Packed Lunch for work

sillyinthepast

I take soup in a flask x

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home made veg soup - you can keep it in a flask to keep warm

lickylonglips

i don't mind cold pasta - a simple tomato sauce mixed through cooked pasta would be good cold, as would an aglio-olio type (olive oil, garlic, herbs and chilli)

lickylonglips

also, you could make the sauce in bulk, freeze in individual portion sizes, take one out of the freezer on the morning and by lunch it would be defrosted and ready to mix into your pre-cooked pasta.

rice with left-over veg and meat/fish can be nice, too, as long as you make sure the rice is cooled quickly after cooking and refrigerated.

adelight

bean salads, they are much more substantial in winter than most salady things

madlyn

am getting feed up with taking sandwiches to work. want something a bit more filling and tasty.
i like rice, pasta and cous cous. i want something that can be made fairly quickly the night before, and something that will fill me up as i have a physical job.
all suggestions greatly received.

Pink.

This thread has lots of ideas that should help:

Packed Lunch for work

I'll add this thread to that one later to keep the suggestions together.

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Islandmaid

I,m back to work tomorrow and wanted something a bit more than sandwiches, so in true OS spirit have bunged some sad looking mushrooms, a chopped onion, 3 left over peppers chopped up and a tin of chickpeas in the SC with some indian spices and a can of coconut milk for curry,s at work - I bought some pre-cooked rice at £land 3 for £1 which i will take to work to eat with it, i,m not veggie, but it smells lush and i,m sure my workmates will enjoy the wiff - not.....

Linda32

Madlyn, I think you have anwered your own question there. Pasta will fill you up. Mix with sauce add mushrooms bacon etc.

Make a big batch of this, you could freeze it. I have done so in the past or keep in the fridge for a couple of days. Add some further grated cheese before you microwave. I'm assuming you can heat this up at work.

If you can't then I'd go for cous cous with tinned fish (mackeral/tuna), and butter beans/canelloni beans (I know thats spelt wrong btw but hope you know what I mean)

juniper_berry

Hi All,

Apologies if this sort of thread has already been posted.

I often find the hardest thing for me to plan for is lunches. I'm terrible for taking food to work and then finding there is a really good soup on that day in the nearby shops (not very MSE)

The last few days I've been taking wraps into work and whilst these are good I'm finding myself hungry again a few hours later.
I will also take soup in when I've had the time to make it.

So I'm hoping to get some ideas for good healthy and low cost lunch ideas.