Packed Lunch for work

malamay

I work from home, which makes lunch so much easier! I don't eat a lot of bread, so usually soup, pasta, or leftovers.

When I last worked in the office, I ate a lot of salads and wraps. I loved making a large pan of beef burritos for dinner one night, and having this again as lunch. The rest of the leftover beef would then get made into chilli for dinner, and I'd take this in with salad and sour cream for lunch the following day. That was probably my favourite

nearlyrich

If anyone has any ideas for portable lunches please post them, I am allergic to yeast so bread is a problem and I really need to lose a few lbs so the healthier the better please. I usually travel from meeting to meeting and I don't have the luxury of a fridge in the car but I can do a coolbag. At the moment I start off with good intentions and then end up buying a sandwich which makes me feel bad...help.

Penny-Pincher!!

What about rice or pasta salads with tuna, ham, cheddar, egg, kidney beans etc?

Home made quiche with a side salad? Fruit with yogurt for pudding or fat free banana cake which is a dense cake like bread pudding, but fills you up.

nearlyrich

Apart from the tuna suggestions PP there are some great ideas, I am not a fussy eater but I never tasted tinned tuna that I enjoyed. I will have to get organised and do a lunch box every night.

Linda32

I eat far more when I am at work than not. (Temporary seasonal work at the moment)

At tea break (10.30) I usually have between 4-5 cheese biscuits (crackers/jacobs mixed box/basic/value crackers), a few dates or other dried fruit although I prefer dates. and a fig roll (buy two packets a week)

Lunch is either a box of salad things (which I know you said you don't like) along with a qtr of pork pie or sausage rolls (buy a bag of frozen sausage rolls, about 40 for £1.50 and cook a few every few days). Or wraps or sandwiches, cucumber, cheese or cooked meat usually.

Slice of HM victoria sponge

Afternoon break, piece of HM flapjack with rest of dates/fig roll.

pavlovs_dog

nearlyrich wrote: »

Apart from the tuna suggestions PP there are some great ideas, I am not a fussy eater but I never tasted tinned tuna that I enjoyed. I will have to get organised and do a lunch box every night.

unlike you, I'm fortunate that I do have access to a fridge and microwave at work. However I can empathise with your comment about getting organised.

One thing that has worked for me is making two days worth of lunches at the same time, and storing the extra one in the fridge at home until the next day. It doesn't take much longer and it means I get every other night off IYSWIM. With things like fruit salad that will keep well in the fridge if prepped properly, I have even been known to make 3 days worth at a time.

zippychick

our packed lunch for work thread has loads of ideas

These threads may also help

Ideas for lunch at home

Cereal bars

flapjacks

Sandwich fillings

rice recipes

pasta salad

I take all sorts to work. Sometimes leftover dinners, sometimes made specifically for lunch. On a Sunday i prepare two days worth and just keep adding to my packed lunch pile every day. I chop up tubs of fruit with yoghurt, take chopped veg , yogs, apple, banana and melon.

The main bulk of lunch could be pesto pasta, savoury rice, couscous, soup, leftover mash and gravy with veg, leftover black bean and noodles, lentil dahl and rice or baked bean lasagne. I have a very varied diet and i follow slimming world so all my food is healthy and nutritious.

Hope those give you some ideas and we will merge this with the main lunch thread later

Zip

nickyhutch

Beans on toast
Jacket potato (baked at home) with beans/cheese
Leftovers (always cook too much, on purpose) - lasagne, chilli, curry, risotto, pie and veg, stew etc.
Homemade soup (make a huge pot full, freeze if necessary)and bread/toast
Salad in a tub with small tins of flavoured tuna (Aldi)/ham/egg/chicken breast
Crispbread/laughing cow and soup
Pasta/pesto/tomato suace/cheese sauce

zippychick

i wasnt sure if you wanted adults or kids ideas so ive merged this with our general packed lunch thread.

This one for kiddies may also help and healthy snacks for kids
and cheap healthy snacks

Zip

floss2

We're lucky enough to have both microwave & fridge at work, so I take cottage cheese (Tesco value with pineapple) and Ryvita. A tub does me 2 days. I also take yogurts and plenty of fruit, plus I always have some Tesco cereal bars in my drawer if I am starving!