Packed Lunch for work

crazyolday

My kids have food allergies so I have to cater for them myself.

Try making your own dips and take carrot, celery or cucumber sticks: bread sticks or crackers.:p All you need for the dips is a jar of mayo and add different spices eg curry powder, garlic powder, sun ripened tomatoes, or take the easy way out and grab some humus or stuff from the supermarket.

Failing that, starve - Think yerself lucky you have a choice, my kids don't!:rotfl:

scuzz

What about cous cous? You can add anything you like to that

HM Sausages rolls are nice and if you have a microwave at work, you can warm them through

mjjjoj

ANYONE GOT SOME GOOD IDEAS FOR PACKED LUNCHES ON THE CHEAP THANKS:think:

Poppycat

Yes make your own much more cheaper. It seems a recent trend of late I been doing it for donkeys years, I never understand why people pay inflated prices for a paked lunch

Couple of sandwiches with a loaf or buns and desired filling
a biscuit or fruit (or healthy biscuit that you can get)
a yoghurt (12p for a value one from Sainburys)
packet of nuts or crisps
Cold drink, squash, fizzy or hot flask

Dreamweaver_2

yes quite agree, i have always done pack up for kids,and hubby.

Mandles

Poppycat wrote: »

Yes make your own much more cheaper. It seems a recent trend of late I been doing it for donkeys years, I never understand why people pay inflated prices for a paked lunch

Couple of sandwiches with a loaf or buns and desired filling
a biscuit or fruit (or healthy biscuit that you can get)
a yoghurt (12p for a value one from Sainburys)
packet of nuts or crisps
Cold drink, squash, fizzy or hot flask

nuts!nuts! anyone taking nuts to school nowdays would be strung up. Im still intregied (and cant spell) as to whay so many kids are allergic to nuts nowdays.
Anyway, good ideas thanks.Maybe this should be moved to the moneysaving home thread as not a real grabbit. Welcome new poster though.

Poppycat

Yes I wonder that too about nuts never heard of this allergy until a few years ago, seems like we are a nation of suffers from one thing or another these days

PHickman

A full month's worth of decent packed lunch for £25 (and child will not be embarrassed):

• Ham or Turkey sandwich
• chunk of cheese
• crackers with cheese
• peanuts
• fruit-shoot
• piece of fruit

(£5) Bernard Matthews Princess Ham / Dinosaur turkey roll packs are 2 for £1 at most supermarkets at the moment. You get 8 slices per pack... so six packs will last >20 days. You would use a full loaf of bread (£1 for premuim) over the course of a 1 month... and a bit of butter of course (£1?)

(£4) A block of premuim cheese from a supermarket will cost £2 and last ~10 days.

(£4) Ritz crackers (2-for-£2) with soft-squirty cheese (£1 per squeeze). Squirty cheese will only last 2 weeks max. once opened so buy two. Could try replacing quirty cheese with peanut butter for a change a few days!

(£2) Tesco have their new range of nuts on special --- a big bag will last >20 days (kiddies portions!).

(£5) ASDA have the Robinsons fruit-shoot drinks on 3-for-£5 --- there are 8 plastic bottles per pack, so enough for >20 days (three flavours to choose from).

(£5) A fivers worth of bananas, oranges, pears, whatever...

grandslamgirl

Why not try a healthier option to bread - Stores own Pitta Breads c40p for pack of 6
Store brand yoghurts/fromage frais c 15p each
Maybe use leftover meat from Sunday roast
Make your crudites - carrots, celery etc
Fruit 10/20p per piece
Instead of buying premixed drinks why not just buy a sprts bottle and fill with squash or water

x

dipsy

Mandles wrote: »

nuts!nuts! anyone taking nuts to school nowdays would be strung up. Im still intregied (and cant spell) as to whay so many kids are allergic to nuts nowdays.
Anyway, good ideas thanks.Maybe this should be moved to the moneysaving home thread as not a real grabbit. Welcome new poster though.

Yikes I pack my kids with a little plastic tub of nuts each day....... will then "nut" police be after me?