Packed Lunch for work

rachbc

generally making what you buy with me cheaper - I don't like sarnies either so take left overs, crackers and dip/ pate, salad boxes, soup.

honeybun16

Homemade spanish omelette is great, my DH takes a portion from the freezer every day and people at his work are always asking for the recipe cos the smell makes them all hungry lol

Grimbal

you could always try making things like pasties or other pastry type things? My two favourite are chickpea & bulghar wheat curry pasties & chilli bean slice. Don't have a recipe as such but both are made with wholemeal pastry (white doesn't seem to work as well).

For the pasty filling, I fry an onion until soft & brown. Meanwhile, rehydrate some bulghar wheat in stock. Stir through a small tin of chickpeas. To the onions add a spoonful of curry paste, then mix it all together. When cool, make pasties!

For the chilli bean slices, fry an onion again, then add half - 1 tsp chilli powder (depending on taste!). Add 1tsp tomato puree & a tin kidney beans. Mash it up slightly. Add 1/2 tsp sugar. roll out 1/2 of the pastry & place in a baking dish (like a brownie tin or similar), add filling, then another layer of pastry.


Both freeze well too, so I quite often have a bit of a baking frenzy & fill the freezer in ready packed portions

HTH

Liz
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Penelope_Penguin

vicki+1 wrote: »

anyone got any ideas about money saving pack lunches. Not overly keen on sandwiches, or reheated food, although i can use a microwave at work, Costing me a fortune keep popping to the coop

What's your aversion to reheated food? Leftovers are a money-saving cook's best friend

As you haven't had many replies, I'll add this to the existing thread to give you more suggestions.

pickleiamin

This website is the best on the internet, without a doubt.

This thread is so inspiring and motiving too. I have started to bring sandwiches in as I was spending £80 a month on sandwiches that were boring and bland.

So far Ive started with Cous-Cous and some peppers, toms, mushrooms. Ive also had some of that Uncle Bens rice with some bread. Ive made sandwiches today, just peanut butter ones but I find them yummy.

I cycle too and from work and need a pretty high carb lunch / snacks but not too much. I always have breakfast when I get into work, I notice that when I do I always have a decent day with regards to not going hungry.

I have taken some of the great ideas on here and will put them into action this week, e.g celery sticks & carrot sticks - leave them at work, I dont know why I dont do this. Make muffins & flapjacks etc.

Thanks all

minerva_windsong

My lunch at work can be anything from last night's leftovers (normally curry or pasta bake) to sandwiches/rolls/wraps etc to soup to salad, depending on what there is and what I feel like. I normally prepare it the night before and leave it in the fridge overnight.

The one exception however is my Friday lunch, which normally comes from Boots and is a 'treat' to myself at the end of the week - I usually get the king prawn noodle salad, a Diet Coke and their own brand Discos or a Caramel bar.

This is my favourite homemade lunch though - wraps with peanut butter, cucumber, carrot, spring onion and sweet chilli sauce: http://www.beyondbakedbeans.com/articles/20080508

vodkawitch1

Toastie bags are excellent if you have a toaster at work

lightisfading

minerva_windsong wrote: »

This is my favourite homemade lunch though - wraps with peanut butter, cucumber, carrot, spring onion and sweet chilli sauce: http://www.beyondbakedbeans.com/articles/20080508

Thanks, that sounds like a yummy new veggie lunch I would enjoy (I always struggle for quick stuff to put together for lunches, being veggie and not liking cheese!)

sammey90

Hi all

I just wondered if any of you fantastic peeps had some ideas of easy and cheap lunches I can take to work (trying to avoid sandwich boredom!!).

Is there a thread buried somewhere about it?

Thanks x

C_Mababejive

To vary my lunch box i include fruit, rip top tinned tuna or similar/eg mackerel, Fruesli type bars, get a real pineapple and chop it up into cubes and take some each day,maybe some foil wrapped cheese triangles or similar,