Packed Lunch for work

nooksky

Depending on how organised I am, its either cheese & pickle sarnie, or tuna, lite mayo and sweetcorn sarnie or egg and lite mayo sarnie. I also go thru phases of having pasta with tuna, lite mayo and sweetcorn, or if I am on a diet, sometimes ryvitas and marmite!! Yum... not!!

I always see lots of healthy tubs in the fridge at work with rice dishes and roasted veggies etc but I have not advance that far yet!! Lol!!

Katgoddess

My lunch at work is subsidised so I normally buy something there. The biggest bargain is the "meat sandwich". Stick what ever you like from the salad bar between 2 slices of bread and they''ll charge you 42p. I drink the free water and bring my own fruit or small chocolate bar in.

If I'm working a late night then I bring in my own sandwich because there is normally only rubbish left. Mainly pies from oven fresh, chips, and beans that look like they have been on the counter since breakfast.

shammyjack

Wide necked flask containing homemade stew - casserole - curry or whatever with homemade various breads . Today home roasted cold belly pork marinaded in apple juice, basil and sage with proper crackling, granary bread and huge rough cut peasant salad ( loads of raw red onion ) fruit to finish !

shammy

savingpennies

We have some of following depending what's in the fridge/cupboard: Cheese or ham sandwiches with sliced of pepper/cucumber & fruit; pasta or rice salad, made from leftover pasta/rice from night before - chopped pepper, cucumber, sweetcorn, sometimes olives (if trying to use up jar) with feta cheese (from Aldi in a jar) or tuna; home made soup in a flask with roll; tortilla wraps with cooked chicken, ham or cheese and same veg as above.

troll35

DH's packed lunch is a wholemeal roll with tuna, sliced meat from sunday roast or corned beef, pack of crisps, a banana, satsuma, pear and plums and often an aldi cupasoup. He makes it himself.

Me, I work at home so I have either HM soup or a huge plateful of salad (cheese or tuna with lettuce, cucumber, peppers, onion, radish, sprinkling of various seeds, grapes or chopped apple and a simple dressing).

My fav soups are -
Tomato and carrot (2 carrots, 1 tin tomatoes, 1 onion, 1 stock cube, a shower of mixed herbs- cooked in approx 1 pint of water, blitzed with hand blender and the adjusted to prefered consistency with milk or water)

Onion (2 onions sliced and sauteed in a bit of butter, add 1 pint of water, an oxo cube and simmer. Top with a sprinkling of grated cheese)

Vegetable (1 large potato, 1 onion, 1 carrot, handful of lentils, any other veg that need eating up, water and a stock cube and herbs. Cook, blitz and adjust consistency with milk or water. Season to taste)

All these usually make 3 or 4 portions

Wirenth

shammyjack wrote:

Wide necked flask containing homemade stew - casserole - curry or whatever with homemade various breads . Today home roasted cold belly pork marinaded in apple juice, basil and sage with proper crackling, granary bread and huge rough cut peasant salad ( loads of raw red onion ) fruit to finish !

shammy

Can you adopt me, please?

thriftmonster

I make DH's because otherwise he wouldn't eat anything until 7pm. (How can you not have fallen over or eaten your office chair by then?) He takes a banana, an apple, a yoghurt and then either
-soup (not v popular)
-pasta or rice salad
-sandwich with filling leftover from tea or tuna and sweetcorn
-HM quiche/ pie and salad

Joannaclaire

I wish I was more inspired to make lunches. I suppose I don't as throughout school I had cheese sandwches just about every single day, and my mum never let us buy lunch, so once I started working I only ever bought lunch. After reading this thread I just worked out I spend close to £15 a week on lunches. That's £60 a month and around £700 a year. Eeek. I'm sure it would be half half that or less if I made my lunch. Hmmm.

Off to peruse some recipes...

Wirenth

Good luck Joannaclaire. £700 :eek:

I think most people find it easiest to take leftovers from the night before into work, rather than making up something from scratch to eat. Maybe making more for dinner might help?

Kaminari_2

Spinach, feta, olives, avacado, tomato and either bacon or smoked salmon salad with Basalmic vinger and olive oil dressing. Really easy to make at home. I also take leftovers as it is cheap and easy. OH usually has ham, cheese and mayo sandwiches.