Packed Lunch for work

GFN123

You probably already do these given your location, but how about adding oatcakes to his snack pile? I find them really filling and you can box up any toppings he likes to go with them. Aldi sell them really cheaply, or they are pretty inexpensive in most supermarkets.

If you are near a Sainsburys, that fancy World Food type shelf they have stocks Japanese soba noodles. These are egg free and can be eaten hot or cold (in Japan they make cold salads with them in summer, and hot soups in winter). No doubt Waitrose stock them too. If you can get them and he'd enjoy them, I can give you a range of simple tasty recipes to make.

nuatha

I make empanadas, which are basically pasties but the crust is bread dough instead of pastry. There’s a wide variety of filling possibilities, my favourites are spinach, walnuts and peppers or spiced chicken.
Jambalaya works well as a cold dish.
Savoury muffins, bacon and onion or carrot, spinach and cumin. (I have a vegan lemon poppyseed muffin recipe you’re welcome to – haven’t tried to produce savoury vegan muffins yet.)
Soaked muesli (add hot water to a bowl of muesli, allow to sit and soak for several hours or overnight) is tastier than it sounds

When I was climbing my favourite lunch was cheese, fruitcake and an apple. Sometimes the cheese would be replaced by a homemade pork pie. Which isn’t quite the savoury you asked for but worked for me

Greendayfan

What about mixed bean salad. You can get cans of beans already mixed or get them separately. Chick peas, borlotti, black eye etc. can chuck a tin of tuna in and a bit of dressing, cheese, pasta, peppers, onion and other salad bits, whatever you have left really. I tend to do this when I'm low on fresh stuff as its easy and can use up left over bits.

Possession

How about a picnic pie - there's sausage or chicken ones like these here:
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=picnic+pie&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a
Just a bit different if he's fed up of the same things.

Popperwell

Never mind WCS's lunchboxes even I get ideas from such postings on a thread like this.

So thank you from me too...

Such ideas are filling even if you don't want to sit down to a cooked meal...or want to spread your food across the day...what's that saying about smaller portions and not sitting down to a meal and leaving the table feeling as though you cannot eat another thing...

Think I'll order one of those flasks too...

quilty

I always do chicken, usually drumsicks with all chicken taken off the bone (with any sauce, herbs I put on) with cucumber, peppers, lettuce and stuck in a pitta bread, tastes lovely as a lunch

stiltwalker

Mince and onion plate pie is yummy cold - you can bulk out the filling with lentils or oats when you cook it and I find this makes it even more filling (and my OH has never even noticed that I do this - thank goodness he never comes on MSE or my goose would be cooked!!)

You can freeze yoghurts and by lunch time they have defrosted and are not all manky and warm - my mum used to do this for my school lunches when I was a kid. It also has the benefit of keeping the rest of your lunch cold too.

You can make a really nice big sausage roll with filling made from a mix of sausage meat and stuffing mix (made up) - I would be inclined to use short rather than puff pastry for a lunch box as it's more likely to get to lunch time intact and again it's really nice cold.

Savoury muffins are also another good filler upper - you can do whatever you have, I have done bacon with or without cheese, plain cheese, cheese and onion, red pepper with and without cheese, sweetcorn, with or without cheese and/or red pepper etc.

Savoury (or sweet) drop scones - same sort of combos as above, or sweet plain, lemon and raisin, date and apple etc. Nice cold or can be warmed in a microwave if available.

Tortilla - Spanish omelette - fritatta - same beastie dif country of origin.

Scotch egg - either HM or bought.

Can you tell I have a hearty eater at home??? lol

Gigervamp

Cold roast potatoes and yorkshires are nice.

daisiegg

stiltwalker wrote: »

Mince and onion plate pie is yummy cold - you can bulk out the filling with lentils or oats when you cook it and I find this makes it even more filling (and my OH has never even noticed that I do this - thank goodness he never comes on MSE or my goose would be cooked!!)

You can freeze yoghurts and by lunch time they have defrosted and are not all manky and warm - my mum used to do this for my school lunches when I was a kid. It also has the benefit of keeping the rest of your lunch cold too.

You can make a really nice big sausage roll with filling made from a mix of sausage meat and stuffing mix (made up) - I would be inclined to use short rather than puff pastry for a lunch box as it's more likely to get to lunch time intact and again it's really nice cold.

Savoury muffins are also another good filler upper - you can do whatever you have, I have done bacon with or without cheese, plain cheese, cheese and onion, red pepper with and without cheese, sweetcorn, with or without cheese and/or red pepper etc.

Savoury (or sweet) drop scones - same sort of combos as above, or sweet plain, lemon and raisin, date and apple etc. Nice cold or can be warmed in a microwave if available.

Tortilla - Spanish omelette - fritatta - same beastie dif country of origin.

Scotch egg - either HM or bought.

Can you tell I have a hearty eater at home??? lol

Except the OP's son is allergic to egg

daisiegg

dory22 wrote: »

what about croissaints with ham or tuna?

Allergic to dairy and eggs, he can't have regular croissants....

Although weirdly, the ready-to-roll croissants that come in a tube shaped tin thing in the supermarket section near the ready made pastry etc (I can't remember the brand and am not at home to check my fridge!) don't contain dairy or egg. But they are horrible cold.