Some things I was wondering about...

Silaqui

and I knew the immensely knowledgable people on OS would be able to help!

Ok enough flattery... Me and the b/f have kinda let ourselves go on the healthy eating front during december and I've been thinking about how to spice up our lunches and also make them a bit healthier in the new year (no point starting now :rotfl:). So I have a couple of questions.

1. I was thinking about making little fruit salads (probably apples, grapes, kiwi, etc) and freezing them in portions to take. Would this work or would the fruit be all mushy when defrosted? I'd make it with a citrussy syrup to stop the apple from going brown and probably freeze it in this aswell.

2. If I was to buy some red and spring onions, chop, and freeze in tupperware would it be ok to take out and sprinkle frozen onto sandwiches and things? I've used frozen onion in cooked dished but never allowed it to defrost then eaten raw.

Thanks very much x

Olliebeak

You'd find that the onions would go soggy after being frozen. Best to chop them one at a time and keep in a tightly-lidded container in the fridge - need to beware of smelly onions tainting other stuff .

Ladyhawk

Hmmm... I don't really think that frozen fruit would work... it will just go mushy.

As for the frozen onion... it might work. When I have defrosted onion to cook with it seemed okish.

I am struggling to work out why you would want to do this though? If you are making sandwiches, surely it is just as quick to chop up some onion?

As for healthy opions, I used to make bulk cous cous on a Sunday night, mixed with spices, kidney beans, chick peas or what ever else I had in the cupboard. Each morning I would just throw in some lettuce, tomato, cues etc. It was really yummy and filling.

Silaqui

Yeah, I could easily chop the onion up at the time but it's more the spring onions, I can't stand having the same thing everyday and they always end up going and soggy in the bottom of the fridge! Shame about the fruit salad aswell, oh well it was just an idea!

I can just as easily chop stuff up when I make the sandwiches too, I'm just lazy hehe.

Yep I do have cous cous when we have leftovers! Yummy!
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Pink.

Hi Silaqui,

These threads might give you some inspiration for your lunches:

Healthy, balanced but cheap lunch ideas?

Cheap and practical lo-carb recipe for lunch @ work

Lunch for work

And to save time, did you know that you can make sandwiches in advance and freeze them?

Freezing Sandwiches


Pink

Silaqui

Thanks Pink-winged - do merge this if it's too similar to the others. I have thought about the frozen sandwiches thing but I can't imagine that they wouldn't go all soggy when defrosted like normal bread does? Maybe some experiments are in order!
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wigglebeena

Maybe make individual jellies with fresh or tinned fruit in? I'm sure they would last a week in the fridge, plus very portable.

wigglebeena

Cook a batch of chicken breasts at the weekend, freeze and defrost one a night. One morning chop tomatoes to eat with one, next morning nuke some sweet corn, next morning chop cucumber and add olives... etc..... a different chicken salad every day.

hot.chick

I've never found bread to go soggy if frozen....

As long as you didn't put salad in the sandwiches it would be fine.

Silaqui

Cool, I like th chicken idea - in the past I've stuck a couple of portions in the oven with some courgettes/peppers whilst cooking other things and used it in wraps and stuff.

I might try the frozen thing then and just stick the salad in in the morning!
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Bronnie

Stick a tomato, inch of cucumber and a whole trimmed onion in a plastic bag each day to munch alongside the sarnies!