really bored of our packed lunches - help!

Little_Vics

Hi,

hoping someone can help - we're really bored of our packed lunches!

We're in this rut:

Any leftovers from evening meals we tend to have the following night.

Soup is a winter thing

Hubby has ham/corned beef sandwiches, pork pies, scotch eggs. He is 'allergic' to anything remotely healthy

I have salad with cheese/ham - I'm wheat-intolerant so can't have wraps, sandwiches, cous cous, pasta etc etc

Any ideas?!

strawberries1

You could make a tomato or white sauce with chopped or minced beef, chicken or prawns and eat it with potatoes. Simply pierce and put (small) wet potatoes in the microwave at work for about 3mins depending on the strength.
Or salad with chicken, eggs, prawns, tuna etc just alternated 3 ingredients.

Enterprise_1701C

How about making up a nice rice salad - cook the rice, chuck in a few veg that you like, with anything else that you happen to like, easy to eat cold or heat in a microwave. Freezes well too.

knithryn

FOr hubby, try changing the pickle that goes in the sandwiches, eg sweet chilli, branston, mustard, - this can make the same sandwich have enough variety. Would you be able to sneak some salad into his sandwiches? Just the bits he likes, eg ham and peppers, or brie and cucumber?
Or try different breads - a seedy one, a multigrain one, a torpedoe etc
I also pack in Fridge Raiders chicken pieces when I can get them on offer, Peperami, packet of crisps, occasionally a pasty (mini cornish pasties are good) lots of small snacky things.
As well as a salad for work for myself, I bring a fresh fruit salad - just chopped fruit in orange juice in a tub with a 'clip' top which does not leak. Oatcakes are good with cheese too, and you can get different types of Nairns oatcakes, such as a spiced one which is fab instead of a sweet biscuit with a cuppa. Rye bread any good for you? Even muesli or breakfast cereal can be eaten for lunch for a change, maybe with a handful of fresh fruit and some yoghurt?

talulahbeige_2

rice cakes with tuna mayo and a few bits of veg on top.
rice cakes with cottage cheese & ham / chicken
(cold) rice with tuna steak in sauce from those packets you can now buy

why not change your habit of having left overs for lunch the next day? it makes for easy lunches and adds variety

Nudge

If you go to www.warburtons.co.uk and click on our
products then click on recipes, there are some good
sandwich and filled roll ideas on there that you might
find useful

L.L_2

I disagree that soup is a winter thing, I make it all the time and fill a flask for work!

Horace

There's lots of summer soups too.

I think you should visit the oldstyle moneysaving board as they are fab over there and have brilliant ideas.

With hubby - why not make him a ploughman's lunch? a nice hunk of bread (or a roll) with some cheese (cheddar is good or even double gloucester), some pickled onions, a tomato (no need for lettuce if he won't eat it) and an apple.

If you do roast beef one day - make a roast beef sandwich with sliced onions?

ikkleosu

How about dips - humous, taramasalata, etc with veg sticks for you or wtoasted pitta bread cut up for hubby. (if that's not too healthy)

You also might want to consider a laptop lunchbox for yourself. It ahs lots of wee compartments so you can put a little of lots of different things. Might work for hubby too, slowly expose him to some different stuff. He might eat it if there's only a teeny amount (it's how I'm getting my hubby into veg!)

Here's a great photostream with lots of ideas:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ginger_elanor/sets/72157601368797142/

Gothicfairy

I take cold mexican tomato soup.

In a blender : Onion, garlic, salt, pepper, suger, chili, celery,red/ green pepper,bit of balsamic and some corriander and cumin. I will also add some fresh basil or corriander if I have it, Some left over chedder and a hand full of nachos crunched up or taken on the side.
Blend together and heat through, great cold or hot

I also invested in a proper flask that you can heat in the microwave and the wall stays cold. It also has a spoon in the handle.