Packed Lunch for work

FairyElephant_2

BigMummaF wrote: »

When the offspring were littluns at school, I would take the MrT value rolls & cut slices into the top of the roll & put in slivers of cheese & cue to make them look like hedgehogs...or around crimbo I'd use pastry cutters to make marmite crimbo trees:o They had round 'smilie faces' made from luncheon meat too.....:rolleyes:.....do you think they'd like me to do them again now they're out to work:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

LOL!

When the DSK's stay on a school nite I always make their packed lunches - they think this is a treat as their BM makes them make up their own at home, but actually I can't stand the mess they make in mykitchen, and I like to know what they are eating!!!!
I take a bit of time & trouble to make balanced meals and varieties of tastes & flavours.
When DSS#1 went into 6th form college he thought he was really grown up and started eating in the cafe with the other students, so I thought he wouldn't want 'my' packed lunches, but after a couple of times staying with us he rather sheepishly asked if I could include him again - apparantly one of his friends asked him why he didn't get 'those yummy lunches' any more!!!!!!

pavlovs_dog

Generali wrote: »

I love cous cous with mint, cold roast chicken (roasted with lemon) and some salad. Cheap, healthy and delicious!

that sounds lovely! do you stir the mint through the cous cous?

glitterkitty

i'm going to go get myself some cous cous and peppers and chicken etc and make a nice few lunches for work!
also i have my own little lunch tip - for a tasty and cheap dessert, slice a banana and have it with some custard or as my gran used to give me when i was little, sliced banana with milk and sugar.. it was lovely!!!

EmptyPockets

Morning everybody!

Ok, I've been in the forum for a good hour now, searching the threads, and I couldn't find the answer to my question, so if something similar has already been posted before, I apologise for being a pain

My question is: what do you all do for *cheap* LUNCHES??? I have read thread after thread (all extremely helpful, of course!) regarding cheap meal ideas, as in cheap *evening* meals... but what about lunchtimes? I mealplan every week, and I always plan out our evening meals and lunches too, so that I only buy what we're going to need, but every single week seems to be along the following lines:

Mon: Ham sandwiches
Tue: Ham sandwiches
Wed: Ham sandwiches
Thur: Cheese sandwiches
Fri: Tuna Mayonnaise sandwiches
Sat: Hot Dogs or Scranmbled Eggs on Toast
Sun: Soup 'n' ... sandwiches

Honestly. Every week is a slight variation on the above. I'm looking at my husband, and I'm sure he is starting to look like a SANDWICH :rolleyes: lol!! And most days I find lunchtime so boring I end up having a biscuit or some toast and that's it.

HELP!! I need ideas that hubby can also take to work, they do have a microwave where he works, so it doesn't have to be limited to just sandwiches... *cheap* is the only must here, as the budget is almost stretched to the limit as it is :eek:

Thank you

boredjellybean

do you have access to a microwave? leftovers are great for lunch or a jacket potato with your fav filling

I also like to make a bit of pasta with sauce or pesto

Bjb

carebearbecky

Yup, I was going to recommend pasta dishes for a change as well. Easy to whack in a tupperware box and throw in the microwave when peckish.

Equally, I love a cous-cous salad as a change every now and then too. Dead cheap and easy to spice up with bits of veg!

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Soup? Tomato, mushroom, won ton, chicken, thai, oxtail, carrot and butterbean....chuck in extra veggies - frozen peas, edamame, broad beans, sweetcorn, bean sprouts, spring onions, chillies, broken thread noodles, tin of chickpeas, butterbeans, red kidney beans, lentils, grated carrot, courgette....will keep you going til dinner (and if you put enough fibre in, going in another sense too, but hey..)

EmptyPockets

Ooh, thanks for the ideas so far. We regularly eat pasta with pesto, and I'd never thought about cooking some extra for the next day's lunch - I bet that would still be as nice cold, too. And soup, something else I never thought of sending him to work with Doh!! Hahaha - please keep the ideas coming :T

sweetnskint

change some sandwiches for wraps, rolls, pittas.... bagels,pasties etc!

mum_of_4

cous cous is great.

500g is 60p something - put 100g in a bowl add hot chicken stock, knob of butter cover and 5 - 10 minutes it's cooked add chopped peppers, peas, sweetcorn, cherry tomato's and you have lunch. Add chicken, salmon or tuna if you have it.

This is a bit hit in my house OH likes it and the children take it to school.

or could add curry paste chopped chicken and dried apricots