a tub of philly stired into pasta, can't get much easier!

Oooh that sounds doable! Thanks:beer:

gargrave50

newlywed wrote: »

I bake my jacket potatoes at home in the oven and then wrap in foil and freeze. Then take one out of the freezer the night before to defrost. Take foil off bung in microwave for 2 mins to heat up and then add topping

I also buy the part bake baguettes and bake them at home an take to work.

I like that idea but I worry the baguettes would get soggy by the time I open them at work?